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Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote on the out-of-control surveillance state

Cory Doctorow at 1:13 pm Fri, Feb 15, 2013

Jacob Appelbaum's keynote from 29C3 -- last December's Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg -- is a riveting hour on surveillance, freedom, and the wild, criminal lawlessness of the NSA and other spy agencies. Jacob's factual, methodical laying out of the growth of American surveillance is brilliant, terrifying and enraging, and it left me wanting to rush to a barricade. Jacob's insights into how we are coping with the surveillance state and why that needs to change are terrific. Someone make a transcript of this, please.

Jacob Appelbaum 29C3 Keynote: Not My Department (via Schneier)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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johnnyaction

Really good talk. /waves at NSA
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  /obscene gestures at NSA
BrianOman

Great. I thought the NSA was mostly spying on ‘mericuns. Now here I am shivering in fear in the Yukon. Damn you Applebaum!
phantom walrus

This man’s a straight-up modern day hero. I am extremely thankful he exists & am setting up a Tor router this weekend.
http://twitter.com/DancingSamurai DancingSamurai

Not to derail the conversation here, but what is he wearing and where can I get a shirt like that?
Promethean Sky

What he said about ‘why aren’t you running a tor relay?’. Well, I’m inspired.
Bear Naff

Applebaum’s such an interesting character. So very flawed as a person, but also capable of doing so very much good.
Xeracy X

“Someone make a transcript of this, please”…. Not your department, eh?