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12:42 am on July 10, 2012 · freedom box (2), hack (3), internet freedom (81), OpenITP (12)

TODAY: Circumvention Tools Hackfest in NYC #netfreedom

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Open ITP

Open ITPThe Open Internet Tools Project has partnered with FreedomBox, InformSec and ISOC-NY to host a circumvention tools hackfest in NYC right before HOPE. The hackfest started yesterday and there are still three days left to plan, code and learn! If you want to hack on anti-censorship or anti-surveillance tools, bring your project, bring your skills and bring your friends. This event will be focused on writing code and solving design problems. We won’t have any long presentations (there will be enough of those at HOPE), though we will have lightning talks and will give away a door prize or two.

Where: Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, 116th and Amsterdam (Room 546)
When: July 9 – 12, 10 am
Who: Privacy and free communication hackers like you
Contact:  kaurin at openitp.org
Info: http://openitp.org/?q=node/12

1:14 am on February 17, 2011 · Eben Moglen (11), foss (7), freedom box (2), internet freedom (81)

Video: Eben Moglen Fosdem 2011 Keynote #freeculture

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Eben Moglen was a keynote speaker at FOSDEM 2011, a free and open software developer conference, in Brussels earlier in the month. He took the opportunity, a year to the day after after his ISOC-NY talk Freedom in the Cloud, to further elaborate on, advocate for, and call for contributions to, his ‘freedom box‘ concept – a distributeded personal webserver based social network. Regardless of the privacy concerns that drove the original idea recent events in the Middle East have served as an eye-opener as to the vulnerability of centralized systems.