Protecting Human Privacy: The Task Before Us

Since the Snowden revelations: more people use Tor! More people use Signal! Snowden is safe!

But perhaps these facts have lulled us to sleep exactly when the world needs cypherpunks to buckle down most, before digital human privacy is simply gone; almost all privacy-enhancing software development is being poured into nearly-identical secure messaging apps, after all, rather than protecting the many other things we do with software (which we'll talk about, too).

I (Steve Phillips) will cover the surveillance realities confronting us, what has been done to protect netizens from suspicionless surveillance thus far, and which (types of) privacy-enhancing projects seem to be most critical for us developers and designers to contribute to most urgently.

Then we'll open it up to group discussion to talk more about all of the above and more, including your ideas for which projects deserve our attention and should perhaps be the focus of our very first Cypherpunks Write Code hackathon -- at our next event in just a few weeks.

6:30pm - Arrive

6:45pm - Talk + Group discussion

8:30pm - End (approximate time; feel free to leave earlier if you need to, or stick around longer!)

I look forward to meeting you all! Let's do this.