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Podcast: DEF CON 22 [Materials] Speeches from the Hacker Convention.
Episode: Christopher Soghoian - Blinding The Surveillance State
Description: Blinding The Surveillance State
Christopher Soghoian Principal Technologist, American Civil Liberties Union
We live in a surveillance state. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies have access to a huge amount of data about us, enabling them to learn intimate, private details about our lives. In part, the ease with which they can obtain such information reflects the fact that our laws have failed to keep up with advances in technology. However, privacy enhancing technologies can offer real protections even when the law does not. That intelligence agencies like the NSA are able to collect records about every...