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NSA Whistleblower Snowden Seeks to Develop Anti-Surveillance Technologies

posted by azrael on Tuesday July 22 2014, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the game-of-leapfrog dept.

crutchy writes:

Edward Snowden has called on supporters at the HOPE hacking conference to develop easy-to-use technologies to subvert government surveillance programs.

Mr Snowden, who addressed conference attendees on Saturday via video link from Moscow, said he intends to devote much of his time to promoting such technologies, including ones that allow people to communicate anonymously and encrypt their messages.

"You in this room, right now, have both the means and the capability to improve the future by encoding our rights into programs and protocols by which we rely every day," he told the New York City conference, known as Hackers on Planet Earth, or HOPE. "That is what a lot of my future work is going to be involved in."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tdk on Tuesday July 22 2014, @10:45AM

    by tdk (346) on Tuesday July 22 2014, @10:45AM (#72223) Homepage Journal
    This is part of a growing trend to replace gov'ts as trusted authorities with online anonymous communities, which Mr Snowden is a part of, but is bigger than him.
    See the webertarian manifesto [squte.com]:

    Sousveillance, Wikileaks, the open source movement, Manning and Snowden, even Wikipedia are all examples of a growing trend away from the state, towards software that enables communities based on trust and openness.

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