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By Jacob Applebaum (@ioerror)

Jacob had to start his talk without slides due to technical difficulties, but he did alright.

First off he talks about some treats against our privacy. Political plans for nation wide key escrow and wide scale data retention are popping up all over the western world.

The Australian web filter against child pornography has proven that these kind of filters don’t work. Before it was deployed nation wide the filter already succeeded in creeping its scope by blocking a dentists web site.

Jacob, personally, specifically cares about cases where Tor is used to censor people.Censorship will never serve humanity and in fact humanity becomes a slave to the truth of its sensors.

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This talk is about privacy. Privacy is good, but it is also a haven for “evildoers”. It also hurts law enforcement and prevents social control.
Privacy is broken, because it is too complex. One of the ways to measure this is to see if the users IP address can be obtained. This is the gold standard.

Rsnake and Jabra demonstrated client site exploits that will defeat common proxy techniques such as classic HTTP proxies, CGI proxies, SOCKS proxies, and Tor.

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