Stanford 10/7/2010 -- Lessons from the Haystack Affair

[Bill Stewart]

Potentially interesting lecture if you're in the Bay Area

>From: allison at stanford.edu
>Reply-To: allison at stanford.edu
>Subject: Liberation Technology 10/7/2010 -- Lessons from the Haystack Affair
>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:40:55 -0700 (PDT)
>
>      STANFORD FREEMAN SPOGLI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
>
>The Stanford Program on Liberation Technology Seminar Series is starting
>up again. The first of the series will be held on Sept 23, 4:30pm
>at Wallenberg Hall. As an EE380 attendee you may find this series of
>lectures at the cust of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and
>Social Science his stimulating and informative series.
>
>                   Lessons from the Haystack Affair
>
>October 7, 2010
>4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
>Wallenberg Theater
>Wallenberg Hall
>450 Serra Mall, Building 160
>
>
>Abstract
>
>Haystack, a circumvention tool, emerged in the wake of
>the repression after the Iranian election of June 2009.
>After achieving considerable public prominence, its use and
>distribution was recently halted. Important questions have
>been raised about Haystack's effectiveness and security,
>as well as the roots of its reputation.
>
>Evgeny Morozov, who emerged as a leading critic of Haystack,
>and Daniel Colascione, who wrote the Haystack code, will
>discuss the Haystack experience and the lessons it carries for
>circumvention technologies and, more broadly, for the evaluation
>and political deployment of new information technologies.
>
>Daniel Colascione co-founded the Censorship Research Center
>in June 2009 in the aftermath of the Iranian election and has
>had a lifelong interest in internet freedom and technological
>measures to mitigate censorship.  He created the Haystack
>anti-censorship system and holds a BSc in Computer Science
>from the SUNY University at Buffalo.
>
>
>Speaker
>
>Evgeny Morozov is a leading thinker and commentator on the
>political impact of the Internet and a well known opponent
>of internet utopianism.  He is a contributing editor to
>Foreign Policy and runs the magazine's Net Effect blog
>about the Internet's impact on global politics. Evgeny is
>currently a Yahoo! fellow at the Institute for the Study of
>Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Prior to his appointment
>to Georgetown, he was a fellow at the Open Society Institute,
>where he remains on the board of the Information Program. Before
>moving to the US, Evgeny was based in Berlin and Prague, where
>he was Director of New Media at Transitions Online, a media
>development NGO active in 29 countries of the former Soviet
>bloc. He is writing a book about the Internet and democracy,
>to be published this fall by Public Affairs.
>
>Open to the public
>No RSVP required
>
>
>For more information on the Program on Liberation Technology go to-
>http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/


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