The code to freedom?

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The code to freedom? Techniques technologies
of countersurveillance in cyberspace
Kate Milberry, PhD University of
Toronto kate.milberry_at_utoronto.ca
The People's Summit 20 June 2010
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Ubiquitous Surveillance

Social control
Democracy
Political power
Freedom
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Foucault's panopticon
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Post/Modern Panopticon?
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• The internet?
• Internetworked social movements?
• Cybersurveillance?

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Netwar an information-age model of social
struggle

• Digital
• Mobile
• Nodal
• Decentralized
• Internewtorked

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Surveillance Society after 9/11

• War on Terror gtgt culture of fear
• Rebranding of activism as terrorism
• Increased violence against activists
• Predictive policing
• Cybersurveillance

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Surveillance Self-Defence Toolkit

• Radical tech collectives
• Building the digital infrastructure of the
  movement
• Activist technologies of countersurveillance
• ee software as disruptive tools
• Security culture
• SociSeal practices of privacy protection

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Free software

• Is the foundation of digital infrastructure of
  the GJM
• Technically legally encodes user freedoms
• Embodies unmet user needsnonymity
• Materializes social values
• aid

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Encryption
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Anonymizers
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Circumvention proxies
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Crabgrass
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La fin
(merci)
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