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Jacob Appelbaum (Part 2/2) Digital Anti-Repression Workshop - April 26 2012

Part 2 of a Q&A workshop with security researcher Jacob Appelbaum from April 2012, covering mobile phone security, cellphone forensics, state repression and surveillance. Topics include booting Tails from USB and surveillance self-defense resources.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a practical talk on privacy and anonymity options, including diskless laptops running Tails.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
NewYorkRawVideos
Topic
digital privacy and surveillance
Format
lecture
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2012–2017

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • I live in the Southern Hemisphere and like most 40 something year olds I follow whats happening in the States from a distance. I've been reading and watching a fair bit of Jacob Appelbaum and reading Glenn Greenwald's posts which seem to be fair and …

    locusm on Hacker News · 2012-07
    In Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US citizen
  • You might find it interesting/useful to read about: steganography[1], anonymous remailers[2] (particularly the Mixminion[3] type), the Paranoid Security Guide[4] (which was on HN today[5]), and a nice talk on privacy and anonymity options[6][7] There were also a couple of lists of darknets on HN recently, …

    gnosis on Hacker News · 2013-07
    In Poll: Do you encrypt your email?
  • Worth listening to Jake Appelbaum's 'digital anti repression workshop' [1]. In this he explains why he takes the hard-drive out of his laptop and just uses a TailsOS thumb-drive for his computing. It would be actually hilarious when staff ask to peruse the contents of …

    ergot on Hacker News · 2017-01
    In I Had My Electronics Seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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