Chaos Communication Congress: Engaging Technology's Impact
Cyber All The Wassenaars
Four panelists discussed the Wassenaar Arrangement: an international framework detailing export controls on weapon technology. In 2013 surveillance technology and intrusion software were introduced into the framework. The formulation of the text - which is at the same time vague and far-reaching - could have extreme consequences for IT security researchers. In one interpretation it could mean a researcher with certain knowledge can't cross a border because she would be exporting a controlled technology.
How The Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers
Philipp Winter gives an overview of how the Great Firewall, the Chinese internet censorsip apparatus, works and how it can be circumvented.
Say Hi To Your New Boss: How Algorithms Might Soon Control Our Lives
Increasingly decision making is shifted from humans to machines by means of algorithms. Andreas Dewes shows how easy algorithms can be trained to discriminate people and discusses measures to avoid this.
Mobile Censorship in Iran
Mahsa Alimardani provides a historical and contemporary context of internet censorship in Iran.
Four panelists discussed the Wassenaar Arrangement: an international framework detailing export controls on weapon technology. In 2013 surveillance technology and intrusion software were introduced into the framework. The formulation of the text - which is at the same time vague and far-reaching - could have extreme consequences for IT security researchers. In one interpretation it could mean a researcher with certain knowledge can't cross a border because she would be exporting a controlled technology.
How The Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers
Philipp Winter gives an overview of how the Great Firewall, the Chinese internet censorsip apparatus, works and how it can be circumvented.
Say Hi To Your New Boss: How Algorithms Might Soon Control Our Lives
Increasingly decision making is shifted from humans to machines by means of algorithms. Andreas Dewes shows how easy algorithms can be trained to discriminate people and discusses measures to avoid this.
Mobile Censorship in Iran
Mahsa Alimardani provides a historical and contemporary context of internet censorship in Iran.
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