January 23, 2012
The War on the Internet event, which was co-hosted by EFA and the Australian Greens, was held at Trades Hall in Melbourne on 21st January 2012. It featured:
Jacob Applebaum - leading computer security researcher and hacker
Bernard Keane - 'Crikey' journalist and author
Scott Ludlam - Senator for Western Australia and Greens spokesperson for Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy
Suelette Dreyfus - author and researcher on whistleblowing
This is a video of the talk by Suelette Dreyfus:
War on the Internet event #2 - Suelette Dreyfus from Electronic Frontiers Australia on Vimeo.
Her text Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book that is researched by Julian Assange. It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself. The book is freely available in electronic form.
The talk by Bernard Keane is here
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