The Tor Project, protecting online anonimity: Jacob Appelbaum at TEDxFlanders 

"Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden

We are all treated like future criminals. They save all of our data for "when" we do something criminal or we need to be convicted for convenience. After all we will all commit some kind of sin in our lives. Lawyers and psychologists can go through years of an individuals personal data and find a crime to fit. Tax evasion to cheating. You can quit smoking for 20 years but you are still listed as a smoker in hospital records. Even grandma's guilty.

This should have more views. People like this are keeping freedom of speech alive.

An unsung hero here , no one is listening but Jacob is knowledgeable and spot on with his talks.

Red scarf could be symbolic of solidarity with the victims of gov't intrusion like the French's wearing red threads around their necks during the Reign of Terror.

Thank you for Tor Jacob, I will be exploring it in depth in the coming months! I'm in my first CIS class and although half the information is repeat from growing up in the 80's and 90's; I'm learning key ideas. I'm writing about freedom of information in a dystopian story of mine and I would love to ask you some questions for my research. I will be in touch if I don't hear from you first sir.

most important the freedom

@9.17... "Where surveillance is often in support of authoritarianism, and specifically in support of violence."

Same as always, the bent, twisted, crooked people ruin it for the rest of us😔

Thanks Jacob for your great project. The story is so attractive

Great speech...

this talk is important.

tor is a great thing done for internet users all around the world. and like all the good things in life - it is free. tor should merge with firefox mozilla for the greater good. tor protect my privacy -it gives me freedom ! thank you

I would prefer it that way. The technical aspect can be discuss elsewhere.

I'd like to see statistics on the estimated percentage of valid/private/political/freedom uses of Tor as compared with criminal/abusive/fraudulent uses. For me, this is the central question.

How can you say 90% of content on tor is drugs and porn when you only read about it on google?

If they did that it would no longer be an anonymous network though. You can't have it both ways. It's either secure or it isn't you just put back doors in the system that only the creators know of because soon they will be discovered and exploited by the wrong people.

there is only one problem, the Tor Network is also infected by the NSA....

This is great. It should be shared and blogged about. make a tinyurl direct people here.

Sounds like the voice of experience speaking.

Muito bom

He reminds me of clark kent ; 0

look where it has gone. overpowering the government and congress and looking in on peoples lives. that isnt what it's ment for. it's out of control now

Iv'e done my own research and can't find anything could someone please show me some evidence.

Notre. Free Julian Assange.

Mortality is a matter of perspective.

That laugh at around 14 minutes sounds like the Mickey Mouse from South Park haha

Can TOR and Psiphon be used on android phone at the same time??... need response, thanks...

Just watch his other lectures

Look at his 22c3 talks here (youtube)

Is it as simple as downloading TOR and being completely anonymous, or does it get complicated. I feel like you have to have some type of previous knowledge about it. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

Weird, and a genius. I highly ethical, articulate genius...and weird.

Hey looks like Edward Nygma in Gotham.

The talk was specifically geared towards a wide (often non-technical) audience and centers around anonymity and privacy, however there are plenty of resources out there if you would like to learn more about Tor specifically.

I listened to this while playing mario lol

Appelbaum jeans, boots with the fur (the fur)

u remind me of a dream;)

Remember this tor nodes are public nodes and private. These are onion layer 3 devices that have a public IP address.

You see, this is usually the point at which I call you a nut, but i get what you mean, he's wearing that scarf for a reason!

he looks like mako from the legend of korra

Nice to see Julian realized the error of his ways and bowed out of the argument.

Tell that to someone from Bahrain. People have been locked up over just for peacefully protesting the government. Laws to protect your privacy? Have you been paying attention to the media at all? It's obvious they mean nothing.

I went to the comments just to remark on the useless and pretentious scarf. But my work has been done for me.

Who on earth has given this a thumbs down?

foucault watch and punish.. read it

laughing so hard at that scarf right now

NSA agents, who don't like us not handing out all our data;)

Jacob, have a question. How do I neutralize all info collected to date, by whomever? I am sure, records collected to date will exist 'somewhere' forever. So, do I dump my communication devices, and start all over? But, how does one start? I.e. if I buy new equipment today from whoever/whatever, the sales record are immediately recorded (I assume), + is available to whomever this info is of interest. Q: Is or can Tor be an Intermediary in obtaining such equipment? K.I.M all the backdoors installed, which reportedly seem to exist on anything leaving the shop floors today. A follow up presentation? Please?

...why dont these people vote tea party? does he realize how conservative he is speaking right now?

this dude sounds like hes from anon

the new york times OR a reputable source like wikileaks

that scarf is lain with such pretentiousness i am about to throw up.

This man is so attractive idk why

I can't show you evidence because I didn't save the page(s) I found back when I did my own research. Do your own research lazy person (or government person). But I repeat myself.

About 5 minutes in he sets up a strawman by asking whether we would give all our private information to a stranger. But the people who intercept and collect our information are not usually random strangers acting with malicious agendas: they frequently tell us (directly or indirectly) why they are doing it. I'm not saying that anonymity should not be a right, but I am saying that we should be scrupulously fair when we talk about human motives for collecting information. For example, suppose an organization fights for the civil rights of an undefended minority, for example people who are blind. Would you feel as outraged that they are collecting your information as you would feel if an organization devoted to blackmailing people collected the same information? There is a large spectrum of motives for collecting private information, ranging from blackmail on one end to improving how a paid service works on the other.

and was 20 minutes long

The latest upgrade made TOR browser stop working and the fix is pages of geeky crap that nobody wants to bother with.

Look what the Tor Project has gone. The Deep web. (Also 100th Comment =D)

applebaum has said "internet child pornography" should be called "evidence of child abuse found by the internet", filtering child porn is destroying evidence, thus an injustice to the victims. also, alcohol and caffeine are more dangerous than many "drugs".

TOR IS NOT GOOD IT'S AS GOOD AS EVERY THING IT'S A MORE DIRECT WAY OF GETTING YOUR DATA IT'S COMMON SENSE

What's your point? That I shouldn't care because it doesn't affect me? If you can't see what's wrong with the sort of reasoning then I pity you.

What's with the bright red scarf? not only does it look blatantly out of place but it seems to send a sinister message to the observant, just what is your actual agenda?

If you didn't search for it you wouldn't have found it. You just got exposed.

He's gagging for a laugh and clap isn't he

Face book reveal privacy

The stranger's analogy is not very genuine nor correct... the stranger passerby is not traceable, a social network or other web service is there to stay, not disappear.

the red scarf doesn't help

Awesome concept, too bad it is mostly used for CP.

I wonder if he will fight for Freedom of Speech for people on the other side of politics.

I know who he voted for

Tor is in a center of too much ilegal interest.. The more the users the stronger is the encrypting. So promoting this.. well ok.. free speech.

You are wrong.

Tor is ridiculously slow!

I can't show you evidence, but it's simply not worth the risk. Do some looking around on Google is all I can say.

About you being a government person? Again, if there's ANY question, it's not worth it to use TOR. I miss my free-speech rights, but I'm not gonna test them in this police-state climate! You go ahead and feel free to.

loose the scarf indoors m8. SUPER GAY