Getting to Gilead: from surveillance to control
How does spying on people help to control people? I got very curious, especially in light of the anti-women's rights trends in the US, and so I embarked on a journey to find out.I delivered a talk at the Zcash conference in Barcelona in July. It involved tracking down Margaret Atwood all the way to Greenland to find answers to a question that had vexxed me since I watched The Handmaid’s Tale:How does a free society turn into dystopia overnight?If you want to watch the whole thing, here i...
Getting to Gilead: from surveillance to control
How does spying on people help to control people? I got very curious, especially in light of the anti-women's rights trends in the US, and so I embarked on a journey to find out.I delivered a talk at the Zcash conference in Barcelona in July. It involved tracking down Margaret Atwood all the way to Greenland to find answers to a question that had vexxed me since I watched The Handmaid’s Tale:How does a free society turn into dystopia overnight?If you want to watch the whole thing, here i...
Interviewing Edward Snowden
At the launch event of an alliance among privacy projects in crypto last year, I got to ask Snowden questions on behalf of builders in the privacy space. This was hosted at ZK House at Devcon VI in Bogota. It’s taken me a whole year to get around to posting a summary. Who knew I was just waiting for AI tools like ChatGPT to emerge so they can do the summarizing work for me! =D Below is a pretty good summary of the conversation from summarize.tech, with some light edits. If you want to watch t...
Interviewing Edward Snowden
At the launch event of an alliance among privacy projects in crypto last year, I got to ask Snowden questions on behalf of builders in the privacy space. This was hosted at ZK House at Devcon VI in Bogota. It’s taken me a whole year to get around to posting a summary. Who knew I was just waiting for AI tools like ChatGPT to emerge so they can do the summarizing work for me! =D Below is a pretty good summary of the conversation from summarize.tech, with some light edits. If you want to watch t...
