Jacob Appelbaum is an independant computer researcher and hacker. He was employed by the University of Washintgon, and is a core member of the Tor project. Appelbaum is known for representing Wikileaks at the 2010 HOPE conference. He has subsequently been repeatedly targetted by US law enforcement agencies, who obtained a court order for his Twitter account data, detained him 12 times at the US border after trips abroad, and seized a laptop and several mobile phones.

Event page: http://ic.epfl.ch/privacy-surveillance

Apologies for the first 30 seconds, I was fumbling with the recorder app.

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