Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/squatconf/talks

# By holger krekel (2) and others
# Via gorhgorh (3) and Dominic Tarr (2)
* 'master' of https://github.com/squatconf/talks:
  actually add some content to my proposal
  add LEAP talk proposal
  some refinements
  added my talk
  Added edgenet proposal

accepted/vivalacrypto.md

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 # Viva La Crypto
 
-A gameplan for the crypto-revolution.
+A gameplan for the crypto-revolution. The time has for a new internet.
+There is the technical questions of how do you build a viable system,
+but that is the easy bit. The hard question, is how do we deploy it
+to the world, how do we make something that people want to adopt...
+
+And what do we build? what kind of world *could* we create?
+To motivate ourselves, we need a utopian vision, but to achieve
+_anything_ we need to keep our eyes on the road, and most of all,
+build something simple. Dumb even.
+
+This could be science fiction, but instead of writing a book,
+we are just gonna build it.
 

proposed/LEAP_crypto_for_mortals.md

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+#infos
+
+auth-name       : Kali Kaneko
+tag             : privacy, usability, email, vpn, federated system, crypto, mortals, superheros
+
+advance costs   : NA 
+need room       : NA 
+Location        : La Paz, Bolivia  (traveling around europes maintenant)
+Can host ppl    : NA 
+
+
+# LEAP Encryption Access Project: Encrypted Communications for Mere Mortals
+
+What if I told you that a regular user can get gpg-encrypted communications
+just following a wizard and click-click-click? What if I told you that
+her email can be backuped in the cloud, in a way that a server compromise could
+not reveal the private data? What about an Encrypted Proxy that's at the same
+reasonably secure and easy to use, configure and deloy? 
+
+Well, you don't have to trust me. Just come and see it with your own eyes.
+
+At LEAP we are obsessed with making possible for any service provider to easily
+deploy secure services and for people to use these services without needing to
+learn new software or change their behavior. These services are based on open,
+federated standards, but done right: the provider does not have access to the
+user’s data, and we use open protocols in the most secure way possible. 
+
+On the server side we have created the LEAP Platform, a “provider in a box” set
+of complementary packages and server recipes automated to lower the barriers of
+entry for aspiring secure service providers. On the client side, we have
+created a cross-platform application called Bitmask that automatically
+configures itself once a user has selected a provider and which services to
+enable. Bitmask provides a local proxy that a standard email client can connect
+to, and allows for easy one-click Virtual Private Network (VPN) service.

proposed/edgenet.md

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+#infos
+
+auth-name       : Pieter Hintjens
+tag             : freedom, privacy, decentralized
+
+advance costs   : N
+need room       : N
+Location        : Brussels, Belgium
+Can host ppl    : no, sorry
+
+# edgenet
+
+edgenet lives safely at the edge of the Internet, on our smart phones. It uses mobile WiFi hotspots to create "cells" for exchanging news and content. Cells talk to cells, asynchronously, covering neighborhoods, and cities. edgenet doesn't exist yet. This project is about building it.
+
+# More details
+
+The spy state cannot be voted out of office. It eats laws for breakfast and excretes excuses for breaking them. We will either build a spy-proof Internet, that cannot be banned or controlled, or we accept to become slaves.
+
+These are the three main points of attack on the privacy of our communications:
+
+* The centralized servers where we meet to share information. These can be hacked, or their owners ordered to hand over information. No matter what encryption you use between your PC and the server, data is held unprotected on servers.
+* The client PCs and devices where we run our browsers. These are often laden with spyware, or hacked individually when the case needs it, in a "targeted attack."
+* The broadband connections across which the clients talk to the servers. Broadband providers record metadata and provide it to the authorities as a matter of course.
+
+If the Web is not safe, and the Deep Web is not safe, what is? There is only one long term answer, and that is a new web that lives "off the grid," treating central websites and broadband connections with the full distrust they deserve.
+
+To build truly secure communities, we must address all three of these weak points. It’s not sufficient to improve our encryption to create a more robust Deep Web. Rather, we need a radical rethink of how we build digital communities in the first place. We need a new kind of Internet, which I’ll call the "edgenet," that is resistant to all threats except targeted attacks.
+
+# Technologies
+
+Open source on open protocols. Slices of edgenet already exist in the ZeroMQ community, mainly Zyre, a clustering library designed for opportunistic WiFi clusters. On October 30 & 31 in Brussels we're organizing a hackathon to push the technology forwards. I'd like to present our work in Paris.

proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md

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+#infos
+
+auth-name       : holger krekel
+tag             : decentralization, edges, questions
+
+advance costs   : N
+need room       : Y   
+Location        : Freiburg, Germany
+Can host ppl    : na
+
+
+# Secession from the broadcast
+
+It's time to travel to the edges because this is where the interesting stuff
+happens.  "What is popular" is rarely a question that helps finding edges.
+I'd like to recap what i learned in 15 months of my re-juvenated and
+re-energized quest into decentralization and what it might mean.  
+
+For one, I'd like to forward a question from Gene Youngblood's
+[Secession from the broadcast lecture][1]: "how can we create on the
+same scale as we can destroy?".  Gene suggests we need to move away from
+the "audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of
+"interested spectators of action".
+
+Second, I paraphrase a thought from Adam Ierymenko's [I want to
+believe][2]: If full decentralization is technically too hard currently,
+can we construct and make use of a "Blind Idiot God" (BIG) instance
+which co-ordinates some communication but can not abuse it or even
+understand what's going on precisely?  
+
+Lastly, I wonder how can we create sustained systems and services if we
+don't want the centralized web service cash cow control model?
+As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying
+for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models 
+mean surveillance and centralized control. And she notes
+that design and useability should drive open source developments
+instead of features and options.
+
+The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow unlike.
+It's a place where i easily run into fears and look for friends.  At the edges
+there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next.  And
+the number of people at the edges is always lower than in the center.
+But that's fine, this is how things get moving as i've experienced
+myself a number of times now.
+
+[1] http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/
+
+[2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/
+
+[3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81
+