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    Chris Boyd: A More Secure Home Network

    by Plutopia News Network January 15, 2019
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    Chris Boyd is a telecommunications consultant, aka contract packet pusher, who has worked on large telecommunications product definitions and rollouts, network management installations, network infrastructure upgrades and installations. He’s also treasurer and member of the Board of Directors at EFF-Austin. In this talk, presented at Nerd Nite Austin, Chris does a deep dive into home network security.

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    Jon Lebkowsky: the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Geek Activism

    by Plutopia News Network December 19, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Plutopia News Network’s Jon Lebkowsky recently gave this talk at Nerd Nite Austin 108, “Adventures on the Electronic Frontier.” Lebkowsky presents an in-depth timeline for the founding and early days …

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    Tom Brown and Manton Reece: An Introduction to IndieWeb

    by Plutopia News Network December 2, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Photo: Tom Brown, Jon Lebkowsky, and Manton Reece at a meeting of the Austin HomeBrew Website Club. When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, and …

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    Cyrus Farivar: Down the Privacy Rabbit Hole

    by Plutopia News Network November 20, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Cyrus Farivar, speaking to a gathering of EFF-Austin supporters, discusses his book Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech, about the last fifty years of surveillance and privacy …

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    Scott McCollough: The Right to Privacy

    by Plutopia News Network November 12, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Scott McCollough has spent his years as an attorney focused on the places where technology collides with regulation, working primarily for telecommunications companies, Internet service providers, and application providers. He’s …

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    Nate Wilcox on 21st Century Politics: We have work to do!

    by Plutopia News Network November 1, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Nate Wilcox is an award-winning political and public affairs consultant and a recognized expert in online politics. He is the co-author, with Lowell Feld of “Netroots Rising: How a Citizen …

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    Roundtable Discussion: Smart Tech Policy

    by Plutopia News Network October 16, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Austin, Texas is widely regarded as a leading center for development of cutting edge technology and a vibrant startup culture. In an election year, how do local Austin candidates for …

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    Jake Dunagan: The Biology of Disinformation, Weaponized Memes and Viral Alt-Facts

    by Plutopia News Network October 2, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Jake Dunagan is a research director at Institute for the Future (IFTF), where his focus is the examination of social invention and the redesign of systems in light of current …

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    Brandon Wiley: The Future of Internet Freedom: Why It Will Fail, and How We Will Save It

    by Plutopia News Network September 24, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Brandon Wiley, President of Operator Foundation, recently spoke on  “The Future of Internet Freedom – Why It Will Fail and How We Will Save It” at an EFF-Austin meeting. Operator Foundation …

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    Ellen Ullman: Life in Code

    by Plutopia News Network September 19, 2018
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    Former computer programmer turned author Ellen Ullman, author of Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, joined Plutopia News Network’s Maggie Duval for a conversation about engineering as a …

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    Exploring “2001: A Space Odyssey”: A 50th Anniversary Perspective

    by Plutopia News Network September 12, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    This year is the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic sci-fi masterpiece, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and the film has seen revival screenings in 70mm and Imax (the spectacular Imax …

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    Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality

    by Plutopia News Network September 6, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Virginia Eubanks is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, …

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    Michael Garfield: Midwifing New Myths

    by Plutopia News Network August 26, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Many of us are searching for a conscious understanding and a clearer sense of the meaning of our lives in an interdependent evolutionary context, so that we can find our …

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    Michael Tobis on Climate: “The Bad Stuff is Getting Closer”

    by Plutopia News Network August 16, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    Michael Tobis considers himself a cyberneticist, in the original sense of the word cybernetic, where it suggests the optimal use of information in decision-making. He has two degrees in engineering …

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    Protesting Pai with Wi-Fi

    by Scoop Sweeney August 4, 2018
    by Scoop Sweeney

    EFF-Austin activists organized a “silent, very nerdy: protest when Ajit Pai gave a talk in Austin on August 3. The organization set up wifi hotspots that would be visible to …

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    Net Neutrality Deep Dive

    by Plutopia News Network July 31, 2018
    by Plutopia News Network

    What is net neutrality, from the activist’s perspective, and from a technical perspective? The term was coined in 2003 by Tim Wu as an extension of the common carrier concept, …

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