[liberationtech] My HOPE X report: my panel surveilled, phone hacked

[William G. Gardella]

Telephotoing in on the slides sounds like attempted copyright
infringement, e.g. attempting to use your work product for some Stratfor
course that will charge many thousands to attendees and present no
original material. Such paparazzi treatment of slides is common in other
fields of science and technology, and I would expect to see your exact
presentation or parts of it--typos included, if any--in some exclusive
counter-counter-surveillance lecture.

Douglas Lucas <dal at riseup.net> writes:

> All HOPE X talks are available on DVD. Not sure about the livestream
> views, but those are different than the DVD views and might not show all
> the slides or all the speakers very clearly. The people who came to our
> panel used a telephoto lens to get each panelist's face and filmed our
> slides, paying particular interest to the one with all the contractor
> logos and to the one demonstrating the Transparency Toolkit which
> graphed out the contractors' LinkedIn profiles. The people also laughed
> knowingly when I discussed my interactions with a former Stratfor
> analyst (she muttered "fuck you motherfucker" at me). So they may have
> gotten more out of being there than they would have at home or via the DVD.
>
> BTW, here's my tweet to the article:
> https://twitter.com/DouglasLucas/status/492131711451267072
>
> On 07/24/2014 01:05 PM, Eva Galperin wrote:
>> Aren't all of the HOPE X talks livestreamed? And also available on
>> DVD? I can't say for certain that there wasn't surveillance, but it
>> sure seems pointless.
>> 
>> --Eva
>> 
>> On 7/24/14, 11:03 AM, Douglas Lucas wrote:
>>> Hi Libtech,
>> 
>>> I was on the Project PM panel at the HOPE X conference in NYC last 
>>> weekend. We talked about crowdsourcing research into private 
>>> surveillance contractors like Raytheon, Palantir, HBGary, Stratfor 
>>> (video embedded)...and some people came to surveil the panel,
>>> recording it and acting suspicious. There's also my one-on-one with
>>> Thomas Drake (who retweeted this article) and what happened to my
>>> phone... Thought y'all would enjoy my report from HOPE X:
>> 
>>> http://thecryptosphere.com/2014/07/23/report-from-hope-x-surveillance-snowden-stratfor-and-surprises/
>> 
>>>  Thanks,
>> 
>>> Douglas
>> 
>>