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CATEGORIES:Computer Laboratory Security Seminar
SUMMARY:A biography of Tor - a cultural and technological 
 history of power\, privacy\, and global politics a
 t the internet's core - Ben Collier\, University o
 f Edinburgh
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URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/213481
DESCRIPTION:In the seminar\, Dr Ben Collier will introduce the
  new book\, Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future o
 f Privacy (MIT Press\, 2024).\n\n*SPEAKERS*\n* Cha
 ir: Prof Alice Hutchings\n* Speaker 1: Dr Ben Coll
 ier\n* Speaker 2: Professor Steven Murdoch\n\n5:00
 pm\, 26th April 2024\nLT2 - William Gates Building
 \n15 JJ Thomson Avenue\, Cambridge\, CB3 0FD\n\nA 
 biography of Tor - a cultural and technological hi
 story of power\, privacy\, and global politics at 
 the internet's core.\nTor\, one of the most import
 ant and misunderstood technologies of the digital 
 age\, is best known as the infrastructure underpin
 ning the so-called Dark Web. But the real 'dark we
 b\,' when it comes to Tor\, is the hidden history 
 brought to light in this book: where this complex 
 and contested infrastructure came from\, why it ex
 ists\, and how it connects with global power in in
 tricate and intimate ways. In Tor: From the Dark W
 eb to the Future of Privacy\, Ben Collier has writ
 ten\, in essence\, a biography of Tor - a cultural
  and technological history of power\, privacy\, po
 litics\, and empire in the deepest reaches of the 
 internet.\n\nThe story of Tor begins in the 1990s 
 with its creation by the US Navy's Naval Research 
 Lab\, from a convergence of different cultural wor
 lds. Drawing on in-depth interviews with designers
 \, developers\, activists\, and users\, along with
  twenty years of mailing lists\, design documents\
 , reporting\, and legal papers\, Collier traces To
 r's evolution from those early days to its current
  operation on the frontlines of global digital pow
 er - including the strange collaboration between U
 S military scientists and a group of freewheeling 
 hackers called the Cypherpunks. As Collier charts 
 the rise and fall of three different cultures in T
 or's diverse community - the engineers\, the maint
 ainers\, and the activists\, each with a distinct 
 understanding of and vision for Tor - he reckons w
 ith Tor's complicated\, changing relationship with
  contemporary US empire. Ultimately\, the book rev
 eals how different groups of users have repurposed
  Tor and built new technologies and worlds of thei
 r own around it\, with profound implications for t
 he future of the Internet.\n\nThe link for registr
 ation is (essential for those attending online) is
 : https://forms.gle/3o5Mjz8MevwEcbpc9 \n\nZoom lin
 k: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86325192347?pwd=RTB
 0Vm85eXdMbmF5TnV4ZXdOWllYQT09
LOCATION:Online &amp\; LT2\, Computer Laboratory\, William 
 Gates Building.
CONTACT:Hridoy Sankar Dutta
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