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CPSR Technonogy in Wartime Conference

If I were in California this weekend, I would definitely be going to the Technology in Wartime Conference at Stanford Law School, sponsored by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). This conference hearkens back to the the founding of CPSR almost 30 years ago, as an organization concerned about the growing threat of nuclear war and how the application of computer technology increased this threat through battlefield automation and the flawed (and still under development) Star Wars missile defense system. CPSR has since broadened its portfolio of issues to include election systems, privacy, and freedom of expression, among other issues, but the excesses of the national security state continue to require our diligent attention.

Another highlight of the event is that CPSR will present its Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility to Bruce Schneier, who will then give the conference keynote talk on dual-use technologies. Bruce is my favorite security expert, computer and otherwise, for both his wide-rangining knowledge and his ability to puncture security myths and facades; I'm a long-time subscriber to and avid reader of his e-newsletter CRYPTO-GRAM.

Instead of the CPSR conference at Stanford, this weekend I'm doing something cool in DC. I'm attending the WidgetDevCamp, a day-and-a-half BarCamp-style meeting at a downtown marketing firm. It looks like a really interesting time, lots of cool people, ideas, even some dirty hands. I'm hoping to come out of there with a widget for edweek.org, or maybe some better ideas for measuring social/web2.0 efforts like widgets. At any rate, I'm sure to learn something, meet some cool peeps, and blog about it here later.

Labels: activism, cpsr, surveillance

   Link: http://www.technologyinwartime.org

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