Normally, I would only send this to the events list. But I'm sending it to the main list as well, per the sender's request.
YC CFP is co-sponsoring a mini-conference in Cambridge, MA, at 6 pm ET on Monday, November 19. See below for the invitation. We hope that you can attend. If not, the event will be recorded and posted. THE GOVERNMENT IS PROFILING YOU Speaker: William Binney, Former National Security Agency, Technical Director of the World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group, Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center (SARC) Discussant: Carol Rose, Executive Director, ACLU of Massachusetts Time: Monday, November 19, 2012, 6 - 7.30 pm ET Location: MIT, Stata Center Room 32-141,32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA Sponsors: MIT Cryptography and Information Security Group, http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/ and the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, www.cfp.org Contact: Be Blackburn, b...@csail.mit.edu, Deborah Hurley, dhur...@well.com Relevant URL: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/cis/cis-talks.html OPEN TO THE PUBLIC While spreading an atmosphere of fear after 9/11, our government has violated our laws, prevented the Congress and courts from doing their Constitutional duty, created a surveillance state and concentrated power in the executive, all in the name of keeping us safe. In an effort to reverse these ongoing unconstitutional activities, William Binney revealed the National Security Agency's massive domestic spying program, Stellar Wind, which intercepts domestic communications without protections for US citizens. Binney disclosed that NSA sought and received access to telecommunications companies' domestic and international billing records. He told the public that, since 9/11, the agency has intercepted between 15 and 20 trillion communications. Binney also revealed that the NSA concealed Stellar Wind under the patriotic-sounding "Terrorist Surveillance Program," in order to give cover to the warrantless surveillance program's violations of the constitutional rights of Americans. Related URLs: http://www.whistleblower.org/program-areas/homeland-security-a-human-rights/surveillance/nsa-whistleblowers-bill-binney-a-j-kirk-wiebe http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/04/shady-companies-nsa/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
