I wonder how many people have spoken at Def Con and also given technical briefings in the bowels of Langley ;-)
When I visited China after starting (and exiting) SafeWeb, I thought I might have an unpleasant surprise waiting for me when entering the country. But luckily this cloak and dagger stuff is overblown.
SafeWeb's Triangle Boy: IP spoofing and strong encryption in service of a free Internet
SafeWeb is an encrypted (SSL) anonymous proxy service, used approximately 100 million times per month by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Triangle Boy is an Open Source program that lets volunteers turn their PCs into entry points into the SafeWeb network, thereby foiling censorship in countries like China and Iran. Triangle Boy uses IP spoofing and innovative packet routing to minimize the load on volunteer machines. I discuss SafeWeb's goals and technologies, its involvement with the CIA through In-Q-Tel (the agency's venture fund) and the Internet as a catalyst for social transformation in China.
Stephen Hsu is the CEO and co-founder of SafeWeb.
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Or maybe Chris and I are red agents luring you into complacency. Ever wondered why my forum icon shows me in COMMUNIST CHINA as a CHILD? Mua mua mua.
As an aside, actually both Langley and Maryland actually have a proud tradition of nakedly recruiting at defcon, those capitalist running do- I mean, those heroic, noble gentlemen.
Cool! I never knew. I thought you were "just" a physics professor, but you are a hacker too! Respect! BTW: I never associated the hacker mentality with physics research, but that is probably just my shortsightedness. I always thought that physics - especially the modern mathematical physics - was a very structured and orderly affair. Not the "let's see if we can break this" attitude of the creative hacker.
Fermi was the first hacker :-)
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2009/01/age-of-computing.html
Feynman's mentality was hacker-like as well, of course.
Did you take formal CS courses or are you a self taught hacker?
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