Presentation: Tweet"Wikileaks and a free internet"

The events that unfolded when Wikileaks released their cache of diplamatic cables where many and varied. Among the most worrying was how many larger companies immediately cut off contact with Wikileaks and even shut down their DNS entries and stopped them from receving donations. What happened there serves as an indication about what might happen when corporate and government interests get in the way of due process. It also serves as a warning about how vulnurable our technical infrastructure is.

In this presentation, I will first recap some of the more salient events in the Wikileaks story, then talk about the main technical pressure points that made it so easy for the US government to shut down Wikileaks. Finally, I will talk about what will happen in the future and what we can do to secure our infrastructure from threats against freedom.