Overall, the most cypherpunk thing I can suggest to people who want to move things forwards- ignore cypherpunk. Figure out how to get people orchestrating and controlling their own host of devices among them and their friends. Break down the walls between local devices, string up some lines, and get people experimenting with managing, sharing and pooling their local resources.
We need whetted appetites for human control of the wider systems. We need people who want to harness their many systems (as opposed to be harnessed to your applications, subject to it's designed fancy), we need people interested in repurposing/reconnecting things as their environment changes. We need whetted appetites for sovereign control over all of one's devices. Empower and more so interest people in seizing the device and put it in it's role among the person's world, and cryptography will be just a facet of that great manifest will we've reawoken.
If you want to be a cypherpunk, be a cypherpunk tomorrow. Today, be a ubiquitous computer systems liberator.
If you don't own the software (no one does), don't have control over it's behavior (no one does) and cannot see it's data (no one can), grappling with and understanding control over the channels can only be done in the extreme abstract. Sovereign computing proposes reversing the former, and giving people direct systems control, sharing, and orchestration capabilities. Ubiquotous computing proposes taking these exposed raw capabilities, and making them broadly and generally machine-to-machine.
I hadn't mentioned that cypherpunks have been extremely in the spot light, c/o anonymous (w/ major recent busts), silk road (busted), and that guy no longer in America; all of which are keeping cypherpunkery in the spotlight of late. I hadn't mentioned privacy; PGP, TLS, OpenVPN, & the only new and shiny on the block onion routing. Because I don't think privacy will have the public consciousness. Because privacy today means turning over whatever rocks Facebooks decides to leave out for you to turn over, and that's not useful. If crypto wants focus, it needs to actively support a counter SaaSS world, it needs to focus on creating new capabilities directly usable by individuals for interacting with other individuals.
I think there's a heavy dose of self-absorption going on here.
Link to the most recent breakdown on Cryptocat I could find. https://datavibe.net/~sneak/20130717/cryptocat-considered-ha...
Anyone a hint how to use this page?
EDIT: following update by parent post - Spacebar and right arrow key definitely work for me (also down arrow key). Backspace, up and left arrow keys move back. I'm using Chrome on a mac.
I use firefox in vimperator mode on OS X. I guess vimperator borked the slide show for me :)
Maybe HTML5 audio or video could be added to flesh out some of the concepts?
I don't mean to be overly critical because, again, I enjoyed the presentation. Just offering some food for thought.
edit: oh, I see from the comments that it's a presentation and you have to click on the black border where there's no indication that you should click.
Allow me to use this opportunity to mention how awful this is from a UI/UX perspective. Terrible design.
EDIT: I now see you are talking about going back to slide 1. I just tested and it took me ~5 seconds to swipe back to the first slide. Or you could easily change the url.
part 1: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791560/highlight/423948
part 2: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight/423949
Q&A: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/39791773/highlight/423952
The net connection dropped out between part 1 and 2, and it's using my laptop mic.
I think clicking on the black border isn't something that is obvious at all. Perhaps you could have some arrow icons on the side to navigate? Or even a text tooltip indicating that this is in fact a slideshow, and you can click on the borders or use keyboard shortcuts to continue.
The gist of it is that although the Cypherpunks 2.0 movement is doing fantastic pro-privacy work, it will eventually be constrained by the apathy of the average person who uses technology (aka, surveillance victim). I don't know how we can fight this, but we should try.
Just give me the thing in paragraph form if you put it on the internet without the audible speech to go with it. In fact, do that anyhow.
(Also pick up some better slide talk design techniques. For example: http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/2005/09/liv... )
Cypherpunk now has evolved, they found that the most paranoid were not even close to the actual capabilities of the other-side were. Now the stakes are raised has even the academics (Matthew Green) and inter/national bodies (NIST IETF) have been shown to be victim of outside forces.
I think things just got MUCH more interesting...
Also, I REALLY like the "cyberpunks write code" mantra.
> Based on Google IO 2012 HTML5 Slide Template
The code is available on https://code.google.com/p/io-2012-slides/
This slideshow borked my browser -- it seems to use JS to pre-load about 20-30 web pages and screws up the browser history completely.
How do I get involved?
What display tech is he using? That was awesome.
