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State of the Net 2014 will feature (cue the ominous Star Wars music) a provocative panel called “NSA Crypto Wars, Episode VII: the Internet Strikes Back?” featuring a panel of Internet engineers discussing technical responses to NSA surveillance revelations. Regardless of what the President says on Friday about the surveillance programs engineers are busy at work hardening the Internet’s architecture.

Revelations that intelligence agencies have been tapping into backbone Internet links and subverting standards processes and security technologies have spurred the Internet’s engineer community to harden core Internet protocols and reexamine standards setting processes. This panel will discuss: what is the state of Internet and web security and cryptography in the shadow of these revelations? What kinds of proposals are gaining traction in technical standard-setting forums like the IETF? What NIST is doing from within the US government to evaluate federal information processing standards? What does the current landscape look like from the perspective of an innovative secure communications start-up?

Speakers include:

• Matthew Green
  Research Professor, Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute (Bio)
• Joseph Lorenzo Hall
  Chief Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology (Bio)
• Andy Regenscheid
  Mathematician, NIST (Bio)
• Sean Turner
  Owner, International Electronic Communication Analysts, Inc. (IECA) (Bio)
• Phil Zimmermann
  Co-founder, Silent Circle (Bio)

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On the day that Congress prepares to receive the President’s address on the State of the Union, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker will address the State of the Net, the Internet’s premier policy conference. We are pleased that Secretary Pritzker, who recently hosted a dynamic Twitter chat on #open4biz, will address State of the Net attendees on January 28, 2014 at the Newseum. On the day that our government gathers to assess the state of our Union, we hope that the Secretary will comment on the role the Internet plays in fueling the economy and promoting American business opportunity.

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The 2014 State of the Net will frame the issues for the next session of Congress. To get a sense of the conference check out videos and the agenda (PDF) from 2013’s State of the Net. We will post the agenda as a work in progress shortly.

If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.

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Former FISA Judge Jame G. Carr will speak at the State of the Net Conference in January on the controversial and systemic NSA surveillance program. Yesterday federal district judge Richard Leon dealt a substantial constitutional blow to the NSA’s phone collection program and cast doubt about the legality of many other government surveillance programs. Judge Leon noted that the program in question “infringes on ‘that degree of privacy’ that the founders enshrined in the Fourth Amendment.” Judge Carr, who served on the FISA panel previously, is uniquely suited to discuss with other legal experts the legality of the NSA programs and what Congress should and possibly must do about them.

In fact the significance the NSA surveillance issues will likely infuse many of the debates and keynotes at State of the Net on January 28 at the Newseum. Tickets to State of the Net are still available. Register here. Sponsors can contact the event organizers for complimentary tickets.

The 2014 State of the Net will frame the issues for the next session of Congress. To get a sense of the conference check out videos and the agenda (PDF) from 2013’s State of the Net. We will post the agenda as a work in progress shortly.

If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.

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One Year After the Dramatic Showdown in Dubai the Internet Governance Debate Is At A Fever Pitch

We are pleased to announce that both Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda and ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade will participate in the State of the Net Conference on topics related to the future of Internet governance and the role of multistakeholderism respectively. Exactly one year ago today the debate about how the Internet would be governed was set ablaze in dramatic fashion when the U.S. and several other countries refused to sign the U.N.’s ITU charter in Dubai. The revelations about NSA surveillance earlier this year added rocket fuel to that fiery issue. The State of the Net will feature several panels on topics exploring the future of Internet decisionmaking. We are pleased that leaders like Ambassador Sepulveda and Mr. Chehade will participate in these important discussions. Former State Department Ambassador David Gross will also be there.

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The 2014 State of the Net will frame the issues for the next session of Congress. To get a sense of the conference check out videos and the agenda (PDF) from 2013’s State of the Net. We will post the agenda as a work in progress shortly.

If you are interested in sponsoring or providing in-kind donations for this event, please call 202-407-8828 or email Tim Lordan at [email protected] for more information.

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Today the Internet Education Foundation announced that Internet governance expert and Syracuse University professor Milton L. Mueller has been selected to serve as a Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Fellow. Mueller is a professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies where his research and teaching explores the political economy of communication and information. For the past 15 years his research, teaching and public service have concentrated on problems related to global Internet governance. Mueller is an acclaimed author and is a founding academic of the Internet Governance Project.