The New Freedom

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Tomorrow I’m leaving for Berlin, Germany for the 25th Chaos Computer Congress! I’ve never been to Germany and can only speak a very few choice phrases (”Ein bier, bitter!”), so I’m very excited for badly communicated German adventures!

Me and John will have an Anomos table set up at some point during, and we will hopefully be giving a lightning talk as well, so come see us! Also, stop by and talk to us or send me an email if you’re going to be there and we can go out for drinks and schnitzel! I’m looking forward to meeting some of the I2P team and some other leet Germans and would love to hang out with you as well.

On a more somber note:
This will be the last time that I will ever be able to re-enter the US without giving the feds (DHS: Der Heutigen Statsi) a lot of my biometric data. On January 18th, all non-US citizens will be photographed and fingerprinted during re-entry to the United States under the VISIT (Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology) program. Even though I’m Americanized as apple pie and police brutality, I’m actually a UK citizen, so this means I am to be fingerprinted, photographed and background checked whenever I leave and reenter the country. “Papers please.”

If you citizens think this is okay, will you still think it make sense when they start scanning you when you try to leave or enter your own country? This is the first step. If we keep putting up with this now, it only makes it easier for them to expand deeper into our lives later.

The theme of the conference is ‘Nothing to Hide’ and it couldn’t be more appropriate.
R

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