The Nym mixnet: Free software to end mass surveillance

LibrePlanet 2023 videos Presented by: Ahmed Ghappour [Note: due to technical difficulties, the beginning of the talk is missing] Ahmed Ghappour is General Counsel at Nym Technologies and Professor at Boston University, where he teaches Cybersecurity Law, Privacy Law, and Criminal Law. Before his current roles, Ghappour built law clinics at UT Austin and UC Hastings to litigate national security and hacking cases. He litigated the first criminal trial to challenge bulk metadata collection by the NSA, sued the CIA on behalf of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and represented digital causes célèbres such as Chelsea Manning, Ross Ulbricht, and Barrett Brown. Before that, Ghappour represented Guantanamo prisoners at Reprieve UK, and litigated patent cases with a top law firm. In a prior life, Ghappour was a software engineer at Silicon Graphics, Inc. and Sun Microsystems. He’s an alum of NYU Law and Rutgers Engineering. Description: The Nym mixnet is a new privacy infrastructure f