The Next HOPE keynote speech online!

17 July 2010

Due to the Department of Homeland Security sending some operatives to The Next HOPE to question Julian Assange of Wikileaks about the release of a certain piece of video footage from Iraq he did not come to the con to give the keynote address this afternoon. The guy who was spotted here and there around the con yesterday afternoon was, in fact, not Julian Assange (a few other people made the same mistake, I'm given to understand). In his stead a man with balls made of pure neutronium, Jacob Appelbaum of the Tor Project gave the keynote address. I've only been to a handful of gatherings so moving and powerful as the standing room keynote address today.

Download it from here. Drop everything you're doing and listen to it. Share it with others. And then do the right thing.