1. The State of the Dark Market… (1/10)
Building an economy that’s as close to philosophically correct as possible

2. Introduction (2/10) Disclaimer:
I don’t think there is a reliable means to hide from the NSA unless you are willing to invest a sizable portion of your time and income.
I am not an expert on any of these topics. Until recently I used clear text logins with administrator accounts to do FTP transfers, despite Windows warning on every log in screen.
This talk might suck. As a mitigating tactic I only have 10 slides, all numbered so that if I do suck, at least you know how much longer I will suck!

3. Part 1: Amateur Hide and SEEK (3/10)
We probably can’t hide.
We can make it flipping expensive for them.
The NSA are not supernatural, they are basically just well funded hacker outfits. Extremely well funded hacker outfits.
AFK is getting much lighter and will eventually be 99% lit up whether you like it or not.
The net is getting darker and will eventually be 99% dark whether the NSA likes it or not.

4. The eye of sauron (4/10) So how much do the 5 Eyes see?
They know who all your friends are
Don’t blame Zuckerberg, they knew before Facebook
All photos anyone uploads to almost any online service
Uploads now automatic
Facial recognition means you and your friends need to not be on Facebook
They have programs to record all phone calls and transcribe them
All your life’s phone calls cost R 5 to store… forever.
Is the NSA the Stasi?
More like survivalist loon neighbour (no offense to present company)
Very inefficient

5. Poking the eye of sauron (5/10)
How to get rid of the surveillance state?
Don’t fear them. YOLO. End all conversations with “as the prophet wills it”.
Lower the cost of surveillance so that anyone can buy an NSA for a few hundred rands.
Awareness, sitting in the corner with your eyes closed doesn’t mean the monster isn’t looking.
Generate noise… pure speculation.
…defund them.

6. Tools (6/10) Freedom of speech / Privacy of Information
TOR – Network Traffic
Tails – TOR on an isolated Operating System
GPG – Encrypt your s
Property Rights
Bitcoin
Dark Wallet
Ethereum
OpenBazaar
Self Defence
Liberator
C&C machines

7. Market Pushback (7/10) Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Where there’s a high enough demand, eventually there is a supply
The following tools all distribute control back to the owners and severely limit anyone’s ability to see, censor or steal from others

8. Dark Wallet (8/10) Demand: Privacy
Turns out that which protects you against hoodlums protects you from the NSA
Darkens the blockchain
Makes traffic analysis harder
Creates a new address every time you pay someone
Can mix funds with other random participant
Dark wallet is the implementation of Bitcoins’ promise of anonymity

9. OpenBazaar (9/10 …suffering almost over)
The saga of the Silk Road
Vendor Ratings
Dispute resolution
Ross Ulbright’s arrest - FreeRoss.org
Silk Road 2.0 – Honour among drug dealers
There are now more operating markets and they seems to be at least the same size and probably bigger.
OpenBazaar
Decentralized
Proof of burn reputation startup
Arbitration
Anonymity

10. DAO’s (10/10) Distributed Autonomous Organizations Overstock.com
Examples
Distributed Securities Stock Exchange
Distributed Uber
Management is code – Code can’t be jailed
Google claimed “Don’t be evil”. DAO’s can’t be evil.
Overstock.com
Ethereum
Bitcoin is not generic
Ethereum will be a generic DAO environment
Ethereum has practical utility vs Bitcoin