I'm here from orchid and gonna tell you
some stories about things happening in
the world of privacy and the efforts of
many people have turn you into a product
and what you can do about it so the
concept of privacy is something which is
actually pretty new used to be that
there really wasn't any privacy you
lived in villages and everyone kind of
knew your business and you what you're
going if you want to be private you
literally had to like go away and go
into exile and you got really private
and so as we started creating societies
which were based more around cities and
much more tightly coupled interactions
the the idea of privacy started kicking
up because people were saying hey I've
got all these people around me I need to
have some more more time to myself some
more of the ideas of my own information
being private and the internet changed
that again the Internet then connected
us in a very real way and turner's in
some like a global village but the price
of mission to that global village is
your privacy increasingly today doesn't
have to be this way but this is
essentially how this environment has
evolved John Perry Barlow wrote a very
interesting piece many years ago
essentially a declaration of
independence of cyberspace and that
concept of how we were gonna build the
internet back then has unfortunately not
really held true in many of the ways
that the internet is working today back
in 95 there were only 16 million people
online and by 2016 we were 3.4 billion
and the 2016 the United Nations made a
resolution where they said that instant
access was also a human right a basic
human right and then by that point in
2019 we have 4.3 billion people online
and those people all of us are creating
this many bytes of data per day
like kind of crazy rights a lot of a lot
of zeros and what kind of stuff is that
was lots of Instagram lots of tweets
lots of other stuff like everything and
tons of this data is just getting
recorded is like profiles of each of us
like the meatrix like we had this party
other day really is like the matrix like
we think they've got they've got you
there's a festive information and in
addition the Internet's not really one
internet anymore
you've got the u.s. which is extremely
heavily corporate controlled and
monitored and kind of everything's for
free but the price is you you've got
Europe which is kind of a nanny state
model of like we're gonna take care of
you gonna make sure you're private but
we're gonna put this GDP our stuff in
which actually has some negative
consequences - that's unintended
repercussions of what that does China we
know was extremely heavily censored and
controlled and then in other parts of
world we're doing experiments where
we're just deciding whether we want to
turn the inside on off here and there in
Russia the last experiment was turning
off parts the internet to stop telegram
being used and Freedom House does a
survey every year and a study which
tries to determine exactly how private
we really are in the world especially on
the Internet very interesting set of
studies they do and that conclusion is
it's getting worse the idea that the
Internet is becoming more free and more
private as it's actually getting a lot
worse all time and here's Mark sorry so
obviously Facebook going quite a bit of
trouble and so we're talking right now
is the concept of corporate control
against net corporate control of
surveilling you of censoring you and one
of the unfortunate things right now is
that there is this perception that
everything's okay right now you know we
had the movie we came to a little shut
down like everything we find but it's
the same there are probably like 20
companies copycat of payment America
that are going to be the same thing in
the next set of elections probably on
both sides this time and really all
that's happening is that it's just
propaganda you know we're finally woken
up to the fact that not only we are we
marketed information for products also
market information for how to think and
this been happening for a very long time
before the Internet and the internet
just made it a lot easier to do so this
idea that the things that made just like
more fun and more convenient have also
made it a lot easier to track you and
this is from where I'm from originally
in England we have more closed-circuit
cameras per person than anywhere else in
the world we're really good at this
stuff
you got nothing on GCHQ the NSA it's
just you know like a little fun little
sister cars in the GCHQ we got you
ironically my dad I used to work with
GCHQ back in the day so I know what that
means so we don't really want to live
this way we don't want to really you
know we live in this world where we have
to wall ourselves off and go into exile
if you want privacy we want to live in a
world where we connect and we get to
share things or friends so but what if
you woke up tomorrow and you just
couldn't access these sites what if
you're like oh man like suddenly my
internet just doesn't work and you can
do this by the way if you just take a
plane for two hours west you can have
this experience it's pretty cheap from
here so and it's pretty hard to work
around these these firewalls and
restrictions on content so what do you
do well one solution is VPN and the the
challenge of VPNs is that they're not
all created equal oh yeah by the way
this will we're building so this is a
little bit pitchy but not always
like tell you some good stories so we're
building a decentralized VPN and we're
building it on aetherium come on
and people ask me why we built it on a
theory own unlike was the only
decentralized small country platform and
they're like well on to some other ones
and like you ever the hardy centralized
so we're doing it with you guys
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the retailer market has gone mainstream
so three years ago when we started this
company people were still little bit
like wow he what you guys going after
the privacy space to really care about
privacy is this a big deal and then
we've had a few interesting events since
then which people are started realize
that it is a big deal and VPN usage
globally has been increasing there are
parts the world where there's just
really heavy restrictions one strange
thing is there are parts of the world
where satire is bounds like you don't
have to actually be ironic online it's
like not okay which i think is really
ironic
so not all VPNs are created equal as I
said the the main issue is
centralization so what you're doing with
the VPN is you basically paying someone
else to man-in-the-middle attack you see
you like a hey here take all my traffic
and here's some money
like cool yeah I can trust you right but
you don't know you don't really know
whether you can trust them they might be
logging your data some of them have
prices set so low that they have to have
some of the business model and what they
do is they sell the data to hedge funds
they sell a data to other people they
basically take your information and sell
it just like you are hoping that you
wouldn't have to happen like you trying
to get out of that but actually making
worse so that's one problem and some of
them have logging practices and they say
they don't log and turns out some of
them do you find out later it's also
transparency is you there are starting
to become some of the VPNs now that
actually open-source their technology
many of them do use open source
standards and toolkits but it's very few
of them that just say here's our code
and the world that we live in we
understand and we believe that this is
important so there is a transparency to
see that for sure
VPNs also have typically only was
essentially one connection between you
and the VPN and then to the rest the
Internet you can improve the your
protection
security by actually putting in multiple
essentially multiple relays between you
and the ultimate exit site and that's
one of the features that we bring in
with Orkut and finally it's kind of hard
to just go up and spin up your own VPN
other techniques such as tor and other
overlay networks most people do this in
a volunteer basis so we've been working
on we believe that having the ability to
easily spin up and receive compensation
for running nodes in a system like this
will be an easy way for us to build
better VPNs in the future and finally
most VPNs have to tend to have a very
well known well known traffic signature
which means that the firewall is able to
easily detect that and filter the
information out we've been working on a
solution to fix that and so this is the
pitch piece we're offering a better DPM
it's open source it's built in etherium
right it's secure and it's decentralized
and we're launching this year so we'll
be launching in December this can write
that down if you like and we're
launching a mobile client first primary
mobile client as our focus we're
partnering with a number of bigger
players in the space and also in the VPN
space and we're hoping to try and
address a number of the issues that
we've found in the space of VPNs and in
privacy we have an internal roadmap
we're going to be improving upon these
things and increasing the amount of not
only knowledge that we're sharing about
this but the kind of tools that we're
building to improve your privacy and I
think I'm a little early
but oh yeah this final thing so we think
it's time for privacy which is a big
market and the crypto market to join
forces and we hope that in the future
notice ourselves but other people will
be inspired to look at this industry in
these spaces of private communication
and use
the kind of all the brains and resources
we have in this community to work on
these problems together
thank you
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