It must have been an exciting surprise for attendees.
I'm glad Snowden said DNS should be encrypted. From the tweet stream provided by @conflictmedia, that was tied for 1st for most re-tweeted, along with making the Internet for users, not spies. (It should be noted that DNSSEC is not encrypted.)
Too bad his appearance wasn't recorded, but HUGE thanks to Niels ten Oever and Rich Salz for tweeting major points!
Well, luckily for humanity this is exactly what I've been coding full time since December of 2014, dedicating my life to. I have been designing it for many years.
My vision is complete and planned, all the way until The World Brain! See: https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html
The first layer, MORPHiS, is a global secure encrypted distributed datastore that deprecates bittorrent, email and the web so far and is slated for release at the end of this Month!
See http://reddit.com/r/morphis for details.
Sorry for reddit; it is because I keep getting shadow banned here for being pro Snowden, Etc. Do not worry, MORPHiS is designed to deprecate hacker news! Anyways, the website is morph.is but doesn't launch until the 31st of this month. Read the only article in the /r/morphs subreddit for lots of details on MORPHiS!
Peace all!
I find it interesting that people now consider Snowden the authority and source for all these things.
The more I consider the ramifications of these news reports, the more I realize we need full decentralization and total encryption.
We have the tech: Strong encryption, Tor-like relays, and the blockchain. What we need is a way to make services based on these technologies not just as easy to use but easier to use for the average Jane.
If the internet as we know it is to survive, we have to crack this nut.