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33. What role does Spiegel Online play?

They have an ongoing series about the NSA and spying. http://www.spiegel.de/international/topic/nsa_spying_scandal/

Then, of course, there's the Electronic Frontier Foundation; since this story is so closely tied to information and technology; what is their role in this? They too have a series of articles about the NSA and spying with discussion about the technology used. https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

Here's a presentation by EFF's Senior Staff Attorney at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress [30c3] by the Chaos Computer Club [CCC] in Hamburg, Germany:

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There were several other presentations at the 30c3 also addressing technology, the NSA, and spying:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOcrXzpA0W82rsJJKrmeBlY3_MS0uQv3h

What do you think might be 30c3's role in all this?

Have you heard of Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen? Yeah, I hadn't either until I saw this TED talk,

then checked for background on him. According to the links on his wiki:

Since the 1990s, Hyppönen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime.[5] His team has been responsible for taking down the Sobig.F botnet.[6]

In 2004, Hyppönen co-operated with Vanity Fair on a feature, The Code Warrior, which examined his role in the Blaster and Sobig Computer worms.[7]

Hyppönen has keynoted or spoken at various conferences around the world, including, Black Hat, DEF CON, DLD,[8] Hack In The Box Security Conference[9] and RSA. In addition to data security events, Hyppönen has delivered talks at general-interest events, such as TED, TEDx, DLD, SXSW and Google Zeitgeist. He's also spoken at various military events, including AFCEA events and the NATO CCD COE's ICCC. Hyppönen is a reserve officer in the Finnish Army.[10]

Hyppönen has been a member of the advisory board of IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats) since 2007 together with Yevgeny Kaspersky, Dr. Hamadoun Touré, Professor Fred Piper and John Thompson.[11]

Hyppönen is a columnist for BetaNews and Wired.[12] He has also written on his research for CNN.

In 2011, he was ranked 61st in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers report.[13]

The two greatest tools of our time have been turned into government surveillance tools. I'm talking about the mobile phone and the internet. George Orwell was an optimist.
—Hyppönen on the PRISM surveillance in 2013[14]

Check the links at his wiki to confirm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikko_Hypp%C3%B6nen

Is he connected to Omidyar you think?

I highly recommend you not check out any recent DefCon presenters.