[CryptoParty] Fwd: Guest Lecture: 7.6.2016, Friedrich Moser, “A Good American”

[Ralph Wozelka]

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Subject: 	Guest Lecture: 7.6.2016, Friedrich Moser, “A Good American”
Date: 	Thu, 19 May 2016 07:55:36 +0000
From: 	Birkner, Ursula <ubirkner at tugraz.at>



Dear Colleagues,

it is a pleasure for us to invite you to the guest lecture (documentary
and discussion) “A Good American” about a groundbreaking surveillance
program from Friedrich Moser, Austria.

The guest lecture takes place as part of the course “Social Media
Technology” in *HS i13 (ICK1120H)* on Tue 7th June, 2016 from 18:00 - 22:30.

When:      Tue 7th June, 2016 18:00-20:30
Where:     *HS i13 (ICK1120H)*
Title:         “A Good American” (documentary and discussion)

Regards,
Christian Gütl and Johanna Pirker
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*Abstract:*
A GOOD AMERICAN

„A Good American“ is a gripping docu-thriller about a groundbreaking
surveillance program, the brilliant mastermind behind it and how this
perfect alternative to mass surveillance was killed by NSA-management
for money – three weeks prior to 9/11.

Bill Binney was a brilliant cryptologist and long-time National Security
Agency (NSA) analyst, since 1997 serving as Technical Director. Binney
developed a sophisticated program named ThinThread for gathering data
capable of providing clues, in real-time, of potential terrorist
activities. Built-in safeguards would have prevented the massive
surveillance methods later exposed by Edward Snowden. Why was this
program killed off? And who was behind that?

Friedrich Moser’s eye-opening and deeply disturbing documentary tells
the complete story of William Binney and those, both inside the NSA and
out, who backed ThinThread. A program that gathered data, lawfully,
effectively, and more inexpensively, than the now discredited programs
pursued by the US and EU governments. It’s also a chilling account of
those willing to go on the record and what happened to them when they
tried to expose the truth. Could ThinThread have prevented 9/11? Very
likely, as a test-run has shown, whose results are still classified to
this day – and equally other terror attacks from the Madrid bombing, to
the London Tube bombing to the recent Paris and Brussels Attacks.

*Short Bio:*

Friedrich Moser
producer / director / cinematographer

Friedrich holds a university degree (MA) in History and German Studies
from the University of Salzburg, Austria. From 1998-2000 he worked as a
TV journalist in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. In 2001 he founded blue+green
communication. In 2008 Friedrich successfully attended the Documentary
Campus, the European Masterclass in nonfiction filmmaking, and started
to make documentaries for the international market. Friedrich has been
writing, directing, shooting and producing documentaries since 1999,
with an output of over 20 films. Friedrich’s professional career also
includes lecturing on history and documentaries at the University of
Vienna / Department of Economic and Social History, as well as teaching
video production at the Secondary School for Commercial Graphics in
Bressanone-Brixen, Italy.




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Dr. Christian Guetl

Head of Enhanced Motivational Media Technologies (EMMT) Group,

Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media (IICM)

Graz University of Technology, AUSTRIA



phone: +43 316 873 5604

fax  : +43 316 873 5699

skype: cguetl



personal website: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/guetl



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School of Information Systems

Curtin University, Perth, WESTERN AUSTRALIA



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