Free and Safe in Cyberspace is an event series organised by the Trustless Computing Association to promote the wide availability of radically more user-trustworthy IT in critical societal domain areas, starting from sensitive human communications and transactions, and leading up to critical AI and cyber-physical systems.

Since 2015, we have held 5 editions – twice in Brussels, and once in New York, Iguazu,  Berlin and next in Geneva in Spring 2019 – gathering top IT and AI security experts, companies and governmental institutions.

We’ve been fostering a constructive discourse and wide consensus on(Challenge A) how we can build new IT technologies and certification governance models that achieve levels of cybersecurity that are radically-higher than current state-of-the-art and (Challenge B) how we can do so while avoiding to create an unacceptable obstruction to the legitimate investigation of criminal suspects.

In search for a solution, we have been challenging the status quo and predominant opinions on this matters, with its deeply ingrained misconceptions, also fueled by much outright wilful deceptions by some actors. We’d been questioning if personal freedom and public safety in the internet age are really and inevitably an “either-or” choice, a zero-sum game – as most experts, activists and security agencies believe.

We’ve been exploring , instead, meaningful digital freedoms and public safety are instead a solvable “both-or-neither” challenge, whereby the uncompromising zero-trust technical and governance safeguards and paradigms that are needed to radically improve personal freedoms are the same that can make lawful access sufficiently resilient from abuse, and make our public security agencies most effective and accountable.