“The World Tomor­row” is a dynamic new tele­vi­sion dis­cus­sion series fea­tur­ing Julian Assange, founder of Wik­iLeaks, as host. It is a col­lec­tion of twelve inter­views fea­tur­ing an eclec­tic range of guests, who are stamp­ing their mark on the future: politi­cians, rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies, intel­lec­tu­als, artists and vision­ar­ies. In episode #8 of the series, Julian gets together with activists from the Cypher­punk move­ment — Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jere­mie Zim­mer­mann, and Jacob Appelbaum.

Jacob Apple­baum, a staff research sci­en­tist at the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, and a devel­oper and advo­cate for the Tor Project, which is an online anonymity sys­tem for every­day peo­ple to fight against sur­veil­lance and against inter­net censorship.

Jacob believes that every­body has the right to read, with­out restric­tion, and the right to speak freely, with no excep­tion. In 2010, when Julian Assange couldn’t deliver a talk in New York, Jacob gave the talk instead. Since then, he has been har­rassed by the U.S. gov­ern­ment: inter­ro­gated at air­ports, sub­jected to inva­sive pat-downs while being threat­ened with prison rape by law enforce­ment offi­cials, had his equip­ment con­fis­cated and his online ser­vices sub­ject to secret sub­poena. Jacob is uncowed by these mea­sures, and remains an out­spo­ken advo­cate of free­dom of expres­sion, and a vocal sup­porter of WikiLeaks.

Andy Mueller-Maguhn is a long time mem­ber of the Chaos Com­puter Club in Ger­many, and a for­mer spokesman. He is a spe­cial­ist on sur­veil­lance, work­ing in a jour­nal­is­tic capac­ity on the sur­veil­lance indus­try with his project wiki, buggedplanet.info. Andy works in cryp­to­graphic com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and runs a com­pany called Cryp­to­phone, which mar­kets secure voice com­mu­ni­ca­tion devices to com­mer­cial clients.

Jere­mie Zim­mer­mann is the co-founder and spokesper­son for the cit­i­zen advo­cacy group La Quad­ra­ture du Net, the most promi­nent Euro­pean orga­ni­za­tion defend­ing anonymity rights online and pro­mot­ing aware­ness of reg­u­la­tory attacks on online free­doms. Jere­mie works to build tools for the pub­lic to use to take part in pub­lic debate and to try to change things. He is mostly involved with the copy­right wars, the debate around net neu­tral­ity and other reg­u­la­tory issues that are cru­cial for the future of a free inter­net. Shortly after sit­ting for his inter­view on The World Tomor­row he was stopped by two FBI offi­cers while leav­ing the United States, and was inter­ro­gated about Assange and WikiLeaks.