We examine how modern piracy increasingly originates from compromised mobile streaming apps, including repackaged binaries, modified playback logic, credential harvesting, and direct API abuse. Using real-world examples from streaming and pay-TV environments, we’ll show how attackers bypass traditional defenses by manipulating the client-side app — creating blind spots that DRM and server-side controls alone can’t address.

Learn how leading media providers are closing this gap by protecting app integrity, detecting runtime abuse, and validating trust before content is delivered, stopping piracy earlier in the attack chain without degrading viewer experience.

Speaker: Amanda Sutliff, Director of Product Marketing, Guardsquare

Location: Tech Chat Theater

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This conversation moves beyond individual incidents to examine the broader implications for local and national journalism. How are reporters navigating public demonstrations, protests, and volatile civic moments? What protections exist — and where are they failing? How should newsrooms prepare journalists for these environments, and what responsibility do institutions have to defend press access and safety?

Featuring journalists who have experienced these pressures firsthand, alongside newsroom leadership, this session offers a grounded, thoughtful examination of what it now means to report in public — and what’s at stake for democracy when that work becomes increasingly precarious.

Moderator: John Berman, Achor/Correspondent , CNN

Speakers:

Mohamed Moawad, Managing Editor, Al Jazeera Channel
Eric Rasmussen, Investigative Reporter, KSTP
Mara Gassmann, Senior Staff Attorney, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Location: Media and Entertainment Theater

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