It is very interesting to see how whistleblowing has taken such a central role in so called hacktivism circles. In recent times we have witnessed many whistleblowers that, even sometimes risking serious consequences, have decided to expose the truth in the public interest. Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake, Bill Binnie, Jesselyn Radack, … [Read more…]
Miriyam Aouragh stepped on the stage wearing a T-shirt from the Stop the War coalition. She said that she would not have come to OHM if it weren’t for the principled counter-stance that Noisy Square has taken. Her talk about “techno-counter-revolutions” started with a quote from Karl Marx: The revolutionary advance made headway not by … [Read more…]
Gmc (Koen Martens) opened OHM 2013 by talking about how we are all snooped on by government who are desperate to find what he called “statistical terrorists”. He wanted to know what we are going to do about this. If we know that end-to-end encryption is needed, why isn’t it part of the core architecture … [Read more…]
Looking at the submissions we had so far, we can only say one thing, we really put the resistance back in OHM. From open source cryptography to makerspaces, from citizen reporting trainings to a very special roundtable discussion on whistleblowing. Especially digital whistleblowing. A changing game Digital whistleblowing was has been around for a really … [Read more…]
Read in: Türkçe | Français PDF: Français | English | Türkçe UN and some international organizations have declared Internet as the main tool of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Internet and social media are indispensable for the individual to progress, for the individual to take part in society and for a sustainable democracy. Around the whole world masses demand access … [Read more…]
THIS IS A CALL TO GOVERNMENTS FROM CIVIL SOCIETY. THIS CALL WAS PRESENTED DURING THE CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE FREEDOM ONLINE CONFERENCE THAT TOOK PLACE IN TUNIS BETWEEN JUNE 17-18, 2013. THIS CALL CAPTURES THE “SENSE OF THE ROOM” AT THE JUSTICE TENT THAT WAS ORGANIZED AT NAWAAT ON JUNE 17TH, 2013 In the light of recent events a number of … [Read more…]
This post originally appeared on the PUSCII blog on 26 march 2013 On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene A lot has changed since the days when the people around Hacktic set up and defined the Dutch hacker scene. The Hang Out made way for a variety of hackerspaces; Hacktic itself is long … [Read more…]
