Month: May 2012

  • Commercialization makes your online rights irrelevant

    Commercialization makes your online rights irrelevant, more thoughts from my talk with @ioerror at #rp12 « @dmytri – Venture Communist. #rp12 #dmytri #foundprivacy #nettime #socialmedia

  • Cursus DNSSEC

    Cursus DNSSEC. #cursus #dnssec #lookingforsolutions #security #sidn

  • Tracking the trackers – Gary Kovacs at TED

    Gary Kovacs: Tracking the trackershttp://www.ted.com/talks/gary_kovacs_tracking_the_trackers.html As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil — personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it’s your right to know what data is being collected about […]

  • Oneswarm: private BitTorrent

    http://www.oneswarm.org/Although widely used, currently popular peer-to-peer (P2P) applications offer no user privacy. By design, services like BitTorrent and Gnutella share data with anyone that asks for it, allowing a third-party to systematically monitor user behavior. As a result, using a P2P network means that your online activities become public knowledge. OneSwarm is a new peer-to-peer […]

  • Alsof Digitale veiligheid niet al moeilijk genoeg is…

    “Gesprekken van passagiers van de Rotterdamse vervoersmaatschappij RET worden elektronisch afgeluisterd en gebruikt voor beveiligingsdoeleinden, meldde Elsevier. In eerste instantie wilde men niet toelichten hoe of wat, maar na enige herrie kwam men met “Op onze stations hangen camera’s met microfoons waarmee live meegekeken en -geluisterd kan worden door een meldkamer.” Want tsja, beveiliging hè.” […]

  • SSL

    Trying to get SSL through StartSSL. Don;t know if this is a good idea… #diy #security #ssl #startssl

  • Owncloud

    I just discovered OwnCloud and ThinkUp. They both look like neat solutions to many problems I had. Going to tinker around with them and will let you know what I think of them sooner or later Owncloud – use it to create your own cloud to backup files, sync a calender or create your own […]

  • Encrypted server – The problem

    I want an encrypted server. Why?– I want to store data of people I don’t know. If someone physically obtains my server, I don’t want them to get all the stuff on it. Where to start?– Asking people if this is even possible… How do you combine sharing stuff and privacy? – How do I […]

  • Woop, Woop, netneutraliteit is een feit!

    Vanavond is het wetsvoorstel tot wijziging van de Telecomwet aangenomen door de Eerste Kamer. We hebben dus – en we zeggen het nog maar eens- als tweede land ter wereld netneutraliteit vastgelegd in de wet! Een historisch moment voor internetvrijheid in Nederland! Al met al was het een lange dag met een mooi einde. We […]

  • Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12

    It seems it had fallen to us to break a little bad news. Here it is. – We are not progressing from a primitive era of centralized social media to an emerging era of decentralized social media, the reverse is happening. – Surveillance and control of users is not some sort of unintended consequence of […]