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Category: #lookingforsolutions

  • Article on P2P alternatives

    The revelations over the scale and depth of the NSA’s surveillance program has revealed how the Internet has become more centralized than many of us are comfortable with. Webmail services like Yahoo and Google and social networks like Facebook and Twitter are convenient and efficient platforms, as well as easy to use, but they collect […]

  • So What Do We Do Now? by Gurstein

    Evgeny Morozov in an otherwise interesting piece in the Financial Times is surely incorrect in his bald statement that “Snowden now faces a growing wave of surveillance fatigue among the public”.  The emotion isn’t “surveillance fatigue” but rather shell shock at the revelations as they keep coming, in wave after uncomfortable wave.  The first reaction […]

  • Snowden causes decline of Anonymous?

    As argued by Florian Cramer on the Nettime mailing list, Anonymous feels it isn’t so anonymous anymore and is declining. This points at the very relevant subject of the ‘chilling effect’. If true it means that the answer many people ask themselves these days: “Why isn’t everybody angry at the NSA?” is; because we are […]

  • Free Owncloud, Obscuracam and K9mail manuals

    FLOSS Manuals has been working with Internews Europe as part of their Human Rights programme to create some user focused manuals to help communication. Recent security news has shown us that Free Software solutions are the best solutions for many situations. We have been very happy to draw on our past experience of creating and translating manuals […]

  • DNScrypt

    dnscrypt-proxy provides local service which can be used directly as your local resolver or as a DNS forwarder, encrypting and authenticating requests using the DNSCrypt protocol and passing them to an upstream server. The DNSCrypt protocol uses high-speed high-security elliptic-curve cryptography and is very similar to DNSCurve, but focuses on securing communications between a client […]

  • NSA luistert Nederland al af sinds 1946

    NRC beschikt over geheime documenten van de NSA, afkomstig van Edward Snowden Voor het eerst is meer duidelijk over de schaal van spionage in Nederland De NSA-dossiers Nieuwe onthullingen NSA De eerste onthullingen over Nederland Floor Boon, Steven Derix en Huib ModderkolkAmsterdam/Rio de Janeiro.Amsterdam/Rio de Janeiro. Nederland is tussen 1946 en 1968 afgeluisterd door de […]

  • #youbroketheinternet

      This summer somebody broke the Internet. We think there are several amazing projects working to fix it. We painted a map of these projects and placed them according to the architectural space they are filling: #youbroketheinternet. #foundprivacy #lookingforsolutions #opendata #software

  • Terms of Service; Didn’t Read

    Terms of Service; Didn’t Read – TOS;DR” is a web service and a browser add-on that help you to understand what is in the Terms Of Service agreements of many online services. It rates different aspects such as whether your data are a business asset, the use of cookies or the scope of the copyright […]

  • Quantifying yourself without giving it all away

    One new project just cropped up in my mind: I’d like to quantify myself more. You know, keep track of my sleeping and moving patters so I can learn and improve them. But all the stuff I find online, by Nike or by Fitbit, requires you to register online and compare results and blah blah […]

  • A case for the ban-opticon by F. Stalder

    From the Nettime mailinglist came this post which I want to remember and therefore post on my blog. It was written in reaction to a link posted by P. Riemens: Thanks to the author Felix Stalder The concept of the panopticon has been very popular ever since Foucaultelevated it to the rank of a central […]