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Why Glenn Greenwald’s new media venture is a big deal
There’s too much information out there for most people to pay attention to, let alone figure out whether they believe it or not. Hence, most people rely on other institutions such as media organizations to tell them which information is worth caring about. Not only do people not pay much attention to information until it […]
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Slow-motion dataworsteling
T-Mobile houdt voet bij stuk. Vaste lezers van mijn datadagboek weten dat ik sinds begin dit jaar in een soort van extreme slow-motion dataworsteling verzeild geraakt. Vandaag m’n nieuwste belevenissen in dit meerdelige avontuur.
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Emancipation of the Internet
Technology is the language of modern communication, we all have to learn it, guard it, and rediscover its beauty as we’d do when reading an old book. The Internet is the embodiment of our freedom. Programmers can straighten up its spine and we, the security geeks, can strengthen it. You, my friend, are the muscle […]
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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 […]
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xkcd: Enlightenment
via xkcd: Enlightenment. #lookingforsolutions #xkcd
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NSA/Snowden Timeline
This is a little timeline I made based on the information from Al Jazeera. June 5, 2013Guardian announces leak of classified NSA documents June 6, 2013PRISM exposed to American public June 7, 2013American cyber-attack list uncovered
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The Middle East? It’s complicated…
#lawandpolitics
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Get started with Etherpad (Manual)
Flossmanuals released (already sometime ago) a manual to get started with Etherpad. It is handy for both people who want to run their own installation, or the users of an etherpad installation. Etherpad is a real time collaborative editor. Etherpad can and has been used for the following: Taking minutes for online or offline meetings, […]
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How to Keep the NSA Out of Your Computer
The last-mile problem, it turns out, isn’t just technical or economic: It’s political and even cultural. To repurpose the famous A.J. Liebling statement, internet freedom is guaranteed only to those who own a connection. “And right now, you and me don’t own the internet—we just rent the capacity to access it from the companies that […]
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Links to remember on PRISM and Snowden
Hi, What we’re seeing in Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Washington Post andother select publications is the birth of new threat models – not justfor activists but for all of civil society, parliamentarians, companiesand more. This is a threat model that “many have known” and yet at thesame time, there is clearly new stuff. For one […]
The collapse is already here. It is just not evenly distributed.