2015 05-22-sarajevo-panel-sidorenko
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The Europe's East - Oppression, Technology, Power (Panel discussion)
Alexey Sidorenko, 22.05.2014, Sarajevo
#1Activists Should Be Much Smarter, More Efficient.
Networks Institutionalize
Institutionalization > Control
Nation-based Personal Data Storage (affects Facebook,
Google) – starting September 2015
>242,000Sites that are currently blocked in Russia
«If there's a social
network around, I
want to be in control of it.»
Almost Clint…
Our networks are infected
Situation in RuNet
• 20% of top LiveJournal bloggers is openly imperialistic. Other 20% post identical content from time to time.
• 11% of top Russian media outlets had become propaganda sources.
Making your opinion statistically insignificant is just enough to
sustain control over conversation.
«International Cooperation» develops…
Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/russia-china-are-totally-bffs-when-it-comes-to-internet-security/
Activists Need to Realize Certain Things
Ask Yourself: Did My Audience Grow As Fast
the Internet in My Country?
We Need to Scale-Up
What Can We Scale-Up and What We Can’t?
#2International Networks of Trust
Should Be Nurtured and Developed.
How Do I Understand, Whether I Can Trust A
Person?
Web of Trust? • «As time goes on, you will accumulate keys from
other people that you may want to designate as trusted introducers. […]
• And everyone will gradually accumulate and distribute with their key a collection of certifying signatures from other people […]
• This will cause the emergence of a decentralized fault-tolerant web of confidence for all public keys.»
Manual to PGP 2.0, 1992
Encryption Should Become a Standard
TOTAL HTTPS