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This is not a total victory
ACTA is dead Just in case you’ve spent the last week celebrating the almost formal finding of the Higgs Boson’s, citizens have bring ACTA to an end in the European parliament. Yay, champaign for every one. However, even if ACTA is now a political sinking ship and if I expect things to change in the…
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Aftermath
Disclaimer I won’t speak about everything we’ve discussed, for people lives are at stakes. Also, as usual when things are done with orgs, I mostly spoke with people, not the entire organisation. And, since they’re not robots, their view does not reflect the view of everyone behind the AFP name. I had a lunch meeting…
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Stupid journalists are killing people
Stop killing people, stop using Skype! A journalists friend of mine pointed me to a news flash from AFP – REF: 29578 DVBP 729 GLN20 (4) AFP (295) , if it means something to you – in which they killed someone. Or, if it’s not the case, he will be killed soon. Why? First, they…
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LQDN Needs your support
Once upon a time Once upon a time, the intertubes were the people wet dream, silicon and copper made, connecting each and every computer that could be physically connected to it. The tubes were made to be resilient, even with low resources, and a lot of volunteers worked day and night to maintain it alive.…
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Full Disclosure
Full disclosure I’m a supporter of transparency, especially when some meetings can impact other people. So, yes, I had a lunch with spies from the DCRI. French FBI as Mr. Guéant, former Interior Ministry, called them. They paid for the lunch in a Parisian restaurant (around 20€), and the interview was one hour long (the…
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Tyranny by default
Tyranny by default I got this in my mind since a while. I do not like when I have a default preselected on any choice I have to do. And I think, it’s bigger than the fact I just do not like it. But what are those default choices that I’ll rage about in a…
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Telecomix
Precompiling It’s been almost two years that I’m hanging with the Telecomix crew of amazing people/jellyfish. And I think it’s the first time I’m writing about it. I’ve discussed it a lot recently, mainly because a lot of media here wanna speak with us, also because I heard of, at least, two more long term…
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Sexism part 2
I’m not done yet So, since the time I wrote my previous entry, I’ve discussed the topic of discrimination in the cyberspace with different people and one of them told me that, even if you do not know nothing about someone, you’ll give him an identity by default, and this identity in the hackerscene is…
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Misogyny and the hackers scene
Why this? For some times now, I read and heard a lot on the sexual identity topic and, in particular, related to the hacker’s scene. A lot of people wrote things like this [FR] on one hand, and I hear a lot of bad stuff happening to people related to their sexual identity (sexual identity…
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Companies and hacktivism
Companies and hacktivism Google’s case On the 12nd of March, I was at the Cyber-censorship event organized by RWB and sponsored by Google. There was a nice panel after that, with a lot of activists from Belaruss, Egypt, Tunisia and Syria among others. And, well, could not restrain myself, but I’ve expressed some worries about…