About okhin

About okhin

  • Fuck You

    Once uppon a time I used to be called a geek. A nerd. A no-life. Whatever. It used to be associated with people who didn’t want to socialize the way high school and society asked them to do. It used to be people who were refusing what we told them what a boy or a…

  • Make Datalove Not Cyberwar

    Note This post will be in French, since it’s what I used as notes for my talk at Pas Sage en Seine 2014 in Paris. Make Datalove Internet n’est pas un territoire Internet n’est pas un territoire. Un territoire est un espace géographique et implique l’existence de frontière ou de limite quelconque. Or Internet est…

  • GMX, Security and Privacy.

    [[!meta description="""Yet another story about why you need to hide things from the rest of the world, and why commercial company can’t help you with Once upon a time I have this friend – Milou. She’s going to be a good journalist, and she worked a lot for NGOs during her studies. Hence she travelled…

  • About learning and teaching

    About learning and teaching And maybe doing it right So, I happens to have accidentally bootstrapped a sort of collective to “organize” cryptoparties in Paris (See Here). It’s quite cool because then, you know, I can skip some of them to actually get some rest when I’m on holiday. Things works more or less smooth,…

  • Identity, Symbolism and Uniforms

    Disclaimer: I’m in no way a sociologist, those are the state of thoughts in my brain as of now, it will probably change later. And yes, it’s the result of different conversation I had online recently Identity crisis Identity and surveillance There’s something going on in my head for a while, it’s that I have…

  • Project Chaos – Part 1

    Project Chaos Part 1 Intro This article will be the first one of an ongoing story, I’ll try to document my journey on this project through posts, probably shorter than the usual ones. So, I’ve got this group or tabletop role player that I know for 15 years through different instanciation of the same internet…

  • You can haz my freedom. As long as I can haz my pr0n

    is not the issue we’re facing"""]] Context Yesterday, the National Assembly in France voted the LPM (Loi de Programmation Militaire – Military Planning Law) and a lot of the so called civil society was upset about the Article 13 that may (or may not, we can’t know given the way the text is redacted) legalise…

  • We need optimism, not fear

    Fear I plead guilty. I used to use fear as a tool to try to seed concern in people mind when I was explaining why it is needed to use cryptography on the internet (and elsewhere as well). The thing is, fear is an extremely powerful feeling. I think it’s rooted somewhere in the evolutionary…

  • Searx

    Welcome to searx You might have noticed some change on my seeks node since it’s not a seeks node anymore, but instead it’s a searx node. Searx is a project started by asciimoo after Taziden gave a talk at Camp zer0 about going forward with seeks and opening it up to a wider base of…

  • The NSA and the hypocrisis

    Context Finally, the French governement is going to react to the NSA mass spying. Just after the first article published by Le Monde (there might be a paywall). Technically, it’s nothing really new since we’ve read the same for Mexico, England and Germany those last days – use your search-engine fu to find related articles.…

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