About okhin
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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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Yubico, PAM, and Challenge/response Authentication
Introducing the yubikey The yubikey is a small device that act as a token generator for authentication system. Yubico build them and, as they’re seen as a Universal Keyboard, they can be easily interfaced with any kind of system. From generating OATH token, to One Time Password systems, going by Radius and OpenVPN server authentication,…
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How to install a Pirate Bay proxy?
How to set-up a The Pirate Bay proxy? Assuming you have a webserver somewhere in a (cyber|cypher)space and you want to set-up an access to the infamous website thepiratebay.(com|se|org). You need different things: A webserver, in this case apache2 but can probably be nginx or any other webserver you want to use An up-to-date libssl…
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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…
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Broadcasting news
A little introduction Everything started from an non-planing stuff done on #opsyria. To give you some context, we have a bot there, named ii, that’s help us with information management. Birth and death of a bot ii’s birth dates back to the second phase of opsyria, the phase were we go wild and try to…
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Thank You
There’s something on my mind I can’t sort without putting it in words. I feel extremely uncomfortable about it and it almost makes me sick. Yeah, it happens sometimes and that means I’m not a complete sociopath. This is a problem about journalists, reporters, and each and every people that do everything they can to…
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