Romantic Hackers
Keats, Wordsworth and Total Surveillance In 1791, the political reformer Jeremy Bentham theorized the Panopticon, whose design promised to allow a single Inspector to surveil (exercise “inspective force” over) large […]
Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins
On the Way to Free(ing) Education Massive open online courses are the vogue of the season when it comes to discussing the future of university-level education. But we’re only starting […]
Russia’s Surveillance State
Privacy International, Agentura.Ru, the Russian secret services watchdog, and Citizen Lab have joined forces to launch a new project entitled ‘Russia’s Surveillance State’. The aims of the project are to […]
Long Live the Protocoletariat!
We’re winning! The future looks like network politics! Wait, what the hell are network politics and how do they work? Is that like the Pirate Party, or the IETF, or […]
Let Me Answer That For You
Adventures in Mobile Paging In the last years, mobile security and specifically GSM has been attacked in many different ways. It was demonstrated how to sniff and crack traffic, how […]
Safecast: DIY & Citizen-Sensing of Radiation
Empowering citizen in the wake of Fukushima triple-meltdown disaster The triple meltdown of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant in March last year and the release of radioactive material that […]
