Tagged: Activism

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Crowdsourced data collection for legal activism

Environment support group in Bangalore is fighting a legal case against BBMP about tree planting. I got to know about this case late in the evening. From a friend who had read about my previous attempts at mapping the trees using ODK. What we need Bangaloreans to do: Please download the document accessible...

Using sshuttle to remain Safe on Insecure Wi-Fi 2

Using sshuttle to remain Safe on Insecure Wi-Fi

Working from home mostly means working from cafes. Though I mostly tether through my mobile to get onto the Internet, it’s not always fast enough. Also bigger bandwidth does attract the geek in me towards public wi-fi. But most public wi-fis are insecure (I think even the private ones are insecure). Using HTTPS...

The World Tomorrow : Cypherpunks 1

The World Tomorrow : Cypherpunks

Julian Assange in his latest episode of The World Tomorrow talks to Andy Muller Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmerman and Jacob Appelbaum. They discuss about privacy, using the internet anonymously, safely and freely, encryption technology, and the importance of web activism. Andy Muller Maguhn (web) – German hacker (Chaos Computer Club) Jeremie Zimmerman (twitter) –...

Indians should oppose the changes to IP laws : RMS 0

Indians should oppose the changes to IP laws : RMS

Indians should oppose the changes to IP laws : RMS RMS was addressing the gathering of 4th International GPLv3 conference at Bangalore. He was in his regual mood with the software freedoms (a) the freedom to use the software, (b) the freedom to copy and share the software, (c) the freedom to modify...