Home Anonymous Operations Civil Liberties in the Digital World Hacktivism, or fifty shades of grey hat
Saturday 9 May 2015
From Iceland to South Africa, from the US to Singapore – the re:publica 2015 brought together people from all continents. From 5th till 7th May 2015, 7000 participants and around 700 accredited international journalists bustled around the fully packed STATION-Berlin – a festival of superlatives! Moreover we offered 50 sessions on this year’s motto Finding Europe. 197 digital spaces from all over the European continent came to Berlin for the event.
Where did it come from, who’s doing it, and why does it matter? Or is the whole discourse completely over-hyped? Join a discussion with some people who have thought about hacking and political engagement online. And come prepared to challenge what you hear.
"Hacktivism" is a contentious word. It means a lot of things to a lot of different people. From hacktivism’s earliest appearance in the mid-nineties every online activist has tried to grab a piece of it. But what does hacktivism actually mean? Is there one definition or is it a synonym for various forms of online engagement? And do definitions even matter?
This panel will examine the roots of hacktivism and its antecedents, who’s been doing what, and where things might be going.
NordVPN is an excellent VPN for online privacy
Warning – Numerous VPN service providers assure not to keep users’ log files of their connections and it is generally false! Many VPN services that (…)
1 September
Tutanota - Encrypted mailbox for free
Tutanota - Get your encrypted mailbox for free Tutanota, Freedom Fighters: Tutanota is open source so security experts can verify the code that (…)
17 November 2022
“e Foundation” was incorporated in May 2018. e Foundation is a non-profit organization leading the development of Open Source mobile operating systems that (…)
1 November 2022
Riseup : Backup Backup Backup!
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and (…)
28 September 2022