2015 05-22-sarajevo-panel-sidorenko

The Europe's East - Oppression, Technology, Power (Panel discussion)

Alexey Sidorenko, 22.05.2014, Sarajevo

#1Activists Should Be Much Smarter, More Efficient.

Networks Institutionalize

yandex.ru

vkontakte.ru

mail.ru / odnoklassniki.ru

Institutionalization > Control

Nation-based Personal Data Storage (affects Facebook,

Google) – starting September 2015

>242,000Sites that are currently blocked in Russia

«If there's a social

network around, I

want to be in control of it.»

Almost Clint…

Our networks are infected

Situation in RuNet

• 20% of top LiveJournal bloggers is openly imperialistic. Other 20% post identical content from time to time.

• 11% of top Russian media outlets had become propaganda sources.

Making your opinion statistically insignificant is just enough to

sustain control over conversation.

«International Cooperation» develops…

Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/russia-china-are-totally-bffs-when-it-comes-to-internet-security/

Activists Need to Realize Certain Things

Ask Yourself: Did My Audience Grow As Fast

the Internet in My Country?

We Need to Scale-Up

What Can We Scale-Up and What We Can’t?

#2International Networks of Trust

Should Be Nurtured and Developed.

How Do I Understand, Whether I Can Trust A

Person?

Web of Trust? • «As time goes on, you will accumulate keys from

other people that you may want to designate as trusted introducers. […]

• And everyone will gradually accumulate and distribute with their key a collection of certifying signatures from other people […]

• This will cause the emergence of a decentralized fault-tolerant web of confidence for all public keys.»

Manual to PGP 2.0, 1992

Encryption Should Become a Standard

TOTAL HTTPS