Alejandro@Oxford

Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski, co-founders of Psiphon, have written a great article about Internet freedom in the world and cyberwar, “Ottawa needs a strategy for cyberwar“.
Around the world, governments are engaged in a major arms race to develop and refine cyberwar capabilities. During the recent cyber security review, U. S. President Barack Obama’s administration [...]

Glyn Moody on Open… proposes
how about setting up a database – a surveillance of surveillance database – that has pictures and locations of CCTVs in the UK? It could be crowd sourced, and anonymous, solving problems of scaling and legal issues.
And Richard Rothwell writes in the first comment:
Open Street Map has a proposal for [...]

Glyn Moody on Open… proposes
how about setting up a database – a surveillance of surveillance database – that has pictures and locations of CCTVs in the UK? It could be crowd sourced, and anonymous, solving problems of scaling and legal issues.
And Richard Rothwell writes in the first comment:
Open Street Map has a proposal for [...]

On Mousavi’s Facebook page a message says
The complete staff of Mr. Mousavi’s official Newsagency (Newspaper, Websites!) are arrested !!!!!
Earlier, Mousavi news page, GhalamNews, had been hacked and used to gather information about protesters. Now the page is disabled.
There is not only a physical and brutal crackdown of the opposition in Iran, there is also an [...]

Since Saturday, I’ve been liveblogging the latest events about the unrest in Iran initiated after the declaration of the results of the elections of June 12. Saturday June 20 was a special day. The day before, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Khamenei, said in the Friday prayer that the election results were fair. He demanded [...]

Liveblogging has moved to a full page http://www.blogofchange.com/liveblogging-change-in-iran/

Friday poem for a Saturday of destiny for IranAnd a different take to destiny of change, but as inspiring

Three different articles about the role of the Internet in the current events in Iran.De Spiegel: Ahmadinejad’s Fear of the Internethttp://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,631170,00.htmlOn the rise of citizen journalism against the limitations to which foreign journalist are subjected to.Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian: Twitter counts more than armouries in this new politics of people power http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/17/iran-election-protests-twitter-studentsOn the [...]

The Guardian has launched a web platform to crowdsource the review of the MPs’ expenses.We hope that many hands can make light work of the thousands of documents released by Parliament in relation to MPs’ expenses. We, and others – perhaps you? – are using these tools to review each document, decide whether it contains [...]