[Battlemesh] Fwd: [FOSDEM] [CFP] Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom @ FOSDEM 2020

Benjamin Henrion zoobab at gmail.com
Thu Oct 17 14:05:47 CEST 2019


On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:59 PM Claudio Pisa <clauz at ninux.org> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: brabo <brabo at cryptolab.net>
> Sent: October 15, 2019 7:07:51 PM GMT+02:00
> To: fosdem at lists.fosdem.org
> Subject: [FOSDEM] [CFP] Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom @
> FOSDEM 2020
>
> Welcome to the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom at FOSDEM 2020
> (Brussels, Belgium, February 2nd).
>
> Open Source and Free Software initial promises were to empower
> individuals when it came to computing. Three decades later, computing
> practices are tightly coupled to the Internet ecosystem. PCs are less
> and less used while smartphones are soaring and data is collected and
> stored on servers on which we have very limited control as users. What
> happened to user's freedom and privacy in the meantime? The outlook is
> not so great: we have less and less control over our digital
> environment. Network neutrality is heavily attacked and mainstream
> software products are usually proprietary or run on servers we don't
> have control over. Modern technology has given the powerful new
> abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on people - with critical
> social and political consequences.

Sad but true.

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