More than 200 million people got online for the first time in 2016. But in many cases, the type of internet that they accessed was already controlled and censored by their governments or internet serv...
Arturo Filastò
Arturo Filastò is the co-founder and lead software developer of the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a free software project under The Tor Project that has been examining internet censorship around the world since 2012. Arturo is also the co-founder and vice president of the Hermes Centre for Digital Human Rights. He previously worked as one of the core developers of GlobaLeaks, the first open source whistleblowing platform that enables groups and individuals to report on corruption, human rights violations, and other injustices in a secure way. He also helped develop Tor2Web and Atlas, amongst many other projects. Arturo studied mathematics and computer science at Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. He is a well-known security and network measurement researcher and regularly gives lectures at international conferences.
Anonymous whistleblowing: how to receive information from anonymous sources via web
Starting a platform for digital whistleblowing is far from simple. More and more international media are gearing up to provide an anonymous and interactive web "letterbox" with which journalistic sour...
Online censorship is very subjective. Depending on the ISP you use, the state in which you live or even the office where you work, some portions of the Internet can be blocked. Technologies of corpora...
Dictators and oppressive regimes the planet over buy billions of dollars worth of digital surveillance technology from Western companies every year. Which results in direct violation of the human ri...
OONI is a project which aims to collect information about the reality of Internet censorship in the world. Measurements are made using open methodologies and free software. The data collected is mad...
More anonymity more often, Sir? Tails is a simple way of guaranteeing anonymous web connections able to circumvent censorship. Yet it's nothing more than a CD with a Linux operating system. Using i...
Whistleblowers and anonymous leaks: can the media do without them? Whistleblowing is on the increase, with Wikileaks the tip of the iceberg and with traditional journalism heaving hard in the effo...
