Riccardo Coluccini: The use of transparency, anti-corruption and generalized civic access rights (FOIA) tools for monitoring the digital surveillance of the police and government agencies. Giovanni...
Fabio Pietrosanti
Fabio Pietrosanti has been part of the hacking digital underground with the nickname “naif” since 1995, while he’s been a professional working in digital security since 1998. President and co-founder of the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, he is active in many projects to create and spread the use of digital tools in support of freedom of expression and transparency.
Member of Transparency International Italy, owner of Tor’s anonymity nodes, Tor2web anonymous publishing nodes, he is among the founders of the anonymous whistleblowing GlobaLeaks project, nowadays used by investigative journalists, citizen activists and the public administration for anti-corruption purposes. He is an expert in technological innovation in the field of whistleblowing, transparency, communication encryption and digital anonymity.
As a veteran of the hacking and free software environment, he has participated to many community projects such as Sikurezza.org, s0ftpj, Winston Smith Project, Metro Olografix, among others. Professionally, he has worked as network security manager, senior security advisor, entrepreneur and CTO of a startup in mobile voice encryption technologies.
In 2013 the Snowden revelations showed how digital communication can’t be considered safe by journalists dealing with whistleblowers and sources and underlined the need for better and stronger too...
This workshop is for journalists who wish to learn how to receive material from anonymous sources. During the workshop, the Hermes Study Centre will be at your disposal to enable you to test a par...
During the Wired Next Festival 2014 - the event mostly remembered for the blitz of taxi drivers against Uber Italy - it was explained, in a few hours, how a newsroom can be equipped with a new edito...
This workshop is for journalists who wish to learn how to receive material from anonymous sources. During the workshop, the Hermes Study Centre will be at your disposal to enable you to test a part...
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...
The world of intercepts (by telephone or online) is often not fully understood. How do intercepts work and what are the risks for civil liberties, especially for those dealing with information such as...
The world of communications wiretaps (whether on the phone or the internet) is often not fully understood - neither how they function nor what the risks are for civil liberties, especially for those...
Techniques of dissidence and digital repression The fight for online freedom of expression is conducted using the same weapons that authoritarian regimes employ in trying to suppress it. A fight in...
