the europe's east: oppression, technology, power
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The Europe's East - Oppression,
Technology, Power (Panel discussion)Alexey Sidorenko, 22.05.2014, Sarajevo
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.
Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/russia-china-are-totally-bffs-when-it-comes-to-internet-security/
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