Telecomix
Telecomix was an association of network activists who organized themselves as a decentralized cluster . Their aim was to defend freedom of expression . Telecomix became famous for helping to circumvent network censorship during the Arab Spring . The name Telecomix was used by both WeRebuild and Telecomix themselves. WeRebuild was a collaborative project that proposed and discussed laws and gathered information on politics and politicians.
history
Telecomix was founded on the evening of April 19, 2009 on the suggestion of Erik Josefsson after a seminar on surveillance, the Swedish FRA law and laws that were being implemented in the European Parliament at that time. Josefsson asked the audience for help to prevent the surveillance laws in the European Parliament. During the first months of Telecomix's existence, the focus was on the telecom package , data retention and the FRA law. The work consisted of gathering information about the laws and policies behind them, public talks, and art projects.
During the 2011 Chaos Communication Camp , the servers except for some of the IRC servers were shut down due to the extreme exhaustion of the activists; a little later they were online again.
origin
Telecomix has its roots in a very heterogeneous activist and hacker scene. Many of the founding members also got involved in and around The Pirate Bay . There is also overlap with the Julia Group and La Quadrature du Net, as well as with the Hackerspace Forskningsavdelningen in Malmö. Being a member of Telecomix is a rather vague name. The only formal ritual is to enter the IRC channel. In 2011, Telecomix activists began giving interviews and speaking at conferences such as the Chaos Communication Congress .
Projects and Actions
Actions in Egypt
During the internet blackout initiated by the Egyptian government in early 2011, Telecomix set up a parallel internet infrastructure in Egypt as part of "WeRebuild". Many members and then also the French Data Network made old modem hardware available as dial -in points via their private numbers and faxed these numbers to public institutions, universities, hotels and others with the help of the network activists from Anonymous . They also made packet radio connections available.
Actions in Syria
Similar to Egypt, Telecomix expanded new access to the Internet and in this way enabled revolutionaries to post reports on the Internet and to report on the events. On September 15, 2011, Telecomix redirected all connections to the Syrian web and directed Internet surfers to a website with instructions on how to circumvent censorship.
In addition, Telecomix activists penetrated the network infrastructure and gained access to logs with blocking guidelines and published them. Analyzing the data obtained, the activists were able to trace a trace to US manufacturers of surveillance technology. US Senators from the Democrats and the Republican Party then requested an investigation. The leak was criticized by Jacob Appelbaum as it contained too much sensitive information about Syrian users.
Actions in Libya
During the revolution in Egypt in 2011 as well as the escalation of the Libyan civil war , Telecomix circulated instructions on how to use a landline connection to deal with government blockades on broadband connections. This was done using services offered by Telecomix and other activists.
Different projects
Telecomix operates a search engine based on Seeks. It is an open source and peer-to-peer based search engine that allows anonymous internet research. The search queries are sent encrypted by the peers .
Moreover Telecomix uses a MegaHAL - chatbot that Cameron was called. One member describes it as "the computer generated representation of us all".
Web links
- Telecomix website
- streisand.me Telecomix project to document the Streisand effect
- We rebuild information on Telecomix campaigns and projects
- cryptoanarchy.org/ Telecomix project on cryptographic research and security technologies
- Klabautercast.de: Episode 54: Telecomix: Modems for Egypt
- CRE podcast: CRE188 Telecomix
Individual evidence
- ↑ Political frustration. (No longer available online.) In: Arte yourope. November 13, 2011, archived from the original on January 16, 2012 ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ " Aid for the Revolution from Berlin" - SPIEGEL October 10, 2011
- ^ Telecomix: tech support for the Arab spring. In: The Guardian . July 7, 2011, accessed January 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Network activists help bloggers in Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt. November 13, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Were Build Fourth Communique of the Internet. (No longer available online.) In: We Rebuild Interfax. July 30, 2011, archived from the original on January 12, 2012 ; Retrieved January 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Telecomix. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2012 ; Retrieved January 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cre.fm
- ↑ Telecomix at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2012 .
- ^ Video by Raccoon from Telecomix. In: YouTube . Retrieved January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Contribution by Jonathan Walck to the Future of Communications conference
- ↑ Presentation of Telecomix at the Chaos Communication Congress 2010. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 10, 2011 ; Retrieved January 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "With modems and radios against censorship" , zeit.de, February 1, 2011, accessed on January 3, 2012
- ↑ Quentin Noirfalisse: Telecomix: Hacking for Freedom. (No longer available online.) In: owni.eu. August 1, 2011, archived from the original on January 30, 2012 ; Retrieved January 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ #OpSyria: When the Internet does not let citizens down. November 11, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ The Jungle Magazine. Interview with Telecomix member Stephan Urbach. In: SWR2 jungle. November 10, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Telecomix publishes log files from Syria. In: Golem.de . October 5, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Karl Stiefel: Syrian network surveillance with US technology. In: Wiener Zeitung . October 14, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ US Firm Acknowledges Syria Uses Its Gear to Block Web. In: The Wall Street Journal . October 29, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ NetApp Role in Syria Spy Project Spurs Demands for US Inquiry. In: Business Week . November 15, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ↑ Jacob Appelbaum : Twitter / @ioerror: I'm a bit sad that Telecom… In: Twitter . October 5, 2011, accessed on December 13, 2011 (English): “I'm a bit sad that Telecomix dumped those Bluecoat logs - others were working on using that data in a safe way; pretty risky release! #from 11"
- ↑ Instructions from Telecomix to bypass the blockades in Libya, accessed on January 3, 2012
- ↑ At night the Internet is dead in Libya. In: Die Zeit . February 21, 2011, accessed January 3, 2012 .
- ^ Seeks - The New P2P Based Search Engine. (No longer available online.) August 24, 2011, archived from the original on May 25, 2012 ; Retrieved January 3, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview with Chris Kullenberg, Part 1. Nrli.tv, accessed on January 3, 2012 .
