About

President of the Board of the Polish Free and Open Source Software Foundation. Human rights in digital era hacktivist, Free Software advocate, privacy and anonimity evangelist; expert volunteer to the Panoptykon Foundation; co-organizer of SocHack social hackathons; charter member of the Warsaw Hackerspace; and Telecomix co-operator; biker, sailor.

Formerly CTO of BRAMA Mobile Technologies Laboratory on Warsaw University of Technology and a student at Philosophy Institute on Warsaw University.

Affiliations

FLOSS Foundation FLOSS Foundation SocHack: Social Hacking SocHack: Social Hacking Warsaw Hackerspace Warsaw Hackerspace

Former affiliations

BRAMA Lab BRAMA Lab

Contact

E-mail rysiek@fwioo.pl Jabber/GTalk/XMPP rysiek@fwioo.pl

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Table of Contents

17.05.2013Why I find -ND unnecessary and harmful101 11.02.2013One year anniversary of Anti-ACTA97 30.01.2013Fighting Black PR around OER95 29.01.2013HOWTO: effectively argue against Internet censorship ideas94 20.11.2012Border conditions for preserving subjectivity in the digital era93 19.11.2012Social blogosphere92 07.11.2012Embrace fragmentation91 02.11.2012SERVICES.TXT90 24.10.2012Apple finally jumped the shark89 24.09.2012Breaking the garden walls88 24.09.2012Melbourne CryptoParty video message86 16.09.2012On sailor's sensitivity, or "the starry heavens above me"85 22.08.2012Black PR around Polish e-Textbooks84 24.07.2012Hypochristian Love82 24.07.2012Some new Layout Goodness81 17.07.2012Party 2.080 13.07.2012Party as a system hack78 10.06.2012Are corporations dangerous only in collusion with governments?77 09.06.2012Proxies! Proxies everywhere!76 04.06.2012Automagic re-publishing from Twitter to StatusNet75 18.05.2012TPSA/Orange and GIMP, or a word on 5 users74 05.04.2012Perfect ToDo-oid71 27.03.2012Subjectively on Anti-ACTA in Poland70 25.03.2012On copyright in Budapest69 20.03.2012Learning to Internet67 29.02.2012Brussels Safari #1 - EP press conference and ITRE65 21.02.2012Because ACTA is passé64 20.02.2012Privacy of correspondence, EU-style63 17.02.2012Polish PM on ACTA: I was wrong62 12.02.2012Anonymous vs Corponymous61 10.02.2012To have a cookie and dowload it too60 19.01.2012About ACTA at Polish PM Chancellery59 19.01.2012Free as in United58 10.01.2012Terms of Using the Service56 05.01.2012Corporate lack of patriotism55 04.01.2012Terroristcopters54 02.01.2012IceWeasel and Privacy53 28.12.2011Good Uncle Stal... Putin52 25.12.2011Useful Bash defaults done right51 21.12.2011Google Mail, or how mail becomes publication50 20.12.2011Occupy Gotham49 11.12.2011Copyfraud48 18.11.2011One-way cutting45 11.11.2011Users and Citizens43 30.10.2011Adhocracy and Net4Change42 18.10.2011War on Fun41 14.10.2011Technocomplacency39 09.10.2011Election Silence in Poland38 02.10.2011E-textbooks, Johnny Mnemonic, business and the Net35 12.09.2011Diaspora-Based Comment System31 11.09.2011Conflict of values30 06.09.2011On-line privacy and anonymity: case in point28 04.09.2011On being careful with words27 29.08.2011Of malware, hot steam, privacy, using one's brain and paedoparanoia24 29.08.2011Kragen Thinking Out Loud23 26.07.2011Willpower, productivity and cycling 20 18.07.2011Neo FreeRunner as a WiFi Soundcard19 10.07.2011A Weekend with lawyers18 09.07.2011One step closer to ideal17 04.07.2011Apostasy in Poland16 28.06.2011YAFR (Yet Another Facebook Rant)15 17.06.2011Important meetings, fun meetings13 13.06.2011Ooops I12 30.05.2011Playing with Node.js11 25.05.2011Mozilla, Google and the Location Bar10 24.05.2011At Sector 3.0 conf9 22.05.2011Layout, CSS and RSS/Atom8 15.05.2011Startup Weekend Network Fun Fun Fun7 10.05.2011World's Smallest Open Source Violin5 06.05.2011I can has brag1

06.09.2011

On-line privacy and anonymity: case in point

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From a comment in a discussion on Diaspora:
I used a nym(*) through most of the Bush years as I live in a very conservative area and my criticism of the prez and warz was carried in some pretty prominent places. I actually feared for my life. So, I hid behind anonymity.

Surprise! Even in "the land of the free" people exercise their right to anonymity fearing ostracism and persecution for political views.

Now, does anybody have any more enlightening comments as to why we do not need on-line anonymity (as, supposedly, if you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide) and how nobody wants on-line privacy?.. I'm looking at you, Schmidt and Zuckerberg!

*) "nym" - pseudonym

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