The Europe's East -
Oppression, Technology,
Power (Panel discussion)
Alexey Sidorenko, 22.05.2014, Sarajevo

#1
Activists Should Be Much
Smarter, More Efficient.

Networks
Institutionalize

yandex.ru

vkontakte.ru

mail.ru / odnoklassniki.ru

Institutionalization >
Control

Nation-based Personal Data
Storage (affects Facebook, Google)
– starting September 2015

>242,000
Sites that are currently blocked in Russia

«If there's a
social
network
around, I
want to be in
control of it.»
Almost Clint…

Our networks are
infected

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.

«International
Cooperation» develops…

Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/russia-china-are-totally-bffs-when-it-comes-to-internet-security/

Activists Need to
Realize Certain Things

Ask Yourself: Did My
Audience Grow As Fast the
Internet in My Country?

We Need to Scale-Up

What Can We Scale-Up
and What We Can’t?

#2
International Networks of Trust
Should Be Nurtured and
Developed.

How Do I Understand,
Whether I Can Trust A
Person?

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

Encryption Should
Become a Standard

TOTAL HTTPS