“What’s missing is a bit of communication between the two, more communications between hackers and journalists.”
“Exciting Tales of Journalists Getting Spied on, Arrested and Deported: How their own data was taken and used against them”, – a very interesting and exciting talk from 26C3 (26th Chaos Communication Congress) by Bicyclemark.
Continue another four parts: -2- -3- -4- -5-. More info of the talk & downloads.
A week after, Mark wrote a piece published in The Guardian newspaper, titled “Hackers of the world unite”, again, a good read on hackers movement, of people who wants to change the world with their own hands. DIY rules.
“We like journalism. We need journalism. Be we hackers. Be we farmers. We need good journalism. We have a certain amount of knowledge about security. They have a certain amount of knowledge of the world.”
“If these two things could come together, we could get more probably of both, but we can definitely get better quality journalism, more journalism, and a better future. So, go out and be friend with journalists. Go.”
(Thanks. Now go forth… and don’t let your laptop get shot.)
