Articles

İnternetime Dokunma! (2011)

#SosyalMedyamaDokunma

To people and public, As the digital version of the oppressive and conservative political line that brougt the shutdown of Hagia Sophia Museum (the most important museum of Turkey), the encroachment of Istanbul Convention (the assurance of women), and most significantly the constraint of faschism by AKP government; a new law draft called "Social Media Law Draft" in colloquial speech which is aimed to alter the Internet Law of Turkey No. 5651 a.k.a "the murderer of Internet Freedom", has been come to parliment.
majatiegs | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

The defense of GnuPG

For several years, there has been an uprasing agains GPG. Every now and then someone writes up a blog post and condemn OpenPGP and it's implementations for being too hard to use or too easy to mess up. The GPG side is mostly silent... So, this article is in defence of GPG.
ruhrgebeat | CC0

Stop Saying Freedom is a Private Matter

Alper Atmaca
There is a wide spread misconseption about freedom. Almost everyone think freedom is theirs(!) to decide. So many sentences starting with "my freedom" are being heard, one may simply get convinced that everybody has some sort of freedom pouch they hang from their belt.
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Authoritarianism Through Coding: Signal

This isn't a theoretical piece about freedom and digital technologies. This is a real ongoing trend that is at best observed around secure messaging application Signal by Open Whisper Systems and it's founder Moxie Marlinspike. His view and management of Signal reflects a wider trend that jepordises world's freedom.