Cryptoanarchist & voluntaryist focused on technology and society hacking
IT security guy, founder of IT security hacking companies (Nethemba, Hacktrophy) & contemporary art (Satori)
Co-founder of Bratislava's and Prague's hackerspaces (Progressbar & Paralelni Polis)
Member of Czech contemporary artistic group Ztohoven
Responsible for many anti-government & digital privacy projects www.nepracujemeprestat.sk, www.internetbezcenzury.sk
Top privacy threats in Czech Republic
Internet censorship (ban of "unlicensed" online gambling portals)
Czech Secret "Military" Service Orwell's Law
Global surveillance of financial transactions (EET)
Internet censorship in Czech Republic
Proposed by "licensed" gambling lobby to eliminate their "unlicensed" competition from the market
Tax payers will pay for enforcement of corporativist interests of some "selected" companies, at the same time for their own Internet censorship
It is and will be totally ineffective (can by bypassed using the standard Opera with integrated VPN)
It will significantly increase ISP's expenses
It is a dangerous precedent -> censorship is always extending over time (with more and more blacklists)
Czech Secret "Military" Service Orwell's Law
The amendment will allow the Czech Military Intelligence to intercept the entire Czech Internet. Furthermore, the secret service will be able to modify and even block the traffic
The Service will have access to online information flow, i.e. our e-mail conversations, visited sites, watched videos, online behaviour on social networks, etc.
Such legal access, that will be granted by this amendment, will mean that even encrypting all communications will not be secure any more
State-scale wiretapping, unprecedent violation of basic civil rights
Global surveillance of financial transactions (EET)
All Czech companies which do not make cashless transactions only have to be mandatory registered in the EET system (Electronic records of sale)
It is an extra expense for all companies
The government gains the control over all financial transactions of all business transactions of all companies
It is only a question of time when this information is leaked (by corrupted or disgruntled employees or hacker's attack)
It can be misused to gain sensitive correlations about shopping habits, money flows or customers' solvency, competition fights
What is a political legitimity of such dictatorships proposals?
If someone wants to propose a law for "tagging" Jews (as an "intrusion to their privacy") with a yellow star, should we consider him to be serious?
If not, why we take seriously "privacy intrusion" proposals of such institutions like Czech Military Intelligence or Czech politicians who approved Internet Censorship, global financial surveillance EET, etc?
Question time!
Do we have right to our digital privacy if no one is hurt?
Do we have right to our digital privacy
including our financial transactions
if no one is hurt?
Do we have right to our digital privacy
including our financial transactions protecting them from the tax office
if no one is hurt?
OK, if not - who defines the borders of our digital privacy?
(Those ones who have approved and enforce all these dictatorship laws?)
Do we deserve absolute digital privacy?
In these days, it does not matter if you answer "yes"or "no".
Absolute digital privacy is technically achievable (including protection of all your transactions against the government)
There is no place for government regulators to intervene to this economy or see any financial transactions.
Strict regulations and bans always lead to "subversive" counter activities
Internet censorship -> rise of VPNs
War on Drugs -> rise of street drug markets/crypto markets
High employee expenses (including minimum salary) -> rise of ilegal workers
High taxes -> rise of offshore companies
Probition / regulation of cash / economic dictatorship -> rise of cryptocurrencies
Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse
types of criminals who use the internet to facilitate crime and consequently jeopardize the rights of honest internet users
terrorists
drug dealers
pedophiles
organized crime
the term was coined by Timothy C. May in 1988 when discussing the reasons for limited civilian use of cryptography tools
Four Horsemen on their "ride"
Europol & Interpol call for "bitcoin" regulations, ban of Bitcoin mixers because of terrorists, drug dealers...
Encryption ban proposal in the UK to fight with "terorists"
Regulation (in some countries) of Tor/I2P exit nodes because of pedophiles
Do we have right to our digital privacy including child pornography?
Do we have right to our digital privacy including computer rendered
child pornography
with no real victim?
Child pornography facts
Very sensitive topic, unfortunately people do not think rationally in this case
Ofted used as an excuse for Internet censorship (IFW), shutting down of Tor/I2P exit nodes, to compromise undesirable "important" people
Tor/I2P hidden services are full of child pornography that cannot be technically taken down (and easily available for most people)
Should we criminalize people for a posession of any sensitive content if they do not directly support child abuse (they do not pay it & they do not distribute it?)
Australian case of "little breasts"
What about rendering artificial child pornography?
Consider the situation when 0-day malware compromises millions of computers and infect them with child pornography. Should we criminalize all these people? What about uploading to blockchain?
Conclusion
We are heading to the most individualist society we have ever lived
Current (and future) technologies can provide us both surveillance control as well as unimaginable digital freedom
Expect the government will lose a lot of control over our the virtual world (thanks to the rising of "Cryptoanarchy world")
And yes, we deserve absolute digital privacy if no one is hurt