Hej dear people,
I would like to notify you about an issue and send an update regarding my
new appointment as Coordinator and International News Editor for "dokuz8
Activist News Network. I will be curating and coordinating projects for
"dokuz8 as of the January 1st 2017, mainly on issues related to citizen
journalism, free expression, digital security; and conduct field trainings
in all regions of Turkey. Annual focus for 2017 will be in "gender-focused
as well as child-oriented reporting and journalism". I will be applying for
project fundings especially in these fields, as well as rights-advocacy,
labor-journalism, legal consultations/support for citizen-journalists.
Although the association that officially founded the network was shut down
with a decree after the State of Emergency that was declared after the coup
attempt, we have adopted another NGO that was founded to conduct research
and projects on journalism related issues; and currently we are looking for
solutions to circumvent this issue, by adopting another association and
transferring projects to the new organisation.
For those of you interested, here is the news network’s twitter account
(since the official news portal has been censored too)
https://twitter.com/dokuz8haber
You may reach the Medium account as well:https://medium.com/@dokuz8HABER
(soon there will be an English section too)
This past year has been a tough one in Turkey; I have come back from Sweden
and re-settled in Istanbul, however the year has been marked with
explosions, attacks, deaths, house raids and a general downfall. In the
first half of the year I had to cancel most of the activities I had been
organising due to these events. Since the June 2015 elections, there have
been a total of 18 explosions/attacks in Turkey, which left hundreds of
dead and over a thousand wounded. With these, came a social reservation
when fewer and fewer people wanted to participate -let alone organise-
events and trainings; which made it an even harder year.
While the explosions and attacks had targeted the civil society at a great
length, the cherry on top of it all was the July 15 coup after which the
pressure has grown exponentially across the country, and stress levels have
risen in society, economy and governance. It has become a challenge
operating in civil initiatives with the arrests and imprisonment of
journalists, academics, activists and even the members of parliaments.
This year, the main accomplishments have been that I started writing for
Katoikos.eu, restarted Today Talks -political/social discussion meetings at
the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and organised Youth Internet
Governance Forum II in Istanbul as part of Turkey Europe Foundation.
As of the new year, there will be many projects and ideas emerging; and if
you feel that there is something related to the fields of free expression
and journalism; or if you do feel that there is anything that needs to be
spread in activist media in Turkey please feel very welcome to
contact/share with me.
For all those that have survived 2016,
Happy New Year
May 2017 bring us all better days...
Gurkan Ozturan
*Coordinator & International News Editor*
*"dokuz8 News Agency Network*
gsm: (009)0542 741 55 63
twitter.com/Obefintlig <http://twitter.com/GurkanOzturan>
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Subject: [hub(a)mypnr.eu] PNR hacking demo today at CCC
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 08:44:53 -0800
From: Edward Hasbrouck <edward(a)hasbrouck.org>
Reply-To: PNR mailing list <hub(a)mypnr.eu>
Organisation: The Practical Nomad
To: hub-at-mypnr.eu(a)lists.xwalck.se
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002279.html
Today at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress (33C3) in Hamburg,
Germany, white-hat hackers from Security Research Labs will publicly
demonstrate their ability to access and alter other people's airline
reservations (PNRs).
They exploit vulnerabilities including ones that I wrote about and
called to the attention of all of the four major Computerized
Reservation Systems in 2002. But the CRSs have made a deliberate choice
not to close these because (a) government authorities have not enforced
existing data protection laws (in other countries than the USA, which
has no such laws) against CRSs, airlines, or travel agencies, and (b)
these travel companies put their profits ahead of passengers' privacy
and security.
There's been some advance coverage in German news media. But the CRS
exploits discussed in these news stories are not the most serious of
those that I expect the folks from SRLabs (perhaps best known for their
previous public demonstrations of "BadUSB" exploits) to demonstrate at
33C3. Watch the livestream here at 21:45 CET in Hamburg:
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/33c3
Recorded video will be posted later, but I don't know how soon. I'll add
a link once it is available.
In the meantime, here are links and answers to some of the most
frequently-asked questions I've been getting in the last few days:
https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002279.html
Best regards,
Edward Hasbrouck
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<edward(a)hasbrouck.org>
<https://hasbrouck.org>
<https://twitter.com/ehasbrouck>
+1-415-824-0214
"The Practical Nomad: How to Travel Around the World" (5th ed., 2011)
<https://hasbrouck.org/PN>
Consultant to The Identity Project:
<https://papersplease.org>
GnuPG/PGP public key:
<https://hasbrouck.org/ehasbrouck.asc>
fingerprint:
0B0B 8F74 CEA3 83AB 97B3 F6AF BB7E F636 165C 22F5
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