Travaux on Félix Tréguer

Alt. vs. Ctrl.: Thinking About Alternative Internets

Mon, 05 Sep 2016 09:36:04 +0000

Editorial notes for the Journal of Peer Production #9 on Alternative Internets

By Félix Tréguer, Panayotis Antoniadis, Johan Söderberg

The hopes of past generations of hackers weigh like a delirium on the brains of the newbies. Back in the days when Bulletin Board Systems metamorphosed into the Internet, the world’s digital communications networks – hitherto confined to military, corporate and elite academic institutions – were at grasping reach of ordinary individuals. To declare the independence of the Internet from nation states and the corporate world seemed like no more than stating the bare facts. Even encrypted communication – the brainchild of military research – had leaked into the public’s hands and had become a tool wielded against state power. Collectives of all stripes could make use of the new possibilities offered by the Web to bypass traditional media, broadcast their own voice and assemble in new ways in this new public sphere. For some time, at least, the Internet as a whole embodied “alternativeness.”

Rollback or Legalisation? Mass Surveillance in France and the Snowden Paradox

Sat, 04 Jun 2016 08:56:12 +0000

This piece was first published on ExplosivePolitics and MappingSecurity.

On June the 5**^th****, it will be exactly three years since Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote the first article based on the trove of secret documents disclosed by the now famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Three years that saw the unfolding of an unprecedented controversy on the surveillance capabilities of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, thanks to the combined work of investigative journalists, computer experts, lawyers, activists and scholars. Since 2013, France is the first liberal European regime to undergo a vast reform of its legal framework regulating secret state surveillance. What follows is a reader’s digest of research presented at the 7^th Biennial Surveillance & Society Conference.**

Comments on the EU Commission’s Flawed Cybersecurity Strategy

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:53:30 +0000

On Thursday February 7th 2013, during a press conference, the European Commission announced a milestone initiative in the field of “cybersecurity”, publishing two documents:

– A proposal for a directive “concerning measures to ensure a high common level of network and information, security across the Union” (apparently nicknamed the “NIS directive”).

– A communication on a “CyberSecurity Strategy of the European Union : An Open, Safe and Secure Cyberspace”.