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On encryption, memory, and forgetting

“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.” – Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Rare is the interview that brings tears to my eyes. This is not what I was expecting when I sat down for an interview with my friend, the journalist Lina Attalah, in Cebu City, Philippines, a […]

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There are other funding options than the USG

Four years ago, Sami Ben Gharbia wrote a piece that I had the privilege of editing, entitled “The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital Activism.” I was still relatively new to digital rights activism, and although my politics told me that taking money from the US government for what was pretty clearly democracy promotion […]

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Notes from a talk at WerkstattB, Berlin

This is a loose talk that I wrote for a Women’s CryptoDinner at Thoughtworks’ WerkstattB in Berlin, February 4, 2015. I deviated considerably from the notes, but thought I would share them anyway. I don’t believe that we’re doing enough right now to ensure that everyone out there has the ability to take responsibility for […]