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Guided by an army of "geeks with a conscience," a network of digital activists, working mostly in the shadows, is emerging to challenge the restrictions of repressive governments around the world. Sascha Meinrath is part of that army.

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Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, said the bills set "a horrendous precedent globally" and that much of the content users put online — such as open publishing, crowd-sourced information gathering or ...

When Sascha Meinrath saw the Occupy encampment in D.C., he saw something few others would — a testbed for technology. ...

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... But there are doubters. “They use one hell-of-a complicated series of data manipulations (and keep in mind, this is coming from someone with a heavy background in advanced quantitative statistics),” said Sascha Meinrath, co-founder of MeasurementLab.net. ...

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Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told Al Jazeera that it is "quite feasible" to access a mobile operating centre remotely, thus able to install backdoors, install software to monitor or manipulate ...

In a letter today to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) and Ranking Member Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative and several organizations argued that H.R. 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), would be detrimental to freedom of expression worldwide.

The letter states that the bill would “set an irreversible precedent that encourages the fracturing of the Internet, undermines freedom of expression worldwide, and has numerous other unintended and harmful consequences."

... Headed by Sascha Meinrath, an Urbana Champaign University PhD student, the Commotion project is hosted by the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI). ...

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Measurement Lab has been selected by SamKnows for its European Commission project to map the performance of all EU Member States and three other nations, as part of a drive to help ISPs, regulators and consumers improve internet services across the continent.

Today Measurement Lab (M-Lab), in conjunction with Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, announced the addition of 3 new M-Lab servers in Wellington to collect data that helps sustain a robust Internet in New Zealand. 

As both events of the Arab Spring and recent natural disasters have shown, people around the globe need secure and reliable platforms to communicate. Authoritarian governments have the ability to completely shut down online communications, while natural disasters can knock out vital infrastructure for days, leaving first-responders without a means to communicate.

Ils sont cinq. Cinq parlementaires UMP, spécialis- tes des nouvelles technologies, à avoir fait le dépla- cement mercredi à Washington, à quelques enca- blures de la Maison-Blanche, pour rencontrer Sascha Meinrath, promoteur d’un Internet libre et gratuit. La vingtaine d’employés travaillant à ses côtés por- tent chemise blanche et pantalon noir, bien loin de l’image de geeks échevelés bidouillant des ordina- teurs dans des squats. ...

... Ce projet ambitieux – nom de code Commotion– est dirigé par Sascha Meinrath, 37 ans, militant de longue date de l'Internet libre et précurseur des réseaux citoyens – au sein du collectif de journalistes en ligne Indymedia, puis à l'université d'Urbana-Champaign (Illinois), un des berceaux du logiciel libre, et dans diverses start-up et ONG d'action sociale : "J'ai bricolé mon premier réseau autonome il y a dix ans. Les antennes étaient faites avec des boîtes de conserves." ...