{"guid":"import-e66c577d6e35b88f0c","title":"Changing techno-optimists by shaking up the bureaucrats","subtitle":null,"slug":"28c3-4903-en-changing_techno_optimists_by_shaking_up_the_bureaucrats","link":"http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4903.en.html","description":"Meet the Netherlands: a nation filled with techno-optimists protecting\nour freedom by puting in place restrictions on what you can do, reducing\nour privacy and have technology as a solution for anything and\neverything. When you make a trip we store your details for two years,\nyour airplane meal selection from two years earlier is good data to test\nwith and when migrating the government website we keep the old website\nrunning in an unmaintained state. If you have nothing to hide nothing\ncan go wrong and there is nothing you can do.\n\nWell not quite. What would happen if you play the system? If you would\ntake the train and hack the card? What if you were to pick up the\nresistance you face and use it in your advantage. No matter what the\ncosts would carry on? If you would take some data and show the failures?\nNot just once but a full month long and call that month Leaktober. What\nif you would publicly call the failures with our personal data?\nUltimately you make a difference. You change the law, you changes the\nrules of the game and you really can raise the question if storing all\nthat data is really needed. Ultimately people really start to doubt if\nthis is the right way to go.\n\nThis is a strategic and tactical story on how you can regain some\nprivacy and data protection. Even though for a journalist this should be\nnormal work, thanks to some people these things become very personal. It\nends in criminal prosecution, legal threats, insults, a successful\ncounter hack and ultimately a lot of benefits. But standing up for a\ncause does work as long as you focus on the stories you want to bring.\nMy story is about hacking the system from the inside, overcoming fear\nand showing bureaucrats that hackers are people too. The talk is a\nlessons learnt how a few people can change a nation with hacker beliefs\nif they really want to. A guideline on how to make a difference by\nhacking the system you want to change. Where you can even make huge\nmistakes, but with some luck you can win a world. How you can make your\ncritical voice be heard. 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