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Hacking: Finding things out, discovery,
esp. if the knowledge is hidden, obscure, and important
“we find that more than 200,000 people were killed … during the conflict, … more than 93% by the Guatemalan government”
Where I’m going:
Human rights are defined in international law
“War crimes” is a term of law, not of propaganda
Yes, there are tribunals, but...
The community is huge
Why build an information management system? Because 19,000+ cases = a lot of dead trees
Example 1: human rights statistics
Number of acts of severe ill-treatment, by age and sex of the victim
Projects I won’t talk about
The Human Rights Commission of El Salvador
This is what the testimonies looked like in the structured format.
We also collected the career histories of individual military officers.
Then we combined the databases to match violations against perpetrators.
The Results
The Point
Example 2: cryptography
In this example, the human rights group should have sent this.
Message integrity and authenticity are also important. Human rights groups are very vulnerable to spoofs.
Here’s a real, digitally-signed urgent-action message AAAS sent in 1996.
Digitally signatures on the AAAS website
Example 3: Martus project
The Martus client
What is to be done?
What you can do
You’re just warming up...
...keep going...
...and maybe do a favor or two?
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