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Unsealing the slumbering: the new .br domain name liberation process 13/11/2017 Daniel Oppermann After years of accumulating highly disputed domain names Brazil’s ccTLD registry NIC.br has developed new policies for the so called liberation process (“processo de liberação”) of expired domain names under the .br extension. Since September 2017 Internet users holding a Brazilian tax […]

O que o Stuxnet nos pode dizer sobre debates de segurança cibernética no Brasil 20/12/2013 Daniel Oppermann Em novembro de 2013, Ralph Langner voltou a fazê-lo. Ele surpreendeu a comunidade de segurança cibernética com uma nova e mais detalhada análise do Stuxnet, o software que causou graves danos ao programa nuclear do Irã há alguns

And Snowden? 13/12/2013 Daniel Oppermann Since June 2013 the world has proven evidence that the US government has for years constantly monitored the Internet and other forms of communication. This form of espionage on large parts of the world’s population, governments and companies is unique so far. While Washington tries to trivialize the situation, governments

Does Dilma really understand the Internet? 30/11/2013 Daniel Oppermann The Brazilian government is developing an encrypted e-mail system for secure national communication. The system is developed by the federal postal service Correios in cooperation with the Federal Service of Data Processing (Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados – Serpro). The original planing of this project

Ups and Downs of the German Pirate Party 30/06/2013 Daniel Oppermann Imagine a parliamentary debate on private data protection, on net neutrality or on deep packet inspection. And then imagine this debate held by members of parliament who actually had a clue what they were talking about. What sounds quite implausible already became true in