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This time at Vemana Institute of Technology, Bangalore

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Press Note: Condemnation of Internet Shutdown in Karnataka and other parts of India
The ongoing nation-wide resistance against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens exercise is growing everyday. The continuing repression of people participating in the protests by the autocratic government is a public knowledge now. Sadly, this repression has led to the death of two people in...
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20 Dec 2019
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On Pegasus Spyware and WhatsApp Surveillance
The Free Software Movement of Karnataka strongly condemns the targeted surveillance of activists, lawyers and journalists with the Israeli Pegasus spyware. WhatsApp itself has accepted that over 1,400 people were targeted globally through its platform. The targets include over 40 politicians (earlier reported to be 24), lawyers, journalists and academics...
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04 Nov 2019
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Free Ola Bini Solidarity Letter
Ola Bini is a developer, not a criminal. As technologists, free and open source developers, and individuals and organizations working to protect the security of the Internet, we wish to protest in the strongest terms the continuing illegal detention in Ecuador of Ola Bini, a cyber-security expert, privacy consultant, free...
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17 May 2019
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A surprise at FSMK Camp happening in PESCE, Mandya
To those of you who dont know Dr Stallman (aka RMS), he launched the Free software movement in 1983. FSMK organises camps every year focused at enabling students on various free software tools and technologies which helps them add career value. But why are we suddenly talking about both these...
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11 Jan 2019
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FSMI statement on Security of the Aadhaar personal data and ECMP Software
FSMI writes to the the CEO of UIDAI about a patched version of the Enrollment Client Management Platform (ECMP) software used for off-line Aadhaar enrollment, which can potentially be used to bypass geo-location and bio-metrics, and also change the mapping between personal data of Aadhaar holders and their bio-metric data....
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05 May 2018
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