Hackers As A High-Risk Population

[Nytro]

Hackers As A High-Risk Population

Description: HACKERS AS A HIGH-RISK POPULATION

Harm Reduction Methodology

Hackers are a high-risk population. This talk will provide hackers with tools to reduce the risk to themselves and their communities using harm reduction methodology.

Hacktivism, social networks, hacking’s learning opportunities, grey area use of communication tools by revolutionaries and countermovements, information transparency opportunities, privacy and security abuse and user risk situations all share one central tension: resolving ethical decisions around potentially harmful behavior.

At the same time, those who confuse information with advocacy perceive much of what we do – and discuss – as dangerous.

This talk will provide hackers with tools to reduce the risk to themselves and their communities. We’ll examine the similarities between extreme risk populations and the risk / harm situations hackers find themselves in – especially those with exceptional access, power or talent.

Importantly, I’ll explain how the controversial – yet effective – harm reduction model can be used specifically as a tool for at-risk hackers, and those faced with decisions that may result in perceived or actual harm.

The talk begins with an overview of harm reduction and its roots in reducing risk in European drug culture. We’ll also look at how it is currently used hands-on in the US by urban activists/educators/crisis volunteers such as myself to effectively educate and reduce risk in high-risk, typically underserved, populations.

Threaded throughout the talk is the idea that informed consent practices and the acceptance that harmful behavior is immutable can be effective tools to solve ethical decisions. Used on a wider scale, harm reduction in this light can be used to change the cultural conversation when black vs. white solutions (“just say no,” jailing those who publish information or “real names” policies) are unsuccessfully applied to complex problems (drug abuse, abusive use of information, using pseudonyms for harm).

We’ll examine instances in which harm reduction would minimize damage (including the “gentleman’s agreement” between hackers), and failures when harm reduction could have mitigated failure or worse.

We will specifically look at harm reduction as applied to hacktivism, social networks, hacking’s learning opportunities, grey area use of communication tools by revolutionaries and countermovements, information transparency opportunities, privacy and security abuse, and user risk events.

For over a decade I have taught harm reduction methodology and practice in San Francisco, California to global health students, nurses, doctors, outreach and clinic workers, counselors and therapists. The primary organization I do this with is a twice-yearly training for healthcare professionals so they are able to treat populations on the fringes and who live in danger. Additionally, I have instructed and applied harm reduction methods to volunteer work I’ve done to bridge homeless and at-risk youth with neighborhood residents to foster safer quality of life. The third arena in which I instruct and apply harm reduction is a twice-yearly live-action, on-site refugee crisis simulation lead in conjunction with UCSF’s Global Heath Program in which volunteers for [NGO] organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and Red Cross are intensely prepared for emergency refugee relief events.

It is with all this work that I see the lens with which the HR methods can seriously benefit the edge-case and high-risk scenarios hackers often find themselves in.

PDF : - http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/attachments/2228_Harm%20Reduction

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[blech]

nu am ajuns nici la jumatatea filmului si deja mi se pare geniala ideea. despre "risk assesment" pentru grupurile de populatie date ca si exemplu - precum consumatorii de droguri - stiam deja.

LE: nu stiu cati dintre voi o sa aveti rabdarea sa va uitati la acest clip dar RECOMAND sa o faceti si sper sa intelegeti nu doar mesajul transmis per ansamblu ci si multe alte lucruri care sunt prezentate in clip.

LE2: pentru toti pustanii care se cred hackeri sau care-si imagineaza ca vor sa devina hackeri aruncati va rog o privire asupra lucrurilor scrise pe ecranul de prezentare la secunda 1 cand dati click pe link-ul asta:

Edited January 2, 2013 by blech

[Nytro]

Da, acum l-am vazut si eu.

Mi-au placut in special doua legaturi:

1. asemanarea cu persoanele care merg la razboi

2. asemanarea cu traficantii de droguri

Si da, slide-ul asta trebuie citit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2KOnvI00NeQ#t=2393s

Merita vazut, si daca nu aveti rabdare, puteti incepe de la minutul 18 pana pe la minutul 40.