Technologies of Autonomy

The time of ridiculing those who were not taken seriously as “paranoid geeks” seems to have passed at the moment, as the surveillance scandals have reached the mainstream. There is a newly awakened discussion of decentralizing infrastructure and alternative possibilities outside the realm of the large monopolists that determine access to information and tools and cooperate with secret services. Do these new insights actually result in a chance for alternatives, and who really needs them? Why is digital self-defense left up to the users?

A discussion with:
Klau
Vesna Manojlovic
Femke Snelting
Jogi, Reni Hofmüller
Peter Wagenhuber
James Stevens, Adnan