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Ola Bini

person:ola_bini Also: Ola

Swedish programmer, privacy advocate, and guest who describes his arrest and legal case in Ecuador.

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Relationships

Direction Predicate Other entity Origin EP
outgoing MEMBER_OF Thoughtworks Explicit 163
outgoing MEMBER_OF Centro de Autonomia Digital Explicit 163
outgoing ASSOCIATED_WITH Julian Assange Explicit 163
outgoing ASSOCIATED_WITH Privacy advocacy Explicit 163
outgoing USES GPG Explicit 163
outgoing USES Tails Explicit 163
outgoing USES Debian Explicit 163
outgoing USES LUKS Explicit 163
outgoing USES YubiKey Explicit 163
outgoing USES KeePass Explicit 163
outgoing MEMBER_OF Seguridad Digital Ecuador Explicit 163
outgoing ASSOCIATED_WITH Tor Project Explicit 163
outgoing ASSOCIATED_WITH Glenn Greenwald Explicit 163
incoming DEVELOPED_BY JRuby Explicit 163
incoming DEVELOPED_BY Jatha Derived 163
incoming DEVELOPED_BY CoyIM Explicit 163

Claims

Ola Bini MEMBER_OF Thoughtworks

Ola says he was hired by Thoughtworks in 2007 and worked there for ten years.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I left Sweden in 2007 because I was hired by an international software development company called Thoughtworks. I worked for them for ten years”

Ola Bini · offsets 3280–3423

JRuby DEVELOPED_BY Ola Bini

Ola says he became one of JRuby's core developers.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I became one of the core developers for JRuby”

Ola Bini · offsets 4356–4401

Jatha DEVELOPED_BY Ola Bini

Ola says he was involved in creating Jatha, described as a Lisp variant for the JVM.

Derived Confidence 78% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I first was involved in a list variant called Jatha”

Ola Bini · offsets 4179–4230

CoyIM DEVELOPED_BY Ola Bini

Ola says that he and collaborators created the CoyIM chat tool.

Explicit Confidence 91% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“We were also doing our own development. We created a chat platform, a chat tool called CoyIM.”

Ola Bini · offsets 11305–11398

Ola Bini MEMBER_OF Centro de Autonomia Digital

Ola says he and others started and operated the Centro de Autonomia Digital nonprofit in Ecuador.

Explicit Confidence 92% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“So, this is a nonprofit called Centro de Autonomia Digital”

Ola Bini · offsets 14146–14204

Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Julian Assange

Ola explicitly says he is a friend of Julian Assange, while denying that they were collaborators or coworkers.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I am a friend of Julian Assange”

Ola Bini · offsets 6842–6873

“We were never collaborators or working together in any way.”

Ola Bini · offsets 7506–7565

Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Privacy advocacy

Ola says he began doing privacy and digital-advocacy work after Aaron Swartz's death and continued working on privacy tools.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“We started talking about how we wanted to do more from a privacy perspective, from a digital advocacy perspective”

Ola Bini · offsets 6291–6404

Ola Bini USES GPG

Ola says his first GPG key was uploaded to key servers in approximately 2001 or 2002.

Explicit Confidence 92% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“you will find my first GPG key uploaded in 2001 or 2002”

Ola Bini · offsets 5481–5536

Ola Bini USES Tails

Ola says he used Tails drives with persistent modules for highly sensitive work.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“Most of them were Tails drives with persistent modules, because I was using Tails a lot for high-sensitive stuff.”

Ola Bini · offsets 48181–48294

Ola Bini USES Debian

Ola says he mostly used Debian versions on his regular computers.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“For the regular computers, I was mostly using Debian versions”

Ola Bini · offsets 48545–48606

Ola Bini USES LUKS

Ola says he used standard LUKS for his hard drives.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I was using just standard LUKS for the hard drives”

Ola Bini · offsets 48611–48661

Ola Bini USES YubiKey

Ola says he carried YubiKeys and used them as part of his password practices.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I have USB drives and YubiKeys around my neck”

Ola Bini · offsets 47809–47854

“my passwords are composed of stuff from the YubiKey”

Ola Bini · offsets 48714–48765

Ola Bini USES KeePass

Ola says he used KeePass for his other passwords.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I was just using KeePass for everything else.”

Ola Bini · offsets 48857–48902

Ola Bini MEMBER_OF Seguridad Digital Ecuador

Ola says he runs Seguridad Digital Ecuador, which he describes as a cybersecurity company.

Explicit Confidence 99% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I run another organization as well, which is called Seguridad Digital Ecuador”

Ola Bini · offsets 73519–73596

Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Tor Project

Ola says the Tor Project was particularly supportive of him and that he worked closely with it.

Explicit Confidence 94% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“The EFF has been particularly supportive, and the Tor Project, because those are the people I worked closely with”

Ola Bini · offsets 72179–72292

Ola Bini ASSOCIATED_WITH Glenn Greenwald

Ola says he was in contact with Glenn Greenwald and discussed possibly examining the Snowden archives.

Explicit Confidence 98% · Ola Bini EP 163 Details

“I was in contact with him, for example, and that’s the kind of contact that I don’t really want to do from a normal machine.”