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Ola Bini
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Swedish programmer, privacy advocate, and guest who describes his arrest and legal case in Ecuador.
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Ola Bini
MEMBER_OF
Thoughtworks
Ola says he was hired by Thoughtworks in 2007 and worked there for ten years.
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“I left Sweden in 2007 because I was hired by an international software development company called Thoughtworks. I worked for them for ten years”
JRuby
DEVELOPED_BY
Ola Bini
Ola says he became one of JRuby's core developers.
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Confidence 99%
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“I became one of the core developers for JRuby”
Jatha
DEVELOPED_BY
Ola Bini
Ola says he was involved in creating Jatha, described as a Lisp variant for the JVM.
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Confidence 78%
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“I first was involved in a list variant called Jatha”
CoyIM
DEVELOPED_BY
Ola Bini
Ola says that he and collaborators created the CoyIM chat tool.
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Confidence 91%
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“We were also doing our own development. We created a chat platform, a chat tool called CoyIM.”
Ola Bini
MEMBER_OF
Centro de Autonomia Digital
Ola says he and others started and operated the Centro de Autonomia Digital nonprofit in Ecuador.
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Confidence 92%
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“So, this is a nonprofit called Centro de Autonomia Digital”
Ola Bini
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Julian Assange
Ola explicitly says he is a friend of Julian Assange, while denying that they were collaborators or coworkers.
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Confidence 99%
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“I am a friend of Julian Assange”
“We were never collaborators or working together in any way.”
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.
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Confidence 98%
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“We started talking about how we wanted to do more from a privacy perspective, from a digital advocacy perspective”
Ola Bini
USES
GPG
Ola says his first GPG key was uploaded to key servers in approximately 2001 or 2002.
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Confidence 92%
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“you will find my first GPG key uploaded in 2001 or 2002”
Ola Bini
USES
Tails
Ola says he used Tails drives with persistent modules for highly sensitive work.
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Confidence 99%
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“Most of them were Tails drives with persistent modules, because I was using Tails a lot for high-sensitive stuff.”
Ola Bini
USES
Debian
Ola says he mostly used Debian versions on his regular computers.
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Confidence 99%
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“For the regular computers, I was mostly using Debian versions”
Ola Bini
USES
LUKS
Ola says he used standard LUKS for his hard drives.
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Confidence 99%
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“I was using just standard LUKS for the hard drives”
Ola Bini
USES
YubiKey
Ola says he carried YubiKeys and used them as part of his password practices.
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Confidence 99%
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“I have USB drives and YubiKeys around my neck”
“my passwords are composed of stuff from the YubiKey”
Ola Bini
USES
KeePass
Ola says he used KeePass for his other passwords.
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Confidence 99%
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“I was just using KeePass for everything else.”
Ola Bini
MEMBER_OF
Seguridad Digital Ecuador
Ola says he runs Seguridad Digital Ecuador, which he describes as a cybersecurity company.
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Confidence 99%
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“I run another organization as well, which is called Seguridad Digital Ecuador”
Ola Bini
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Tor Project
Ola says the Tor Project was particularly supportive of him and that he worked closely with it.
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Confidence 94%
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“The EFF has been particularly supportive, and the Tor Project, because those are the people I worked closely with”
Ola Bini
ASSOCIATED_WITH
Glenn Greenwald
Ola says he was in contact with Glenn Greenwald and discussed possibly examining the Snowden archives.
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Confidence 98%
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“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.”