Around sixty journalists and citizen journalists attended\u00a0last April in Jakarta\u00a0 to the 4M\u00a0 event organized by CFI, the French media support media agency. Nothing2Hide was invited. On the agenda: workshops and debates on press freedom in south east Asia.<\/p>\n
Just some background to understand how important this kind of event is: in Thailand, the editorial director of the online news magazine Prachatai<\/a>, Chiranuch Premchaipoen<\/strong>, also known as Jew<\/strong>, has been accused of defaming the royal family because of some comments posted on the website.<\/p>\n During this lawsuit with multiple developments, Jew has faced an absurd sentence of 82 years in prison<\/a>. The story ended quite well as the sentence was finally reduced to a 20,000 bahts fine (500 \u20ac) and a suspended eight-month prison term. Jew attended to the 4M conference in Jakarta and is now the head director of the Foundation for Community Educational Media.<\/p>\n Nothing2Hide\u2019s workshop was about the bet practices to protect a news media website.<\/p>\n A majority of employees at the end of the day are less vigilant it’s the right moment for an attacker to send an email … and steal the credentials. #4MAsia<\/a> @CFImedias<\/a> @N0thing2Hide<\/a> #workshop<\/a> #Security<\/a> #Fishing<\/a> #Jakarta<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wyvmbqqJMc<\/a> <\/p>\n — fo0 (@fo0_) April 7, 2018<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The first step was to make an exhaustive inventory of the potential threats:<\/p>\n After this introduction, Nothing2Hide has established a list of counter-measures that can be helpful against these threats:<\/p>\n This workshop was run by Jean-Marc Bourguignon<\/strong> in collaboration with the Philippine journalist Gemma Mendoza<\/strong>, head director of the news website Rappler. Those advices had a special resonance in this context since Rappler got his operating licence revoked by the Philippine government<\/a>. This sanction took place after Rappler published a series of critical articles against president Duterte\u2019s war on drugs, in which around 4,000 people have already died, most of them the victims of extra judicial killings.<\/p>\n It was a pleasure for me to perform this workshop “Secure online media” with @gemmabmendoza<\/a> of @rapplerdotcom<\/a> #4MAsia<\/a> @CFImedias<\/a> @AJIIndonesia<\/a> @N0thing2Hide<\/a> #Jakarta<\/a> #Security<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/ODd3bkMis9<\/a> <\/p>\n — fo0 (@fo0_) April 7, 2018<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Demain matin au breakfast, atelier s\u00e9curit\u00e9 num\u00e9rique improvis\u00e9 #4MAsia<\/a> <\/p>\n — fo0 (@fo0_) April 7, 2018<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Besides our official workshop, we improvised an unofficial digital security breakfast, starting at at 7:30. During this digital security breakfast we distributed and installed encryption and circumvention tools (VPN accounts and Veracrypt<\/a>) on the computers and smart phones of journalists from Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar and Vietnam. Nothing2Hide hosts several VPN servers and we distribute on a regular basis credentials to journalists and human right defenders during trainings or events we attend to.<\/p>\n The 4M gathered both information professionals and non-professionals. News and information in South Asia and elsewhere \u2013 except for some narrow minded people believing that only professionals can information citizens \u2013 is by far, not done only by official journalists. Many citizens are committed to inform their peers as shown by contributions in community media. Several workshops were addressing the connection between these two different worlds :<\/p>\n Asialyst animait ce matin \u00e0 Jakarta au Forum #4MAsia<\/a> un d\u00e9bat sur la coop\u00e9ration entre m\u00e9dias mainstream et m\u00e9dias communautaires en Asie du Sud-Est @CFImedias<\/a> @AJIIndonesia<\/a> @StephaneLagarde<\/a> #PressFreedom<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/Za2JIQs6xc<\/a> <\/p>\n — Asialyst (@Asialyst) April 8, 2018<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n At 4M, citizen journalist is not a swear word :<\/p>\n Here “citizen journalist & activist” is not become a bad word ! #4MAsia<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/s6Nq0iWsNV<\/a> <\/p>\nOfficial workshops<\/h2>\n
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