Digital Dissident devroom at FOSDEM 27 seeks anti-censorship talks
Original title: I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Speakers should cover end-to-end toolchains for people in Russia, Iran, China and similar regimes, not single-product pitches.
Managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom invite developers, researchers and activists to propose talks for FOSDEM 27. The track focuses on people under authoritarian censorship and the full chain of tools that protect them, from circumvention and metadata-resistant messaging to secure publishing and device security. Proposals go through FOSDEM’s CFP portal with the Digital Dissident track selected. Organizers say they will coordinate with the Decentralized Internet and Privacy devroom so schedules do not overlap.
- Submit via FOSDEM’s official CFP and select the Digital Dissident track.
- Sessions should address interoperability, shared threat models and hand-off failures.
- Themes include transports, mixnets, whistleblowing platforms and forensic resistance.
- Organizers cite allow-lists, TLS and QUIC fingerprinting, and DPI with active probing.
- At FOSDEM 2026 related talks were split across other rooms.
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From the original article
4 min read at talkweb.euAs one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom , I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore. Around the world, people are being silenced, monitored, and denied access to information. Free software can help change that, but only if we build it together.
By Tomte · talkweb.eu
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