Peter Fein
About
Peter Fein is an internet activist, computer programmer, and media hacker. Peter first got involved in large-scale political activism through helping organize the 2010 Wikileaks protests. Soon after, he joined Anonymous, a decentralized network of hacker activists, and eventually became one of its public faces. Watch Peter talk about his involvement with Anonymous in this BBC interview.
More recently, Peter has also been involved with Telecomix, an international collaborative network of people providing Internet support for protestors in countries like Egypt, Iran, Syria, and other Middle Eastern and politically unstable countries with compromised access to Internet and social media.
Peter predominantly works and contributes through code and open-source software, like Twiggy, PetaPass, and PlayerPiano. Peter is also founder of the Mirror Party Project, a free software project designed to circumvent web censorship by building distributed mirror networks.
Follow Peter @wearpants.
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