Øyvind Stegard

Work and background

I am currently employed at USIT as a systems developer in the web department. I mainly work on the software solution for web publishing used at the University of Oslo, focusing on backend components and architecture, search solutions and general system maintenance.

I've been using Linux privately and profesionally for years, because I like the power, flexibility and freedom of the platform. As formal background, I have a master's degree in information science from the University of Oslo from 2005, specialising in object orientation, modelling and programming languages.

I have a profile on LinkedIn.

Tools and hacks

On this page I have collected some command line tools, Emacs resources and code snippets, which you may or may not find useful.

Contact

My public PGP key [Key ID 901217FA]

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The Autonomous Terminal

A computer terminal with a life of its own.

Digital surveillance

Norwegian association for digial privacy

If you are a citizen of Norway, consider supporting the Norwegian association for digital privacy. Funding is needed to be able to challenge the EU data rentention directive within the Norwegian justice system. See also stoppdld.no.

Society is facing massive challenges in preserving personal privacy today and in the future, as digital technology and the Internet becomes common in more and more areas. It does not help that governments are making up foolish solutions which will only make matters worse for innocent people. The war on terror is terrorizing your very own privacy. Keeping an entire population under surveillance, requiring huge amounts of resources, with methods that can easily be circumvented by real and dangerous criminals and terrorists, is just as insane as it sounds. This EU directive criminalizes all of us. «You are guilty until proven innocent, thus your online visits and communication logs must be stored as evidence for years.»

I am a member of EFN, a Norwegian civil liberties organization. It has a lot in common with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Some topics I find interesting are: censorship, illegal or immoral surveillance of people through digital technology, invasion of privacy, network neutrality, general ethics, free/open source software and standards, interoperability concerns, hostile copyright legislation, source code patenting issues and Digital Restriction Management (DRM) technologies. Raising public awareness about issues such as these is important.