A Lamp for Human Rights
by Stephen Figgins
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AAAS hactivist Patrick Ball, who recently presented evidence against Slobodan Milosevic, notes that human rights work is best served by free software. He and his data coding team used Linux, Apache, MySQL and Python to analyze data on refugees and create his presentation.