2026-10-02 –, STAGE 2 (Ghost in the Shellcode) Language: English
MXMap Italia has been established as national observatory of the status of digital Sovereignty of italian public agencies, by analyzing DNS records on the basis of the MXMap software.
The technical platform provides opendata, mapping and analytics of the 23k+ public agencies on https://mxmap.it .
The alarming results, with more than 46% of italian government agencies accessible trough Cloud Act by USA Security Agencies, requires all the institutional, technical, activist world to act now!
The political platform https://osservatorio.mxmap.it aim to provides awareness across all the stakeholders, with policy and technical papers, brief for decision makers, and periodic massive emailing campaign to inform the key persons at each agency (DPO, but also RTD, owner of digital transformation).
This walk want to share the project results, methodology and a call to action to contribute to the project goals, improving the status of digital sovereignty with self-hosted infrastructure and free software.
Fabio Pietrosanti has been part of the digital underground with the nickname “naif” since 1995, while he’s been a professional working in digital security since 1998. President and co-founder of the Hermes Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, he is active in many projects to create and spread the use of opensource tools in support of freedom of expression and government transparency.
He is among the founders of the anonymous whistleblowing GlobaLeaks project, nowadays used by investigative journalists, citizen activists and the public administration for anti-corruption purposes. Expert in technological innovation in the field of whistleblowing, transparency, communication encryption and digital anonymity.
Like to engage in techno-activistic initiatives where technology intertwined with administrative laws and a bit of trolling, bring a benefit for the public good, like with MonitoraPA that in 2022 eradicated Google Analytics from most of Italian Public Agencies with more than 100.000 PEC sent in an activistic campaign ;)