Three years and six months have passed, and cyberactivist Ola Bini is still detained. The case is an ongoing story that crossed borders and generated support from national and international organisations. It began on April 11, 2019, when Bini was accused of participating in efforts to politically destabilise the Lenin Moreno government in Ecuador because of Bini's close friendship with Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Wikileaks was a project that released thousands of documents that revealed, above all, the human rights violations by the US in conflict zones such as Afghanistan or Iraq. Adding to this conspiracy theory, the then government accused him of attacking the Ecuadorian state computer systems; the accusations later changed to the alleged crime of unauthorised access to the National Telecommunications Corporation (CNT) systems. However, in the view of digital rights experts, the Bini case reveals a profound and worrying ignorance on the part of Ecuadorian justice. It is not for nothing that this is already an emblematic case in the region of the persecution of security technology developers, security investigators, and digital experts, says Veridiana Alimonti, Associate Director of Latin American Policy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). She adds that: Se ha lidiado este caso como un pánico hacker, un miedo que hay con los conocimientos de la comunidad de seguridad informática y de ciberseguridad. This case has been treated like a hacker panic, a fear that exists about the knowledge that the information security and cybersecurity communities hold. EFF has a long history of experience with cases of the criminal persecution of security experts and it was one of the organisations that visited Ecuador to understand the Ola Bini situation. In fact, they sent a letter to the Human Rights Secretariat of Ecuador asking them to examine the irregularities and violation of procedural guarantees so that there can be a “fair trial.” The secretariat replied that the body to follow up with would be the Ombudsman's Office. EFF sent the document to that institution and, despite following up on two occasions, has received no response to date. Like other social organisations worried about digital rights and the potential consequences of Ola Bini's case for the digital spectrum, EFF has gathered 18 other organisations to form the Observation Mission that released last May the Report of a Paradigmatic Process for Human Rights in the Digital Age. Their conclusions underline the irregularities of due process, but also point out the fragility of the technological knowledge of those who accuse Bini, such as the Prosecutor's Office or the National Police. For example, the assumption that using tools such as Tor — a secure browser that protects your data and ensures anonymity online — is an activity that is suspicious in itself can lead to the criminalisation of people who carry out legitimate activities protected by international human rights standards. The report adds: (…) llama la atención la posibilidad de que el caso se desarrolle en el sentido de profundizar aún más un escenario de persecución de la llamada “comunidad infosec” en América Latina. Esta comunidad está formada por activistas de la seguridad de la información que, al encontrar vulnerabilidades en los sistemas informáticos, realizan un trabajo que tiene un impacto positivo para la sociedad en general. El intento de criminalizar a Ola Bini ya muestra un escenario hostil para estos activistas y, en consecuencia, para la garantía de nuestros derechos en el entorno digital. (…) it is worth noting that the case may develop to intensify a scenario of persecution of the so-called “infosec community” in Latin America. This community is made up of information security activists who, when they find vulnerabilities in information systems, carry out labour that has a positive impact on society in general. The attempt to criminalise Ola Bini already indicates a hostile setting for activists and, as a consequence, for the guarantee of our rights in the digital environment. Indeed, at the hearings, especially so far in 2022, the prejudices against and the ignorance around cybersecurity have been reflected in the prosecution's narrative, which seeks to frame the use of secure encrypted browsers, as in the case of Tor, “as something suspicious or even indicative of a criminal act,” Alimonti affirms. She points out that, for Ola Bini's defence, there have been attempts to underline the importance of such tools for communication in different situations. Las tecnologías seguras han permitido que los activistas o defensores de derechos humanos, los abogados y sus clientes, los periodistas y sus fuentes, puedan comunicarse de manera segura.