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Economist: "Is cybercrime as big as its foes fear?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 18, 2011

Oct. 18, 2011

Frase conclusiva: /"None of this means that the threat of cybercrime can be written off as pure invention, or that people should turn off their spam filters. But in the grand scheme of criminal threats, hacker kingpins do not appear to be on a par with Colombian drug lords---even if the security industry would wish it otherwise."/ Dedicato a tutti i giornalisti che spesso riversano in maniera totalmente acritica sulla carta e online i comunicati stampa e le "ricerche" delle aziende di sicurezza informatica. juan carlos Measuring the black web Is cybercrime as big as its foes fear? Oct 15th 2011 | from the print edition BIG numbers and online crime go together. One well-worn assertion is that cybercrime revenues exceed those from the global trade in illegal drugs. Another nice round number is the $1 trillion-worth of intellectual property that, one senator claimed earlier this year, cybercriminals snaffle annually. It is hard to know what to make of these numbers. Online crooks, like their real-world brethren, do not file quarterly reports. In the absence of figures from the practitioners, experts tend to fall back on surveys of victims, often compiled by firms that sell security software. These have a whiff of self interest about them: they are the kind of studies that get press released but not peer reviewed. [...] Continua qui: http://www.economist.com/node/21532263

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report ENISA: "Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 15, 2011

Oct. 15, 2011

Importante rapporto ENISA, the European Network and Information Security Agency, pubblicato a quanto pare in Aprile 2011, ma che mi era sfuggito: Resilience of the Internet Interconnection Ecosystem /This study looks at the resilience of the Internet interconnection ecosystem. The Internet is a network of networks, and the interconnection ecosystem is the collection of layered systems that holds it together. The interconnection ecosystem is the core of the Internet, providing the basic function of reaching anywhere from everywhere. / Publication date: Apr 11, 2011 Authors: Panagiotis Trimintzios, ENISA (Editor) Chris Hall, Highwayman Associates Richard Clayton, Cambridge University Ross Anderson, Cambridge University Evangelos Ouzounis, ENISA http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/res/other-areas/inter-x/report/interx-report Executive Summary (PDF): http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/res/other-areas/inter-x/report/interx-report… Full Report (PDF): http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/res/other-areas/inter-x/report/interx-report… Trovate una sintesi qui: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/04/12/resilience-of-the-internet-in… juan carlos

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NY Times: "Amazon’s Silk Browser Plays Another Role"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 15, 2011

Oct. 15, 2011

Un altro muro cade sotto le spinte del cloud computing: il browser a bordo del nuovo tablet della Amazon si appoggia ai server di Amazon. La motivazione ufficiale e' per aumentare l'efficienza (e non dubito che in alcuni casi possa anche essere vero), ma le implicazioni e le possibili conseguenze sono preoccupanti. Da leggere con grande attenzioni i "terms of use" quando saranno disponibili. Ciao, juan carlos September 28, 2011, /7:22 pm/ Amazon’s Silk Browser Plays Another Role By QUENTIN HARDY <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/author/quentin-hardy/> With access to books, movies, and other media, Amazon <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/amazon_inc/index.html…>’s Kindle Fire tablet may look like another consumer toy. However, an important part of the product, an advanced Web browser, is at the heart of where business computing is going. The new Amazon browser, called Silk, seems to be the first of its kind built for the world of cloud computing, which uses the Internet to gain access to the extensive computing power in data centers. Silk takes into consideration both the computing power in the user’s device and the computing power in Amazon’s enormous data centers, then executes tasks for maximum efficiency. As Peter Vosshall, a Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, says in a video <http://amazonsilk.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/introducing-amazon-silk/> that Amazon released Wednesday, “it is split between what runs on your device and what runs in the cloud.” [...] Continua qui: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/amazons-silk-browser-plays-another…

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Copyright: evidence, please
by Paolo Brini Oct. 15, 2011

Oct. 15, 2011

Il governo inglese ammette ufficialmente di non avere alcuna evidenza o dato o valutazione di impatto in merito alla scala e all'effetto delle violazioni del copyright online. <http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2011/the-need-for-evidence> Ciao, Paolo

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Twitting the revolution?
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Oct. 15, 2011

Oct. 15, 2011

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Data protection ed attività di impresa verso dove guardano gli USA
by MANTELERO ALESSANDRO Oct. 15, 2011

Oct. 15, 2011

... nel caso a qualcuno interessasse il tema, vi allego il link ad un mio modesto contributo in materia: Data protection ed attività di impresa verso dove guardano gli USA, in Diritto Dell'Informazione e Dell'Informatica, pp. 457-476, 2011 (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1928157)

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E' online il programma dell'IGF Italia 2011
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

Sono lieto di comunicare che è online il programma definitivo dell'Internet Governance Forum Italia 2011: http://www.igfitalia2011.it/programma Trento, 10-12 Novembre 2011 juan carlos

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[NEXA]U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show | Threat Level | Wired.com
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/copyright-czar-cozies-up U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show

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TorrentFreak: "European Greens Want to Legalize File-Sharing, Ban DRM"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

Segnalo quanto segue, commentando che nel caffè di Cambridge (Boston) in cui mi trovo la pagina era inaccessibile perchè censurata dal provider in quanto relativa a P2P: incredibile e vergognoso. Un esempio concreto di a cosa potrebbe portare una più ampia censura in Rete. juan carlos European Greens Want to Legalize File-Sharing, Ban DRM <http://torrentfreak.com/european-greens-want-to-legalize-file-sharing-ban-d…> * Ernesto <http://torrentfreak.com/author/ernesto/> * October 7, 2011 * http://torrentfreak.com/european-greens-want-to-legalize-file-sharing-ban-d… The European Greens have released a landmark position paper that should guide their policies on copyright in the digital era. The overall theme is a reduction of the copyright monopoly to the benefit of consumers. Among other things the Greens want to legalize file-sharing for personal use, ban DRM entirely and restrict the copyright term to five years. The Greens / EFA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Greens-European_Free_Alliance> is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament. The group currently hold 57 seats, including one Pirate Party seat held by Christian Engstrom. This week the Greens released a position paper <http://www.scribd.com/doc/67862207/Common-Position-on-Copyright-28sept11-EN> with their view on copyright in the digital era, which mimics the Pirate Party agenda. The paper goes directly against the current trend of increasing control over copyright, and calls for a society that secures the interests of the public instead of a few multi-million dollar companies. One of the key proposals is to legalize file-sharing for personal use. "Non commercial sharing between individuals should be allowed, for instance by widening the scope of the existing private copying exception," the Greens write. In addition, restrictive technologies such as DRM should be banned entirely, or at least decriminalized. "It must always be legal to circumvent DRM restrictions, and we should consider introducing a ban in the consumer rights legislation on DRM technologies that restrict legal uses of a work," the paper reads. "There is no point in having our parliaments introduce a balanced and reasonable copyright legislation, if at the same time we allow the big multinational corporations to write their own laws, and enforce them through technical means," it adds. The Greens also want to reduce the copyright term from 70 to 5 years, with an option for copyright holders to extend it to a maximum of 20 years. The Greens call the current situation "absurd" and argue that society will greatly benefit from a more reasonable copyright term. "Today's protection times --- life plus 70 years --- are absurd. No investor would even look at a business case where the time to pay-back was that long," they write. Overall the paper suggests a reduction in the current stranglehold on creativity and a boost for the Internet to allow it to show its full potential. According to the Greens this also means that Net Neutrality should be guaranteed, and that remixes and mashups of copyrighted works for commercial use should be allowed. Talking to TorrentFreak, Pirate Party MEP Christian Engstrom says that the Greens proposal perfectly resembles what the Pirate Party has been fighting for in recent years. "I think it's great," Engstrom says. "The paper starts off by first going through what the situation is and what the goals are from a Green perspective, and then ends up in the same proposal for copyright reform that the Pirate Party advocates. This makes perfect sense." "The idea of copyright reform has existed among Greens before the Pirate Party got involved, but we have helped giving the Greens a push to really put it on the agenda," he adds. For Engstrom and all the other Pirate Party employees in Brussels this confirms that they can make a difference, and that the support the Pirate Party got in the 2009 elections was justified. "I was sent to Brussels by 225,000 Swedish voters who voted for the Pirate Party, with the task to spread the Pirate ideas in the parliament, so that we can one day get the majority for the ideas that we need. This is of course a very big job, but this is a first milestone. It shows that the Pirates can deliver when they get the chance," Engstrom concludes. The enthusiasm of the copyright reform paper isn't limited to Brussels either. Many pirate party members and volunteers will see it as a sign that they can make a difference. "We know that our ideas are sound for the future, says Rick Falkvinge, founder of the first Pirate Party. "It is great to see that they are getting larger and larger support. To see one of the seven party groups in the European Parliament adopt our entire perspective as its own is a gigantic leap forward for the civil liberties of the next generation. "Just like the Green perspective took some time to be fully understood 40 years ago, so will ours. But understanding and endorsement of the pirate perspective keeps growing, and I expect it continue doing so until it is as common sense as acting sustainably," Falkvinge adds. The position paper of the Greens can be called revolutionary. However, the group is only a minority in the European Parliament, so there's a long way to go before it will become law. It's nonetheless a clear sign that copyright reform is gaining broader acceptance.

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by Stefano Quintarelli Oct. 14, 2011

Oct. 14, 2011

copiateci, per piacere: http://is.gd/erAWtj ovviamente, da decenni compriamo contenuti da fonti con cui abbiamo degli obblighi contrattuali che ci impediscono di redistribuirli. il limite a cio’ e’ il diritto di citazione che ha l’utente. dal combinato di queste due situazioni, possiamo facilitare la citazione solo di porzioni di contenuto e non del tutto. in sintesi, l’unica cosa che diciamo e’ che se un utente usa quel tool, quello che copia, per noi ricade nel diritto di citazione. (che prevede un uso non commerciale/lucro per cui abbiamo pensato di attribuire una licenza CC ) vi assicuro che per molti versi (Anna può immaginare bene e confermare...) e' una operazione che viene percepita come abbastanza rivoluzionaria... ciao, s. -- blog.quintarelli.it www.ilsole24ore.com

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