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Re: [nexa] Nexa tra i fondatori della rete globale di centri Internet & Società
by Antonella Giulia Pizzaleo Jan. 17, 2013

Jan. 17, 2013

Congratulazioni! Bravissimi :) Il giorno 16/gen/2013 18:45, "Ing. Stefano Trumpy" < stefano.trumpy(a)iit.cnr.it> ha scritto: > ** > Piu' che ottimo JC, "ad maiora" > Stefano > > E' con un po' di emozione che vi annuncio che il Centro Nexa > su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) è uno > dei fondatori della nuova rete globale di centri Internet & Società, > inaugurata a dicembre con un simposio a Harvard. > > :-) > > juan carlos > > * > Symposium at HLS marks launch of global network of interdisciplinary > centers focused on the Internet and society* > > January 14, 2013 > > On Dec. 6-8, 2012, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>, > together with seven international co-organizers, hosted a symposium at > Harvard Law School titled Internet-Driven Developments: Structural Changes > and Tipping Points, convening representatives from Internet and society > research centers spanning 5 continents and 22 countries. > > At the event, led by the Berkman Center's Executive Director Urs Gasser<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ugasser> LL.M. > '03 and with contributions from Professors Charles Nesson<http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=48> > '63, Terry Fisher<http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=20> '82, > andJonathan Zittrain<http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=106> '95, > participants explored various methodologies and interdisciplinary lenses > for investigating how the Internet is promoting shifts in the information > ecosystem, and they also launched a nascent global network of > interdisciplinary centers<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/12/network_of_centers> with > a focus on Internet and society. > > [...] > > Continua qui: > http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2013/01/14_berkman-symposium-interne > t-driven-developments.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > > > > ** > > -- > > ** > _________________________________________________________ > Ing. Stefano TRUMPY > CNR - Istituto di Informatica e Telematica > > Phone: +39 050 3152634 > Mobile: +39 348 8218618 > E-mail: stefano.trumpy(a)iit.cnr.it > http://www.iit.cnr.it/en/node/345 > _________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa > >

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Danah Boyd: "Beyond Aaron Swartz: We Don’t Need Martyrs … But Changes"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2013

Jan. 16, 2013

Beyond Aaron Swartz: We Don’t Need Martyrs … But Changes # By Danah Boyd <http://www.wired.com/opinion/author/danahboyd/> # 01.16.13 # 6:30 AM Beloved internet and information activist Aaron Swartz <http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/aaron-swartz/> took his life a few days ago. Since then, the internet has been in a state of networked mourning as renowned digerati <http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html> and freedom fighters <http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/aaron-swartzs-politics.html> share personal stories of Aaron alongside their rage and frustration. For while it was no secret that Aaron struggled with depression, it was also no secret that recent years have been particularly hellish: Exactly two years before his suicide on January 11, Aaron was arrested. Seven months later he was charged with a host of counts under <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/aaron-swartz-fix-draconian-computer-c…> the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (among other statutes). The U.S. government actively pursued this case at a level disproportionate <http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully> to the purported damage, using their position of authority to bully. As I wrote earlier <http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html> in raw emotional form, I adored Aaron for all his brilliance and flaws, his passion and stubbornness. Although I, and others, are still struggling to make sense of the loss, his suicide raises a host of significant issues that need to be publicly discussed. Because like the other cases brought against hackers across the country, the case against Aaron isn’t just about technology providing new means for people to act independently and enact democracy. It isn’t even really about justice and national security. It’s about a broader, systemic battle. It’s about power. [...] Continua qui: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/beyond-aaron-swartz-we-dont-need-marty…

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Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools
by fabio chiusi Jan. 16, 2013

Jan. 16, 2013

Importante analisi del Citizen Lab sull'uso di strumenti Blue Coat per la sorveglianza digitale: https://citizenlab.org/2013/01/planet-blue-coat-mapping-global-censorship-a… Qui un breve commento: http://ilnichilista.com/2013/01/16/il-controllore-digitale-e-vivo-e-vegeto/ f.

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Nexa tra i fondatori della rete globale di centri Internet & Società
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2013

Jan. 16, 2013

E' con un po' di emozione che vi annuncio che il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) è uno dei fondatori della nuova rete globale di centri Internet & Società, inaugurata a dicembre con un simposio a Harvard. :-) juan carlos * Symposium at HLS marks launch of global network of interdisciplinary centers focused on the Internet and society* January 14, 2013 On Dec. 6-8, 2012, theBerkman Center for Internet & Society <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/>, together with seven international co-organizers, hosted a symposium at Harvard Law School titled Internet-Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points, convening representatives from Internet and society research centers spanning 5 continents and 22 countries. At the event, led by the Berkman Center's Executive DirectorUrs Gasser <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ugasser>LL.M. '03 and with contributions from ProfessorsCharles Nesson <http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=48>'63,Terry Fisher <http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=20>'82, andJonathan Zittrain <http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=106>'95, participants explored various methodologies and interdisciplinary lenses for investigating how the Internet is promoting shifts in the information ecosystem, and they also launched anascent global network of interdisciplinary centers <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/12/network_of_centers>with a focus on Internet and society. [...] Continua qui: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2013/01/14_berkman-symposium-internet-drive…

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FW: Junior IP Post in Cambridge
by Maurizio Borghi Jan. 16, 2013

Jan. 16, 2013

Of possibile interest... http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-24652/ Un cordiale saluto Maurizio Borghi

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Libro in CC: "Coding Freedom, THE ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF HACKING" (Gabriella Coleman)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 16, 2013

Jan. 16, 2013

Segnalo che il libro di Gabriella Coleman (McGill), "Coding Freedom - THE ETHICS AND AESTHETICS OF HACKING" http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9883.html è disponibile gratuitamente online con licenza CC (by-nc-cd): http://gabriellacoleman.org/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf. juan carlos

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Re: [nexa] Nexa tra i fondatori della rete globale di centri Internet & Società
by giorgio.giunchi＠cctld.it Jan. 16, 2013

Jan. 16, 2013

Le vecchie regole netiquette alludevano che non e' carino quotare tutto un messaggio semplicemente per complimentarsi e/o dichiarare consenso. Ma le vecchie regole non sono invalidate - sono convalidate - da eccezioni valide. Quoto tutto, e dico solo : grazie J.C.D.M. Giorgio ::::::: ----- Original Message ----- From: demartin(a)polito.it To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Sent: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:47:02 +0100 Subject: [nexa] Nexa tra i fondatori della rete globale di centri Internet & Società E' con un po' di emozione che vi annuncio che il Centro Nexa su Internet & Società del Politecnico di Torino (DAUIN) è uno dei fondatori della nuova rete globale di centri Internet & Società, inaugurata a dicembre con un simposio a Harvard. :-) juan carlos Symposium at HLS marks launch of global network of interdisciplinary centers focused on the Internet and society January 14, 2013 On Dec. 6-8, 2012, the href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/" style="color: rgb(226, 43, 0);">Berkman Center for Internet & Society, together with seven international co-organizers, hosted a symposium at Harvard Law School titled Internet-Driven Developments: Structural Changes and Tipping Points, convening representatives from Internet and society research centers spanning 5 continents and 22 countries. At the event, led by the Berkman Centers Executive Director href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ugasser" style="color: rgb(226, 43, 0);">Urs Gasser class="Apple-converted-space"> LL.M. 03 and with contributions from Professors href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=48" style="color: rgb(226, 43, 0);">Charles Nesson class="Apple-converted-space"> 63, class="Apple-converted-space"> href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=20" style="color: rgb(226, 43, 0);">Terry Fisher class="Apple-converted-space"> 82, and href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/index.html?id=106" style="color: rgb(226, 43, 0);">Jonathan Zittrain class="Apple-converted-space"> 95, participants explored various methodologies and interdisciplinary lenses for investigating how the Internet is promoting shifts in the information ecosystem, and they also launched a class="Apple-converted-space"> href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/12/network_of_centers" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(226, 43, 0);">nascent global network of interdisciplinary centers class="Apple-converted-space"> with a focus on Internet and society. [...]

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Bauwens: "Cloud Computing as Enclosure"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 15, 2013

Jan. 15, 2013

Cloud Computing as Enclosure <http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cloud-computing-as-enclosure/2013/01/15> Michel Bauwens 15th January 2013 Republished <http://bollier.org/blog/cloud-computing-enclosure>from*David Bollier*: "As more and more computing moves off our PCs and into "the Cloud," Internet users are gaining access to a wealth of new software-based services that can exploit vast computing capacity and memory storage. That's wonderful. But what about our freedom to create and share things as we wish, free from corporate or government surveillance or over-reaching copyright enforcement? The real danger of the Cloud is its potential to limit how we may create and share what we want, on our terms. There are already signs that large corporations like Google, Facebook, Twitter and all the rest will quietly warp the design architecture of the Internet to serve their business interests first.*A terrific overview of the troubling issues raised by the Cloud can be found in the essay, "The Cloud: Boundless Digital Potential or Enclosure 3.0 <http://www.vjolt.net/vol17/issue3/v17i3_190_Lametti.pdf>," by/David Lametti/, a law professor at McGill University, and published by the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.*An earlier version is available at the SSRN website. Lametti states his thesis simply: "I argue that the Cloud, unless monitored and possibly directed, has the potential to go beyond undermining copyright and the public domain -- Enclosure 2.0 -- and to go beyond weakening privacy. This round, which I call "Enclosure 3.0", has the potential to disempower Internet users and conversely empower a very small group of gatekeepers. Put bluntly, it has the potential to relegate Internet users to the status of digital sheep."

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A proposito di linguaggio: "What is a ‘Hacktivist’?"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 15, 2013

Jan. 15, 2013

What is a ‘Hacktivist’? By PETER LUDLOW <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/peter-ludlow/> The untimely death of the young Internet activist Aaron Swartz, apparently by suicide, has prompted an outpouring of reaction in the digital world. Foremost among the debates being reheated — one which had already grown in the wake of larger and more daring data breaches in the past few years — is whether Swartz’s activities as a “hacktivist” were being unfairly defined as malicious or criminal. In particular, critics (as well as Swartz’s family in a formal statement) have focused on the federal government’s indictment of Swartz for downloading millions of documents from the scholarly database JSTOR, an action which JSTOR itself had declined to prosecute. I believe the debate itself is far broader than the specifics of this unhappy case, for if there was prosecutorial overreach it raises the question of whether we as a society created the enabling condition for this sort of overreach by letting the demonization of hacktivists go unanswered. Prosecutors do not work in a vacuum, after all; they are more apt to pursue cases where public discourse supports their actions. The debate thus raises an issue that, as philosopher of language, I have spent time considering: the impact of how words and terms are defined in the public sphere. [...] Continua qui: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/what-is-a-hacktivist/

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Garante privacy e cyberbullismo
by avv. Monica A. Senor Jan. 15, 2013

Jan. 15, 2013

Della lettera del Garante privacy al Ministro dell'Istruzione sul cyber bullismo http://bit.ly/Y5Asms è, credo, ampiamente condivisibile la richiesta di sensibilizzazione per una formazione scolastica più attenta e puntuale in materia di tutela dei dati personali (benché anche un po' più di informatica non farebbe male...). Ritengo, invece, poco appropriato l'utilizzo di immagini negative tipo (le virgolette sono del Garante stesso) il "lato oscuro" dei social-network o la "terra incognita" di Internet. E' noto che sono le cose che non conosciamo quelle che ci fanno paura. Le parole del Garante, IMHO, trasmettono una spiacevole sensazione di non padronanza di tali mezzi. Un caro saluto, Monica

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