August 2013 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

F*cking Egoes aka "Ethics and Power in the Long War" Eleanor Saitta (OHM2013)

by Matteo G.P. Flora

Sono poche ore in cui sono back from OHM2013 (http://ohm2013.org) forse il più vasto evento Hacker mondiale con oltre 3000 hacker da tutto il mondo (e una ampia rappresentanza della Italian Hackers' Embassy). Dopo una 5 giorni di fuoco con il Centro Hermes e una quantità sbalorditiva di attivisti digitali che hanno partecipato al Noisy Square (http://noisysquare.com) evento attivista nell'evento hacker, volevo condividere con voi il talk forse più coinvolgente, la chiamata alle armi di Eleanor Saitta, direttore tecnico dell'International Modern Media Institute Islandese, Principal Security Engineer presso l'Open Internet Tools project. <https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-eleanor-saitta-dym…> If you think that people are fundamentally good, then your life is in some case much simpler. Because you don’t have to worry about people being tainted by the reality of things. You can simply assume: if you build all these structures that let people coordinate and collaborate, it will probably work out OK. (...) Security people, hackers. We also have a problem: we have massive fucking egos and they are getting in the way. I don’t care about your egos. My friend Siena, who is trying to keep her seven year old daughter from getting the shit beaten out of her by Moroccan riot cops does not care about your egos. When I don’t have any tools because I get told “Oh yeah! GPG is totally something that you can totally teach in the field.” Fuck you! (...) But we cannot build a free world, on an unfree Internet. You cannot build functionally decentralized Internet-centric democratic structures on an unfree Internet. It is like the CIA trying to build a free democracy on a legacy of treachery and murder. It just doesn’t work. So yeah, let’s fight. Leggetelo e/o ascoltatelo. Subito. :) <https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-eleanor-saitta-dym…> MgpF -- Matteo G.P. Flora - The Fool srl - CEO & Founder Via Merano, 16 | 20127 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02-00613665 | mob. +39.347.9676430 Direzione e Coordinamento Giacomini Investimenti S.p.a.

Aug. 6, 2013

chi danneggia il mancato rispetto del copyright?

by Simone Aliprandi

Segnalo questo articolo di Glyn Moody, che mi tocca da vicino: "Survey: Most Italian Internet Users Think Ignoring Copyright Harms Publishers, But Not Society As A Whole" http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130731/12352524022/survey-most-italian-i… Un cordiale saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org

Aug. 6, 2013

Assessore Vinti, Regione Umbria, su regolamento copyright AGCOM.

by G.Battista Frontera

http://www.regione.umbria.it/mediacenter/FE/articoli/copyright-per-vinti-del ibera-agcom-e-mannaia-su-li.html Ciao. Gb -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

Aug. 6, 2013

1. Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About > Surveillance (Stefano Quintarelli)

by Marco Baldassari

Molto interessante, ma le stesse argomentazioni possono valere per dire che la condanna di Berlusconi e l'assoluzione della banda del MPS è discrezionale e dunque di natura politica. Se il corpo delle leggi è troppo vasto e contraddittorio, significa che la tecnologia richiede un intervento di semplificazione legislativa, per garantire la certezza del diritto. Inoltre, ben venga una automazione delle policy di surveillance e law enforcement, proprio per garantire la applicazione uniforme per ciascun cittadino, art 3 costituzione. Non ha invece senso affermare che non potendo compiere un reato non si possa cambiare una legge ingiusta. Semmai sarebbe vero il contrario. Una legge ingiusta provocherebbe una sollevazione popolare. Invece la tolleranza porta alla evasione per necessità di sopravvivenza, citata da Fassina. > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 17:23:56 +0200 > From: Stefano Quintarelli <stefano(a)quintarelli.it> > To: NEXA List <nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it> > Subject: [nexa] Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think > About Surveillance > Message-ID: <51FD208C.50503(a)quintarelli.it> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance > > bell'articolo di wired > > http://is.gd/rKjOIN > > ciao, s. > -- > my calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta > http://blog.quintarelli.it

Aug. 4, 2013

Fwd: [IP] Internet Society Board of Trustees Calls on the Global Internet Community to Stand Together to Support Open Internet Access, Freedom, and Privacy

by J.C. DE MARTIN

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IP] Internet Society Board of Trustees Calls on the Global Internet Community to Stand Together to Support Open Internet Access, Freedom, and Privacy Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 17:43:04 +0200 From: DAVID J. FARBER <farber(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net To: ip <ip(a)listbox.com> Internet Society Board of Trustees Calls on the Global Internet Community to Stand Together to Support Open Internet Access, Freedom, and Privacy Fundamental ideals of the Internet are under threat [Berlin, Germany, 4 August 2013] – The Internet Society Board of Trustees during its meeting in Berlin, Germany today called on the global Internet community to stand together in support of open Internet access, freedom, and privacy. Recently exposed information about government Internet surveillance programs is a wake-up call for Internet users everywhere – the fundamental ideals of the Internet are under threat. The Internet Society Board of Trustees believes that government Internet surveillance programs create unacceptable risks for the future of a global, interoperable, and open Internet. Robert Hinden, Chair of the Board of Trustees, stated, “Berlin is a city where freedom triumphed over tyranny. Human and technological progress are not based on building walls, and we are confident that the human ideals of communication and creativity will always route around these kinds of attempts to constrain them. We are especially disappointed that the very governments that have traditionally supported a more balanced role in Internet governance are consciously and deliberately hosting massive Internet surveillance programs.” In the brief period since these surveillance programs were revealed to the general public, the Internet Society Board stated there are already chilling effects on global trust and confidence on the Internet ecosystem. The fact that information about surveillance programs is emerging primarily from countries with a long history of supporting the open Internet is particularly disturbing. As the next billion people come online, these countries should be expected to demonstrate leadership in support of the values that underpin the global Internet. In the wake of these announcements, the Internet Society encourages a return to multistakeholder cooperation to preserve the benefits of the Internet ecosystem for all. The Internet Society Board of Trustees expects governments to fully engage with their citizens in an open dialogue on how to reconcile national security and the fundamental rights of individuals. Security should not be at the cost of individual rights and, in this context, the Board welcomes the initiative by some civil society organizations to promote "International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance." The Internet Society endorses these principles, and emphasizes the importance of proportionality, due process, legality, and transparent judicial oversight. The Internet Society believes that surveillance without any such safeguards risks undermining the sustainability of the open Internet. “In the spirit of the pioneers and early innovators of the Internet that were honored this week at the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame ceremony, we urge the global Internet community to defend against attempts by governments to fragment the Internet either through overt regulation or hidden surveillance programs,” commented Lynn St. Amour, President and CEO of the Internet Society. “We must reassert the global spirit of community that is at the heart of the Internet’s growth and success, and stand firm in our belief that openness and collaboration is the best path forward.” _______________________________________________ ISOC-trustees mailing list ISOC-trustees(a)elists.isoc.org <mailto:ISOC-trustees@elists.isoc.org> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/isoc-trustees Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/14798382-eb93fc78> | Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382-58a8a…> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382-…> [Powered by Listbox] <http://www.listbox.com>

Aug. 4, 2013

Sharing science is a crime

by gianluca

Opinion *Sharing science is a crime* The more one shares, the more one undermines a future patent application and a system that encourages privatisation. by Charles Davis [...]"All publicly funded research should be in the public domain - no patents, no copyrights, no restrictions on use, period," says Eisen, the UC Berkeley biologist and co-founder of the Public Library of Science, which supports the free distribution of scientific work. For that to be the case, there needs to be a serious change in the way research is funded. And the politicians who created the current system would have to change it, which could anger the defence contractors and patent holders who give them money. But there are things scientists can start doing today to begin the process of change.[...] continua qui http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/07/2013715133717569407.html qgl

Aug. 4, 2013

Ars: "Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

E' lungo, ma ne vale assolutamente la pena. juan carlos Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video /When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer./ by Jon Brodkin <http://arstechnica.com/author/jon-brodkin/> - July 29 2013, 3:00am CEST Lee Hutchinson has a problem. My fellow Ars writer is a man who loves to watch YouTube videos—mostly space rocket launches <http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/03/swimming-with-spacemen/> and gun demonstrations <http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/07/trackingpoint-aims-to-produce-super-…>, I assume—but he never knows when his home Internet service will let him do so. "For at least the past year, I've suffered from ridiculously awful YouTube speeds," Hutchinson tells me. "Ads load quickly—there's never anything wrong with the ads!—but during peak times, HD videos have been almost universally unwatchable. I've found myself having to reduce the quality down to 480p and sometimes even down to 240p to watch things without buffering. More recently, videos would start to play and buffer without issue, then simply stop buffering at some point between a third and two-thirds in. When the playhead hit the end of the buffer—which might be at 1:30 of a six-minute video—the video would hang for several seconds, then simply /end/. The video's total time would change from six minutes to 1:30 minutes and I'd be presented with the standard 'related videos' view that you see when a video is over." Hutchinson, a Houston resident who pays Comcast for 16Mbps business-class cable, is far from alone. As one Ars reader recently complained <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/verizon-bandwidth-pro…>, "YouTube is almost unusable on my [Verizon] FiOS connection during peak hours." Another reader responded, "To be fair, it's unusable with almost any ISP." Hutchinson's YouTube playback has actually gotten better in recent weeks. But complaints about streaming video services—notably YouTube and Netflix—are repeated again and again in articles <https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Why-Is-Everyone-Having-YouTube-Strea…> and support forums <http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Xfinity-com-Website/Netflix-too-slow/td-p/1728…> across the Internet. Why does online video have such problems? People may assume there are perfectly innocent causes related to their computers or to the mysterious workings of the Internet. Often, they're correct. But cynical types who suspect their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) intentionally degrade streaming video may be right as well. No, your ISP (probably) isn't sniffing your traffic every time you click a YouTube or Netflix link, ready to throttle your bandwidth. But behind the scenes, in negotiations that almost never become public, the world's biggest Internet providers and video services argue over how much one network should pay to connect to another. When these negotiations fail, users suffer. In other words, bad video performance is often caused not just by technology problems but also by /business decisions/ made by the companies that control the Internet. [...] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/why-youtube-buffers-t…

Aug. 3, 2013

Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance

by Stefano Quintarelli

Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance bell'articolo di wired http://is.gd/rKjOIN ciao, s. -- my calendar: http://doodle.com/quinta http://blog.quintarelli.it

Aug. 3, 2013

Re: [nexa] Atlantic: "The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish"

by yanfry

---------- Messaggio inoltrato ---------- > From: "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin(a)polito.it> > To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > Cc: > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:39:24 +0200 > Subject: [nexa] Atlantic: "The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How > Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish" > The Hole in Our Collective Memory: > How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish > *A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a > greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time > of Reagan. * > > Rebecca J. Rosen <http://www.theatlantic.com/rebecca-rosen/> **Jul 30 > 2013, 1:35 PM ET** > > Last year I wrote about some very interesting research<http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-missing-20th-cent…>being done by Paul J. Heald at the University of Illinois, based on > software that crawled Amazon for a random selection of books. At the time, > his results were only preliminary, but they were nevertheless startling: > There were as many books available from the 1910s as there were from the > 2000s. The number of books from the 1850s was double the number available > from the 1950s. Why? Copyright protections (which cover titles published in > 1923 and after) had squashed the market for books from the middle of the > 20th century, keeping those titles off shelves and out of the hands of the > reading public. > > Heald has now finalized his research<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2290181>and the picture, though more detailed, is largely the same: "Copyright > correlates significantly with the disappearance of works rather than with > their availability," Heald writes. "Shortly after works are created and > proprietized, they tend to disappear from public view only to reappear in > significantly increased numbers when they fall into the public domain and > lose their owners." > > The graph above shows the simplest interpretation of the data. It reveals, > shockingly, that there are substantially more new editions available of > books from the 1910s than from the 2000s. Editions of books that fall under > copyright are available in about the same quantities as those from the > first half of the 19th century. Publishers are simply not publishing > copyrighted titles unless they are very recent. > [...] > > Continua qui: > http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hole-in-our-colle… > > Per i non anglofoni (e per eventuali "reply in rete") potete trovare la traduzione del collega pirata Mauro qui http://allarrembaggiopirati.blogspot.it/2013/08/l-buco-nella-nostra-memoria… Byez. -- - Sito Ufficiale http://partito-pirata.it - Wiki del Partito Pirata Italiano http://www.piratpartiet.it/mediawiki/ PGP ID Chiave: 0x5999DA69 PGP Fingerprint: 7645 E550 DE63 F9B0 F5DF F699 69C9 29D5 0C88 C5E5

Aug. 2, 2013

Economist: "Liberty’s lost decade"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

Security v freedom in the United States *Liberty’s lost decade* /The war on terror haunts America still; it should recover some of its most cherished values/ Aug 3rd 2013 |From the print edition THE case of Private Bradley Manning, convicted this week by a military court of leaking secrets to the WikiLeaks website and now facing up to 136 years in jail, looks as if it might be the high-water mark of America’s zealous security culture. It certainly ought to be. After the attacks of September 11th 2001, George Bush tipped the balance too far from liberty towards security, and it has stayed there under Barack Obama. As Mr Manning awaits his sentence, Edward Snowden, a contractor for the American intelligence services, was reported on August 1st to have gone to Russia, where he has been offered a year's temporary asylum. He had set out to shed light on the warrantless warehousing by the National Security Agency (NSA) of private data belonging to millions of American citizens, possibly in breach of the Patriot Act and the Fourth Amendment. His revelations continued this week. Meanwhile the Obama administration has seized journalists’ telephone records and pursued leakers with a legal sledgehammer. [...] Continua qui: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21582525-war-terror-haunts-america-st…

Aug. 2, 2013