January 2015 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Ars: "Google handled 345 million copyright takedowns in 2014"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 9, 2015

Jan. 9, 2015

*Google handled 345 million copyright takedowns in 2014* /It's a 75% year-over-year jump, and exponentially more than a few years ago./ by Joe Mullin - Jan 6 2015, 10:05pm CET Piracy news site TorrentFreak reports that Google removed 75 percent more URLs in 2014 than it did the previous year. Google doesn't tally up annual totals, but it does release weekly reports on DMCA notices, and TorrentFreak took it upon itself to add up the weekly reports. Most of the takedown requests are honored. Google has a longstanding tradition of supplying DMCA takedown notices to Chilling Effects, a website that archives such requests. […] Continua qui: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/google-handled-345-million-copyr…

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Linux Voice available under CC
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 9, 2015

Jan. 9, 2015

http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-2/ Download Linux Voice issue 2 Andrew Gregory <http://www.linuxvoice.com/author/andrew/> | January 9, 2015 | Featured story <http://www.linuxvoice.com/category/featured-story/> | No Comments <http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-2/#comments> It’s that time again! We’ve already made issue 1 freely available <http://www.linuxvoice.com/download-linux-voice-issue-1-with-audio/>, and now we’re releasing issue 2 of Linux Voice under the Creative Commons BY-SA <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. So you can modify and share all content from the magazine (apart from adverts), even for commercial purposes, providing you credit Linux Voice as the original source, and retain the same license. *Highlights in this issue: how Munich switched to Linux, make your own Raspberry Pi-powered arcade machine, write your first kernel module, and understand how software containers such as Docker work. Plus many more tutorials, features and interviews — 116 pages in total!* Click the image below to get the complete magazine PDF, or scroll on for individual articles. And if you like what you see, click here to subscribe <http://shop.linuxvoice.com> from just £38 and get future issues straight to your door or inbox!

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COMMISSIONE INTERNET, AUDIZIONI SORO, PITRUZZELLA, CARDANI – LUNEDI 10,30 DIRETTA WEBTV
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 9, 2015

Jan. 9, 2015

*/Camera dei Deputati/* */Ufficio stampa/* *//**//* */Comunicato/* */9 gennaio 2015/* *COMMISSIONE INTERNET, AUDIZIONI SORO, PITRUZZELLA, CARDANI – LUNEDI 10,30 DIRETTA WEBTV* ** ** ** La Commissione per i Diritti e i Doveri relativi ad Internet <http://www.camera.it/leg17/1179>è convocata per lunedì 12 gennaio, alle ore 10.30, presso l’Aula della Commissione Difesa, per procedere all'audizione del Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Antonello Soro, dell'Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, Giovanni Pitruzzella, e dell’Autorità garante per le comunicazioni, Angelo Marcello Cardani. L’appuntamento sarà trasmesso in diretta sulla webtv della Camera.

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Fwd: Fully funded PhD research grants at the European University Institute
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 9, 2015

Jan. 9, 2015

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Fully funded PhD research grants at the European University Institute Resent-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 14:59:10 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 13:59:03 +0000 From: EUI Communications Service <EUI.PR(a)EUI.eu> Reply-To: EUI Communications Service <EUI.PR(a)EUI.eu> Fully funded PhD research grants at the European University Institute Apply for a fully-funded PhD programme View this email in your browser <http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=ad3ebede34…> EUI Logo <http://eui.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=…> Fully funded PhD research grants at the European University Institute www.eui.eu/PhD <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=c…> *Application deadline: 31 January 2015* A truly international research university, the European University Institute has *focused exclusively on postgraduate studies for more than 40 years*. Apply now to the EUI Doctoral Programmes in *Economics*, *History and Civilization*, *Law* or *Political and Social Sciences*. *160 grants *are available for eligible candidates. More information <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=0…> <http://eui.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=…> Facebook <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=e…> Facebook <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=0…> Twitter <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=f…> Twitter <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=8…> YouTube <http://eui.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=…> YouTube <http://eui.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=…> Website <http://eui.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=…> Website <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=d…> Google Plus <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=9…> Google Plus <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=5…> LinkedIn <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=d…> LinkedIn <http://eui.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=be2e10147eb02ce0f4da0c08f&id=1…> © European University Institute 2015 Badia Fiesolana - Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy

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Quando l'advertising business e la surveillance si incontrano
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

Meritevole di un cross-posting. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Meet the iMarker, Russian targeted ad service which analyze your traffic on ISP side Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:45:13 +0000 From: Anton Nesterov <komachi(a)openmailbox.org> To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org How it works? ISPs install the iMarker equipment and mirror all user's traffic on it (Russian surveillance system, SORM, works the same way). Software takes time, URL and HTTP Headers from HTTP requests. Then scraper with IP 92.242.35.54 and User-Agent WebIndex follow every visited URL and analyze its content. All this information used to build a profile for user. They says that information is removed right after analysis, and software saves only result of that analysis. Their website lists that they categorize users by search queries, online shopping activity, time of visits, activity on social networks, keywords on visited pages, visited websites, social-demographic info, such as sex, age, marital status, and education level, and then they use that data to distribute users for consumers groups. Every user has some kind of pseudonymous ID with linked profile. It's also has an opt-out option http://www.imrk.net/status How many users affected? They says it's 38 million people all over Russia. Minister of Communication Nikolay Nikiforov said in 2014 there was 62 million people in Russia using Internet, 56m of them do it every day, so it's 61% of Russian Internet users. iMarker's website list Akado, Rostelecom, ER-Telecom, NetByNet, Qwerty, and TTK as ISPs that installed iMarker's equipment. How to check if this affects you? If you are a client of Russian ISP, you can check it here http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru If you own a webserver, grep the logs for connections from 92.242.35.54. How do check script works? It generate a random link and wait for 3 seconds for connection from iMarker's IP address. How long iMarker works? Company start work on January 2010, commercial sells started on August 2011. http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru/ — script that checks if your ISP use iMarker http://www.vedomosti.ru/tech/news/15669231/bolshoj-reklamnyj-brat — report on iMarker from 2013, says they are ready to provide free DPI to ISPs in exchange of user's data (Russian) http://sporaw.livejournal.com/347832.html — blog post quoting private mails from iMarker's crew (Russian) http://www.imrk.net/privacy — TOS (Russian) http://habrahabr.ru/post/247465/ — blog post about iMarker (Russian) http://www.imarker.ru/ — iMarker website (Russian) http://www.imrk.net/status — opt-out page (Russian) http://minsvyaz.ru/ru/news/index.php?id_4=44571 — Nikiforov's statement on number of Russian Internet users (Russian) -- https://nesterov.pw GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc

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aspetti da considerare se si parla di abolizione della SIAE
by Simone Aliprandi Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

La tentazione di gridare "Aboliamo la SIAE!" è forte di questi tempi; ma se vogliamo parlare di un superamento dell'attuale modello di gestione collettiva in Italia è importante tener presenti alcuni aspetti delicati. Li ho messi in luce nel mio intervento nell'utile dibattito pubblico che è stato lanciato nelle scorse settimane dal sito Conversomag.com. Vi invito a commentare e a partecipare al dibattito. A questo link trovate tutte le informazioni: http://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2015/01/abolire-siae-considerare.html Grazie, un cordiale saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

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se non paghi ti metto alla gogna: la vicenda si Oristano
by Simone Aliprandi Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

Oggi è uscito un mio commento, con intervista a G.B. Gallus (Fellow di Nexa) sulla vicenda del Comune di Oristano, cioè quella della pubblicazione di una lista di privati cittadini che non hanno pagato "multe" inflitte dalla Polizia Locale. Un altro caso di difficile equilibrio tra trasparenza e privacy. Ecco il link: http://aliprandi.blogspot.it/2015/01/non-paghi-sputtano-oristano.html Un cordiale saluto. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org | http://www.array.eu

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Fwd: [webscience-announce] CFP; 2nd International Conference on Internet Science - Submission deadline 20 Feb
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [webscience-announce] CFP; 2nd International Conference on Internet Science - Submission deadline 20 Feb Resent-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:24:09 +0100 Resent-From: d004620(a)polito.it Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 10:15:08 +0000 From: Susan Davies <sdd1(a)soton.ac.uk> To: 'webscience-announce(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk' <webscience-announce(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk>, 'wsi-announce(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk' <wsi-announce(a)ecs.soton.ac.uk> *** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS *** Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and presented at the conference. View this email in your browser <http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=688f86157fc7130b8e191d0b5&id=f3813c3901…> Call for Papers The 2nd International Conference on Internet Science – Societies, Governance and Innovation *VENUE: *Flagey – Rue du Belvédère 27 – 1050 Ixelles – Brussels – Belgium *DATE: *28th – 29th May 2015 *WEBSITE:* Internet Science Conference <http://internet-science.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=688f86157fc7130b8…> (www.internetscienceconference.eu <http://www.internetscienceconference.eu/>) *CONTACT:* cfp(a)internet-science.eu <mailto:cfp@internet-science.eu> The 2nd International Conference on Internet Science aims at progressing and investigating on topics of high relevance with Internet’s impact on societies, governance, and innovation. It focuses on the contribution and role of Internet science on the current and future multidisciplinary understanding of societies transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. Its main objective is to allow an open and productive dialogue between all the disciplines which study the Internet as a socio-technical system under any technological or humanistic perspectives. We invite both research papers presenting new results, and extended abstracts with provoking ideas and work-in-progress, shedding light on Internet Science from all involved disciplines and especially papers crossing rigid disciplines boundaries. *POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR SUBMISSION (not limited to)* *Internet and Society* • Internet and political participation • Internet of things and society • Digital competences and participation • Virtual communities and behavioral patterns • People-driven Internet technologies and applications, including collaborative platforms & social search, open data and new interfaces • Knowledge, education, and societal Web impact on Internet evolution • Offline and online human behavior with emphasis on social media and online interactions *Internet and governance* • Internet governance and evolution • Internet economics and new business models • Social sciences and ethics for Internet use • E-democracy and e-participation • Identity, Trust and Privacy • Internet governance and legal policies • Security, Resilience and Dependability Aspects • Internet solutions for Sustainability *Internet and innovation* • Collective intelligence for innovative solutions • Internet, society, and innovation • Novel network analytics on the Internet • Intellectual property and the commons • Design, implementation, and analysis of novel platforms • New collaborative markets analytics • New research and technical questions and thought-provoking ideas (intersection of design, arts and social interactions) • Economic aspects of the Internet *IMPORTANT DATES* • February 20th 2015: Submissions of papers • March 10th 2015: Notification of acceptance for papers • March 20th 2015: Camera-ready version of papers *INITIAL PAPERS SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS* Submissions must represent original work and papers should neither have been published nor be under review elsewhere. All submitted papers must: • be written in English and be submitted in PDF format; • contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses; • be formatted according to the Springer's LNCS format Proceedings template. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found here <http://internet-science.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=688f86157fc7130b8…> (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) ; • Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract; • The type of paper (technical/empirical or evaluation/experience/exploratory/position paper) should be indicated in the submission. • full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages and short paper should not exceed 8 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices) ; • Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, and exceeding the submission pages limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. Submissions should be made electronically in PDF via the electronic submission system <http://internet-science.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=688f86157fc7130b…> of the EINS 2015 Conference Management system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eins2015) *CAMERA-READY SUBMISSION CONDITIONS* Camera-ready submissions should corrected by following the remarks of the referees and submitted in zip format including (1) the camera-ready version of the authors' work in pdf format, (2) the camera-ready version of the authors' work in editable sources format as well as (3) the Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should be, including all text, figures, references and appendices: • 15 pages, for the regular papers, • 8 pages, for the short papers. Information about the Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Submissions of camera-ready should be made electronically in ZIP (including the aforementioned files) format via the electronic submission system <http://internet-science.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=688f86157fc7130b8…> (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eins2015) of the EINS 2015 Conference Management system by submitting a new version to the original. *PUBLICATION* Accepted papers will be presented at EINS 2015 and published in the conference proceedings Volume, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in Internet science inter-disciplinary Journal(s). The papers in all the categories should describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international program committee. *ORGANIZER* The EINS Network of Excellence in Internet Science (www.internet-science.eu <http://www.internet-science.eu/>) is supported by the European Commission under its FP7 research-funding programme (ICT theme). It aims to strengthen scientific and technological excellence by developing an integrated and interdisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet networks and their co-evolution with society, by addressing the fragmentation of European research in this area, at geographical and disciplinary levels. *GENERAL CHAIR* Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK *PROGRAMME CHAIRS* Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Laura Sartori, University of Bologna, Italy *PROCEEDINGS CHAIR* Pete Burnap, Cardiff University *EVENT COORDINATOR* Roger Torrenti, Sigma Orionis, France *ORGANISING COMMITTEE* Anna Satsiou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece (Chair) Stavroula Maglavera, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece Franco Bagnoli, University of Florence, Italy Hugo Vivier, Sigma Orionis. France About the conference... The 2nd international conference on Internet Science “Societies, governance and innovation” will be organised in Brussels from May 27 to 29, 2015, under the aegis of the European Commission. This three-day event will foster dialogue among scholars and practitioners belonging to a wealth of disciplines, constituting thus a not-to-miss milestone for the Internet Science domain. *Visit the conference website* <http://internet-science.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=688f86157fc7130b8…> *Register for the conference* <http://internet-science.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=688f86157fc7130b…>

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OpenDemocracy: "No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that’s a problem)"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

*No, we are NOT all Charlie (and that’s a problem)* /It is comforting and politically expedient to claim that “we” are attacked because “they” cannot deal with “our” freedoms, particularly freedom of speech./ CAS MUDDE 7 January 2015 The tragic terrorist attack at the French satirist magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing ten journalists and two policemen, is frightening at many levels. Although the three terrorists are still at large, and the official motivation hasn’t been established yet, all indications point to Jihadists, probably French-born Muslims who returned from the war in Syria (note the similarities with the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last year). The general response has been one that we have seen too often before, for example after the killing of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004 or the terrorist attacks in the US of 2011. Politicians use the attacks to boast about the perfect democratic and free society that they preside over and stress that this has nothing to do with Islam, but with some pathological individuals who use a religion as an excuse for extremist ideas. Citizens respond in the one medium in which they are still active, social media, and make grand statements of solidarity, before being distracted by a video of a waterskiing squirrel or a piano-playing kitten. Both will declare that we are all whomever the victim of the day is. Today Facebook and Twitter are full of statements like “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie) and “we are all Charlie”. Unfortunately, we are not. Or, more precisely, with very few exceptions, we are not Charlie, and that is a major problem for liberal democracies around the world. Let me give you three reasons why most of us are not Charlie and why this is problematic for our democracies. […] Continua qui: https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/cas-mudde/no-we-are-not-al…

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Premier Festival du Domaine Public (Paris, 16-31 gennaio 2015)
by J.C. DE MARTIN Jan. 8, 2015

Jan. 8, 2015

http://festivaldomainepublic.org/a-propos.html On fête le centenaire de la naissance ou de la mort d’un auteur mais, à l’heure du numérique, n’est-il pas tout aussi important de célébrer comme il se doit son entrée dans le domaine public ? Domaine public ? Pour rappel, le domaine public désigne les œuvres de l’esprit qui ne sont plus couvertes par le droit d’auteur. En France une œuvre « tombe » (ou plutôt « entre » voire « s’élève ») généralement dans le domaine public 70 ans après la mort de son auteur, c’est-à-dire qu’elle revient au public. D’où vient ce festival ? C’est un prolongement de la « Journée du Domaine Public <http://journeedudomainepublic.fr/> », initiée par le réseau européen Communia et organisée en France depuis 2010 par Wikimedia France, Creative Commons France, Open Knowledge Fondation France, la liste SavoirCom1 et la Quadrature du Net. Ce festival est à l’initiative d’Alexis Kauffmann et de Véronique Boukali, enseignants de formation et fondateurs respectifs de Framasoft <http://framasoft.net/> et Romaine Lubrique <http://romainelubrique.org/>. Pourquoi un festival du domaine public ? Parce que, grâce aux nouvelles technologies, le domaine public acquiert une importance nouvelle. Les œuvres du domaine public, lorsqu’elles sont numérisées, sont accessibles à tous ; elles peuvent être diffusées, échangées, modifiées librement. C’est un vaste patrimoine commun que chacun peut redécouvrir, s’approprier et réinventer comme bon lui semble. Le domaine public réalise ainsi sa promesse : donner aux œuvres une « seconde vie », en permettant à tout un chacun d’y accéder sans demander d’autorisation ni de payer de droits. Ce festival se donne pour but de sensibiliser le plus grand nombre à l’importance et à la richesse du domaine public, par un ensemble de manifestations à la croisée de la culture, des nouvelles technologies et de la création.

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