February 2016 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

NYT: "Uber Drivers Up Against the App"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 20, 2016

Feb. 20, 2016

Uber Drivers Up Against the App By ALAN FEUER FEB. 19, 2016 On Super Bowl Sunday, a few hundred Uber drivers met in the cold in a public park in Queens, plotting to disrupt the app that thousands of New Yorkers were about to use to get in place to watch the big game. Gathered angrily on rows of wooden benches were Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Kenyans, Serbs and Bangladeshis, many of them waving handmade signs. Their yellow placards attacked the ride-hailing service in the innumerable languages of polyglot New York. “Shame on Uber!” one announced in Spanish. “Uber Broke Our Hearts!” said another in Tibetan. Then in English: “We Made You Billionaires!” and “We Are Not Slaves!” […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/nyregion/uber-drivers-up-against-the-app.…

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"Why booksellers are more alarmed than ever about Amazon"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 19, 2016

Feb. 19, 2016

February 8, 2016 *Why booksellers are more alarmed than ever about Amazon* by Bradley Graham & Lissa Muscatine / //Perhaps the most striking thing Melville House attendees noted at the recent Winter Institute conference held by the American Booksellers Association was that—both in formal panel discussions and in hallway chatter—booksellers were regularly saying something they haven’t said in a long, long time: Business is great. Yet there also seemed to be a consensus that there was more reason to be alarmed about Amazon than ever before. How could those two beliefs co-exist? In a guest column that first appeared on the Politics and Prose Bookmark blog, two of the country’s most respected booksellers explain …/ These are good days to be an independent bookseller in the United States. Sales are up for many stores, and in the past few years, indies have reclaimed a greater share of the market for physical books. But these trends don’t tell the whole story. Many of the gains for the independents have come at the expense of big box or chain stores. Meanwhile, online sales of physical books have continued to soar, and the vast majority of this business has gone to a single retailer—Amazon. […] Continua qui: http://www.mhpbooks.com/why-booksellers-are-more-alarmed-than-ever-about-am…

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Ancora su FBI e Apple
by Marco Bassini Feb. 19, 2016

Feb. 19, 2016

Dal Sole24Ore di oggi Cari saluti, M.

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Apple’s line in the sand.
by gianluca quaglia Feb. 19, 2016

Feb. 19, 2016

WASHINGTON — Time and again after the introduction of the iPhone nearly a decade ago, the Justice Department asked Apple for help opening a locked phone. And nearly without fail, the company agreed. Then last fall, the company changed its mind. In a routine drug case in a Brooklyn federal court, prosecutors sought a court order demanding that Apple unlock a methamphetamine dealer’s iPhone 5S running old, easy-to-unlock software. The company acknowledged that it could open the phone, as it had before. But this time, it pushed back. “We’re being forced to become an agent of law enforcement,” the company’s lawyer, Marc Zwillinger, protested in court. That stance foreshadowed this week’s showdown between the Obama administration and Apple over the locked iPhone belonging to one of the suspects in the San Bernardino, Calif., shooting rampage. By the time of Mr. Zwillinger’s statement, Apple and the government had been at odds for more than a year, since the debut of Apple’s new encrypted operating system, iOS 8, in late 2014. The new technology repeatedly stymied investigators — the New York authorities said on Thursday that they had been locked out of 175 iPhones in cases they were pursuing. But both sides held out hope for a compromise that would avoid the type of confrontation that occurred this week when a federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to comply with the Justice Department’s request. With last October’s court filing, the confrontation became all but inevitable. The company left no doubt that it would fight any effort to crack its new, encrypted phones. The only real question was what crime the government would use to press its case. Apple’s stance that day in Brooklyn caught the Justice Department off guard. Despite the issue with iOS 8, the company had continued to cooperate. In the first half of 2015 alone, the company provided data in response to more than 3,000 law enforcement requests, Apple said. And company lawyers gave prosecutors no indication that the drug case against Jun Feng would be any different. Mr. Feng, 45, claimed to have forgotten his passcode, making his cooperation a moot point even if he were willing to extend it, according to a government filing. Unlike the phone in the San Bernardino case, Mr. Feng’s ran iOS 7, an older version of Apple’s operating system that does not automatically encrypt its data. The Justice Department figured it would have the information from Mr. Feng’s phone within a day. Mr. Zwillinger said the drug case would be Apple’s line in the sand. “Customer data is under siege from a variety of different directions,” he said. “Never has the privacy and security of customer data been as important as it is now.” It was a delicate period for the Obama administration, which was focused on finding a way to break into the new encrypted iPhones. The F.B.I., in particular, was lobbying hard to win support for that idea in the face of skepticism from Silicon Valley, Congress and the public. Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, described data privacy as a human rights issue. Backed by leading technologists, Mr. Cook argued that if the company designed a way to defeat encryption for the United States government, that tool would be exploited by hackers or foreign governments like China. Under the attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr., the Justice Department was sympathetic to that point of view, even in the face of an aggressive campaign from the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey. Mr. Holder favored meeting with technology executives in the hope of finding common ground, current and former Justice Department officials said. Others in the department strongly disagreed. National security and criminal prosecutors argued that, with the introduction of the encrypted iOS 8, Apple (along with Google, which had started its own encrypted Android phone software) had made thumbing its nose at the government a business strategy. The only hope, these prosecutors argued, was a court fight or an act of Congress requiring companies to provide the government unencrypted data. Local law enforcement officials, too, were sounding alarms. “This has become, ladies and gentlemen, the Wild West in technology,” Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the district attorney in Manhattan, said at a news conference Thursday, echoing complaints he and others have made for many months. “Apple and Google are their own sheriffs. There are no rules.”.... continua qui http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/technology/a-yearlong-road-to-a-standoff-…

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Re: [nexa] Apple v FBI
by MgpF Feb. 19, 2016

Feb. 19, 2016

2016-02-18 20:54 GMT+01:00 Diego Giorio <dgiorio(a)hotmail.com>: > Anzitutto segnalo, all'interno del programma, un ottimo intervento di > Flora. > <http://www.la7.it/omnibus/rivedila7/omnibus-18-02-2016-175059> > Oddio, forse "ottimo" no, ma una cosa OTTIMA nella trasmissione la vedo: il fatto che una trasmissione di punta di un network nazionale importante decida di dedicare un intero quarto d'ora a parlare del perché privacy e riservatezza sono importanti. Di questo bisogna dare sicuramente atto alla bravissima Gaia Tortora. Detto questo, l'intervento inizia a 1h05m, e mentre non credo proprio possa essere utile a chi legge questa lista (è davvero "basic") penso lo possa essere da spedire a qualcuno che voglia farsi un idea sull'argomento. Peraltro, visto perché mi avete citato, ho approfondito il tema in MOLTE più battute nell'articolo di "copertina" di oggi su CheFuturo, dal titolo "Le backdoor non aumentano la sicurezza, ma distruggono la fiducia, perciò Apple ha detto di no all’FBI" e che trovate qui: <http://www.chefuturo.it/2016/02/no-backdoor-apple-a-fbi/> Al solito commenti, osservazioni, insulti e pernacchie sono bene accette ;) P.S. Grazie della "citazione", Diego! MgpF -- Matteo G.P. Flora The Fool srl - CEO & Founder Samadhi Investments - CEO Via Merano, 16 | 20127 Milano | http://thefool.it off. +39.02-00613665 | mob. +39.347.9676430 The Fool is part of Samadhi Holding - http://samadhi.io

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Re: [nexa] Apple v FBI
by Diego Giorio Feb. 19, 2016

Feb. 19, 2016

Anzitutto segnalo, all'interno del programma, un ottimo intervento di Flora. http://www.la7.it/omnibus/rivedila7/omnibus-18-02-2016-175059 Sulla vicenda mi pare che si sia "confusa", dalla magistratura in primis, se i media hanno riportato la storia correttamente (sinceramente non ho letto la richiesta, ma dalla risposta mi sembra che le aspettative fossero, diciamo così, piuttosto alte), la necessità d'indagine con la violazione potenziale di milioni di utenti. Se, per necessità di indagine, occorre aprire una cassaforte, si può chiedere al produttore o a un fabbro di intervenire. Questo è normale ed universalmente accettato. Ma nessun giudice si è mai sognato di chiedere una chiave universale che apra tutte le casseforti. Sulla necessità di indagare dopo la strage credo che nessuno sollevi obiezioni, e credo che, se fosse stato chiesto di collaborare per accedere a quello specifico iphone, Apple avrebbe fatto il possibile. E' la richiesta di realizzare uno specifico SO ad essere esorbitante la necessità d'indagine. Saluti a tutti D. From: noto.la.diega(a)gmail.com Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:51:58 +0000 To: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Subject: [nexa] Apple v FBI "the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession."Il testo è qua http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

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Apple v FBI
by Guido Noto La Diega Feb. 18, 2016

Feb. 18, 2016

"the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession." Il testo è qua http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ Sent from my iPhone

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Julia Reda – Dear European governments: don’t endanger free and open WiFi networks!
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 18, 2016

Feb. 18, 2016

https://juliareda.eu/2015/10/dear-european-governments-dont-endanger-free-a… Post su FB con info aggiornate a oggi: https://juliareda.eu/2015/10/dear-european-governments-dont-endanger-free-a… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Fwd: Call for Proposals T-Tour Internet Festival 2016
by Fernanda Faini Feb. 18, 2016

Feb. 18, 2016

Carissimi, sperando possa essere di interesse, segnalo la Call for Proposals per partecipare a Internet Festival in programma dal 6 al 9 ottobre a Pisa. Cari saluti Fernanda --- Fernanda Faini cell: 3385352449 mail: fernandafaini(a)gmail.com twitter: @fernandafaini facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fernanda.faini linkedIn: *https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernandafaini <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernandafaini>* skype: fernanda_pensiero sito web: *http://www.fernandafaini.it <http://www.fernandafaini.it/>* <http://internetfestival.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2679b5ece23ebdd0b…> <http://internetfestival.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2679b5ece23ebdd0b…> <http://internetfestival.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2679b5ece23ebdd0b…> <http://internetfestival.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=2679b5ece23ebdd0…> <http://internetfestival.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2679b5ece23ebdd0…> T-Tour Internet Festival 2016 E' aperta la Call for Proposals dei T-Tour di Internet Festival Come ogni anno, Internet Festival raccoglie tramite call proposte per la realizzazione di attività di carattere educativo e formativo sulla cultura digitale, che suggeriscono una chiave di lettura e di orientamento nel mondo della Rete e dell’innovazione digitale. Le proposte selezionate andranno a comporre il ricco programma dei *T-Tour*, l’area del Festival interamente dedicata a *diffondere e favorire l’uso consapevole della Rete e degli strumenti tecnologici innovativi, mettendoli a servizio di scuola, lavoro e conoscenza*. L’edizione 2016 del Festival si terrà a *Pisa dal 6 al 9 ottobre 2016* e avrà come parola chiave *#nodielegàmi*: le attività proposte devono affrontare e approfondire alcuni aspetti legati alla cultura digitale, coerentemente alla keyword in questione. *Le proposte di attività ed eventi possono riguardare laboratori, tutorial, mostre, installazioni, exhibit, giochi e spettacoli e devono avere necessariamente carattere formativo e divulgativo, per promuovere la divulgazione scientifica e tecnologica*. Le attività proposte attraverso la presente call dovranno essere *interattive, multimediali, ludiche e/o esperienziali*, in modo da consentire il coinvolgimento attivo dei partecipanti. Non sono contemplate lezioni di tipo accademico, seminari e/o convegni. Le attività proposte devono affrontare e approfondire alcuni aspetti legati alla cultura digitale, coerentemente al tema #nodielegàmi, parole chiave dell’edizione 2016. *Fino al 4 marzo 2016 è possibile inviare proposte compilando il form <http://internetfestival.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2679b5ece23ebdd0b…> che si trova online sul sito di Internet Festival*. 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Sony Music Issues Takedown On Copyright Lecture About Music Copyrights By Harvard Law Professor | Techdirt
by J.C. DE MARTIN Feb. 17, 2016

Feb. 17, 2016

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160214/08293233599/sony-music-issues-ta… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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