September 2024 - nexa - server-nexa.polito.it

Durov: la sua "versione" di cosa accaduto
by Damiano Verzulli Sept. 6, 2024

Sept. 6, 2024

Fonte: lui, direttamente su Telegram, qui: https://t.me/durov/342 Copio/Incollo, qui sotto. Bye, DV ------------------------- ❤️ Thanks everyone for your support and love! Last month I got interviewed by police for 4 days after arriving in Paris. I was told I may be personally responsible for other people’s illegal use of Telegram, because the French authorities didn’t receive responses from Telegram. This was surprising for several reasons: 1. Telegram has an official representative in the EU that accepts and replies to EU requests. Its email address has been publicly available for anyone in the EU who googles “Telegram EU address for law enforcement”. 2. The French authorities had numerous ways to reach me to request assistance. As a French citizen, I was a frequent guest at the French consulate in Dubai. A while ago, when asked, I personally helped them establish a hotline with Telegram to deal with the threat of terrorism in France. 3. If a country is unhappy with an internet service, the established practice is to start a legal action against the service itself. Using laws from the pre-smartphone era to charge a CEO with crimes committed by third parties on the platform he manages is a misguided approach. Building technology is hard enough as it is. No innovator will ever build new tools if they know they can be personally held responsible for potential abuse of those tools. Establishing the right balance between privacy and security is not easy. You have to reconcile privacy laws with law enforcement requirements, and local laws with EU laws. You have to take into account technological limitations. As a platform, you want your processes to be consistent globally, while also ensuring they are not abused in countries with weak rule of law. We’ve been committed to engaging with regulators to find the right balance. Yes, we stand by our principles: our experience is shaped by our mission to protect our users in authoritarian regimes. But we’ve always been open to dialogue. Sometimes we can’t agree with a country’s regulator on the right balance between privacy and security. In those cases, we are ready to leave that country. We've done it many times. When Russia demanded we hand over “encryption keys” to enable surveillance, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Russia. When Iran demanded we block channels of peaceful protesters, we refused — and Telegram got banned in Iran. We are prepared to leave markets that aren’t compatible with our principles, because we are not doing this for money. We are driven by the intention to bring good and defend the basic rights of people, particularly in places where these rights are violated. All of that does not mean Telegram is perfect. Even the fact that authorities could be confused by where to send requests is something that we should improve. But the claims in some media that Telegram is some sort of anarchic paradise are absolutely untrue. We take down millions of harmful posts and channels every day. We publish daily transparency reports (like this or this ). We have direct hotlines with NGOs to process urgent moderation requests faster. However, we hear voices saying that it’s not enough. Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform. That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon. I hope that the events of August will result in making Telegram — and the social networking industry as a whole — safer and stronger. Thanks again for your love and memes 🙏 ================ -- Inviato dal mio dispositivo Android con K-9 Mail. Perdonate la brevità.

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Quando il "cloud" viene adottato, senza "controllo" o, peggio, senza saperlo...
by Damiano Verzulli Sept. 5, 2024

Sept. 5, 2024

Ho appena notato questo articolo: => "The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud" https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-… che credo sia uno dei primi che affronta seriamente il gigantesco tema dei dispositivi (diversi dai PC e dagil smartphone) che hanno bisogno dell'accesso ad Internet (...senza il quale, è molto probabile che NON funzionino), per "dialogare" con un servizio cloud ad-hoc previsto dal produttore. Per dirla in altri termini, piu' comprensibili: * Ogni Alexa ha bisogno di Internet per "parlare" con AWS (almeno credo; non ho Alexa); * Ogni dispositivo Alexa ha bisogno di Internet, per parlare con AWS (almeno credo; non ho dispositivi Alexa-enabled); * Ogni smart-meter commerciale, ha bisogno del sito del produttore per inviargli i dati, che poi l'utente visualizza via APP; * Moltissimissime webcam, soprattutto quelle che possono essere consultate, via APP, da mobile, anche dal di fuori della propria casa e senza una VPN, mandano il flusso video (e spesso audio) al sito del produttore (che poi, appunto, lo rende fruibile all'APP); * etc. etc. e.... * molti impianti fotovoltaici sono gestiti da apparecchiature che "parlano" con il relativo fornitore, sia per questioni di telecontrollo che per questioni di "configurazione". E se questi impianti, complessivamente, producono *TANTA* energia... e il dialogo fra apparato e fornitore NON è stato organizzato "adeguatamente"... ecco che qualcuno puo'... fare delle brutte cose. Buona lettura :-) Bye, DV -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail:damiano@verzulli.it --- possible?ok:while(!possible){open_mindedness++} --- "...I realized that free software would not generate the kind of income that was needed. Maybe in USA or Europe, you may be able to get a well paying job as a free software developer, but not here [in Africa]..." -- Guido Sohne - 1973-2008 http://ole.kenic.or.ke/pipermail/skunkworks/2008-April/005989.html

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The Environmental Impacts of AI -- Policy Primer
by J.C. DE MARTIN Sept. 4, 2024

Sept. 4, 2024

https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-environment-primer (messaggio spedito in movimento - scusate brevità ed eventuali refusi)

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Incontro (online) con Marco Calamari il 25 settembre 2024 ore 21
by Andrea Trentini Sept. 2, 2024

Sept. 2, 2024

Alla fine siamo riusciti a organizzare, grazie pubblicamente a Marco Calamari per la disponibilità Allego locandina https://www.youtube.com/@comitatomilano-liberistiita -- Andrea Trentini ⠠⠵ http://atrent.it public key ID: 0xA7A91E3B Dip.to di Informatica Università degli Studi di Milano

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altro governo che vuole impedire comunicazioni crittografate... brutta tendenza?
by Andrea Trentini Sept. 2, 2024

Sept. 2, 2024

https://cybernews.com/privacy/denmark-ban-telegram-signal-whatsapp/ -- Andrea Trentini ⠠⠵ http://atrent.it public key ID: 0xA7A91E3B Dip.to di Informatica Università degli Studi di Milano

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165° Mercoledì di Nexa | 11 settembre 2024, ore 17.00
by Nexa - Media Sept. 2, 2024

Sept. 2, 2024

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi invitiamo a partecipare al 175° Mercoledì di Nexa, che si terrà mercoledì 11 settembre, alle ore 17.00, con un incontro dal titolo "Le emissioni segrete. L'impatto ambientale dell'universo digitale". Ospite dell'incontro: Giovanna Sissa (Università di Genova). L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE. SEDE FISICA dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono Portineria e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate lungo il percorso. QUI<https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. STANZA VIRTUALE dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori dettagli: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-175 Cordiali saluti, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - 10138 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

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