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Re: [nexa] Informazioni su Bundestrojaner
by Giuseppe Vaciago Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

Grazie Anna. Sembra infatti che "the security level of this trojan leaves the infected systems in is comparable to it setting all passwords to '1234''"….non male... Come avevo avuto modo di accennare durante l'ultima incontro di Nexa e' un tema che trovo estremamente delicato e sul quale è necessaria una riflessione. Non penso, infatti, che la realta' tedesca sia cosi' lontana da quella che avremo in Italia quando finalmente capiranno che il VoIP non e' solo un suono onomatopeico. Giuseppe Vaciago

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I: Fwd: [IP] Dennis Ritchie has dies
by G.Battista Frontera Oct. 13, 2011

Oct. 13, 2011

:-( _____ Da: nexa-bounces(a)server-nexa.polito.it [mailto:nexa-bounces@server-nexa.polito.it] Per conto di J.C. DE MARTIN Inviato: giovedì 13 ottobre 2011 4.28 A: nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it Oggetto: [nexa] Fwd: [IP] Dennis Ritchie has dies Per i geek in lista: è morto Dennis Ritchie, il creatore del C, il linguaggio di programmazione che ha formato generazioni di programmatori: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie RIP juan carlos -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [IP] Dennis Ritchie has dies Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:56:11 -0400 From: DAVID FARBER <mailto:dave@farber.net> <dave(a)farber.net> Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net To: ip <mailto:ip@listbox.com> <ip(a)listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: From: Tim Finin <finin(a)cs.umbc.edu> Date: October 12, 2011 9:32:06 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> Subject: Dennis Ritchie has dies Sad news. Rob Pike reports on Google Plus that Dennis Ritchie died at his home this weekend after a long illness. Ritchie created the C programming language and was a key contributor to Unix. In 1983 he received the Turing Award with his long time colleague Ken Thompson for the development of operating systems theory and the implementation of the UNIX. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988. 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 c4b> Your Subscription | Unsubscribe Now <https://www.listbox.com/unsubscribe/?member_id=14798382&id_secret=14798382- d392ffd3&post_id=20111012215620:8A85B9CA-F53E-11E0-AFC0-FA3AC6C4E5EE> <http://www.listbox.com> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.mailscanner.info/> MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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FYI: Tremonti "scippa" gli 800 mln all'Ict
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Oct. 12, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011

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per Raffaele Meo
by de petra giulio Oct. 12, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011

Venerdì notte è andata in onda l'intervista delle Iene: http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/iene/puntata/250977/fubini-software-libe… Giulio

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Microsoft's Subtle Knife Through the Heart of EU Software Industry - Open Enterprise
by vale.it.newsletters＠gmail.com Oct. 12, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/10/microsofts-subtle-…

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QdN: "No Privacy Without Net Neutrality"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 12, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: No Privacy Without Net Neutrality Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:49:29 +0200 From: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)LAQUADRATURE.NET> Reply-To: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)LAQUADRATURE.NET> To: IP-ENFORCEMENT(a)ROSTER.WCL.AMERICAN.EDU La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/no-privacy-without-net-neutrality No Privacy Without Net Neutrality *** Brussels, October 12th, 2011 - In a ground-breaking opinion on Net neutrality, the European Data Protection Supervisor stresses that restrictions to Internet access inevitably harm privacy. As the European Parliament enters in the final stage of the negotiations on its resolution on Net neutrality, this opinion underlines that the EU Commission's "wait and see" approach is bound to fail and is unjustifiable. Members of the EU Parliament must preserve citizens' privacy by requiring strong regulatory measures to ban discrimination of online communications. *** In this opinion on Net neutrality [1], the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) makes clear that the protection of Net neutrality is necessary to ensure the confidentiality of communications. According to the EU privacy watchdog, traffic management practices that are not strictly necessary to ensure the network's security or integrity amount to a global monitoring and inspection of users' communications, thereby undermining privacy. To respect current data protection laws, the EDPS stresses that users must give explicit consent to their Internet communications being monitored and restricted. It further stresses that users should always have the choice between a restricted offer and neutral Internet access, without being imposed higher costs by telecom operators. These conclusions blow in pieces Commissioner Neelie Kroes' "wait-and-see" approach based on "transparency" [2] in contracts is enough to protect users against restrictions of their Internet access. "The EDPS demonstrates that any discrimination between Internet services, protocols, sources or contents imposed by telecom operators inevitably hurts the confidentiality of communications. It is therefore the duty of the Members of the EU Parliament to protect privacy by departing from Commissioner Kroes' failed "wait-and-see" approach. The Parliament must require concrete legislative measures to ensure Net neutrality, therefore protecting EU citizens privacy, freedom of expression, as well as innovation and competition online", concludes Jérémie Zimmermann, spokesperson of the citizen adovacy group La Quadrature du Net. ** Key quotes from the EDPS opinion ** Net neutrality violations harm privacy: "Inspection techniques based on traffic data and inspection of IP payloads, i.e. the content of communications, may reveal users’ Internet activity: websites visited and activities on those sites, use of P2P applications, files downloaded, emails sent and received, from whom, on what subject and in which terms, etc. ISPs may want to use this information to prioritise some communications, such as video on demand, over others. They may want to use it to identify viruses, or to build profiles in order to serve behavioural advertising. These actions interfere with the right to the confidentiality of communications". (§78) Failure of mere transparency: " Individuals' consent would not be freely given if they had to consent to the monitoring of their communication data in order to get access to a communication service. This would be even more true if all providers in a given market were to engage in traffic management for purposes that went beyond security of the network. The only option left would be not to subscribe to an Internet service at all. Given that the Internet has become an essential tool both for work and for leisure purposes, not subscribing to an Internet service does not constitute a valid alternative. The result would be that the individuals would have no real choice, i.e. they would not be able to freely give consent". (§55) Access to neutral Internet is crucial: "The EDPS considers that there is a clear need for the Commission and national authorities to monitor the market, particularly to ascertain whether this scenario - i.e. providers linking telecommunication services to communication monitoring - becomes mainstream. Providers should offer alternative services, including an Internet subscription not subject to traffic management, without imposing higher costs to individuals". (§56) Recommended policy steps: "(...). From a data protection and privacy perspective, the scenario where ISPs engage on a routine basis in traffic management policies offering subscriptions based on filtering access to content and applications, would be highly problematic. If this were ever to happen, legislation would need to be put in place to address this situation". (§84). Note: Actually, evidence suggests that telecom opertors already engage in such harmful practices. See the reporting platform RespectMyNet.eu * References * 1. http://www.edps.europa.eu/EDPSWEB/webdav/site/mySite/shared/Documents/Consu… 2. The recently revised Telecoms Package states that operators should inform users about access restrictions. This "transparency" has been taken as a pretext for inaction by pseudo liberals. According to them, citizens can "vote with their feet" and choose between different restricted offers. The EDPS just proved that this approach fails to respect EU privacy law. ** About la Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that promotes the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** Press contact and press room ** Jérémie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room

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conferenza Pluralism and Competition in the Regulation of New Media, Firenze 10-12 novembre
by Angela Daly Oct. 12, 2011

Oct. 12, 2011

Pluralism and Competition in the Regulation of New Media Organised by Florence School of Regulation (RSCAS) & Mediadem Project (Law Department) Florence, 10-12 November 2011 European University Institute Refettorio - Badia Fiesolana Via de’ Roccettini, 9 San Domenico di Fiesole The workshop on “Pluralism and competition in the regulation of new media” aims at exploring five key themes and their relationship: - the role of competition law in new media markets; - the concept of pluralism and its protection in the new media; - the changing business structures that are emerging as a result of digital convergence and the impact this has on competition and regulation; - the nature and role of private regulation as an alternative or a complement to public regulation in order to develop independent media; - the consistency of the regulatory framework and the governance of the sector with the new media market. For info and registration - by 28th of October - please contact at FSR.Secretariat(a)eui.eu

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Informazioni su Bundestrojaner
by Leslie Cameron Curry Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Care e cari, scrivo alla lista per porvi una domanda. Avete informazioni sul "Bundestrojaner"? Il trojan che il governo tedesco avrebbe utilizzato per scopi di sorveglianza. In rete ho trovato che questa applicazione sarebbe stata scoperta dal "Chos Computer Club" (CCC); che il Ministro degli Interne tedesco ne avrebbe confermato l'esistenza e che nelle intenzioni dovrebbe essere usato solo sotto determinate condizioni, non meglio indicate. Il "Chos Computer Club" avrebbe affermato che, fra l'altro,questo programma sarebbe anche mal progettato e poco sicuro, rendendo i computer infettati facili prede di utenti non autorizzati. Da Google ho trovato queste notizie ripetute. Ringrazio in anticipo per la vostra collaborazione. Buona giornata e buon lavoro. -- ------------------------------------ Leslie Cameron Curry email: leslie.cameroncurry(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------

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NY Times: "Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

October 10, 2011 Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’ By JOHN MARKOFF <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_markoff/i…> More than 60 years ago, in his “Foundation” series, the science fiction novelist Isaac Asimov invented a new science — psychohistory — that combined mathematics and psychology to predict the future. Now social scientists are trying to mine the vast resources of the Internet — Web searches and Twitter messages, Facebook and blog posts, the digital location trails generated by billions of cellphones — to do the same thing. The most optimistic researchers believe that these storehouses of “big data” will for the first time reveal sociological laws of human behavior — enabling them to predict political crises, revolutions and other forms of social and economic instability, just as physicists and chemists can predict natural phenomena. “This is a significant step forward,” said Thomas Malone, the director of the Center for Collective Intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We have vastly more detailed and richer kinds of data available as well as predictive algorithms to use, and that makes possible a kind of prediction that would have never been possible before.” The government is showing interest in the idea. This summer a little-known intelligence agency began seeking ideas from academic social scientists and corporations for ways to automatically scan the Internet in 21 Latin American countries for “big data,” according to a research proposal being circulated by the agency. The three-year experiment, to begin in April, is being financed by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity <http://www.iarpa.gov/>, or Iarpa (pronounced eye-AR-puh), part of the office of the director of national intelligence. [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11predict.html

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NY Times: "Internet Censorship Growth Hampers News, Study Says"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 11, 2011

Oct. 11, 2011

Internet Censorship Growth Hampers News, Study Says By JOHN MARKOFF <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_markoff/i…> Published: October 11, 2011 A detailed study of Internet censorship in China and Iran shows that blocking techniques are changing rapidly and are becoming significant new obstacles for news organizations, governments and businesses. The study <http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/downloads/casting.pdf>, being published on Tuesday, focuses on Internet blocking faced by Iranian and Chinese visitors to BBC Web sites during periods of political unrest in the two countries over the last two years. "This problem of Internet control is becoming an issue for more than human rights concerns," said an author of the report, Ronald Deibert, the director of the Canada Center for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab, a University of Toronto organization that focuses on Internet security. "The fact is that you have dozens of countries not just filtering for porn, but political filtering and key events as well." [...] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/business/media/battling-internet-censorsh…

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