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Igf Italia 2011, avanti c'é posto
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Oct. 31, 2011

Oct. 31, 2011

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NYTimes: "When Secrets Aren’t Safe With Journalists"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 30, 2011

Oct. 30, 2011

Christopher Soghoian (ex Berkman) incita i giornalisti a migliorare le loro competenze informatiche perche' devono ipotizzare che il monitoraggio illecito sia la norma, non l'eccezione: /"American journalists should assume that their communications are being monitored by their government — and possibly other governments as well."/ juan carlos October 26, 2011 When Secrets Aren’t Safe With Journalists By CHRISTOPHER SOGHOIAN Washington BRAVE journalists have defied court orders and have even been jailed rather than compromise their ethical duty to protect sources. But as governments increasingly record their citizens’ every communication — even wiretapping journalists and searching their computers — the safety of anonymous sources will depend not only on journalists’ ethics, but on their computer skills. Sadly, operational computer security is still not taught in most journalism schools, and poor data security practices remain widespread in news organizations. Confidential information is sent over regular phone lines and via text messages and e-mail, all of which are easy to intercept. Few journalists use secure-communication tools, even ones that are widely available and easy to use. Government officials often attempt to get journalists to reveal their sources by obtaining subpoenas and compelling testimony and the required telecommunications records. But sometimes that’s not even necessary, because sources have already been exposed by their own lax communications. And then there is illicit monitoring — I believe that American journalists should assume that their communications are being monitored by their government — and possibly other governments as well. As an expert on privacy and government surveillance, I regularly speak with journalists at major news organizations, here and abroad. Of the hundreds of conversations I’ve had with journalists over the past few years, I can count on one hand the number who mentioned using some kind of intercept-resistant encrypted communication tools. [...] Continua qui: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/27/opinion/without-computer-security-source…

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Fwd: [video] ACTA: Get Informed & Take Action!
by Philippe Aigrain Oct. 30, 2011

Oct. 30, 2011

So you don't miss it. The full version has been viewed closed to 400,000 times in 24 hours on YouTube alone. But what will count is how many people will take action to convince MEPs to refuse to give their assent to ACTA. Philippe -------- Message original -------- Sujet: [video] ACTA: Get Informed & Take Action! Date : Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:46:20 +0200 De : La Quadrature du Net <contact(a)laquadrature.net> Pour : paigrain(a)laquadrature.net La Quadrature du Net - For immediate release Permanent link: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/video-acta-get-informed-take-action [video] ACTA: Get Informed & Take Action! On the occasion of the Free Culture Forum in Barcelona [1], La Quadrature du Net releases three films to inform citizens and urge them to take action against ACTA [2], the Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA is a threat to Internet users' fundamental freedoms and to EU Internet companies' competitiveness and free competition. The European Parliament will soon decide whether to give its consent to ACTA, or to reject it once and for all. Every citizen can help defeat ACTA by spreading this video across the Internet, urging their fellow citizens to mobilize, and contacting their elected representatives. Learn more about this dangerous agreement at http://lqdn.fr/acta. Many thanks to Benoît Musereau for directing these films. You can also see share this video on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=citzRjwk-sQ and Dailymotion : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlz8g0_say-no-to-acta_news * References * 1. http://www.2011.fcforum.net/en/ 2. http://lqdn.fr/acta ** 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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Studio Parlamento EU: “Content Flat-Rate”: A Solution to Illegal File-Sharing?
by J.C. DE MARTIN Oct. 29, 2011

Oct. 29, 2011

Modot, Alain; Héloïse Fontanel, Nic Garnett, Erik Lambert, André Chaubeau, Jérôme Chung and Pierre Jalladeau (Media Consulting Group) (2011): /"The “Content Flat-Rate”: A Solution to Illegal File-Sharing? Study"/ Directorate General for Internal Policy, Policy Department B: Structural and Cohesion Policies, Culture and Education. Manuscript completed in July 2011. Brussels, European Parliament, 2011. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?lan… Inoltre, è apparsa la versione definitiva dello studio di Martin Kretschmer: /Private Copying and Fair Compensation: An empirical study of copyright levies in Europe /http://www.cippm.org.uk/publications/comparative-study-of-copyright-levies-in-europe.html Entrambe le segnalazioni via Volker Grassmuck. Juan Carlos

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[NEXA] Fwd: [agoradigitale] Domani e domenica Commissione Internet al Congresso di Radicali Italiani
by Luigi Di Liberto Oct. 28, 2011

Oct. 28, 2011

Mi pare sia questa una informazione utile anche per questa lista Buona serata a tutti, LDL ____________________________ Ciao a tutti, per i radicali (o simpatizzanti) in Lista, vi comunico che sabato dalle 21.30 fino alle 23.30 e domenica dalle 9 alle 11.30 a Chianciano si terrà la commissione: * **Internet come metodo: dalla mobilitazione, all'organizzazione alla nuova forma partito * *Presidente*: Marco Perduca *Relatore in Congresso*: Luca Nicotra* * *Segretari Presidenza*: Lorenzo Lipparini e Nicolas Ballario *Relazioni e interventi*: - Alex Orloswky, esperto di social media activism - Vittorio Zambardino, giornalista e blogger - Andrea De Angelis, co-coordinatore del gruppo di lavoro voto online - Fabio Pietrosanti, progetto Globaleaks Tra gli altri Interverranno nel dibattito anche Luigi Diliberto, Movimento Scambioetico, Francesco D'Ambrosio, webmaster di radicali.it, Pietro Migliorati, responsabile del centro elaborazione dati radicale, ed esponenti del Partito Pirata Italiano. Se siete a Chianciano non potete mancare. Oltre alla diretta su radioradicale.it sarà anche possibile commentare live la diretta tramite twitter e facebook. C'e' da decidere l'hashtag. Facciamo #radicalicommissioneweb ? :-) -luca-

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La grande Italia delle Telecomunicazioni. Un libro.
by a.dicorinto＠uniroma1.it Oct. 28, 2011

Oct. 28, 2011

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La Siae vuole farsi pagare il diritto d'autore anche x i trailer sul Web...
by Masera Anna Oct. 28, 2011

Oct. 28, 2011

http://www.lastampa.it/_web/CMSTP/tmplrubriche/giornalisti/grubrica.asp?ID_…

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Released Neubot 0.4.4
by Simone Basso Oct. 26, 2011

Oct. 26, 2011

Released Neubot 0.4.4 http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.4 Version 0.4.4 is the latest generally-available stable release of Neubot, distributed for Ubuntu >= 10.04, MacOSX >= 10.6,Windows >= XP SP3 and FreeBSD. (Yes, Neubot was recently added to FreeBSD ports collection!) Of course, Neubot 0.4.4 is also available in source format (.tar.gz and .zip). This release contains 127 patches. The diffstat says: 114 files changed, with 3162 lines inserted and 3832 lines deleted. Here are the most relevant changes: o update to privacy policy 1.5. Privacy policy v1.0 allowed Neubot to collect users' Internet address without users' explicit consent, thanks to special provisions that allow researchers to do that. And, while MacOSX installer asked for user permission, other platforms were still exploiting such special provisions by default. The novelty of this release is that special provisions are gone and Neubot does not perform any test until the user provides her explicit and informed consent. Of course Neubot notifies the user when it has not enough permissions to run its tests. For example, under Windows it opens privacy.html in the default web browser and shows an explanatory message. This is somewhat brute force and I look forward to make Windows installer similar to MacOSX one. Similarly, under Ubuntu and Debian it uses libnotify bindings to inform the user that the informed consent is missing. (I initially tried to ask for consent in the installer using debconf, but did not managed to make it work with Ubuntu Software Center. So I fell back to libnotify.) Note that libnotify bindings are not listed in the package dependencies. Which is a problem for Debian machines where libnotify bindings are not installed. (While Ubuntu installs such bindings by default.) I decided not to list libnotify into dependencies because I look forward to spin off a neubot-x11 package that contains all the graphical commands and lists all dependencies. Finally, if none of the above method works or you installed from sources, Neubot will print warnings on the standard error and/or on the system log. We removed special provisions because we want to always show people the policy and we hope that helps to have as much people as possibile give Neubot the permission to share the IP address (and hence the results) with other researchers. The availability of third party studies from independent researchers will benefit both Neubot authors and users. By the way, I've also received some insightful comments on the privacy policy from Eleonora Bassi. And I am working to implement those suggestions to further clarify the privacy policy. But did not managed to include them in 0.4.4. o debian pkg: reenable repository after Ubuntu upgrade. Thanks to Davide Allavena, who reported the bug, I am now aware that Ubuntu disables third party repos during an upgrade. So I've lifted some code from Google Chrome debian package to reenable Neubot repos after an upgrade. Ubuntu users should check whether Neubot repos was disabled during an upgrade and reenable it. Or they can simply manually install this version of Neubot, which includes the fix for the problem. o Ubuntu: removed status icon. I've removed the status icon code. The reason is that desktops are moving towards removing the notification area and replacing it with libnotify-like notifications. o Ubuntu: merged neubot_webkit with the open browser code and renamed it neubot_gui. I realized that it was possibile to fallback to opening the default browser when webkit is not available. So I merged already existing code to do that with the existing webkit code. And changed the name because now the scope of the program has changed too. (BTW this command will be the foundation of the above mentioned neubot-x11 pkg.) o Ubuntu: more debian-compliant package While working on the above-mentioned debconf-enhanced debian installer, I've used pylint to clean up the debian package as much as possible. There are some open issues but overall the quality of the package has increased a lot in this release. (Having a 100% compliant package is a necessary condition to ask Debian folks to add Neubot to the official Debian repositories.) o Windows: do not install package with "root" privileges so we can start it again at the end of the installation. In Neubot 0.4.2 I noticed that the installer was starting Neubot up with "root" privileges and disabled that. In this release I've modified the installer to always run as an ordinary user. Which allows to safely start Neubot at the end of the installation. Please, note that this means the new installer cannot uninstall automatically old Neubot packages because it is not privileged. If you have installed an old version of Neubot, you should uninstall that before installing this new version. (If you don't, the installer will abort and tell you that it cannot proceed until you remove at hand the old version.) Now Neubot is installed into the user profile directory, e.g. for me:: C:\Documents and Settings\simone\Neubot\ An additional reason behind installing Neubot for each user is that I'm going to implement autoupdates. And I don't want to take the security risk of running such autoupdates with high privileges. Given that I'm not a Windows expert and that seems not a trivial task. o more code rationalizations, bug and reliability fixes, unit tests. The release candidates have been tested on Ubuntu 10.10, Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 and MacOSX 10.6.8. Packages and source archives available here: http://www.neubot.org/download ChangeLog here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot/0.4.4/ChangeLog Commit history here: https://github.com/neubot/neubot/commits/0.4.4 SHA256sums here: https://raw.github.com/neubot/neubot-sha256s/master/0.4.4/SHA256 Data here: http://www.neubot.org/data People that contributed to this release, with patches, testing and feedback: Simone Basso Marco Scopesi Alessio Palmero Aprosio Federico Morando Davide Allavena Giuseppe Futia Thank you for you attention! -- Simone <http://www.neubot.org/people#basso>

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Sospensione di WikiLeaks
by fabio chiusi Oct. 26, 2011

Oct. 26, 2011

Visto che la vicenda del blocco bancario a WikiLeaks è passata del tutto inosservata dalle nostre parti, vi segnalo una mia riflessione al riguardo. Critiche e commenti sono naturalmente benvenuti. http://ilnichilista.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/perche-bisogna-opporsi-al-bloc… Buona giornata a tutti, Fabio Chiusi

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Convegno sul documento informatico - Pavia, 17 novembre
by Riccardo Colangelo Oct. 25, 2011

Oct. 25, 2011

Segnalo il convegno "Chi ha inventato il documento informatico?", organizzato dal Collegio Ghislieri di Pavia, che si terrà presso l'aula magna del medesimo (piazza Ghislieri, Pavia) il giorno 17 novembre, come da locandina allegata. Per ulteriori informazioni e per prenotare la partecipazione al convegno, rimango disponibile all'indirizzo informatica.giuridica(a)ghislieri.it . Cordialmente, r.c.

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