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American data spies will never care where the servers are
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 8, 2022

Nov. 8, 2022

The reason the court struck down the Privacy Shield agreement was because American intelligence services, like the NSA, have been given legal cover to compel American companies to hand over data on foreigners without as much as a warrant. This is the mass surveillance regime that Snowden revealed to the world back in 2013, and one that largely continues to this day (despite minor amendments on the program's ability to spy on Americans). This regime is propped up by mechanisms like the kangaroo FISA court, which operates under the infamous Section 702. Those mass surveillance mechanisms don't care in the slightest where the data is physically located. They only care about who controls the data, and whether those entities can be compelled to comply with US law, which sanctions this spying game. If you're a European company having your email hosted by Microsoft, the FISA court won't care one iota whether the physical email data resides in Redmond or Rotterdam. All it'll care about is whether it can compel Microsoft to let it snoop, and it can, because Microsoft is a US company, and that's really the end of that! No amount of indirection with server placement, legal structures, or other shell games will keep US intelligence services out of your data, if they want in. Thus, it is impossible for an American company to offer any guarantees of privacy to European companies that sidestep mechanisms like the FISA Section 702. Which is why the European Court of Justice ruled the way it did in the first place! Now I fully understand why European companies and their American vendors have been keen to find a way to pretend to comply with the ruling without actually complying with the ruling. Because complying in full is essentially an outright ban on European companies using American internet services to store or process their data. It would erect a great privacy wall between Europe and America, which would keep out vast amounts of commerce, in order to protect Europeans from the American intelligence services. And in typical European fashion, the ruling, and the popular interpretations of the ruling, was coy about these obvious implications. It simply shifted the burden of arriving at the logical conclusion – a ban on most American internet services – onto individual companies. Which created a feast for lawyers all over Europe to concoct bespoke analysis and mitigation strategies on matters that should have been clear and universal. It was European bureaucracy at its worst. But also European principles at their best! The European Court of Justice must have known that their verdict would be an earthquake for commerce, yet they chose to make it anyway, in respect to higher principles. Leaving both European companies and politicians in the awkward position of figuring out the details from that. We looked into all these issues at length when the Schrems II verdict arrived back in 2020. Had a whole team of lawyers in the US investigate whether we, 37signals, as an American company, could construct any constellation of subsidiaries, servers in Europe, or whatever, to prevent something like FISA Section 702 from compelling us to hand over data on European citizens in the event the authorities came no-warrant knocking. The answer was clear: no. Now the executive functions in the US and Europe have come up with Privacy Shield 2.0 called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF). It includes a laundry list of vague commitments to European privacy principles while offering the Americans so many caveats that they can continue doing whatever the hell they want and have done all along. In other words, it's another awkward piece of indirection that's highly unlikely to pass muster with the European Court of Justice. But because the wheels of justice turn so slowly with that court, it'll probably offer enough of a pretend cover for many years to come, so Europeans can continue using American services. While American intelligence services continue their mass surveillance regime with the same justification of fighting terrorism as it ever did. So now we have another wink-wink-nod-nod attempt to pretend to comply with the original Schrems II ruling. One which invalidates the millions of billable hours invoiced by lawyers trying to find a bespoke way out of the uncertain liability since 2020. Brilliant. The perfect illustration of our age of bullshit jobs. https://world.hey.com/dhh/american-data-spies-will-never-care-where-the-ser… Particolarmente illuminante la conclusione, in sui si sfotte lo stato di diritto europeo, incapace di far rispettare le proprie stesse leggi: American companies will never be able to resist the demands of American intelligence services. It doesn't matter if their servers are located in Virginia or Paris or on the damn moon. Europe should either come to terms with that reality or raise a real privacy wall despite the costs. But until Europe makes up its mind, European companies would be smart to ignore the whole charade. Like most of them have done anyway. Insomma: continuate pure a blaterare di diritti, tanto non ci credete neanche voi. Ha ragione? Giacomo

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analisi delle fonti (era: Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy)
by maurizio lana Nov. 8, 2022

Nov. 8, 2022

Il 03/11/22 13:22, 380° <g380(a)biscuolo.net> ha scritto: > Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 12:27:25 +0100 > From: 380°<g380(a)biscuolo.net> > Subject: [nexa] Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: > Tactics and Counter-Tactics > > Buongiorno, > Shir-Raz, Y., Elisha, E., Martin, B. et al. Censorship and Suppression > of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics. Minerva > (2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4 > > https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4 > > «Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and > counter-Tactics» > > (si scrive eterodossia, si legge dissenso, n.d.r.) > > Davvero niente di nuovo, come sanno benissimo coloro che hanno studiato > storia e filosofia della scienza (la meta-scienza non è altro che > metafisica, dopotutto). > In tutto questo i "GAFAM" hanno avuto un ruolo /apparentemente/ nuovo, > per questo scrivo anche qui. > [...] voglio conoscere qualcosa del posizionamento degli autori (YaffaShir-Raz, Elisha Ety , Brian Martin, Natti Ronel, e Josh Guetzkow) andando a vedere che cosa scrivono. _Yaffa Shir Raz_. vado al profilo personale FB della prima autrice dell'articolo, "Yaffa Shir Raz (Health Communication)" il primo post che compare oggi sotto il suo nome è questo (il post è tradotto automaticamente dall'ebraico): > Ecco cosa mi ha fatto scoppiare in lacrime stamattina, incapace di > fermarmi per un'ora lunga: > "Bentornato a tutto lo staff medico sospeso. Questa rosa è per voi > guerrieri della luce. > Amen che l'universo te lo riporti. Vi vogliamo bene ragazzi". > La rosa solitaria e queste calorose parole di accoglienza attese in > molti ospedali di tutta Italia per medici, infermieri e altro > personale medico che oggi sono tornati al lavoro dopo essere stati > sospesi per mesi il significato è chiaro: l'autrice è No-Vax e sostiene i medici No-vax italiani. _Eli Elisha_ primariamente presente nel web perché in tutta la rete dei siti antivaccinisti compare un medesimo blurb che promuove un libro anti-vaccinista di autore anonimo e la parte rilevante di questo blurb è il parere favorevole sul libro, espresso da Eli Elisha, definito senior criminologist del Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, https://www.yvc.ac.il/ (questa istituzione è presente nel web in una ragnatela di siti autoreferenziali; il sito "istituzionale" non ha un elenco dei docenti), e da Natti Ronel, definito professor of criminology, _Natti Ronel_ la sua pagina personale nel sito dell'Università Bar Ilan, Dipartimento di criminologia, menziona tra l'altro la tesi di laurea intitolata "Narcotics Anonymous in Israel - Self-help and /faith processes/ among drug addicts"; e come attività di ricerca dichiara "Developing of an original spiritual model of intervention entitled «Grace Therapy»". _Brian Martin_ insegna nella School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, Università di Wollongong. in https://social-epistemology.com/2022/08/26/when-to-read-a-heavy-tome-brian-… c'è un suo lungo post in cui commenta la lettura del libro "The Pathology of Man: A Study of Human Evil" dove patologia è proprio da intendere nel senso di 'l'insieme delle malattie' e afferma: > What about evil? Bartlett is connecting a pathology of humans to evil, > a term that is usually associated with religious belief. Bartlett, > though, adopts a strictly secular conception, defining evil as > “apparently voluntary destructive behavior and attitudes that result > in the general negation of health, happiness, and ultimately of life.” _Josh Guetzkow_ molto citato nei siti anti-vax. per affermare che i vaccini hanno causato moltissime morti utilizza i dati dei sistemi di farmacovigilanza /passiva/ , dove passiva significa che chiunque senza controllo medico può segnalare un effetto avverso. per me è sufficiente. ciao Maurizio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ non credo a niente che sia facile, rapido, spontaneo, improvvisato, approssimativo. credo nella forza di ciò che è lento, calmo, ostinato, senza fanatismi né entusiasmi i. calvino ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maurizio Lana Università del Piemonte Orientale Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli

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MEMENTO | 156° Mercoledì di Nexa | 9 Novembre 2022, ore 17.00
by Nexa Media Nov. 8, 2022

Nov. 8, 2022

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi ricordiamo che*domani*, alle ore *17.00*, si terrà il *156° Mercoledì di Nexa*, con la presentazione del nuovo *progetto Europeo H2020 SIFIS-Home* di cui il Centro Nexa su Internet e Società è partner, progetto che riflette sulle garanzie di privacy, affidabilità e sicurezza nelle smart home di ultima generazione. L'incontro, dal titolo /*"Sicurezza e Privacy nelle Smart Home di Ultima Generazione - Il progetto SIFIS-Home"*/, sarà condotto dal Coordinatore del progetto *Andrea Saracino*, ricercatore presso l'Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche a Pisa, ed esperto di sicurezza dei sistemi mobili e distribuiti, con focus su applicazioni di intelligenza artificiale e modelli di fiducia distribuita. _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). 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 sull'evento: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-156 Grazie per l'attenzione, Cordiali saluti, -- Anita Botta Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino – DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: https://nexa.polito.it/ mail: anita.botta(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Si ammala di tumore per l'uso del cellulare: Inail condannata a riconoscere una rendita al lavoratore
by don Luca Peyron Nov. 7, 2022

Nov. 7, 2022

Buona lettura e buona settimana dl https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2022/11/05/news/si_ammala_di_tumore_pe… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Re: [nexa] analisi delle fonti (era: Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy) (Giacomo Tesio)
by maurizio lana Nov. 6, 2022

Nov. 6, 2022

Il 06/11/22 11:36, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo(a)tesio.it> ha scritto: > Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:45:15 +0000 > From: Giacomo Tesio<giacomo(a)tesio.it> > Subject: Re: [nexa] analisi delle fonti (era: Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy) > > non mi è chiaro se la tua sia una critica all'articolo o a Springer che l'ha pubblicato. caro Giacomo, per valutare una fonte per prima cosa si cerca di capire qualcosa dell'autore in rapporto all'argomento su cui scrive. per un articolo sulle palette delle turbine dei motori degli aerei mi interessa capire se l'autore è un ingegnere aeronautico o un biologo marino; e se è un ingegnere aeronautico, chi è che gli riconosce autorevolezza? gli ingegneri aeronautici o gli storici medievisti? Maurizio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ old men ought to be explorers t.s. eliot, four quartets ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maurizio Lana Università del Piemonte Orientale Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Piazza Roma 36 - 13100 Vercelli

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Sull'approccio del nuovo governo rispetto al tema "cloud-nazionale"
by Damiano Verzulli Nov. 6, 2022

Nov. 6, 2022

Ieri mattina il Sen. Alessio Butti - neo sottosegretario alla Presidenza del Consiglio, con delega all'Innovazione (di fatto: il successore dell'ex ministro Colao) -- ha rilasciato una lunga intervista a SkyTG24 (~20 minuti circa) durante la quale ha parlato di varie cose. Nel corso dell'intervista ha toccato il tema del cloud-nazionale. Ho estratto i circa 2 minuti relativi e li ho ripubblicati qui: https://peertube.devol.it/w/tmeZRqrBuCRM9X5CiiNzo1 Li trovo particolarmente interessanti, sia perché evidentemente "politici", sia perché, proprio per questo... lasciano ben sperare, avendo citato esplicitamente il cloud-act e la necessita' di adoperarsi per garantire la cd. "Sovranita' Digitale". Saluti, DV P.S.: l'intervista integrale è in: http://bancadati.datavideo.it/media/20221105/20221105-SKY_TG24-PROGRESS_100… -- Damiano Verzulli e-mail: damiano(a)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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Quanto sono a rischio sabotaggio le reti internet sottomarine?
by don Luca Peyron Nov. 5, 2022

Nov. 5, 2022

Buona lettura dl https://www.wired.it/article/internet-reti-sottomarine-rischio-nord-stream-… _________________________ don Luca Peyron Direttore Ufficio per la Pastorale Universitaria Arcidiocesi di Torino www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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We’ve filed a lawsuit challenging GitHub Copilot, an AI product that relies on unprecedented open-source software piracy.
by Giacomo Tesio Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

Today, we’ve filed a class-action lawsuit in US federal court in San Francisco, CA on behalf of a proposed class of possibly millions of GitHub users. We are challenging the legality of GitHub Copilot (and a related product, OpenAI Codex, which powers Copilot). The suit has been filed against a set of defendants that includes GitHub, Microsoft (owner of GitHub), and OpenAI. [...] By training their AI systems on public GitHub repositories (though based on their public statements, possibly much more) we contend that the defendants have violated the legal rights of a vast number of creators who posted code or other work under certain open-source licenses on GitHub. Which licenses? A set of 11 popular open-source licenses that all require attribution of the author’s name and copyright, including the MIT license, the GPL, and the Apache license. (These are enumerated in the appendix to the complaint.) In addition to violating the attribution requirements of these licenses, we contend that the defendants have violated: - GitHub’s own terms of service and privacy policies; - DMCA § 1202, which forbids the removal of copyright-management information; - the California Consumer Privacy Act; and other laws giving rise to related legal claims. Continua (e continuerà a lungo...) su https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/ Giacomo

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"MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS"
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

*MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS** * /An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war./ by Peter Cronau | 3 Nov, 2022 A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that as many as 80 percent of tweets about the 2022 Russia-Ukraine invasion in its early weeks were part of a covert propaganda campaign originating from automated fake ‘bot’ accounts. An anti-Russia propaganda campaign originating from a ‘bot army’ of fake automated Twitter accounts flooded the internet at the start of the war. The research shows of the more than 5-million tweets studied, 90.2 percent of all tweets (both bot and non-bot) came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine, with fewer than 7 percent of the accounts being classed as pro-Russian. The university researchers also found these automated tweets had been purposely used to drive up fear amongst people targeted by them, boosting a high level of statistically measurable ‘angst’ in the online discourse. The research team analysed a massively unprecedented 5,203,746 tweets, sent with key hashtags, in the first two weeks of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from 24 February this year. The researchers considered predominately English-language accounts, with a calculated 1.8-million unique Twitter accounts in the dataset posting at least one English-language tweet. The results were published <https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07038> in August in a research paper, titled “/#IStandWithPutin versus #IStandWithUkraine: The interaction of bots and humans in discussion of the Russia/Ukraine war/“, by the University of Adelaide’s School <https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2022/09/08/bots-manipulate-p…> of Mathematical Science. The size of the sample under study, of over 5-million tweets, dwarfs other recent studies of covert propaganda in social media surrounding the Ukraine war. The little-reported Stanford University/Graphika research <https://declassifiedaus.org/2022/09/22/declassified-australia-exposes-and-a…> on Western disinformation, analysed by/ Declassified Australia/ in September, examined just under 300,000 tweets from 146 Twitter accounts. The Meta/Facebook research <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/largest-and-most-complex-russian-dis…> on Russian disinformation reported widely by mainstream media, including the ABC a fortnight later, looked at 1,600 Facebook accounts. Reports on the new research have appeared in a few independent media <https://theprint.in/tech/60-80-of-twitter-accounts-posting-on-russia-ukrain…> sites, and in Russia’s RT <https://www.rt.com/news/562509-ukrainian-bots-in-twitter/>, but not much else, so revealing the burial of stories that don’t fit the desired pro-Western narrative. This ground-breaking study, exposing a massive anti-Russia social media disinformation campaign, has been effectively ignored by the mainstream Western establishment media. It’s become almost routine during the Russia-Ukraine war. c[...] continua qui: https://declassifiedaus.org/2022/11/03/strongmassive-anti-russian-bot-army-…

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I servizi di hosting e housing di Inail per le PA
by Antonio Nov. 4, 2022

Nov. 4, 2022

Collaborazione tra Enti pubblici: i servizi di hosting e housing di Inail per le PA. https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cittadinanza-digitale/collaborazione-tra-enti… Non ne conosco i dettagli ma mi sembra una buona notizia. A.

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