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26° Mercoledì di NEXA - 15 dicembre 2010

by Anna Piccitto

*26° Mercoledì di NEXA* "Un anno di Internet: retrospettiva 2010" *Mercoledì 15 novembre 2010 ore 18 – 20* (2° mercoledì del mese) Via Boggio 59, Torino (primo piano) Ingresso libero Live streaming: http://nexa.polito.it/events Internet ha segnato pesantemente l'anno che sta per concludersi, sia a livello nazionale sia internazionale. In Italia l'anno è iniziato con le proposte di legge "anti-Facebook" per poi proseguire con la pubblicazione dell'indagine conoscitiva sul diritto d'autore dell'AGCOM <http://punto-informatico.it/2812962/PI/News/agcom-indagine-sul-file-sharing…>, col discorso di Lawrence Lessig <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ZxLptR0Ko> alla Camera dei Deputati a Marzo, con l'approvazione del decreto Romani <http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_b…> poche settimane dopo, e, tra le altre cose, col dibattito, che finora non ha condotto a nulla di concreto, sul Wi-Fi e sul decreto Pisanu <http://nexa.polito.it/decretopisanu>, in merito al quale il Centro NEXA era intervenuto nel novembre 2008. A livello internazionale, l'anno si apre col discorso su Internet del Segretario di Stato Hillary Clinton, che sembra affermare una vera e propria dottrina USA sulla libertà in Rete <http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1857622883?bctid=62730021001>, dottrina che esce ammaccata dal recente affaire Wikileaks e dalle rivelazioni sul ruolo americano nel promuovere l'approccio HADOPI (disconnessioni da Internet degli utenti al di fuori delle normali tutele giuridiche) in numerosi paesi europei e allo stesso Parlamento Europeo <http://blog.tntvillage.scambioetico.org/?p=7309>. Per non parlare della neutralità della Rete, che subisce severi stop sia in USA, dove il chairman della FCC sembra in minoranza, sia in Europa, dove la Commissaria Kroes, dopo la recente consultazione, non trova di meglio che raccomandare agli utenti di cambiare ISP. Insomma, sembrerebbe che a parte alcune altisonanti dichiarazioni di principio il bilancio Internet 2010 sia nazionale sia internazionale sia prevalentemente negativo. E' davvero così? Quali sono i motivi di speranza? Quali i principali pericoli? Su cosa concentrare le energie? Ne parleremo all'ultimo mercoledì di NEXA del 2010 con l'avvocato Guido Scorza, grande esperto della Rete, e con tutti i Nexiani, nel tentativo di fare un bilancio e di preparare il 2011. Seguirà rinfresco. *Biografie*: Avvocato, Dottore di ricerca in informatica giuridica e diritto delle nuove tecnologie, è docente presso il Master di diritto delle nuove tecnologie della facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’Università di Bologna, presso il Master in Sicurezza dei sistemi e delle reti informatiche dell’Università La Sapienza di Roma, presso la Scuola Ufficiali dell’Arma dei Carabinieri, presso il Corso di Laurea in tecnologie informatiche dell’Università La Sapienza nonché presso la European School of Economics.* * *Letture consigliate:* # Guido Scorza, Processo alla Rete <http://www.guidoscorza.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/processo-alla-rete-fre…>, Free Press, 2009** # *Sul Decreto Romani (recepimento della Direttiva 2007/65/CE sull'esercizio delle attività televisive)*: Guido Scorza, "Decreto Romani, meglio ma non bene" <http://punto-informatico.it/2823280/PI/Commenti/decreto-romani-meglio-ma-no…>** # *Sul discorso di Neelie Kroes a proposito della neutralità della Rete*: Movimento ScambioEtico, "Net Neutrality summit: nessuna nuova legislazione" <http://blog.tntvillage.scambioetico.org/?p=7073>** # *Per approfondimenti sulla legge HADOPI*: Chi ha vinto la battaglia Hadopi?" <http://nexa.polito.it/battaglia-hadopi-htm> (traduzione di Irene Cassarino e Carolina di Vonzo, da testo originale pubblicato su /La Quadrature du Net/)** # *L'indagine conoscitiva dell'Agcom*: Il diritto d'autore sulle reti di comunicazione elettronica <http://www.agcom.it/default.aspx?message=visualizzadocument&DocID=3790> ** * * * * *Ufficio Stampa Centro NEXA:* Giuseppe Futia NEXA Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica Tel. 333 1103017

Dec. 13, 2010

Fwd: [Wikileaks-koord] US-Senate on Whistle-Blowing

by athos gualazzi

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Gaul <thomas.gaul(a)piratenpartei.de> Date: 2010/12/12 Subject: Re: [Wikileaks-koord] US-Senate on Whistle-Blowing To: Wikileaks-coordination <wikileaks-koord(a)pippin.bash.info> Am 12.12.2010 22:20, schrieb Thomas Gaul: > Dear Pirates, > > just to inform you, the US-Senate unanimously agreed on > <http://pogoarchives.org/m/wi/s372-hotline-20101200.pdf> last friday. > > The House of Representatives still has to decide on the amendment. > > Best regards > > Thomas > > Ups, sorry. US-Senate agreed on the amendment. _______________________________________________ Wikileaks-koord mailing list Wikileaks-koord(a)pippin.bash.info https://pippin.bash.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wikileaks-koord -- Athos Gualazzi presidente Associazione Partito Pirata http://www.partito-pirata.it http://www.piratpartiet.it http://www.anonet.it

Dec. 12, 2010

[NEXA]Re: Guardian (Naughton): "WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy"

by vale.it＠gmail.com

È un po' paradossale: quando un service provider è accusato di violare copyright, si difende tipicamente affermando di non esercitare alcun controllo e richiedendo un ordine della pubblica autorità (impostazione a mio avviso corretta, nell'ottica di salvaguardare la tensione dialettica tra diritti contrastanti), quando decide di farlo motu proprio si appoggia facilmente sulle sua ampie condizioni contrattuali con un'interpretazione propria, unilaterale e senza alcun contraddittorio. Vi è chi sostiene che la censura è un fatto della pubblica autorità e che non esiste censura privata, in quanto ciascuno è libero di utilizzare o meno servizi offerti da società private. Più leggo episodi del genere e più mi convinco che, man mano che un servizio privato diventa un servizio di massa diventa un po' troppo riduttivo ragionare in questo modo in quanto "togliere la spina" è anche togliere o menomare l'esistenza digitale stessa. V Il giorno 12/dic/2010, alle ore 08.11, J.C. DE MARTIN ha scritto: > WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy > > Amazon's decision to abandon WikiLeaks sends out a clear message: you can publish what you like – as long as it meets with the government's approval > > > John Naughton > guardian.co.uk, Saturday 11 December 2010 10.00 GMT > > One of the most interesting aspects of the WikiLeaks controversy is the light it has shed on the providers of cloud computing. One after another they have fallen over like dominoes when the going got rough. First, some of the ISPs hosting WikiLeaks caved in; then EveryDNS, the company that mapped its domain names (eg wikileaks.org) on to machine addresses, dropped it; then Amazon, which had enough computer power and bandwidth to resist even the most determined cyber-attacks, took it off its computers; then PayPal and later Mastercard, the online conduits for donations, cancelled its accounts. The rationalisations these outfits gave for dropping WikiLeaks had a common theme, namely that it had violated the terms and conditions under which the terminated services had been provided. > > Amazon is the most interesting case. It provides so-called "cloud computing services" by renting out some of the thousands of computers used to run its online store. WikiLeaks moved its site on to Amazon's cloud to ensure that it would not be crippled by the denial-of-service attacks that had brought other ISPs to their knees. But then the company received a call from senator Joseph Lieberman, the kind of politician who gives loose cannons a bad name, who had been frothing about WikiLeaks being "implacably hostile to our military and the most basic requirements of our national security". Some time after that, Amazon terminated WikiLeaks's account. > [...] > > Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/11/wikileaks-amazon-denial-de… > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa

Dec. 12, 2010

Guardian (Naughton): "WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy"

by J.C. DE MARTIN

WikiLeaks row: why Amazon's desertion has ominous implications for democracy /Amazon's decision to abandon WikiLeaks sends out a clear message: you can publish what you like -- as long as it meets with the government's approval / # John Naughton <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnnaughton> # guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk>, Saturday 11 December 2010 10.00 GMT One of the most interesting aspects of the WikiLeaks <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/wikileaks> controversy is the light it has shed on the providers of cloud computing <http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/cloud-computing>. One after another they have fallen over like dominoes when the going got rough <http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/12/wikileaks-moving-target.shtml>. First, some of the ISPs hosting WikiLeaks caved in; then EveryDNS, the company that mapped its domain names (eg wikileaks.org) on to machine addresses, dropped it; then Amazon, which had enough computer power and bandwidth to resist even the most determined cyber-attacks, took it off its computers; then PayPal and later Mastercard, the online conduits for donations, cancelled its accounts. The rationalisations these outfits gave for dropping WikiLeaks had a common theme, namely that it had violated the terms and conditions under which the terminated services had been provided. Amazon is the most interesting case. It provides so-called "cloud computing services" by renting out some of the thousands of computers used to run its online store. WikiLeaks moved its site on to Amazon's cloud to ensure that it would not be crippled by the denial-of-service attacks that had brought other ISPs to their knees. But then the company received a call from senator Joseph Lieberman, the kind of politician who gives loose cannons a bad name, who had been frothing about WikiLeaks being "implacably hostile to our military and the most basic requirements of our national security" <http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/110905-lieberman-wikile…>. Some time after that, Amazon terminated WikiLeaks's account. [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/dec/11/wikileaks-amazon-denial-de…

Dec. 12, 2010

Re: [nexa] [NEXA]PI: Wireless europeo, una tassa per la crescita

by Stefano Quintarelli

non e' un reprint di un reprint ? On 11/12/10 10.35, vale.it(a)gmail.com wrote: > > http://punto-informatico.it/3053253/PI/News/wireless-europeo-una-tassa-cres… > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa -- blog.quintarelli.it www.eximia.it www.reeplay.it

Dec. 11, 2010

[NEXA]PI: Wireless europeo, una tassa per la crescita

by vale.it＠gmail.com

http://punto-informatico.it/3053253/PI/News/wireless-europeo-una-tassa-cres…

Dec. 11, 2010

online il PDF di "Apriti standard!"

by Simone Aliprandi

E' finalmente disponibile il file PDF del nuovo libro "Apriti standard! Interoperabilità e formati aperti per l'innovazione tecnologica", rilasciato con licenza CC by-sa. I feedback raccolti in questo primo mese di distribuzione della versione cartacea sono stati positivi; confido nel fatto che la disponibilità dell'intero libro in versione digitale possa consentire una sua massiccia diffusione attraverso la rete. Spero anche che tutti voi vogliate darmi una mano in quest'opera di divulgazione, segnalando attraverso i vostri canali la disponibilità online dell'opera e addirittura facendone una recensione. Sono ovviamente a disposizione per chiarimenti e informazioni più dettagliate... nonchè per organizzare presentazioni pubbliche, videoconferenze, o anche veri e propri seminari sul tema trattato dal libro. Per scaricare il file vi basta cliccare sulla sezione "scarica l'ebook" del sito http://www.aliprandi.org/apriti-standard. A breve sarà disponibile anche il file EPUB per chi dispone di un lettore ebook. Un caro saluto a tutti. -- Simone Aliprandi - http://www.aliprandi.org

Dec. 10, 2010

wikileaks v. openleaks

by Marco Ciurcina

Molto interessante. In particolare: "That difference, argues Domscheit-Berg, will allow OpenLeaks to accomplish much of the transparency achieved by WikiLeaks, without drawing the same political fury and legal pressure." e "those constraints have also politicized WikiLeaks and forced it to make subjective decisions about its targets". http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/09/how-openleaks-the-first- wikileaks-spinoff-will-work/ Ex-WikiLeaker Explains His Spinoff Group, OpenLeaks Dec. 9 2010 - 8:59 pm By ANDY GREENBERG Daniel Domscheit-Berg (pictured here at right before leaving WikiLeaks in September) is launching a spinoff called OpenLeaks. Former WikiLeaks staffer Daniel Domscheit-Berg has always considered Julian Assange’s whistle-blowing site a two-pipe operation: One pipe takes submissions in from anonymous leakers, another publishes them out to an uncensorable web site. But since defecting from WikiLeaks in September and watching the global controversy build around the secret-spilling organization, he’s taking a different approach with his own leak-focused project: Keep the anonymous submissions channel. Ditch the controversial and resource-draining publishing piece altogether. The German Domscheit-Berg, along with several other former Wikileaks staffers, plans to launch a website they’re calling OpenLeaks as early as next week, Domscheit-Berg told Forbes in an interview. Like WikiLeaks, the new site will allow leakers to anonymously submit information to a secure online dropbox. But unlike its parent site, it won’t publish that information itself. Instead, it will allow the source to designate any media or non-governmental organizations he or she chooses and have that information passed on for fact- checking, redaction and publication. That difference, argues Domscheit-Berg, will allow OpenLeaks to accomplish much of the transparency achieved by WikiLeaks, without drawing the same political fury and legal pressure. “To constrain the power of the site, we’re splitting submission from the publication part. We won’t publish any documents ourselves. The whole field is diversified,” says Domscheit-Berg. “No single organization carries all of the responsibility or all of the workload.” Resource constraints, as Assange told me in an interview last month, have forced WikiLeaks to choose only its “highest impact” material for publication. But those constraints have also politicized WikiLeaks and forced it to make subjective decisions about its targets, Domscheit-Berg argues. “We want to be a neutral conduit,” he says. “That’s what’s most politically sustainable as well.” OpenLeaks will integrate with the organizations it passes information to, functioning as a secure tip box on their sites. Those organizations can choose to store leaked information on their own servers or leave it in the hands of OpenLeaks, Domscheit-Berg says. “All this is cryptographically separated in a fashion that everyone has their own dedicated part of the system,” he says. The project will initially partner with five newspapers worldwide, but soon expand to anyone who wants to participate. “Newspapers, NGOs, labor unions, anyone who wants to receive information from anonymous sources, we enable all these people to run something like this,” says Domscheit-Berg. And if the recipient organization chooses not to publish a leak? After a time designated by the source, the leaked material can be sent to other media outlets. “If a newspaper doesn’t publish it, it will be shared,” says Domscheit-Berg. “They can’t just put it in a drawer.” Domscheit-Berg left WikiLeaks in September after a dispute with Assange over the site’s technical quality, its focus on infrequent, high volume leaks, and over Assange’s singular control of the organization even as he was charged with sex crimes in Sweden, as Domscheit-Berg revealed in an interview at the time with Der Spiegel. WikiLeaks has said that he “was suspended and then left of his own accord.” Domscheit-Berg will no doubt tell his own story in detail in an upcoming book planned for January titled Inside WikiLeaks. As for descriptions that have emerged in the media of his site as a “competitor” to WikiLeaks, Domscheit-Berg says that’s a misunderstanding of his mission. “The people working on it don’t think WikiLeaks is headed in the right direction,” he says. “But what we’re aiming at is fundamentally so different that we don’t see it as competition.” When I asked Assange about his thoughts on Domscheit-Berg’s project last month, he also rejected the “competition” idea. “The supply of leaks is very large,” said Assange. “It’s helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It’s protective to us.” More WikiLeaks copycats and spinoffs fighting for their right to exist would no doubt help diffuse the controversy around WikiLeaks, as it struggles against governments around the world that want to shut the site down through both legal and technical means. But Domscheit-Berg wants to distance OpenLeaks from WikiLeaks, and says he has no intention of sharing the controversy that WikiLeaks has fueled since it published the first of a quarter million secret diplomatic cables last week. “I never knew about any diplomatic cables,” he adds. “You can’t imagine how happy I am to be out of this thing.”

Dec. 10, 2010

[NEXA]Fenomeno Viber, l'anti Skype per chiamare gratis su iPhone - Repubblica.it

by vale.it＠gmail.com

http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2010/12/09/news/fenomeno_viber_l_anti_s…

Dec. 10, 2010

La haute commissaire aux droits de l'homme de l'ONU inquiète des pressions sur WikiLeaks

by Paolo Brini

La haute commissaire aux droits de l'homme de l'ONU inquiète des pressions sur WikiLeaks La haute commissaire aux droits de l'homme de l'ONU, Navi Pillay, s'est dite inquiète, jeudi 9 décembre, des pressions exercées sur les compagnies offrant des services au site WikiLeaks, qui, ces dernières semaines, a diffusé des milliers de documents secrets de la diplomatie américaine en collaboration avec cinq grands quotidiens internationaux, dont /Le Monde/. /"Je suis préoccupée par des informations faisant état de pressions exercées sur des compagnies privées, dont des banques, des sociétés émettrices de cartes bancaires ainsi que des fournisseurs de sites Internet pour qu'ils ferment leurs lignes de crédit pour des dons destinés à WikiLeaks"/, a expliqué M^me Pillay au cours d'une conférence de presse. Elle a également dénoncé des pressions visant à empêcher l'hébergement du site <http://www.lemonde.fr/documents-wikileaks/article/2010/12/03/besson-contre-…>. Ces dernières /"peuvent être interprétées comme une tentative de censure contre la publication d'informations, et pourrait potentiellement constituer une violation du droit à la liberté d'expression de WikiLeaks"/, a-t-elle ajouté. [...] <http://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2010/12/09/la-haute-commissaire…> Ciao, Paolo

Dec. 10, 2010