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Titanpointe, The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 17, 2016

Nov. 17, 2016

Affascinante lettura su questo edificio, in Manhattan, senza finestre, concepito per essere abitato da macchine e cavi e resistere ad un attacco atomico. Sarebbe la sede, tra il resto, delle apparecchiature di sorveglianza di NSA del programma BLARNEY che mira anche all'Italia. <https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-…> [] Inside 33 Thomas Street there is a major international “gateway switch,” according to a former AT&T engineer, which routes phone calls between the United States and countries across the world. A series of top-secret NSA memos suggest that the agency has tapped into these calls from a secure facility within the AT&T building. The Manhattan skyscraper appears to be a core location used for a controversial NSA surveillance program that has targeted the communications of the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and at least 38 countries, including close U.S. allies such as Germany, Japan, and France. It has long been known that AT&T has cooperated with the NSA on surveillance, but few details have emerged about the role of specific facilities in carrying out the top-secret programs. The Snowden documents provide new information about how NSA equipment has been integrated as part of AT&T’s network in New York City, revealing in unprecedented detail the methods and technology the agency uses to vacuum up communications from the company’s systems. “This is yet more proof that our communications service providers have become, whether willingly or unwillingly, an arm of the surveillance state,” said Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the liberty and national security program at the Brennan Center for Justice. “The NSA is presumably operating under authorities that enable it to target foreigners, but the fact that it is so deeply embedded in our domestic communications infrastructure should tip people off that the effects of this kind of surveillance cannot be neatly limited to non-Americans.” [] Through this tumultuous time for American spies, the NSA established a new surveillance program under the code name BLARNEY, which was first exposed in a Snowden-leaked slide published in 2013. According to a previously unpublished document provided to The Intercept by Snowden, BLARNEY was established in the early 1970s and, in mid-2013, remained one of the agency’s most significant initiatives. BLARNEY leverages “commercial partnerships” in order to “gain access and exploit foreign intelligence obtained from global networks,” the document states <https://theintercept.com/document/2016/11/16/blarney-program-overview>. It carries out “full take” surveillance — a term that refers to the bulk collection of both content and metadata — under six different categories: counterproliferation, counterterrorism, diplomatic, economic, military, and political. As of July 2010, the NSA had obtained at least 40 court orders <https://theintercept.com/document/2016/11/16/special-source-operations-corp…> for spying under the BLARNEY program, allowing the agency to monitor communications related to multiple countries, companies, and international organizations. Among the approved targets were the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Bank of Japan, the European Union, the United Nations, and at least 38 different countries, including U.S. allies such as Italy, Japan, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Mexico, and Cyprus. [] Notably, TITANPOINTE has played a central role in BLARNEY’s operations. NSA documents dated between 2012 and 2013 list the TITANPOINTE surveillance facility among three of BLARNEY’s “core sites” and describe it as “BLARNEY’S site in NYC.” Equipment hosted at TITANPOINTE has been used to monitor international long-distance phone calls, faxes, voice calls routed over the internet (known as Voice-Over-IP), video conferencing, and other internet traffic. Questo commento aggiunge qualche collegamento e mette in evidenza l'operazione di ingegneria legale attraverso la quale verrebbero sorvegliati gli americani non residenti in US abbassando il loro livello di tutela. <https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/11/16/nsa-conducts-704705b-collection-using…> ciao, Alberto

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Google Gets a Seat on the Trump Transition Team
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 17, 2016

Nov. 17, 2016

rivelerebbe una strategia antitrust indulgente nel big tech <https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/google-gets-a-seat-on-the-trump-transit…> Google is among the many major corporations whose surrogates are getting key roles on Donald Trump’s transition team. Joshua Wright has been put in charge of transition efforts at the influential Federal Trade Commission after pulling off the rare revolving-door quadruple-play, moving from Google-supported academic work to government – as an FTC commissioner – back to the Google gravy train and now back to the government. The Intercept has documented how Wright, as a law professor at George Mason University, received Google funding for at least four academic papers, all of which supported Google’s position that it did not violate antitrust laws when it favored its own sites in search engine requests and restricted advertisers from running ads on competitors. George Mason received $762,000 in funding from Google from 2011 to 2013. [] The appointment clarifies to some extent how a Trump administration will operate on antitrust policy, especially as it relates to Silicon Valley. [] Now it look as if Trump’s high-level attacks on his enemies might not flow down to the appointees inside the bureaucracy, who could be more inclined to wave through big media mergers and decline to enforce high-tech collusion. Google is currently facing antitrust allegations in Europe. In May, Politico reported that the FTC planned to take a second look at Google’s search bias, three years after they closed an investigation, despite reported recommendations to prosecute from agency staff. Having someone on the Google payroll twice doing hiring for the new Administration may halt any new investigation at the FTC.

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Ma la vittoria di Donald Trump è tutta colpa di Wikileaks?
by A Dicorinto Nov. 17, 2016

Nov. 17, 2016

Hola-- vi consegno le le mie riflessioni sull'accusa ad Assange di aver fatto perdere la Clinton [...] Se una squadra di calcio perde per un rigore – e il rigore c’è, la colpa non è dell’arbitro ma di chi ha commesso il fallo. Molti dicono che tra le ragioni della sconfitta di *Hillary Clinton* alle presidenziali americane ci sia la vicenda *emailgate*. Cioè la diffusione delle email sue e dello staff elettorale democratico estorte dagli hacker e pubblicate da Wikileaks. Ma Wikileaks ha solo fischiato il fallo. Che è quello che fanno i whistleblower come Assange e Snowden: è nella loro natura, fischiare il fallo.* To blow the whistle* significa proprio “soffiare nel fischietto”. continua qui: http://www.chefuturo.it/2016/11/trump-wikileaks-clinton-emailgate/ -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

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The Facebook generation: how growing up online shapes their lives | World Economic Forum
by J.C. DE MARTIN Nov. 17, 2016

Nov. 17, 2016

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/the-facebook-generation-how-growing-… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Securing the IoT (DHS) FROM: [RISKS] Risks Digest 29.92
by Diego Latella Nov. 16, 2016

Nov. 16, 2016

Finalmente qualcosa comincia a muoversi ... Il il ministero degli interni americano (Dept. of Homeland Security) ha emanato un documento dal titolo "Strategic Principles for Securing the Internet of Things". D ----- Forwarded message from RISKS List Owner <risko(a)csl.sri.com> ----- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 12:38:45 -0800 (PST) From: RISKS List Owner <risko(a)csl.sri.com> Subject: [RISKS] Risks Digest 29.92 To: risks-resend(a)csl.sri.com RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Wednesday 16 November 2016 Volume 29 : Issue 92 ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy ***** See last item for further information, disclaimers, caveats, etc. ***** This issue is archived at <http://www.risks.org> as <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/29.92> The current issue can also be found at <http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risks.txt> Contents: [ ... OMISSIS ...] Securing the IoT (DHS) [ ... OMISSIS ...] Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D [ ... OMISSIS ...] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 14:41:18 PST From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann(a)csl.sri.com> Subject: Securing the IoT (DHS) Strategic Principles for Securing the Internet of Things, Department of Homeland Security, along with a two-page IoT Fact Sheet, November 15, 2016. https://www.dhs.gov/securingtheIoT [ ... OMISSIS ...] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:11:11 -0800 From: RISKS-request(a)csl.sri.com Subject: Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks) The ACM RISKS Forum is a MODERATED digest. Its Usenet manifestation is comp.risks, the feed for which is donated by panix.com as of June 2011. => SUBSCRIPTIONS: The mailman Web interface can be used directly to subscribe and unsubscribe: http://mls.csl.sri.com/mailman/listinfo/risks => SUBMISSIONS: to risks(a)CSL.sri.com with meaningful SUBJECT: line that includes the string `notsp'. Otherwise your message may not be read. *** This attention-string has never changed, but might if spammers use it. => SPAM challenge-responses will not be honored. Instead, use an alternative address from which you never send mail where the address becomes public! => The complete INFO file (submissions, default disclaimers, archive sites, copyright policy, etc.) is online. <http://www.CSL.sri.com/risksinfo.html> *** Contributors are assumed to have read the full info file for guidelines! => OFFICIAL ARCHIVES: http://www.risks.org takes you to Lindsay Marshall's searchable html archive at newcastle: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/VL.IS --> VoLume, ISsue. Also, ftp://ftp.sri.com/risks for the current volume or ftp://ftp.sri.com/VL/risks-VL.IS for previous VoLume Lindsay has also added to the Newcastle catless site a palmtop version of the most recent RISKS issue and a WAP version that works for many but not all telephones: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/w/r ALTERNATIVE ARCHIVES: http://seclists.org/risks/ (only since mid-2001) <http://the.wiretapped.net/security/info/textfiles/risks-digest/> *** NOTE: If a cited URL fails, we do not try to update them. Try browsing on the keywords in the subject line or cited article leads. ==> Special Offer to Join ACM for readers of the ACM RISKS Forum: <http://www.acm.org/joinacm1> ------------------------------ End of RISKS-FORUM Digest 29.92 ************************ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher - CNR/ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, IT (http:www.isti.cnr.it) FM&&T Laboratory (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) http://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - phone: +39 0506212982 - mob: +39 348 8283101 - fax +39 0506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat

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Inaugurazione Master in Giornalismo all'Università di Torino - 23 novembre 2016
by Francesco Ruggiero Nov. 16, 2016

Nov. 16, 2016

Gentilissimi, Mercoledì *23 novembre* 2016 alle 17.00, presso l’*Aula Magna del **Campus Luigi Einaudi* (Lungo Dora Siena, 100 - Torino), si terrà l*’**Inaugurazione del Master in Giornalismo* all'Università di Torino 2016-2018. Il discorso di apertura, affidato a *Sree Sreenivasan*, Chief Digital Officer Città di New York, avrà come titolo: *N**ever a better time to be a journalist or a journalism student. **Thoughts on the future of journalism, media and communications*. A seguire, gli interventi dal pubblico moderati da Anna Masera – Direttrice dei laboratori e delle testate del Master, e i saluti conclusivi della prof.ssa Franca Roncarolo – Direttrice scientifica del Master. Maggiori informazioni sul programma all'indirizzo: http://www.unito.it/sites/default/files/programma_inaugurazione_master.pdf Confermare la partecipazione entro il 18 novembre 2016: https://goo.gl/forms/fE1dscUuVx5L8XwP2 Cordiali saluti -- Francesco Ruggiero Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society Politecnico di Torino - DAUIN Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 - 10129 Torino web: http://nexa.polito.it mail: francesco.ruggiero(a)polito.it tel: 011 090 7219

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Le 9 proposte dell’Internet Governance Forum al Governo italiano sulla cybersecurity
by A Dicorinto Nov. 16, 2016

Nov. 16, 2016

FYI: Il 15 novembre si è concluso l’ottavo Internet Governance Forum Italiano <http://www.isoc.it/igfitalia> a Venezia. lL’Igf italia 2016, organizzato dalla* Internet Society*, *Università di Ca’ Foscari* e *Venis Spa*, ha visto una forte partecipazione della comunità tecnico scientifica e di molte aziende, dalle più piccole come Yarix <https://www.yarix.com/> alle più grandi come Cisco <https://www.cisco.com/c/it_it/index.html> e Google. Continua qui: http://cybersecurity.startupitalia.eu/53350-20161116-igfitalia-9-proposte-c… -- Arturo Di Corinto www.dicorinto.it ---------------------------------> AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003

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Facebook Claims Record 20Gbps Millimeter-Wave Wireless Connection
by Antonio Vetrò Nov. 16, 2016

Nov. 16, 2016

"Facebook Claims Record 20Gbps Millimeter-Wave Wireless Connection” http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/networks/carriers/facebook-claims-millimete… Ulteriore -tra i tanti- indizio al supporto del fatto che una parte della partita Facebook-Google si giocherà sulla connettività e sulla capacità di sostituirsi ai providers e alle Telcos: dal mio punto di vista questo accadrà soprattutto nei paesi in via di sviluppo, dove è concentrata la stragrande maggioranza delle persone che entreranno nella Rete nei prossimi anni. Antonio

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What a Trump Administration Means for U.S. Digital Trade Policy
by Alberto Cammozzo Nov. 15, 2016

Nov. 15, 2016

L'analisi della posizione negativa di Trump sui trattati TTIP e TTP mette in luce il loro ruolo atteso: mantenere e rafforzare la preminenza degli USA nel mercato unico del commercio digitale. Evidenzia anche una opportunità per l'UE di dare forma a un mercato dominato da compagnie US. <http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/11/15/what-a-trump-administration-means-for…> With Donald Trump’s victory, the prospects for digital trade have dimmed. This development owes much to the hostility towards trade that Trump brings to the presidency. But it also involves shifts more fundamental than Trump’s rejection of trade agreements. The rise of digital commerce is rooted in the stability provided by international trade agreements, the global reach of the internet, and the innovations associated with digital technologies. U.S. leadership and global engagement underpinned each of these sources of digital trade’s growth. Now, Trump’s election combines with other forces afoot around the world to threaten the future of digital trade. The internet’s emergence as a global communications platform coincided in the mid-1990s with the remaking of the international economic order through the adoption of regional trade agreements (such as NAFTA), the WTO’s establishment, and the proliferation of bilateral trade and investment treaties. This web of agreements opened markets for goods and services, including those emerging from internet-based commercial activities. The internet’s global reach and the economic incentives provided by e-commerce fueled innovation in digital technologies. The U.S. government considered these developments strategically important to American interests and engaged globally to support, advance, and defend them. [] Without TTIP, the European Union has fewer incentives to moderate its intensifying scrutiny of U.S. technology companies, and the U.S. government will lack leverage to bargain on behalf of these companies. The European Union will, thus, shape e-commerce in ways that significantly change how U.S. technology companies operate in the single market.

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Fwd: [Creis_Terminal] Open Source Summit (16-17 nov) et Capitole du Libre (19-20 nov) thème Libertés et vie privées
by Mariella Berra Nov. 15, 2016

Nov. 15, 2016

-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Creis_Terminal] Open Source Summit (16-17 nov) et Capitole du Libre (19-20 nov) thème Libertés et vie privées Data: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 17:20:57 +0100 Mittente: Valerie Dagrain <valerie.dagrain(a)gmx.fr> A: creis_terminal <creis_terminal(a)lecreis.org> Bonjour, Du *16 au 17 novembre 2016, à Paris* aux Docks <http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/Informations+pratiques_154_160.html?lg=en> se déroule *l'Open Source Summit*: www.opensourcesummit.paris <http://www.opensourcesummit.paris> - Le Forum mondial du libre (/Open World Forum/) est un événement annuel international, communautaire <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communautaire> et non commercial, sur les contenus libres <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%92uvre_libre> organisé en France <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/France>. Il est régi par un Comité de pilotage <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comit%C3%A9_de_pilotage> et un Comité de Programme, comprenant des représentants de plusieurs organisations internationales <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisations_internationales>, associations <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associations> et communautés <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communaut%C3%A9s>^2 <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_mondial_du_libre#cite_note-2> . Il s'est rapidement imposé comme le principal forum européen sur les logiciels Libres et l'Open Source. Depuis 2015, il s'est étendu en fusionnant avec le Salon européen 'Solutions Linux' sous le nom de 'Paris Open Source Summit'. Sources <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_mondial_du_libre>. - Voir le programme général <http://opensourcesummit.paris/preinscription-conferences.html?orderby=time&…> (hackaton, données personnelles, métriques, open cities, R&D, logiciel libre local à Europe) et *voir le thème Société <http://opensourcesummit.paris/Programme+Society_168_4661.html>.* Du *19 au 20 novembre 2016, à Toulouse* à l'INP-ENSEEIHT <http://www.enseeiht.fr/fr/index.html> se déroule *Capitole du Libre*, sur les logiciels libres 2016.capitoledulibre.org <https://2016.capitoledulibre.org/> - Ce sont 109 intervenant-e-s, 99 conférences, 27 ateliers et 25 stands, 14 thèmes dont*le thème Libertés et vie privées <https://2016.capitoledulibre.org/programme.html>* sur l'autohébergement, sécurité et vie privée sur l’Internet. - Je serai référente du thème Communautés du Libre <http://blog.capitoledulibre.org/2016/11-10-la-communaute-du-libre-au-capito…> avec 11 intervenants *- Voir le Programme des 99 conférences. <https://2016.capitoledulibre.org/programme.html>***Il y a 2 plénières au total. *"le web sous surveillance"* par T.Jouannic et *"t**ravailler ensemble pour la défense des libertés" *par Benjamin Bayart, Pierre-Yves GOSSET, piks3l (FDN, Framasoft, LQDN). - Pour information, on voit l'apparition du thème des *Communs <http://blog.capitoledulibre.org/2016/11-05-les-communs-au-capitole-du-libre…>* au Capitole du Libre. Une présentation mobilisatrice est organisée la veille, le 18 nov à la grande médiathèque de Toulouse. Voici le lien <http://www.bibliotheque.toulouse.fr/qu_est_ce_que_les_communs.html> (car introuvable sinon): Qu'y a-t-il de commun entre un logiciel libre, une zone de pêche, Wikipedia, un espace de coworking, un système d'irrigation? - Durant l'événement Capitole du Libre, de nombreux intervenants redescendent les expériences du Paris Open Source Summit, FOSDEM, FIC... on en parlera durant les tables-rondes! Ces 2 événements pour vous montrer aussi cette évolution: - une mobilisation de codeurs/développeurs (ubuntu, Pycon) et la nécessité d'organiser un événement local (hackaton, lien avec les fablabs...) - une volonté d'intégrer les usagers dans les thèmes (politiques locales, arts, culture, communauté), - vers un salon national (Open World Forum) - fusion d'événementiels (Paris Open Source Summit), apparition des Communs et des thèmes dédiés Logiciel Libre, villes intelligentes, contributions, R&D, etc. Valérie Dagrain

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