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"Former US Advisor: Blockchain Systems Could Threaten Privacy"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

Di qualche mese fa, ma sempre rilevante, visto che c'è chi continua ad auspicare una "società senza contanti". juan carlos *Former US Advisor: Blockchain Systems Could Threaten Privacy* /Stan Higgins | Published on September 8, 2015 at 21:33 BST/ A long-time White House advisor and government official believes blockchain technology is likely to be used by the world’s central banks to create a "universal cashless system". Dr Harald Malmgren served in the administrations of Presidents John F Kennedy, Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, working as a trade negotiator and policy researcher, and for decades played a part in shaping US foreign policy in the post-World War II era. Malmgren today acts as a consultant for companies and governments on international trade issues. […] Continua qui: http://www.coindesk.com/former-us-advisor-blockchain-systems-could-threaten…

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NSA Looking to Exploit Internet of Things, Including Biomedical Devices, Official Says
by Alberto Cammozzo June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

The National Security Agency is researching opportunities to collect foreign intelligence — including the possibility of exploiting internet-connected biomedical devices like pacemakers, according to a senior official. “We’re looking at it sort of theoretically from a research point of view right now,” Richard Ledgett, the NSA’s deputy director, said at a conference on military technology at Washington’s Newseum on Friday. Biomedical devices could be a new source of information for the NSA’s data hoards — “maybe a niche kind of thing … a tool in the toolbox,” he said, though he added that there are easier ways to keep track of overseas terrorists and foreign intelligence agents. When asked if the entire scope of the Internet of Things — billions of interconnected devices — would be “a security nightmare or a signals intelligence bonanza,” he replied, “Both.” “As my job is to penetrate other people’s networks, complexity is my friend,” he said. “The first time you update the software, you introduce vulnerabilities, or variables rather. It’s a good place to be in a penetration point of view.” When the agency is looking to exploit different new devices, the NSA has to prioritize its resources, which are usually focused on the “bad guys’” tech of choice rather than popular gadgets in the U.S., Ledgett explained. That’s why the NSA wasn’t able to help the FBI crack the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter, he said, because the agency hadn’t invested in exploiting that particular model of phone. “We don’t do every phone, every variation of phone,” he said. “If we don’t have a bad guy who’s using it, we don’t do that.” <https://theintercept.com/2016/06/10/nsa-looking-to-exploit-internet-of-thin…>

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NYT: "Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

Importante decisione a sostegno della neutralità della rete negli USA. juan carlos* Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury* By CECILIA KANG JUNE 14, 2016 WASHINGTON — High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled in a sweeping decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband providers and greater protections for web users. The decision affirmed the government’s view that broadband is as essential as the phone and power and should be available to all Americans, rather than a luxury that does not need close government supervision. The 2-to-1 decision from a three-judge panel at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday came in a case about rules applying to a doctrine known as net neutrality, which prohibit broadband companies from blocking or slowing the delivery of internet content to consumers. […] Continua qui: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-appeals-cou…

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Paper (Princeton): "Nation-State Routing"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 15, 2016

June 15, 2016

Nation-State Routing Writing <http://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/#Writing> • Contact <http://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/#Contact> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of Internet traffic. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as building new Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), which allow networks to interconnect directly, and encouraging local interconnection to keep local traffic local. We find that although many of these efforts are extensive, they are often futile, due to the inherent lack of hosting and route diversity for many popular sites. By measuring the country-level paths to popular domains, we characterize transnational routing detours. We find that traffic is traversing known surveillance states, even when the traffic originates and ends in a country that does not conduct mass surveillance. Then, we investigate how clients can use overlay network relays and the open DNS resolver infrastructure to prevent their traffic from traversing certain jurisdictions. We find that 84% of paths originating in Brazil traverse the United States, but when relays are used for country avoidance, only 37% of Brazilian paths traverse the United States. Using the open DNS resolver infrastructure allows Kenyan clients to avoid the United States on 17% more paths. Unfortunately, we find that some of the more prominent surveillance states (e.g., the U.S.) are also some of the least avoidable countries. Writing * Characterizing and Avoiding Routing Detours through Surveillance States <http://ransom.cs.princeton.edu/pdf/surveillance.pdf> Anne Edmundson, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford /arXiv:1605.076685/, May 2016 Contact This research was supported in part by the Center for Information Technology Policy <https://citp.princeton.edu/> at Princeton University. If you have any questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us. * Annie Edmundson <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Eannee/> * Roya Ensafi <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Erensafi/> * Nick Feamster <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Efeamster/> * Jennifer Rexford <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejrex/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ /Last update: 2016-05-24/

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IEEE: The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 14, 2016

June 14, 2016

*The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web* By Tekla S. Perry Posted 13 Jun 2016 | 19:14 GMT On Wednesday, in the former San Francisco church that now serves as the headquarters of the Internet Archive, pioneers of the Internet and the World Wide Web joined together to call for a new kind of Web—a decentralized Web. It was a call for change, a call for action, and a call to develop technology that would “lock the Web open.” And in the audience were the developers and entrepreneurs and thinkers who are going to try to answer that call. These men and women (because the next Web will have mothers as well as fathers), many sporting dreadlocks or tattoos, grew up with the Internet and love the Web, but believe it can be better and are determined to make it so. […] Continua qui: http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/telecom/internet/the-fathers-…

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I: Job vacancies within CEIPI
by Cristiana Sappa June 13, 2016

June 13, 2016

FYI Il Lunedì 13 Giugno 2016 11:31, alain messmer <alain.messmer(a)ceipi.edu> ha scritto: Dear Madam, Dear Sir, We have the pleasure to announce that 4 job vacancies are available within the institution: 1) Post-doctoral researcher in Intellectual Property Law (Copyright law) In the framework of an IDEX funding, the CEIPI’s Research Department is looking for a post-doctoral researcher in intellectual property for a research project on the topic “The Future of copyright in a digital environment: European perspectives”. Click here for further information. 2) Doctoral researcher (Unified Patent Court) In a framework of a partnership between the Centre for International Studies in Intellectual Property (CEIPI) and the National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI), we are looking for a lawyer with a Master 2 or LLM in intellectual property that would continue his/her studies by a doctoral thesis in intellectual property, in particular on the topic of the European patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court. For further information, click here. 3) Junior researcher and research assistant / PhD CEIPI is recruiting a lawyer with a Master 2 or LLM degree. Download the offer and the job description for further information. 4) Lawyer for the CEIPI's Library The CEIPI is recruiting for its specialized library a student with a Master in Law or Master in Intellectual Property Law. Click here for further information. We thank you in advance to widely disseminate these job vacancies. Yours sincerely, CEIPI’s team  -- Alain MESSMER Responsable de la documentation pédagogique et du site internet du CEIPI Tél : +33 (0)3 68 85 80 14 Fax : +33 (0)3 68 85 85 66 alain.messmer(a)ceipi.edu http://www.ceipi.edu

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Borse cotutela dottorato in memoria Valeria Solesin
by Antonio Casilli June 13, 2016

June 13, 2016

Dear all, conoscete uno.a studente.ssa di genio, con una passione per le tematiche tecno-sociali, che abbia sostenuto (o stia per sostenere) il suo master 2 in Francia o in Italia? Ecco sei borse di studio per dottorati in cotutela. Disciplina: sociologia o scienze sociali. Si tratta delle borse in memoria di Valeria Solesin. http://nasp.eu/training/phd-programmes/somet.html -- Antonio A. Casilli Associate Professor, Telecom ParisTech Research Fellow Edgar-Morin Center (EHESS)

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Mueller: "How Privatization and Competition Freed the Web and Made the Modern World Possible"
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 11, 2016

June 11, 2016

Milton Mueller (uno dei massimi studiosi di Internet Governance) recensisce il libro "How the Internet Became Commercial" di Shane Greenstein. juan carlos http://reason.com/archives/2016/06/11/how-privatization-and-competition-fre… How Privatization and Competition Freed the Web and Made the Modern World Possible The historical importance of the National Science Foundation's decision to surrender control of the internet Milton Mueller <http://reason.com/people/milton-mueller/all> | June 11, 2016 /How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691167362/reasonmagazineA/>, by Shane Greenstein, Princeton University Press, 488 pages, $35/

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Here’s why we should go through with the IANA transition — Plain Text
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 10, 2016

June 10, 2016

https://readplaintext.com/heres-why-we-should-go-through-with-the-iana-tran… (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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Wikipedia warns against French attempt to extend EU privacy law globally | Reuters
by J.C. DE MARTIN June 10, 2016

June 10, 2016

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0YW1GN (Sent from my wireless device; please excuse brevity and typos (if any))

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