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Kurze Stichpunkt artig gelistete Schweinereien :

Durch die Abschaffung wenig wirksamer und wenig genutzter Instrumente werden Informationspflichten abgebaut und damit verbundene Bürokratie kosten gesenkt.Durch den Wegfall der institutionellen Förderung nach §§ 248-251 SGB III entfallen Informationspflichten.Die Änderung des § 86 SGB III reduziert die Informationspflichten für Unternehmen. Die mit Artikel 2 vorgenommenen Änderungen des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch begründen keine neuen Informationspflichten für die Wirtschaft.

Die Betroffenen Bürger allerdings werden noch mehr Kontrolliert und um noch mehr Daten befragt :

Die bestehenden Informationspflichten der Bürgerinnen und Bürger nach § 38 SGB III ( alte Fassung ) werden modifiziert. Die Mitwirkungspflichten von Ausbildung-und Arbeitsuchenden, die Dienstleistungen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit in Anspruch nehmen, werden um die Informationspflichten nach den §§ 310 und 311 SGB III präzisiert. Die mit Artikel 2 vorgenommenen Änderungen des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch begründen keine neuen Informationspflichten für die Bürger.

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Die Crew von HackersGuide ist eine gemeinnützige Denkfabrik, die sich aus Mitgliedern aus ganz Deutschland zusammensetzt und ihre Freizeit und Energie zur Information Freistellung und Entwicklung einsetzen. Mit Hartz IV hat diese Bundesregierung eindeutig übers Ziel hinausgeschossen ! Wir werden die nicht weiter dulden und starten die Gegenoffensive .................

Hacktivism - Politisch motivierte Hackz

Als Erstes scheint Hacktivismus, in seinem vollen Spektrum von relativ harmlosem computerisiertem Aktivismus bis zu potentiell gefährlichem Widerstand zu künftigem Krieg, ein Phänomen zu sein, das sich im Aufwind befindet.

Zweitens, scheint Hacktivismus, wie ausgeführt, ein Spektrum von Möglichkeiten zu bieten, die in irgendeiner Kombination von Wort und Tat bestehen. Auf dem einem Ende des Spektrums ist reines Wort. Auf dem anderen Ende des Spektrums ist reine Tat. Computergestützter Aktivismus ist näher am reinen Wort, die anderen Zugänge näher an reiner Tat.

Drittens, kommt es zusammen mit dieser Tendenz zur Grenzüberschreitung, zur Aktion, die sich jenseits von Wörtern bewegt.

Viertens, mit seiner zunehmenden Verbreitung, von der Kritik modifiziert oder nicht, wird Hacktivismus auch weiterhin Aufmerksamkeit gewinnen. Selbst wenn die Medien Berichterstattung zurückgeht und Hacktivismus alltäglicher wird, ist das Phänomen doch noch neu genug, um Medien Aufmerksamkeit wenigstens für die vorauszusehende nahe Zukunft zu gewährleisten.

Eines der wahrscheinlich bekanntesten Beispielen davon ist die Geschichte des jungen britischen Hackers JF ", der um 300 Websites hackte und dort Antiatom-Symbole und Texte einfügte. Ähnliches ist von einer ganzen Anzahl von Gruppen versucht worden.Dabei gibt es einen grundlegenden Unterschied zwischen politisiertem Hacken und Elektronischem Zivilen Ungehorsam, wie er oben beschrieben wurde: während ECD Akteure ihre Namen nicht verstecken und offen agieren, werden die meisten politischen Hacks von Leuten unternommen, die lieber anonym bleiben wollen. Es ist auch wahrscheinlich, dass die meisten Hacks von Einzelpersonen unternommen werden, und nicht von Gruppen.

Einer der Gründe für die Anonymität und Heimlichkeit von Hacktivismus ist sicher der, dass hier die Strafen höher sind. Wo elektronischer ziviler Ungehorsam in einem zweideutigen Grenzbereich des Gesetzes agiert, sind bestimmte Arten von politischem Hacking unzweifelhaft illegal.

Dieser Unterschied weist auf einen anderen Stil von Organisation hin. In Folge der geheimeren, privaten, niedrigschwelligeren, und anonymeren Natur des politisierten Hackens, drückt diese Art von Aktivität eine
andere Art von Politik aus. Hacken ist keine Politik der Massenmobilisierung.

Damit soll keine Beurteilung erfolgen - aber es ist wichtig, zu beleuchten, dass es verschiedene Formen direkter Aktion im Netz gibt.Und wir sollten aufgrund der Tatsache , das man heute nicht mehr das Volk befragt über Reformen etc so wie z.b den EU Vertrag , überlegen hier möglicherweise anzusetzen ?!

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Blog standard
Authoritarian governments can lock up bloggers. It is harder to outwit them.
The Economist: June 26, 2008

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11622401

What do Barbra Streisand and the Tunisian president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, have in common? They both tried to block material they dislike from appearing on the internet. And they were both spectacularly unsuccessful. In 2003 Ms Streisand objected to aerial photographs of her home in Malibu appearing in a collection of publicly available coastline pictures. She sued (unsuccessfully) for $50m—and in doing so ensured that the pictures gained far wider publicity.

That self-defeating behaviour coined the phrase “Streisand effect”, illustrated by an axiom from John Gilmore, one of the pioneers of the internet, that: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” But the big test of the rule is not whether it frustrates publicity-shy celebrities. It is whether it can overcome governments’ desire for secrecy.

In November 2007 Tunisia blocked access to the popular video-sharing sites YouTube and DailyMotion, which both carried material about Tunisian political prisoners. It was not for the first time, and many other countries have blocked access to such sites, either to protect public morals, or to spare politicians’ blushes. What was unusual this time was the response. Tunisian activists and their allies organised a “digital sit-in”, linking dozens of videos about civil liberties to the image of the presidential palace in Google Earth. That turned a low-key human-rights story into a fashionable global campaign.

It was the same story in Armenia in March, where the president, Robert Kocharian, ended his term in office with a media blackout that, supposedly, extended to blogs (self-published websites which typically contain the author’s personal observations and opinions). Like all other outlets, the authorities said, blogs could publish government news only. The result was a soaring number of blogs hosted on servers outside Armenia—all sharply critical of the authorities.

Some countries still think that the benefits of censorship are worth the opprobrium. China unabashedly blocks foreign news sites, with state-financed digital censors playing an elaborate game of cat and mouse with those trying to elude them. Saudi Arabia makes a positive virtue of the practice, warning those trying to access prohibited websites of the dangers of pornography: sources cited include the Koran and Cass Sunstein, an American scholar who argues that porn does not automatically deserve First Amendment protection.

Such authoritarian countries are increasingly co-operating: Chinese software for finding keywords and spotting dangerous sites is among the best in the world. But international co-operation cuts both ways. If Egypt, for example, buys Chinese web-censorship technology, the Egyptian bloggers may learn ways to bypass it from their Chinese colleagues before the technology arrives.

That may keep information flowing fairly freely. But it does not keep bloggers out of prison. Security officials who once scoffed at blogs, or ignored them completely in favour of bigger and more conspicuous targets, are now bringing their legal and other arsenals to bear. A common move is to expand media, information and electoral laws to include blogs. Last year, for example, Uzbekistan changed its media law to count all websites as “mass media”—a category subject to Draconian restriction. Belarus now requires owners of internet cafés to keep a log of all websites that their customers visit: in a country where internet access at home is still rare and costly, that is a big hurdle for the active netizen. Earlier this year Indonesia passed a law that made it much riskier to publish controversial opinions online. A Brazilian court has ruled that bloggers, like other media, must abide by restrictions imposed by the law on elections.

The chilling effect of such moves is intensified when governments back them up with imprisonment. From Egypt to Malaysia to Saudi Arabia to Singapore, bloggers have in recent months found themselves behind bars for posting materials that those in power dislike. The most recent Worldwide Press Freedom Index, published by Reporters Without Borders, a lobby group, estimates their number at a minimum of 64.

International human-rights organisations have taken up their cause. But the best and quickest way of defending those in prison may be with the help of other internet activists. Sami ben Gharbia, a Tunisian digital activist who now lives in exile in the Netherlands, says that this beats traditional human-rights outfits when it comes to informing the world about the arrest of fellow bloggers. He co-ordinates the campaigning efforts of Global Voices Online, a web-based outfit that began as a collator of offbeat blog content and has now branched out into lobbying for free speech.

Such issues were expected to be in sharp focus at Global Voices’ annual summit in Budapest this week, where hundreds of bloggers, academics, do-gooders and journalists from places like China, Belarus, Venezuela and Kenya were due to swap tips on how to outwit officialdom. The aim, says Ethan Zuckerman, a Harvard academic who cofounded Global Voices, is to build networks of trust and co-operation between people who would not instinctively look to the other side of the world for solutions to their problems.

That is a worthy if ambitious goal. Doubtless, authoritarian governments are in close touch too, sharing the best ways of dealing with the pestilential gadflies and troublemakers of the internet. But they will not be posting their conclusions online, for all to see. Which way works better? History will decide.

Ms. Meryem Özsögüt, trade union leader and management board member of PSI's affiliate SES in Turkey (the trade union of public employees in health and social services) was arrested on the morning of 8 January following her participation in a press conference on 14 December 2007 to denounce the killing by the police of activist Kevser Mizrak.

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Zimbabwean trade unionists Lovemore Matombo and Wellington Chibebe are being tried on Monday 23 June for 'spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the state' (ie talking openly about the state-sponsored violence). To let them appear in public around the world, 2,000 trade unionists combined their photos online to make this giant mosaic portrait.

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Haberturk.com'da geçtiğimiz günlerde yer alan bir haber vardı, haberde aynen şöyle diyordu : "Türkler Mars'a gidemedi ama Mars'a giden Anka Kuşu'nun web sitesini hackledik." Daha sonra Euro 2008'in web sitesi ile ilgili haberler çıktı. Şimdi de Pekin Olimpiyatları ile ilgili siber ataklar bulunuyor ve Pekin Olimpiyatları resmi web sitesi hacklenmeye çalışılıyor. Fakat bu hacklemelerin amacı her hangi bir maddi zarar vermekten öte sadece belli başlı düşünceleri milyonlarca kişinin girdiği sitelerden insanlara duyurabilmek.Trend Micro verilerine göre de milyonların girdiği sitelere yapılan ataklar her geçen gün artıyor.

But this incident leads John Wood to a very pointly analysis of why FaceBook is good, why its bad, and what the ideal social network for social action would look like.

Now here's what I think. With current platforms such as google app engine, open social, ning and the lot, it should be possible to hack something useful in a few weekends in the garage. Who's game?

Subject: Your mugshot could make a difference!

Hi everyone!

Derek and I would like you to send us a photo of yourself.

We want it as the two leaders of the Zimbabwean unions, Wellington Chibebe and Lovemore Matombo were arrested for talking about the political situation in Zimbabwe on May Day and are going to be tried for 'spreading falsehoods prejudicial to the state' this coming Monday.

The idea is of course to shut them up over the course of the re-run elections. They are out on bail, but are prevented from appearing in public or making public statements, in contravention of their human rights, and they're being very brave in going voluntarily into court next week even though they are no strangers to being really badly beaten up in police custody.

There are demos being called now in a number of countries (inc the UK) on Monday, and to help get some more attention to their case, we are trying to make a giant photo mosaic portrait of them, made up of supporters' photos from all around the world. So we have only 2 days to get as many mugshot photographs as possible.

Your photo would end up 1 inch square on a big mosaic at the London demo, and we'll be using the image for as much media and publicity as we can get with it. The idea is that if they are being prohibited from appearing in public, international solidarity from thousands of people around the world can make them "appear" around the world on Monday.

If you'd like to support a fairer environment for the coming elections in Zimbabwe, please help out by sending a mugshot photo of yourself to zim@tuc.org.uk or MMS it to 07546 229055, and circulating this to friends or colleagues who you think might be willing to help out too.

Best wishes and many thanks for helping!  :)
John

Read more on the TUC site

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In der Vortragsreihe "Wer terrorisiert hier wen? – Überwachung und Gesellschaft" des AK Vorrat gibt es den vierten Teil “Hacktivism - Technik die bewegt” - “Constanze Kurz berlinert über den CCC” am
Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2008, 19:00 Uhr im Mon-Ami Weimar.

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However, there are a few simple steps if you want to keep government busybodies out of your inbox-and you should care! Don't delay: read this to the end and implement these basic security practices on your

Sami ben Gharbia: A number of human rights defenders in Tunisia are reporting having the same and strange problem with their webmail accounts on Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. The content of the messages sent to them by fellow human rights activists are changed with other content that has nothing to do with the original messages. Opening any message makes it disappear from the inbox folder (opening = deleting)

This only happen when you log to these webmails in Tunisia. Today I tested this with the Tunisian lawyer and activist, Abdel Wahab Maatar. I logged into his account from the Netherlands and I was able to read his emails as normal. The content that I read in Holland is not the same he is reading in Tunisia; only the titles are the same!!!

This problem has been reported recently by RSF.

Reporters Without Borders:    Reporters Without Borders is also surprised by the problems Tunisian Internet users are having with their email. Messages sent to them by human rights organisations such as the International Association for Supporting Political Prisoners (AISPP), the Tunisnews website or Reporters Without Borders are illegible on arrival.

Several sources said the messages can be seen in the inbox and can be opened, but often there is nothing inside and, once opened, they disappear from the inbox. "It looks like badly concealed filtering," a specialist said.

Here is a passage from a discussion between two Tunisians about their email correspondence (their online pseudonyms have been changed for their protection):

"XX says (18:51):

Your pc acts up from time to time

c=12FF/ says (18:52):

I opened the message and I found this in English: "Yesterday I ate a lovely cheesecake, but now I have a terrible stomach-ache. Are you a doctor." It is bizarre.

XX says (18:52):

You mean, no attachment?

c=12FF/ says (18:52):

No (...)

(18:57): The problem is that the message disappears afterwards. It is not normal.

(...)

XX says (19:21):

I have just sent you a third message ... Can you see what you have received?

c=12FF/ says (19:21):

In English: "We will meet next Sunday. Hoping you will be there. Greetings" (...) What are these messages in English that come with your emails? (19:22): and the weirdest thing of all is that your messages disappear afterwards. Without a trace."

On 22 April, Reporters Without Borders sent a press release about the plight of the Tunisian opposition weekly Al-Maoufik to one of its contacts. The message's subject line was "TUNISIA (Press release) - double financial threat to weekly Al-Maoufik." The sender was RSF INTERNET (internet@rsf.org). When the recipient opened it, this is what he read:

see you

From: sir_john@rush.uk Top of form

Bottom of form Excuse me, have you seen Barbara? I'm looking for her everywhere. Çççççççççççççççççççççççççççççççççç

Tunisia is the Maghreb's most repressive country as regards on online free expression and it is on the Reporters Without Borders "Internet enemies" list. Nonetheless, bloggers are active in Tunisia.Videos posted online on 10 April showed the size of protests in the towns of Redeyef and Diin Moulares in the southern mining region of Gasfa and the repression that ensued.

Robert Guerra replies:

1. It might be worthwhile to check to see if it's affecting SSL webmail as well.

I mention this, as most webmail systems just enable SSL for login - but then turn it off once the authentication is done. This allows for the login/password to be protected, but then once logged in - everything is visible.

For example, most people tend to login to gmail using "http://gmail.com" - which just applies SSL to login, however  accessing gmail via "https://mail.google.com" secures both the login and viewing of email.

I recommend :  A quick survey of the affected webmail services should be done. One should test using "normal" login, as well as any "security" options that might not be turned on by default.

Sharing the results - would be useful, as it is likely that the Tunisian's example might - unfortunately - propagate to there countries... Thus, users should know which webmail systems are affected.

If indeed DPI is taking place, might be worthwhile to raise it on the numerous DPI discussions taking place. The discussion in Canada - is quite active, one where activists could use the Tunisian example to help their case.. ref - http://www.neutrality.ca/

2. Have your colleagues in Tunisia log into their webmail using Psiphon.

3. Check if POP/IMAP-based email is also being affected.

- as above, check using SSL-enabled and not-enabled accounts.

4. Check to see if the same issue takes place with "fresh/new" webmail accounts.

- it might be that existing accounts have been compromised in some way. Should ask if the accounts that are being affected were accessed at public (ie. net cafe) PCs . if so, passwords might have been captured.

If there's real-time interception of traffic - SSL could be of help. But users need to make sure of two things:
1. That SSL is always on...otherwise, anyone can see the traffic.
2. That users use their own machines. If they use a public iInternet cafe, who knows what might be installed. If a keylogger and/or screen capture program is installed - well, it's a BIG challenge to find ways to use the machine.
3. If a public machine is being used - then, one should try to use one of the secure tools that have a virtual keyboard. Vaultletsoft <https://www.vaultletsoft.com/start/downloads.html> (“Secure, portable, spam-free and internationalised [i18n] privacy protection based on Bouncy Castle 256-bit AES and 2048-bit RSA encryption") can be used without installation.

FACT: Watch for lots of new circumvention tools and information on FACT's forthcoming Beat the Censors - Unblock ICT! CD, version 2.0...

It would have been difficult to choose a more cynical date on which to send out such a message: Wednesday, April 30, the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Dozens of boys arrived at the meeting place in the Pisgat Ze'ev shopping mall. They streamed in from all parts of the capital, some on foot, some by bus and some driven in by parents. Equipped with knives, sticks and clubs, they all had one purpose: to do harm to Arabs for being Arabs.

(ht The Traveller Within)

Such an incident says nothing about Israel as a state or as a society. Every human group has its dark elements. As for the tools they used to organise their attrocious initiative - IQC, SMS, Twitter - they are not good nor bad. They can be used to promote human rights as well as they can be used to oppress them.

But the ease of organisation does change the scene: Clay Shirky often mentions flash mobs as an example of the positive impact technology has on the power of people to self-organize. And yes, I agree. Technology empowers individuals and communities. Which means we each, individually and collectively, have a greater responsibility.

We do not need to look to institutions to lead change, we can do it ourself. But we can no longer trust institutions to direct change. Here comes everybody, the good and the bad. There are no inocent by-standers: inaction is complaisance.

In the spirit of hacktivism, the EFF posted a request for help in getting to the bottom of Windows MCE's real behavior in the presence of the broadcast flag. They are looking to capture actually ATSC stream data, not just screen captures of the recording error. There are detailed instructions for users who use HTHomeRune alongside a Windows MCE system.

Success in this endeavor will require another "mistake" by NBC which makes me a bit skeptical. At least in the near term, the broadcaster is likely to stay on its toes and behave. If you have the required pieces to help the EFF, bookmark the story and try to keep it top of mind in the coming months. The EFF has been successful with similar collective hacking investigations in the past. If they are able to reproduce that success in this case, it could tell us a lot about what really happened in the first case and arm consumers on how to better protect their rights to time shift.

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Unfortunately, there has been a lot of static coming out of the project of which Krstić was formerly a member, OLPC. I previously shared my notes on this blog from a presentation by Benjamin Mako Hill and a roundtable he also attended, both at Penguicon 6.0. He was charitable in his characterization of OLPC's recent struggles and the whole question of running some flavor of Windows on the eponymous devices.

That question, at least, has been unequivocably answered. Regardless of the philosophical questions of freedom this raises for the intended device owners, there are some meaty technical questions about whether such a custom laptop will support a useful experience with Windows. Then there is the unescapable reminders that Microsoft is perfectly willing to throw its weight around to try to make an incipient market behave as it wants rather than serve then original idealistic ends Negroponte espoused when launching OLPC.

The same person who cemented my interest in the project, despite these recent concerns, has given me much to think about. It would be easy to dismiss this essay as disgruntled mutterings. But it is pretty coherent and I am sure much of the historical evidence he cites is reasonably verifiable.

Even setting aside his criticism of Negroponte's past failures and recent shifts in focus that seem to be abandoning what made OLPC so astonishing and daring, he deftly deconstructs what I think is really important. The question is whether a constructionist, one-to-one program works and his answer simply is no one knows. He has some good constructive ideas of how that question might be answered that recast the operating system question as irrelevant and I think even makes sense of some of the concerns over the Sugar effort that others have also raised recently and that Negroponte seems eager to simply brush under the carpet.

What I, personally, am left with is a need to re-focus on the questions and evaluate what people are saying and doing much as Krstić has done. It is not about any one person or organization. It may not even be about the merits of one approach over another, regardless of whether there is evidence to support it or not. It is about advancing the cause of education in a world where the demand for ever more well learned global citizens is only increasing.

I hope others take the time to read this essay. Read it a few times before setting hands on keyboard and making yourself more a part of the problem rather than actually considering what is at stake, here, and what is really in the best interests of furthering education, especially in developing countries, but everywhere traditional approaches have failed.

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;409444582;fp;;fpid;;pf;1

I'm a fan of live music and a patron of online communities such as eTree.org, where music junkies swap copyright-free music. So I was stung when I recently tried to download a live recording of a Dave Matthews concert only to discover that my BitTorrent client was dead in the water...More and more Internet service providers are blocking or throttling traffic to the peer-to-peer file-sharing service. Find out whether you've been targeted, and learn how get around the restrictions...If you suspect that your ISP is blocking or throttling your BitTorrent traffic, call your ISP and ask whether you're being blocked. But don't trust that you'll get a straight answer...If you discover or strongly suspect that your ISP is slowing your BitTorrent traffic, you can try several countermeasures, none of them a sure bet. One of these techniques may work for one ISP but not for another...First, try using encryption to cloak your peer-to-peer traffic. Most clients such as BitComet, BitTorrent, uTorrent, and Vuze, support in-client encryption. Turning this feature on makes it much harder, though not impossible, for your ISP to detect that you're using peer-to-peer software...But ISPs are catching on to these advanced encryption techniques, reportedly clamping down and throttling encrypted tunnels despite being unsure that the encrypted data is BitTorrent traffic. The most extreme method an ISP may use to manage peer-to-peer traffic is to block anything that appears to be BitTorrent traffic, encrypted or not. If that happens to you, you must either switch ISPs or stop using BitTorrent software.

http://itp.nyu.edu/blogs/ecm292_thesis/2008/02/25/thesis-statement-rev-1/
Neighborhood Net Watch: http://www.dhsnnw.org/

The Neighborhood Network Watch (NNW) aims to address the lack of criticality being leveled at these areas, along with raising public awareness about the security issues with public networks, and revealing the malleable nature of information and data. It aims to do this by taking on the role of a government sanctioned community organization that is a hyperreal manifestation composited from current government agencies and potential future agencies. The group will carry out domestic eavesdropping operations on public networks, with the data being collected used to assess the amount of terrorist related or national security related traffic that is being transmitted over these profiled networks, via its proprietary network traffic keyword analysis software. This information will be made public through multiple mediums that include: literatures, maps, reports, presentation performances, public service announcements, and a web presence...The Neighborhood Network Watch will operate as if it were an actual government backed entity along with actually carrying out collections of real data and doing actual analysis on this data to create statistical results. Profiling networks that are in the communities in or around where presentation performances occur will allow a context that an audience can directly relate and engage with. It will be able to illustrate the gravity of the topics that are being presented as well as directly incite dialogue between them and myself as the public face of the NNW. This will also provide a point for education on network security and contemporary issues surrounding networks and the government. As well as a means to demonstrate the ease with which virtually anyone could carry out something similar.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/source-code-for.html#previouspost

Source code has been leaked for dozens of tools MediaDefender uses (or, perhaps, used to use) to thwart the trading of copyrighted content on file-sharing networks. These include tools like BTSeedInflator and BTDecoyClient that target the BitTorrent network...The code is a boon to admins on the targeted file-sharing networks since it exposes MediaDefender's methods for seeding the networks with decoy files and, therefore, will help the admins combat those strategies...Ernesto at TorrentFreak was, once again, the first to hear about the new leak of MediaDefender data. Ernesto has been on top of the MediaDefender story for months, having first discovered in July that MediaDefender was secretly operating a download site to catch users trading in illegal content.

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/mediadefender

More than 6,000 internal company e-mails were exposed in a 700-megabyte BitTorrent download. A note from the hackers that accompanied the download points to a MediaDefender employee's personal Gmail account as the source of the purloined mail, which covered six months of internal correspondence.
At least two more MediaDefender hacks have also emerged...In one, hackers obtained a copy of an internal company database identifying some of the decoy files the company has slipped onto peer-to-peer networks. In the other, intruders released a digital recording of a private phone call that appears to be a discussion between MediaDefender personnel and staff at the New York attorney general's office...In that phone call, ironically, a man who seems to be a MediaDefender official is heard reassuring law enforcement agents that the company's systems are secure...The stolen database may have been obtained after hackers noticed that the MediaDefender employee's e-mail contained the IP addresses of company servers, as well as server-login information and passwords...MediaDefender is an anti-piracy company that works with the entertainment industry to thwart the trading of copyright content on file-sharing networks. The company scans the networks and notifies content owners when their material appears on download sites...MediaDefender also posts decoy movie and music files to make it difficult for users to distinguish real from fake content.

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/international-a.html#previouspost

Sweden's The Pirate Bay, the notorious BitTorrent site pointing the way to thousands of copyrighted movies for free, now owns one of the domain registrations of the IFPI -- IFPI.com. Click on to the .com site, and the site for the International Federation of Pirates Interests, owned by The Pirate Bay, "is coming soon."...Pirate Bay administrator Brokep told the TorrentFreak blog that: "International Federation of Pirate Interests is the new international federation we're starting in order to get the word of piracy spread."...The IFPI.org site is still run by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But for how long….?

Internet Mysteries: How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net?
By Ryan Singel
Wired: May 5, 2008

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/how-much-file-s.html

How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading?...Ellacoya's report said that http-based web traffic had overtaken peer-to-peer traffic on the net, thanks to streaming media sites like YouTube.
Ellacoya, since acquired by Arbor Networks for its traffic-shaping technology, pegged http traffic at 46 percent of the net's volume, with P2P traffic close by at 37 percent.The company says the data was based on about 1 million North American broadband subscribers...Cache Logic study just came out with a number -- no trends, just that file sharing was  30 to 50 percent of traffic...The information is vital.  Comcast claims that torrents of purloined pop music and movies are filling the internet's tubes -- requiring them to block, divert and dam peer-to-peer traffic...Ipoque, a P2P traffic management firm, released its own study (.pdf) of internet traffic in 2007, focusing on Germany, Australia, Eastern Europe and Southern Europe...P2P traffic accounted for between 49% and 83 % of internet traffic in these regions...For instance in the Middle East, the most popular BitTorrent Audio download was Beyonce's Listen, according to Ipoque. (Does that mean American foreign policy is winning or losing?)...The study is unlikely to please internet scientists, since the data set is not public nor is there much discussion of how the numbers were arrived at.

Pro o contro?

Quando è apparsa la notizia della pubblicazione di questi dati su Internet, si potevano prendere soltanto due posizioni.

La prima consisteva nell'esultare per questa “operazione trasparenza”. Finalmente venivano esposte al pubblico ludibrio le vergognose dichiarazioni degli evasori. Si poteva ridere di loro e tirare loro delle uova marce.

La seconda consisteva nel condannare questa evidente, scandalosa ed enorme violazione del diritto alla riservatezza dei dati personali. Quei dati erano anche i nostri dati, cioè i dati di persone che con l'evasione fiscale spesso non hanno nulla a che fare e che hanno tutto il diritto a mantenere una decorosa riservatezza attorno a questo genere di informazioni.

Per diversi anni ho militato in diversi associazioni che si occupano, tra le altre cose, di difesa della privacy. Ho persino tenuto diversi “talk” su questo argomento in giro per l'Italia. Conoscendo i miei compagni di ventura, mi sarei aspettato di vederli prendere posizione a difesa del diritto alla privacy. Dopotutto, non si è fatto che di parlare di diritto all'anonimato, alla riservatezza e cose simili per anni. Abbiamo persino steso documenti e proposte di legge su questi temi.

Ed invece no.

A quanto pare, una larga parte (la maggioranza?) dei miei compagni di battaglie ha deciso di optare per la prima posizione: esultiamo tutti in coro per la gogna mediatica che viene ora imposta agli evasori.

Evasori e Poveracci

Peccato che appesi a quella gogna se ne siano visti davvero pochi di evasori. Prima di questa clamorosa iniziativa, nessuno era mai riuscito a scoprire chi avesse finanziato Silvio Berlusconi nella seconda metà degli anni '70 e nessuno lo sa adesso. Prima di Visco nessuno era riuscito a far pagare le tasse al mio meccanico e nessuno ci è riuscito dopo.

Ovviamente, chi evade le tasse lo fa con un minimo di cautela. Di solito, più che evadere le tasse, le elude. Persino la GdF, che dispone di strumenti molto raffinati per questo scopo, ha delle serie difficoltà a “pizzicare” questi evasori. Figuriamoci cosa può fare un privato cittadino che dispone solo di una riga di testo presa da un file relativo al 2005!

Si è detto: “Beh, comunque si vergogneranno.” E qualcuno ci ha creduto veramente! Qualcuno ha seriamente potuto credere che un contribuente, dopo aver evaso/eluso le tasse potesse anche sentirsi a disagio di fronte a chi glielo contestava!

La realtà è stata ben diversa e molto, molto più amara.

In Italia ci sono all'incirca 12.000.000 di persone (dodici milioni) che fanno fatica ad arrivare a fine mese. In larga misura, si tratta di persone che hanno sempre lavorato e che, per un motivo o per l'altro, ora si trovano in difficoltà. Spesso si tratta di persona che nascondono il loro stato di disagio dietro una esistenza triste ma decorosa.

Ora queste persone sono alla gogna. Non hanno più modo di nascondere il loro stato di difficoltà dietro la segretezza della dichiarazione dei redditi.

E noi, fieri hacktivist, dovremmo esultare...

Destra e Sinistra, Hacktivist e... “altro”

Da diversi mesi mi sento dire da diverse parti che sono un uomo di Destra. Triste destino per una persona che ha votato per la Sinistra (PCI, PDS, PRC, DS, PD) per trent'anni, anche quando non se lo sarebbe affatto meritato. Triste destino per una persona che era iscritta alla FGCI (Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana) nel 1977, quando molti di questi detrattori non erano ancora nati.

Mi sono anche sentito dire che sono culturalmente estraneo all'ambiente della Grande Rete. Triste destino per una persona che ha installato il suo primo Linux nel 1994, quando molti di questi hacker ancora si lasciavano pulire il naso dalla mamma. Triste destino per una persona che ha avuto il suo primo abbonamento ad Internet da Global System nel 1995 (si usava Trumpet Winsock su Windows a quei tempi per avere il necessario stack TCP/IP e si andava via modem a 9600 baud).

Beh, se difendere la dignità delle persone è essere di Destra, allora sono di Destra.

Se opporsi alla stolta anarchia che deriva da un uso indiscriminato dell'anonimato in rete è segno di estraneità all'ambiente culturale di Internet, allora sono estraneo a questo ambiente.

Io sono sempre lì, come gli alberi. Deve essere il fiume che ha cambiato corso...

Alessandro Bottoni

alessandro.bottoni@infinito.it

alessandrobottoni@interfree.it

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Frauen, Technologie & Netzwerke in Osteuropa

10. Mai 2008 bis 22. Juni 2008
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin
Öffnungszeiten: täglich 12 bis 19 Uhr
Eröffnung: Freitag, den 09. Mai, ab 19 Uhr: Begrüßung Sigrid Klebba, Bezirksstadträtin für Bildung und Kultur Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg

After little less than a month following the April 6 strike in support of the textile workers in Mahalla City, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Hosni Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet. And like the preparation for the April 6 strike, the internet has a vital role to play in mobilizing for the upcoming protest. SMS, email, blogs, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter: almost all of these outlets are used by Egyptian Internet activists in their campaign the May 4 event. We’ve even seen a Facebookist Movement to Overthrow Mubarak being created. Another group entitled “We don’t want Muslim Brothers” is calling for the strike but without participation of the Muslim Brotherhood, who recently decided to join May 4 protest.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/04/D7ED058F-DD64-40BF-8B46-3F8591887900.html

A little over a year ago, Estonia became the first country in the world to come under a broad and sustained attack from the Internet. Beginning on April 27, and continuing for several weeks, anonymous foreign networks comprising hundreds of thousands of computers repeatedly disabled Estonia's Internet servers used by the government, banks, media, and other organizations by bombarding them with information requests...During the two peaks in the attacks -- on May 10 and May 15, 2007 -- Estonia first lost 50 percent of its "bread, milk, and gasoline" for 90 minutes and then again 75 percent of the same commodities for another five minutes...During these two episodes, the attacks, simultaneously harnessing as many as 1 million remotely controlled computers across the world, infected with malicious software without their owners' knowledge, brought down the Internet servers of Estonia's biggest bank, Hansapank, among others. People paying for their gasoline, milk, and bread -- not to mention other purchases -- suddenly found that their bank cards didn't work...People parking their cars in Tallinn routinely pay by text message. Free wireless Internet is ubiquitous, as are people using laptops in cafes and restaurants...Estonia has an "e-government" -- government meetings now involve no paperwork. Its public administration has become an "e-state" -- people vote, pay their taxes, and perform a multitude of other operations via the Internet. Outside office hours, teachers and pupils are linked into "e-schools."...From the start, Estonia sought to implicate the Russian government in orchestrating if not ordering the onslaught. However, the nature of such attacks makes it virtually impossible to track the real culprits as the computers used in them participate as "zombies," controlled by means of malicious software installed illicitly unbeknownst to their owners.