Death of a data haven: #cypherpunks, #WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/sealand-and-havenco.ars/1
From 2000 to 2008, a company called HavenCo did indeed offer no-questions-asked colocation on #Sealand —and it didn’t end well.
HavenCo’s failure—and make no mistake about it, HavenCo did fail—shows how hard it is to get out from under government’s thumb.
Supreme Court saves medical profession from diagnostic patents
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/supreme-court-saves-medical-profession-from-diagnostic-patents.ars #brevet #diagnostic #medecine
Fffuuuuuuuu: The Internet anthropologist’s field guide to »rage faces«
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/the-internet-anthropologists-field-guide-to-rage-faces.ars
Rage faces slowly migrated from 4chan into other communities. There, they gained popularity and expanded their numbers as artists introduced new faces, and particularly humorous comics went viral in their communities. Though the faces were no longer exclusive to any single forum, they stayed true to the originals in style.
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Here are ten of the most common
25 alleged Anonymous members arrested internationally; hacker group retaliates
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/25-alleged-anonymous-members-nabbed-in-international-arrests-hacker-gro
#Tor's latest project helps #Iran get back online despite new #Internet censorship regime
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/tors-latest-project-helps-iran-get-back-online-amidst-internet-censorsh
between Feb. 8 and Feb. 9, connections dropped from about 50,000 to fewer than 20,000, and plummeted to nearly zero by Friday, Feb. 10.
The dramatic change proved the prediction of Tor project member Jacob Appelbaum distressingly accurate. Last week, as reports of the Iranian crackdown began circulating, he warned, "It’s likely that more than ~50,000 - ~60,000 Tor users may drop offline." But Appelbaum and his fellow Tor project members had a plan: a new obfuscated bridge (obfsproxy) that makes encrypted traffic appear to be regular traffic. Obfsproxy was an “ace up our sleeve,” as Appelbaum described it, and Tor put it into action over the past few days
Internet drowns in inaccurate anti-ACTA arguments
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-awash-in-inaccurate-anti-acta-arguments.ars
many of the claims about #ACTA that are circulating among the treaty’s opponents are highly misleading or outright inaccurate. We’ve been covering ACTA for over four years, and hopefully we can shed some light on a tricky subject.
On eve of protests, Germany backs away from ACTA
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/on-eve-of-protests-germany-backs-away-from-acta.ars
#acta #information #free
Anonymous exposes e-mails of Syrian presidential aides
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/anonymous-hackers-expose-emails-of-syrian-presidential-aides.ars #anonymous #secret #politic
Bachar Al Assad trahi… par la boite électronique de l’une de ses collaboratrices
►http://syrie.blog.lemonde.fr/2012/02/07/bachar-al-assad-trahi-par-la-boite-electronique-de-lune-de-ses-co
Comme ils en avaient formulé la menace, pour venir en aide à la population syrienne, les Anonymous ont redoublé d’activité au cours des derniers jours contre certains sites officiels syriens. Dimanche 5 février, ils ont piraté les boites électroniques de la présidence de la République, révélant le mail privé de Bachar Al Assad, celui de son épouse, Asma Al Akhras, et ceux des fonctionnaires du ministère des Affaires de la Présidence. Ce ministère est actuellement dirigé par Mansour Azzam, un diplomate druze originaire du gouvernorat de Soueïda, très lié au général Manaf Tlass, l’un des rares officiers sunnites à exercer un commandement au sein de la Garde Républicaine.
A voir dans le contexte plus global cité hier ►http://seenthis.net/messages/55757
The message suggested that “it is hugely important and worth mentioning that ’mistakes’ have been done in the begining of the crises because we did not have a well-organized ’police force.’ American psyche can be easily manipulated when they hear there are ’mistakes’ done and now we are ’fixing it.’”
If the feds can shut down Megaupload, why do we need SOPA?
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/if-the-feds-can-shut-down-megaupload-why-do-they-need-sopa.ars
If the feds can shut down Megaupload, why do we need SOPA?
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/if-the-feds-can-shut-down-megaupload-why-do-they-need-sopa.ars
#droit
Protesting SOPA: how to make your voice heard
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/protesting-sopa-what-you-can-do.ars
Encore un truc qui prétend se subsituer au #DNS, celui-ci basé sur #Namecoin et un domaine bidon, « .bit », pour les clients DNS traditionnels.
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/anonymous-bit-dimnet-tries-to-be-a-hedge-against-dns-censorship.ars
L’article est (à juste titre) plutôt sceptique et encore, il n’a pas pensé à tester les serveurs présentés en :
►https://dot-bit.org/HowToBrowseBitDomains
qui répondent tous NXDOMAIN (No Such Domain) pour les noms en .bit :-)
Library of Congress asks: how should we let you break DRM?
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/library-of-congress-asks-how-should-we-let-you-break-drm.ars
For the fifth time since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in 1998, the Library of Congress is preparing to grant limited rights to crack DRM locks on digital content. Not that it matters much; despite an increased willingness at the Library to grant such permission, the actual tools most people need to bypass DRM remain forbidden. Even if you want to take advantage of your rights under the law, you’ll probably break the law to do so.
ARPANET’s coming out party: when the Internet first took center stage
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/10/arpanets-coming-out-party-when-the-internet-first-took-center-stage.ars
Whenever you try to show skeptics some new technology, that’s the moment when it will fail:
Russia, China, Tajikistan (+Uzbekistan) propose UN “code of conduct” for the ’Net
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/russia-china-tajikistan-propose-un-code-of-conduct-for-the-net.ars
China, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, then you’ll love the new code of conduct (PDF) introduced at the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week.
The proposed code of conduct would be voluntary, but it is clearly aimed at staking out more ground for nation-states when it comes to the Internet. As the document’s preamble states, “policy authority for Internet-related public issues is the sovereign right of States”—not of the IETF, or of ICANN, or of a multistakeholder process that includes business and civil society.
The code demands that countries show respect for “human rights and fundamental freedoms” and pledges support for “combating criminal and terrorist activities that use information and communications technologies, including networks.” States would also pledge not to use Internet tools to “carry out hostile activities or acts of aggression.”
But the document commits its signatories to “curbing the dissemination of information that incites terrorism, secession-ism, or extremism, or that undermines other countries’ political, economic, and social stability, as well as their spiritual and cultural environment.”
Sidérante illustration du pouvoir qu’une très grosse entreprise peut avoir sur la justice (américaine en l’occurrence), ainsi que l’utilisation qu’il peut être faite des lois d’extradition prévues pour les cas de terrorisme.
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/a-pound-of-flesh-how-ciscos-unmitigated-gall-derailed-one-mans-life.ars
“Here we have a man who has no criminal record, who made every possible effort to comply with US immigration laws and procedures, but who dared to take on a multinational giant, rewarded with criminal charges that have been so grotesquely inflated as to make the average well-informed member of the public blanche at the audacity of it all,” Justice McKinnon added.
Police raid Spanish copyright society in embezzlement case
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/police-raid-spanish-collecting-society-in-embezzlement-case.ars
Senior officials in Spain’s Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), the country’s leading collection society for songwriters and composers, face embezzlement charges in the wake of a Friday raid on the organization’s offices. (A collecting society collects licensing fees for public performances of music and distributes them to artists and record companies.)
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/how-france-proved-that-the-internet-is-not-global.ars
hahaha la bonne blague quand la #france est championne du monde de l’#internet
#LulzSec Manifesto: They Keep Their Best Hacks Secret | Death and Taxes
►http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/105679/lulzsec-manifesto-they-keep-their-best-hacks-secret
For the past month and a bit, we’ve been causing mayhem and chaos throughout the Internet, attacking several targets including PBS, Sony, Fox, porn websites, FBI, CIA, the U.S. government, Sony some more, online gaming servers (by request of callers, not by our own choice), Sony again, and of course our good friend Sony.
While we’ve gained many, many supporters, we do have a mass of enemies, albeit mainly gamers. The main anti-LulzSec argument suggests that we’re going to bring down more Internet laws by continuing our public shenanigans, and that our actions are causing clowns with pens to write new rules for you. But what if we just hadn’t released anything? What if we were silent? That would mean we would be secretly inside FBI affiliates right now, inside PBS, inside Sony… watching… abusing…
Do you think every #hacker announces everything they’ve hacked? We certainly haven’t, and we’re damn sure others are playing the silent game. Do you feel safe with your Facebook accounts, your Google Mail accounts, your Skype accounts? What makes you think a hacker isn’t silently sitting inside all of these right now, sniping out individual people, or perhaps selling them off? You are a peon to these people. A toy. A string of characters with a value.
“We’ve been entertaining you 1000 times with 140 characters or less, and we’ll continue creating things that are exciting and new until we’re brought to justice, which we might well be. But you know, we just don’t give a living fuck at this point – you’ll forget about us in 3 months’ time when there’s a new scandal to gawk at, or a new shiny thing to click on via your 2D light-filled rectangle. [...] We screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction”
►http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/lulzsec-heres-why-we-hack-you-bitches.ars
