#extorsion

Smuggling, Trafficking, and Extortion: New Conceptual and Policy Challenges on the Libyan Route to Europe

This paper contributes a conceptual and empirical reflection on the relationship between human smuggling, trafficking and #kidnapping, and extortion in Libya. It is based on qualitative interview data with Eritrean asylum seekers in Italy. Different tribal regimes control separate territories in Libya, which leads to different experiences for migrants depending on which territory they enter, such as Eritreans entering in the southeast #Toubou controlled territory. We put forth that the kidnapping and extortion experienced by Eritreans in Libya is neither trafficking, nor smuggling, but a crime against humanity orchestrated by an organized criminal network. The paper details this argument and discusses the implications.

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▻https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12579
#traite_d'êtres_humains #traite #trafic_d'êtres_humains #Libye #asile #migrations #réfugiés #réfugiés_érythréens #extorsion #crime_contre_l'humanité #cartographie #visualisation
ping @isskein

Saudi Arabia is reportedly trying to get the Kingdom’s billionaires to buy stock in Aramco’s mega-IPO | Markets Insider
▻https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/saudi-aramco-ipo-kingdom-negotiating-participation-from-bil

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Saudi Arabia is trying to get the country’s wealthiest citizens to buy stock in Aramco’s upcoming IPO, according to Bloomberg.
The group reportedly includes the likes of the billionaire Olayan family, which is considering the purchase of several hundred million dollars of stock.
Aramco’s IPO is expected to be the biggest in history, with Saudi officials seeking a valuation of $2 trillion, although bank estimates have come in lower.
The oil giant is due to go public on December 11.

#racket #extorsion #brigandage_d'Etat #arabie_saoudite

Du #consentement en ses limites
▻http://www.internetactu.net/a-lire-ailleurs/du-consentement-en-ses-limites

La spécialiste des sciences de l’information Helen Nissenbaum (@hnissenbaum) livre une longue interview pour la Harvard Business Review sur la difficulté du consentement en ligne. Trop souvent, la mise en pratique du consentement est « minable », explique la chercheuse, en prenant pour exemple les bandeaux de cookies que nous devons accepter (...)

#A_lire_ailleurs #Recherches #confiance #Confiance_et_sécurité

’Petya’ ransomware attack strikes companies across Europe and US | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/27/petya-ransomware-attack-strikes-companies-across-europe
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“This is not an experienced ransomware operator,” said Ryan Kalember, senior vice-president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint.

The attack was first reported in Ukraine, where the government, banks, state power utility and Kiev’s airport and metro system were all affected. The radiation monitoring system at Chernobyl was taken offline, forcing employees to use hand-held counters to measure levels at the former nuclear plant’s exclusion zone.

Some technology experts said the attack appeared consistent with an “updated variant” of a virus known as Petya or Petrwrap, a ransomware that locks computer files and forces users to pay a designated sum to regain access.

But analysts at cyber security firm Kaspersky Labs said they had traced the infections to “a new ransomware that has not been seen before”. The “NotPetya” attack had hit 2,000 users in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, France, Italy, the UK, Germany and the US, Kaspersky said.

#Microsoft #virus_informatique #Ransomware #petya #notpetya #extorsion #bitcoin #tchernobyl

Where Are the Children? For extortionists, undocumented migrants have become big #business.

The kidnapper sounded polite, even deferential, when she called on a Tuesday afternoon last May. Melida Lemus and Alfredo Godoy had left their clapboard house in Trenton, New Jersey, to pick up their two daughters from school. Godoy, who works in construction, was late to meet a client for whom he was building a home extension, and his family accompanied him to the project site. Melida and the girls—Kathryn, twelve, and Jennifer, seventeen—waited in the client’s living room, snacking on cookies and checking Instagram, while Alfredo walked through the house, taking specs: how much Sheetrock he’d need, how much spackle, how many two-by-fours. In the middle of the tour, his cell phone rang. The call came from a Texas area code.

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▻http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/where-are-the-children
#enfants #enfance #migrations #frontières #extorsions #USA #Etats-Unis #mineurs

Entre l’Urssaf et des #Huissiers de #Bastia, la guérilla judiciaire reprend
▻https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/070616/entre-l-urssaf-et-des-huissiers-de-bastia-la-guerilla-judiciaire-reprend

L’ex-directeur de l’Urssaf en #Corse est rejugé pour #extorsion, mercredi 8 juin à Bastia, après avoir lui-même déposé plusieurs plaintes contre des huissiers de #Justice de la ville.

#France #ACOSS #Decoux #Urssaf

DDoS: Armada Collective threatens Greek banks

▻http://bitcoinist.net/greek-banks-asked-pay-bitcoin-ransom

In Athens, three Greek banks have been extorted by malicious hackers for the sum of 15,000 Euros [700 BTC] to be paid in Bitcoin by November 30, 2015. The group Armada Collective threatened these institutions with the use of a Denial of Service attack or a DDOS. With a warning to the banks, the perpetrators seemingly were able to knock out electronic services temporarily.

The Armada Collective was also behind the first DDoS attack on ProtonMail three weeks ago, one of the first companies to actually pay the ransom. (an act that has been criticised).

(see ►http://seenthis.net/messages/425368)

#Armada_Collective
#bitcoin #ransom #extorsion
#DDoS

Victime de #fraude et d’#extorsion, #Wikipédia ferme 381 comptes de faux contributeurs

A l’issue d’une enquête, les responsables de la plateforme anglophone de l’encyclopédie en ligne ont bloqué plusieurs centaines de comptes appartenant à des #pirates_informatiques. Ceux-ci publiaient de fausses pages et manipulaient le contenu de pages existantes pour extorquer des fonds

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cc @fil

Des différentes formes d’#extorsion du #travail aujourd’hui - Les mots sont importants (lmsi.net)
▻http://lmsi.net/Des-differentes-formes-d-extorsion

En outre, Christine Delphy montre que l’esclave en général et l’#esclavage #domestique en particulier (les corvées, le travail forcé, etc.) sont des modes d’extorsion de travail gratuit, qui ont régné et continuent d’exister sous des formes actualisées. La sociologue nous met ainsi en garde : le #féodalisme n’est pas mort, loin de là ! Par conséquent, les situations contemporaines d’esclavage ou encore le travail gratuit des femmes extorqué au sein de la #famille suffisent à montrer la nécessité de décentrer l’analyse de l’exploitation en termes capitalistes et à révoquer l’utilité universelle de la notion de « plus-value » comme « mesure » unique de l’#exploitation.

Ex-State Supreme Court Justice: Judicial Elections Are Like “Legalized Extortion” | Mother Jones
▻http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/judicial-elections-sue-bell-cobb

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When a judge asks a lawyer who appears in his or her court for a campaign check, it’s about as close as you can get to legalized extortion. Lawyers who appear in your court, whose cases are in your hands, are the ones most interested in giving. It’s human nature: Who would want to risk offending the judge presiding over your case by refusing to donate to her campaign? They almost never say no—even when they can’t afford it.

#Etats-Unis #parodie #démocratie #justice #extorsion_légale

« Donoma », le film fait maison pour 150 euros | Rue89 : Marseille89
▻http://www.rue89.com/2011/11/22/donoma-le-film-fait-maison-pour-150-euros-226745

Faire un premier long métrage avec 150 euros : c’est le pari d’une bande de guérilleros du cinéma, menés par Djinn Carrenard, cinéaste autodidacte.