Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/opinion/edward-snowden-the-world-says-no-to-surveillance.html?_r=0
Metadata revealing the personal associations and interests of ordinary Internet users is still being intercepted and monitored on a scale unprecedented in history: As you read this online, the United States government makes a note.
(C’est moi qui souligne)
#PJLrenseignement
Et aussi :
Spymasters in Australia, Canada and France have exploited recent tragedies to seek intrusive new powers despite evidence such programs would not have prevented attacks. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain recently mused, “Do we want to allow a means of communication between people which we cannot read?” He soon found his answer, proclaiming that “for too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: As long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.”
At the turning of the millennium, few imagined that citizens of developed democracies would soon be required to defend the concept of an open society against their own leaders.
Tribune publiée dans plusieurs canards en même temps. En France, Libé : ▻http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2015/06/05/edward-snowden-pendant-que-vous-lisez-ceci-le-gouvernement-en-prend-note_
Deux ans plus tard, la différence est profonde. En l’espace d’un mois, le programme intrusif de suivi des appels de la NSA a été déclaré illégal par les tribunaux et désavoué par le Congrès. Après qu’une enquête de la Maison Blanche a déterminé que ce programme n’avait pas permis d’empêcher une seule attaque terroriste, même le Président, qui avait plus tôt défendu son bien-fondé et critiqué la révélation de son existence, a fini par ordonner qu’on y mette un terme.
#vrai_ou_pas ?
Online Dispute Becomes Internet-Snarling Attack - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc
Firm Is Accused of Sending Spam, and Fight Jams Internet
By JOHN MARKOFF and NICOLE PERLROTH
Published: March 26, 2013
A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.
Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or could not reach a particular Web site for a short time.
European Commission Blames Social Networks For #ACTA Failure; Worried About Its Imminent Directive On Copyright Enforcement | Techdirt
►http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120312/09321618075/european-commission-blames-social-networks-acta-failure-worried-about-its-
What emerges very clearly from this is that the most senior politicians in the European Union are completely nonplussed by the power of social networks to mobilize not just Net activists but ordinary Internet users, and are struggling to deal with it. I think we can expect to see attempts to neutralize that new force by “reaching out” to social networks in a variety of ways in the coming months.