BitTorrent ethics: Punishing piracy or criminalizing sharing? — RT Op-Edge. Nile Bowie is a political analyst and photographer currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He can be reached on Twitter or at nilebowie@gmail.com Published time: October 19, 2013 20:26 Photo by Michael Zenke / flickr.com If you live in a densely populated modern city, there is a strong chance that wireless network transmissions that are in breach of copyright law could be around you at this very moment.
The decentralized network architecture known as peer-to-peer (P2P) communications allows files of all kinds to be shared over the internet with other users without monetary exchange, and millions utilize this technology on daily basis. Most file-sharing is utilized through BitTorrent, and involves a host website that supports an index of .torrent files that can be downloaded in separate client applications.
Internet 2.0 Before the digital age, information was exchanged through bulky bundles of paper and plastic discs. Photo by Steve Rhodes / flickr.com I’m in the empire business. Patriot Act Author Prepares Bill To Put NSA Bulk Collection 'Out Of Business' The conservative Republican who co-authored America’s Patriot Act is preparing to unveil bipartisan legislation that would dramatically curtail the domestic surveillance powers it gives to intelligence agencies. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, who worked with president George W Bush to give more power to US intelligence agencies after the September 11 terrorist attacks, said the intelligence community had misused those powers by collecting telephone records on all Americans, and claimed it was time “to put their metadata program out of business”.
His imminent bill in the House of Representatives is expected to be matched by a similar proposal from Senate judiciary committee chair Patrick Leahy, a Democrat. It pulls together existing congressional efforts to reform the National Security Agency in the wake of disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden. Patriot Act Author Prepares Bill To Put NSA Bulk Collection ‘Out Of Business’ [continued] “Free Flow of Information Act” Targets Independent Journalism. James TracyActivist Post The fact that the US Senate is now defining what a journalist actually is sets a dangerous precedent threatening the present marketplace of ideas that in recent history has been greatly expanded by the internet.
According to the text of an amendment sponsored by Senators Diane Feinstein and Dick Durbin to the proposed “Free Flow of Information Act” (PDF) that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 12, only salaried journalists will be given the free press protections guaranteed to all US citizens by the Constitution. Under such a law presumably only the news reporters and analysts employed by moderate-to-substantial revenue-generating news entities are regarded as “legitimate” journalists. This is because the Feinstein-Durbin amendment’s wording is especially vague on exactly what type of news organization the writer needs to be affiliated with to be able to comment and report freely. The major concern with this move is twofold.
NotesBoehm, Eric. How the NSA sabotaged the internet | Opinion | Columnists. Trust is the world's most valuable intangible commodity. Economies, political systems, partnerships and marriages rise or fall based on it. All commerce – both online and offline – rests on it. And yet the US's National Security Agency (NSA) is actively and recklessly undermining the fabric of trust that holds the internet together.
The New York Times, along with the Guardian and Pro Publica, has revealed that the NSA spent more than a decade compromising and sabotaging the encryption systems that underpin secure communications via the internet. Since 2010, it has been able to decrypt vast swathes of this supposedly private information at will, and often in realtime as it flows over the communication cables that the NSA now routinely taps. Anyone who's used internet banking or shopped online is familiar with the comforting green padlock that appears in our browsers when we transact online. Were technology the only factor at play, you would be able to trust that green padlock implicitly.
What Bradley Manning Revealed. “In no case shall information be classified… in order to: conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error; prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency… or prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.” —Executive Order 13526, Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations“Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is this awkward? Yes.
Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? PFC Bradley Manning is a US Army intelligence specialist who released classified information to WikiLeaks, an organization that he understood would release portions of the information to news organizations and ultimately to the public. Was the information that PFC Manning leaked classified for our protection and national security, as government officials contend? There is an official policy to ignore torture in Iraq. Guantanamo prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives. U.S. The U.S. Trusted Computing: Government warns of Windows 8. Microsoft will bei Windows 8 den neuen Trusted-Computing-Standard nutzen. Experten der Bundesregierung haben darin ein Sicherheitsproblem für Behörden gesehen. Speichern Drucken Twitter Facebook Google + ZEIT ONLINE hat diesen Artikel zunächst unter einer anderen Überschrift veröffentlicht. Die Beteiligten haben einen Rechtsstreit über die Zulässigkeit der Berichterstattung der Beklagten über Windows 8 geführt: dieser Rechsstreit ist im gegenseitigen Einvernehmen und Entgegenkommen beigelegt.
Wie vertrauenswürdig ist Microsoft? Trusted Computing ist alles andere als ein neues Phänomen. Anzeige Die Art und Weise, wie der Chip und das Betriebssystem zusammenarbeiten, ist standardisiert. Die bisherige TPM-Spezifikation wird demnächst durch eine neue ersetzt, sie heißt kurz TPM 2.0. Patrick Beuth Microsoft könnte damit theoretisch bestimmen, dass kein Textverarbeitungsprogramm außer Microsoft Word unter Windows 8 funktioniert.
Connections Between Michael Hastings, Edward Snowden and Barrett Brown—The War With the Security State. By Christian Stork on Aug 7, 2013 At the time of his death in a mysterious one-car crash and explosion, journalist Michael Hastings was researching a story that threatened to expose powerful entities and government-connected figures. That story intersected with the work of two controversial government critics—the hacktivist Barrett Brown and the on-the-run surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden. Any probe into Hastings’s untimely death needs to take into account this complex but essential background. But First, the Raw Facts A little over 12 hours before his car was incinerated on an LA straightaway on June 18, 2013, Hastings sent out a short email headed, “FBI Investigation, re: NSA.”
From: Michael Hastings Date: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM Subject: FBI Investigation, re: NSA To: [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Hey [5 REDACTED WORDS] the Feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates.” Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the radat for a bit. Michael Deep Background. Nazi Germany - Color Photos from LIFE archive. Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents. UK planned war on Syria before unrest began: French ex-foreign minister. A former French foreign minister says Britain had been planning a war against Syria some two years before to the unrest broke out in the Arab country. The statement by Roland Dumas came during a recent interview with French Parliamentary TV network, LCP. “I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business.
I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria,” said Dumas. He continued by saying, “This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. Responding to a question on the motive behind inciting violence in Syria, Dumas said, "Very simple! The former foreign minister added that he had been told by an Israeli prime minister a long time ago that Tel Aviv would seek to “destroy” any country that did not “get along” with it in the region.
David Brin on the Path to Positive Sousveillance. David Brin and Ben Goertzel Ben Goertzel dialogues with the author of The Transparent Society Isaac Asimov's classic 1956 story "The Dead Past" describes a technology that lets everyone spy on everyone else everywhere. The government tries to keep this technology secret and arrest the scientists moving to publicize it, but some rebels let the cat out of the bag. A government official, once he realizes the technology has been made irrevocably public, utters the following lines to the scientists who released it: "Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell forever. Arrest rescinded. " Asimov’s government official assumes that “everyone sees everyone else” is a nightmare scenario.
This potentiality has been labeled “sousveillance” – and it may seem like a scary idea, since we’re used to cultures and psychological habits predicated on greater levels of privacy. “Sous” and “sur” are French for “under” and “over” respectively. Figure 2. David: Ben: Ben: Hmmmm…. NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar | Threat Level. Alexander runs the nation’s cyberwar efforts, an empire he has built over the past eight years by insisting that the US’s inherent vulnerability to digital attacks requires him to amass more and more authority over the data zipping around the globe. In his telling, the threat is so mind-bogglingly huge that the nation has little option but to eventually put the entire civilian Internet under his protection, requiring tweets and emails to pass through his filters, and putting the kill switch under the government’s forefinger.
“What we see is an increasing level of activity on the networks,” he said at a recent security conference in Canada. “I am concerned that this is going to break a threshold where the private sector can no longer handle it and the government is going to have to step in.” And he and his cyberwarriors have already launched their first attack. The success of this sabotage came to light only in June 2010, when the malware spread to outside computers. XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' Jimmy Carter: US “has no functioning democracy” Snowden's Dad SCHOOLS Obama, Pelosi, and Holder in Open Letter. Activist Post Re: Civil Disobedience, Edward J. Snowden, and the Constitution Dear Mr. President: You are acutely aware that the history of liberty is a history of civil disobedience to unjust laws or practices. Civil disobedience is not the first, but the last option. Thoreau’s moral philosophy found expression during the Nuremburg trials in which “following orders” was rejected as a defense.
A dark chapter in America’s World War II history would not have been written if the then United States Attorney General had resigned rather than participate in racist concentration camps imprisoning 120,000 Japanese American citizens and resident aliens. Civil disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act and Jim Crow laws provoked the end of slavery and the modern civil rights revolution. We submit that Edward J. The right to be left alone from government snooping–the most cherished right among civilized people—is the cornerstone of liberty. Writing in Brinegar v. On June 27, 2013, Mr. Ms. David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face | Alan Rusbridger.
In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly with a four-letter expletive at Bill Keller, the former executive editor of the New York Times. It was a confusing moment. The man who was pretending to be me – thanking Keller for "not giving a shit" – used to be Malcolm Tucker, a foul-mouthed Scottish spin doctor who will soon be a 1,000-year-old time lord. And Keller will correct me, but I don't remember ever swearing at him. I do remember saying something to the effect of "we have the thumb drive, you have the first amendment". The fictional moment occurs at the beginning of the DreamWorks film about WikiLeaks, The Fifth Estate, due for release next month.
Peter Capaldi is, I can report, a very plausible Guardian editor. This real-life exchange with Keller happened just after we took possession of the first tranche of WikiLeaks documents in 2010. In this work he is regularly helped by David Miranda. The man was unmoved. Lionel said: Alan Rusbridger replied: David Miranda detention: a betrayal of trust and principle | Editorial. Long before the partner of the Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained at Heathrow airport on Sunday, the law that was used to hold him and remove his possessions had been effectively discredited in its present form. Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 is a sweeping power to detain for up to nine hours. It gives border police a power of detention for questioning without specific suspicion or a right to be represented.
It is one of the strongest police powers on the statute book – a useful weapon for security services trawling for information but a potential source of injustice waiting to happen. It has provoked some of the strongest community complaints about the way UK terrorism laws operate in practice. David Miranda's detention should be seen in the context of the implicit acceptance by the Home Office, which is bringing forward the current changes, that parts of the law are too sweeping. 'Bomber? My son fell into US trap' 'Bomber? My son fell into US trap' Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah, father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, holds a photograph of his son inside his residence at Uttar Jatrabari in Dhaka October 18, 2012. The FBI on Wednesday arrested Nafis, a Bangladeshi, in a sting operation on charges he attempted to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank with what he believed was a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb, federal authorities said.
Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The father of a Bangladeshi man accused of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank yesterday said his son was the victim of a "racist conspiracy". Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaeda. "This is nothing but a conspiracy. Sandy Hook hoax is falling apart - National Policy & Issues. The dam finally burst this week as the mainstream media was forced to begin addressing the many very serious unanswered questions regarding the alleged Sandy Hook elementary school massacre.
Despite the fact that people questioning the official narrative has become one of the hottest media topics of the week, there's a very real possibility the right questions may never get asked in any meaningful way, at least not publicly. But with so many openly obvious anomalies, ridiculous coincidences and projected media falsehoods surrounding the event, people are figuring out what's actually happening on their own and hundreds of the largest media outlets around the country have had no choice but to talk about or, depending on who you talk to, attempt avoiding those circumstances to mostly avoid being seen as complicit.
That's because a massive outpouring of concern over why the media has refused to report the situation accurately has caused a tidal wave of indignation around the country. Photos: Private military operatives hired to 'work' the Boston marathon with black backpacks, radiation detectors, tactical gear. Before police could plan for a terrorist attack, the real thing happened. ‘Drones causing mass trauma among civilians,’ major study finds. Al-Qaeda's 22 tips for dodging drone attacks: the list in full. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004. CIA under scrutiny over Benghazi attack, Republicans take aim at Obama. False Flags In Syria: An Operation 50 Years In the Making?
Still 'paranoid' after all these years. Bolivia slams US over 'irrefutable evidence' of meddling. Fighting Disclosure, Killing Democracy. Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM - UK Politics - UK. Peter Dreier: Big Money Wins in Wisconsin: Walker Spent 88% of the Money to Get 53% of the Vote. Paul Ryan, Ayn Rand Fan, Brings Writer's Philosophy To Presidential Stage. John McCain's Republican National Convention Speech -- Excerpts - National Journal Staff. Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke | Taibbi, Spitzer Fume Over HSBC Settlement | Eight BIG PROBLEMS with the “case” against Assange (MUST-READ by Naomi Wolf) US intends to chase Assange, cables show. Julian Assange: Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time.
Assange complaint over nightclub footage dismissed. Assange to UN: US is trying to build a 'regime of secrecy' Dark Knight:Lucifer Rises. » The Truth: Facebook Post by Brandon Raub Alex Jones. Facebook Now Suspending Accounts Which Question Mainstream Media Reporting/Account of Events. Marine Brandon Raub released from psych ward after being detained over Facebook posts. Attorney for Brandon Raub Says Psychiatrist Threatened to ‘Brainwash’ Him With Meds, John Whitehead. At least 27 dead, including 18 children in US school shooting: report. Adam Lanza, an Enigma Who Is Now Identified as a Mass Killer. No Viable Connection Between Peter Lanza & US Senate LIBOR Hearings. » Overwhelming Evidence Mounts Indicating Colorado Shooting Staged Alex Jones. James Holmes: Inmate's strange tale of "confession" and suicide efforts. Irish heroine of Batman shooting spree drowns. Aurora theater shooting: Bizarre court filing blames massacre on police chief, Illuminati - Denver - News - The Latest Word - Page 2.
New World Order Blueprint Leaked. Catholic Church Makes A Fortune In The German Porn Business. 14 Incredibly Creepy Surveillance Technologies That Big Brother Will Soon Be Using To Spy On You. Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install, Not Very Securely. 6 Government Surveillance Programs Designed to Watch What You Do Online | Civil Liberties. Deep State on social networking privacy. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology. US draws up battle plan to stave off digital attack cyberstrikes - Americas - World. Amy MacPherson: Why Are the Freemasons Collecting Our Children's DNA?
The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings. Bob Graham: Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now. Italian Supreme Court head calls for international 9/11 inquiry. 9/11:Israel did it - WikiSpooks. 9/11 and Zion: What Was Israel’s Role? The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies. 8 Technical Methods That Make the PROTECT IP Act Useless. LEAKED! The NWO Internet Takeover AND Kill Switch Agenda! If You Are Reading This - IT AFFECTS YOU! Will the internet end up controlled by big business and politicians? | Comment is free | The Observer. A simple guide to the ITU's World Conference on International Telecommunications. EU copyright law plan angers Radiohead, Pink Floyd. The Value Is In The Relationship, Not The MP3 File. An art history book, minus the art. The Missing 20th Century: How Copyright Protection Makes Books Vanish - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology.
Will we need fair use in the 21st century? Swiss gov’t study: downloading leads to sales, so we’re keeping it legal. Majority Of File-Sharers Are Heavily Monitored. The Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Kooks.