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NZ Professor Advocates Civil Disobedience Against Mass Surveillance

“We’re all aware of how much surveillance we are under on the internet thanks to Edward Snowden. Gehan Gunasekara, an associate commercial law professor at Auckland University in New Zealand, wants us all to start sending suspicious looking but meaningless data across the internet to overload automated surveillance systems. Essentially he is advocating a mass distributed Bayesian poisoning attack against our watchers.

 

 

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/08/08/0215250/nz-professor-advocates-civil-disobedience-against-mass-surveillance

 

 

vecne posluchajuce USA

http://tech.sme.sk/c/6831937/usiel-z-usa-lebo-ukazal-ze-amerika-vo-velkom-sleduje-internet.html

 

O chlapikovi ktory spachal vyzradil toto

 

Prizma (Prism)

  • Minulý  týždeň zverejnili prezentáciu, ktorá hovorí, že Národná bezpečnostná agentúra má prístup k mailom, fotografiám, videám či dokumentomužívateľov niektorých IT spoločností.
  • Ide o Microsoft, Google, YouTube, Skype,Facebook či Yahoo. Spoluprácu odmietli.

konecne!!

Hack by Anonymous: Chinese government websites hacked and defaced by Anonymous China.

In a major breakthrough for the international Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous, Anonymous China is born.

On Friday morning the freshly minted Anonymous China announced via Twitter that they had hacked and defaced five different Chinese government websites. In addition, Anonymous China also leaked information from at least two different Chinese government websites. And it appears Anonymous China is only getting started.

The defacements are well done, and feature The Who’s classic tune of rebellion, “Baba O’Riley,” on autoplay. The following is the text that appears on those defacements:

Hi all !

Message to Chinese government :

All these years, the Chinese Communist government has subjected its People to unfair laws and unhealthy processes.
Dear Chinese government, you are not infallible, today websites are hacked, tomorrow it will be your vile regime that will fall.
So expect us because we do not forgive, never. What you are doing today to your Great People, tomorrow will be inflicted to you.

With no mercy.

Nothing will stop us, nor your anger nor your weapons.
You do not scare us, because you cannot afraid an idea.

Message to Chinese People :

Each of you suffers from the tyranny of that regime which knows nothing about you. We are with you.
With you here and now. But also tomorrow and the coming days so promising for your freedom. We will never give up.
Don't lose hope, the revolution begins in the heart.

The silence of all other countries highlights the lack of democracy and justice in China. It's unbearable.
We must all fight for your freedom.


http://www.haohaoreport.com/l/34303

Echelon echelon, na ake slovicka pocuvas…

odporucam pridat tieto slovicka do vasich ~/.signature ;)))

 

The Department of Homeland Security monitors your updates on social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to uncover “Items Of Interest” (IOI), according to an internal DHS document released by the EPIC. That document happens to include a list of the baseline terms for which the DHS–or more specifically, a DHS subcontractor hired to monitor social networks–use to generate real-time IOI reports. (Although the released PDF is generally all reader-selectable text, the list of names was curiously embedded as an image of text, preventing simple indexing. We’ve fixed that below.)

To be fair, the DHS does have an internal privacy policy that attempts to strip your “PII”–Personally Identifiable Information–from the aggregated tweets and status updates, with some broad exceptions:

1) U.S. and foreign individuals in extremis situations involving potential life or death circumstances; (this is no change)
2) Senior U.S. and foreign government officials who make public statements or provide public updates;
3) U.S. and foreign government spokespersons who make public statements or provide public updates;
4) U.S. and foreign private sector officials and spokespersons who make public statements or provide public updates;
5) Names of anchors, newscasters, or on-scene reporters who are known or identified as reporters in their post or article or who use traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed;
6) Current and former public officials who are victims of incidents or activities related to Homeland Security; and
7) Terrorists, drug cartel leaders or other persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest, (e.g., mass shooters such as those at Virginia Tech or Ft. Hood) who are killed or found dead.

In addition, the Media Monitoring Capability team can transmit personal information to the DHS National Operations Center over the phone as deemed necessary.

The MMC watch may provide the name, position, or other information considered to be PII to the NOC over the telephone when approved by the appropriate DHS OPS authority. But that information must not be stored in a database that could be searched by an individual’s PII.

In addition to the following list of terms, the DHS can also add additional search terms circumstantially as deemed necessary.

DHS Media Monitoring Terms

2.13 Key Words & Search TermsThis is a current list of terms that will be used by the NOC when monitoring social media sites to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture. As natural or manmade disasters occur, new search terms may be added.

The new search terms will not use PII in searching for relevant
mission-related information.

DHS & Other Agencies

  • Department of Homeland Security (DHS),Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),Coast Guard (USCG),Customs and Border Protection (CBP),Border Patrol,Secret Service (USSS),National Operations Center (NOC),Homeland Defense,Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE),Agent,Task Force,Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),Fusion Center,Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA),Secure Border Initiative (SBI),Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF),U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS),Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS),Transportation Security Administration (TSA),Air Marshal,Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),National Guard,Red Cross,United Nations (UN)

Domestic Security

  • Assassination,Attack,Domestic security,Drill,Exercise,Cops,Law enforcement,Authorities,Disaster assistance,Disaster management,DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office),National preparedness,Mitigation,Prevention,Response,Recovery,Dirty Bomb,Domestic nuclear detection,Emergency management,Emergency response,First responder,Homeland security,Maritime domain awareness (MDA),National preparedness initiative,Militia,Shooting,Shots fired,Evacuation,Deaths,Hostage,Explosion (explosive),Police,Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT),Organized crime,Gangs,National security,State of emergency,Security,Breach,Threat,Standoff,SWAT,Screening,Lockdown,Bomb (squad or threat),Crash,Looting,Riot,Emergency Landing,Pipe bomb,Incident,Facility

HAZMAT & Nuclear

  • Hazmat,Nuclear,Chemical Spill,Suspicious package/device,Toxic,National laboratory,Nuclear facility,Nuclear threat,Cloud,Plume,Radiation,Radioactive,Leak,Biological infection (or event),Chemical,Chemical burn,Biological,Epidemic,Hazardous,Hazardous material incident,Industrial spill,Infection,Powder (white),Gas,Spillover,Anthrax,Blister agent,Exposure,Burn,Nerve agent,Ricin,Sarin,North Korea

Health Concern + H1N1

  • Outbreak,Contamination,Exposure,Virus,Evacuation,Bacteria,Recall,Ebola,Food Poisoning,Foot and Mouth (FMD),H5N1,Avian,Flu,Salmonella,Small Pox,Plague,Human to human,Human to ANIMAL,Influenza,Center for Disease Control (CDC),Drug Administration (FDA),Public Health,Toxic,Agro Terror,Tuberculosis (TB),Agriculture,Listeria,Symptoms,Mutation,Resistant,Antiviral,Wave,Pandemic,Infection,Water/air borne,Sick,Swine,Pork,Strain,Quarantine,H1N1,Vaccine,Tamiflu,Norvo Virus,Epidemic,World Health Organization (WHO and components),Viral Hemorrhagic Fever,E. Coli

Infrastructure Security

  • ,Infrastructure security,Airport,CIKR (Critical Infrastructure & Key Resources),AMTRAK,Collapse,Computer infrastructure,Communications infrastructure,Telecommunications,Critical infrastructure,National infrastructure,Metro,WMATA,Airplane (and derivatives),Chemical fire,Subway,BART,MARTA,Port Authority,NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration Center),Transportation security,Grid,Power,Smart,Body scanner,Electric,Failure or outage,Black out,Brown out,Port,Dock,Bridge,Canceled,Delays,Service disruption,Power lines

Southwest Border Violence

  • Drug cartel,Violence,Gang,Drug,Narcotics,Cocaine,Marijuana,Heroin,Border,Mexico,Cartel,Southwest,Juarez,Sinaloa, Tijuana,Torreon,Yuma,Tucson,Decapitated, U.S. Consulate,Consular,El Paso,Fort Hancock,San Diego,Ciudad Juarez,Nogales,Sonora,Colombia,Mara salvatrucha,MS13 or MS-13,Drug war,Mexican army,Methamphetamine,Cartel de Golfo,Gulf Cartel,La Familia,Reynose,Nuevo Leon,Narcos,Narco banners (Spanish equivalents),Los Zetas,Shootout,Execution,Gunfight,Trafficking,Kidnap,Calderon,Reyosa,Bust,Tamaulipas,Meth Lab,Drug trade,Illegal immigrants,Smuggling (smugglers),Matamoros,Michoacana,Guzman,Arellano-Felix,Beltran-Leyva,Barrio Azteca,Artistics Assassins,Mexicles,New Federation

Terrorism

  • Terrorism,Al Queda (all spellings),Terror,Attack,Iraq,Afghanistan,Iran,Pakistan,Agro,Environmental terrorist,Eco terrorism,Conventional weapon,Target,Weapons grade,Dirty bomb,Enriched,Nuclear,Chemical weapon,Biological weapon,Ammonium nitrate,Improvised explosive device,IED (Improvised Explosive Device),Abu Sayyaf,Hamas,FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia),IRA (Irish Republican Army),ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna),Basque Separatists,Hezbollah,Tamil Tiger,PLF (Palestine Liberation Front),PLO (Palestine Libration Organization),Car bomb,Jihad,Taliban,Weapons cache,Suicide bomber,Suicide attack,Suspicious substance,AQAP (Al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula),AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb),TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan),Yemen,Pirates,Extremism,Somalia,Nigeria,Radicals,Al-Shabaab,Home grown,Plot,Nationalist,Recruitment,Fundamentalism,Islamist

Weather/Disaster/Emergency

  • Emergency,Hurricane,Tornado,Twister,Tsunami,Earthquake,Tremor,Flood,Storm,Crest,Temblor,Extreme weather,Forest fire,Brush fire,Ice,Stranded/Stuck,Help,Hail,Wildfire,Tsunami Warning Center,Magnitude,Avalanche,Typhoon,Shelter-in-place,Disaster,Snow,Blizzard,Sleet,Mud slide or Mudslide,Erosion,Power outage,Brown out,Warning,Watch,Lightening,Aid,Relief,Closure,Interstate,Burst,Emergency Broadcast System

Cyber Security

  • Cyber security,Botnet,DDOS (dedicated denial of service),Denial of service,Malware,Virus,Trojan,Keylogger,Cyber Command,2600,Spammer,Phishing,Rootkit,Phreaking,Cain and abel,Brute forcing,Mysql injection,Cyber attack,Cyber terror,Hacker,China,Conficker,Worm,Scammers,Social media

Yes, the Department of Homeland Security is searching social media for…”social media”.

 

zdroj: http://animalnewyork.com/2012/02/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-searching-your-facebook-and-twitter-for-these-words/

 

 

Verisign sundava domeny na pokyn USA aj ked na ne americka jurisdikcia neplati

Toto je uz vazne moc..

 

Yesterday Forbes broke the news  that Canadian Calvin Ayre and partners who operate the Bodog online gambling empire have been indicted in the U.S., and in a blog post Calvin Ayre confirmed that their bodog.com domain had been seized by homeland security. As reported in Forbes (hat tip to The Domains for the cite),

According to the six-page indictment filed by Rosenstein, Ayre worked with Philip, Ferguson and Maloney to supervise an illegal gambling business from June 2005 to January 2012 in violation of Maryland law. The indictment focuses on the movement of funds from accounts outside the U.S., in Switzerland, England, Malta, and Canada, and the hiring of media resellers and advertisers to promote Internet gambling.

“Sports betting is illegal in Maryland, and federal law prohibits bookmakers from flouting that law simply because they are located outside the country,” Rosenstein said in a statement. “Many of the harms that underlie gambling prohibitions are exacerbated when the enterprises operate over the Internet without regulation.”

That is a truly scary quote but we’ll emphasize that: “The indictment focuses on the movement of funds outside the U.S.” and that you can’t just “flout US law” by not being in the US. What also needs to be understood is that the domain bodog.com was registered to via a non-US Registrar, namely Vancouver’s domainclip.

So Here’s Where It Get’s Scary…

We all know that with some US-based Registrars (*cough* Godaddy *cough*), all it takes is a badge out of a box of crackerjacks and you have the authority to fax in a takedown request which has a good shot at being honoured. We also know that some non-US registrars, it takes a lot more “due process-iness” to get a domain taken down.

But now, none of that matters, because in this case the State of Maryland simply issued a federal warrant was issued in the State of Maryland[1] to .com operator Verisign, (who is headquartered in California) who then duly updated the rootzone for .com with two new NS records for bodog.com which now redirect the domain to the takedown page.

This is exactly the scenario we were worried about when Verisign originally tabled their very troubling takedown proposal. Said proposal was quickly retracted, but here we have the same situation playing out anyway. Granted, this was an actual court order, to Verisign – not a “request” from a governmental or “quasi-governmental” agency as originally proposed.

But at the end of the day what has happened is that US law (in fact, Maryland state law) as been imposed on a .com domain operating outside the USA, which is the subtext we were very worried about when we commented on SOPA. Even though SOPA is currently in limbo, the reality that US law can now be asserted over all domains registered under .com, .net, org, .biz and maybe .info (Afilias is headquartered in Ireland by operates out of the US).

This is no longer a doom-and-gloom theory by some guy in a tin foil hat. It just happened.

The ramifications of this are no less than chilling and every single organization branded or operating under .com, .net, .org, .biz etc needs to ask themselves about their vulnerability to the whims of US federal and state lawmakers (not exactly known their cluefulness nor even-handedness, especially with regard to matters of the internet).

The larger picture: root monopolies and the need to replace ICANN

The .com root will never be opened to a truly competitive bidding process. Verisign has pretty well ensconced themselves into the .com and .net roots indefinitely with built-in price hikes baked into the cake. I recall a conversation I once had with Tucows CEO Elliot Noss, back when they still owned Liberty RMS (which ran the .info registry and later sold to Afilias) – he lamented that if the .com registry bidding process were truly competitive, you would see a registry operator in there doing it for about $2 per domain. At the time the wholesale cost of a .com domain was $6 and is now $7.85 after their latest annual increase which is hard-coded into their contract.

I mention this because a truly competitive bidding process for the registry operator job would bring out both cost competition and stewardship competition: players who would table proposals on just how they would respect the rights of all their stakeholders, not to mention operators who may operate outside the United States.

Where the fsck is ICANN in all of this?

They are nowhere. They are collecting their fees, pushing their agenda of as many possible new-top-level domains and despite the fact that SOPA, ACTA, PIPA et aim directly at the interests of their core stakeholders, for whom they are supposed to be advocates and stewards.  ICANN is conspicuous in their absence from the debate, save for a smug and trite abdication of involvement (i.e. “ICANN Doesn’t Take Down Websites“) – translation: “This isn’t our problem”.

And therein lies the issue. ICANN needs to make this their problem, because it very much is. If ICANN isn’t going to stand up, and vigorously campaign for global stakeholder representation in these matters, than they are not only abdicating any responsibility in the ongoing and escalating crackdown on internet freedom, they are also abdicating their right to govern and oversee it.

They need to be visible, they need to be loud and they need to come down on the right side of these issues or they need to be replaced.

Of course, the replacement of ICANN will never happen. At least not by a non-US entity, which means we are once again headed to the unthinkable place that only crackpots and conspiracy theorists think possible: a fractured internet with competing roots. On the bright side, life will go on, and companies like mine will probably become exceedingly wealthy charging every internet user in the world fees to gain and project visibility across all the myriad internet roots that will someday exist because governments will refuse to approach it co-operatively. The only thing that will remain to be seen is whether we’ll be deemed “criminals” for doing so.

Footnote

[1] I originally was under the impression that the State of Maryland issued the warrant, it has been pointed out to me that this is not the case, the warrant is a federal warrant issued in the State of Maryland.

 

zdroj: http://blog2.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domain-registered-via-foreign-registrar-on-behalf-of-us-authorities/

Este nieco o ACTA/SOPA/PIPA

Umělec zadržen na letišti kvůli vlastní hudbě

 

Americký zpěvák a kytarista John Doe byl včera večer policií zadržen na pražském letišti Václava Havla poté, co nedokázal prokázat původ podezřelých audio souborů, které vezl s sebou.

 

Policisté při namátkové kontrole odhalili v jeho telefonu několik demo nahrávek. John neuspěl s vysvětlením, že jde o jeho vlastní díla. Policisté trvali na tom, že John svá vlastní (!) dema pořídil nelegálně, aniž by zaplatil příslušnou částku příslušným organizacím, vlastnícím jeho autorská práva.

 

John je přitom známý právě svým vyhraněným postojem vůči distribučním společnostem; písně nahrává ve studiu svého kamaráda a distribuuje přímo, prostřednictvím internetu a za dobrovolný poplatek. Žádné organizace tedy jeho autorská práva nevlastní. (V souvislosti s tímto faktem se vyrojila spekulace, že kontrola nemusela být až tak namátková. To už ale ponechejme fantazii čtenáře.)

 

Zatčení přihlížely desítky skalních fanoušků, které musela rozhánět policie. Fandové na Facebooku plánují nejrůznější formy protestu a své pohoršení vyjadřují na Johnových webových stránkách. Česká policie ve spolupráci s Interpolem proto zvažuje jejich odstavení po dobu vyšetřování.

 

Hudebník a autor několika hitů byl ještě v den zatčení převezen do nedaleké vazební věznice Václava Havla, kde čeká na předání do Spojených států. Kvůli tomuto incidentu bude odloženo jak jeho turné po Česku, tak nahrávání chystaného alba “Stop ACTing Like Idiots”, na němž se měly objevit i některé písně, které si John přivezl s sebou v telefonu.

zdroj: http://zeitung.cz/kultura/203-umelec-zadrzen-na-letisti-kvuli-vlastni-hudbe

ACTA’s EU future in doubt after Polish pause

tento clanok ma po dlhej dobe potesil. Slovaci berte si priklad

 

 

Tusk’s backtracking could spell the end of ACTA for the entire European Union. If Poland or any other EU member state, or the European Parliament itself, fails to ratify the document, it becomes null and void across the union. As it stands, there are already five member countries that have not even signed ACTA.

“I share the opinions of those who from the beginning said that consultations were not complete,” Tusk said, according to a report in Wirtualna Polska. The 54-year-old prime minister added that a Polish rejection of ACTA is now on the table, and admitted that he had previously approached the agreement from a “20th century” perspective, due to his age.

All this represents a major about-turn, as Tusk strongly defended the agreement just three days ago.

Poland has seen the biggest protests against ACTA, with thousands demonstrating on the streets last week. Hackers believed to be associated with Anonymous attacked Tusk’s website, as well as the European Parliament site, after the signing.

Critics of ACTA say it has insufficient safeguards for online liberties, particularly in signing countries that do not already have strong principles of freedom of speech and expression. In addition, the agreement negotiations, which took place without the contributions of civic groups or elected representatives, have been widely described as undemocratic.

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/intellectual-property/2012/02/03/actas-eu-future-in-doubt-after-polish-pause-40094978/