Topic: SECURITY - on January 12, 2012 at 12:21:00 PM CET
Bundesregierung testet Spionagesoftware FinSpy als Ersatz für Bundestrojaner
Die Demokratisierungswelle des „arabischen Frühlings“ hat auch die Debatte um die demokratiefördernde Wirkung des Internets neu entfacht. Im Zuge dieser Debatte, die jüngst auch vor dem Hintergrund der Diskussion um den Einsatz des „Bundestrojaners“ geführt wurde, sind auch solche Unternehmen verstärkt in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt, deren ins Ausland gelieferte Programme helfen, Kommunikation via E-Mail, in sozialen Netzwerken und in Blogs zu kontrollieren oder gar ganz verstummen zu lassen.
Seit langem fordere ich gemeinsam mit Malte Spitz und anderen die Bundesregierung dazu auf, nicht länger die Augen vor diesen unethischen Geschäften zu verschließen, sondern endlich eine dringend gebotene Reform der überholten Rüstungsexportrichtlinien vorzunehmen und sich auch dafür einzusetzen, „Dual-use-Güter“ und entsprechende Techniken zur Störung, Überwachung und Unterbrechung des Internet- und Mobilfunkverkehrs endlich in die entsprechenden Export-Bestimmungen aufzunehmen.
gruen-digital.de Remote Monitoring & Infection Solutions: FINSPY MOBILE
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 12, 2012 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Video-Kampagne gegen Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Die Bürgerinitiative "Stoppt die Vorratsdatenspeicherung" hat bereits mehr als 30.000 Unterschriften erreicht. Nun hat die Gruppe von Aktivisten eine Kampagne mit Videobotschaften gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung gestartet.
Die Initiatoren der Bürgerinitiative gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung, die AK Vorrat, teilte am Mittwoch mit, dass beim Parlament bereits mehr als 30.000 Unterschriften eingegangen seien. Bis Mittwoch waren es exakt 4471 Unterstützungserklärungen auf Papier und 26815 Online - und zwar ohne Werbebudget oder parteipolitischer Bindung.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 12, 2012 at 12:16:00 PM CET
Wikipedia’s Wales wants to join Reddit’s SOPA blackout
Wikipedia founder James Wales has floated the idea of a Wikipedia blackout to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act in the past, but has had a renewed burst of interest following the announcement that Reddit — the Web news and aggregation site — will black out its services in protest of online piracy bills Jan. 18.
The protest coincides with a House Oversight Committee hearing called by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) to take a close look at the impact that domain name service and search engine blocking will have on national security and the American Internet community.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 12, 2012 at 12:14:00 PM CET
WordPress Stands Up Against SOPA and PIPA
You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it.
Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political spectrum is evidence that we are doing our job and democratizing publishing, and we don’t want to alienate any of our users no matter how much some of us may disagree with some of them personally. Today, I’m breaking our no-politics rule, because there’s something going on in U.S. politics right now that we need to make sure you know about and understand, because it affects us all.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 12, 2012 at 9:44:00 AM CET
FBI OpenBSD Backdoors and RSA Cipher Vulnerability
Here is a follow up to the FBI / OpenBSD / OCF encryption backdoors thread as promised. We had a three alarm fire at our house over the Christmas holidays and I am just now getting plugged back in.
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At ~1997 or thereabouts, the FBI approached a fellow by the name of Lew Jenkins, the Chairman and CEO of Premenos Technology Corp., about their development of an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) software suite used for corp-to-corp EDI transactions called "Templar".
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At that point in time encryption technology (especially public key encryption algorithms) were still considered munitions by the United States government, and presumably the FBI was interested in Premenos research related to key escrow and session recovery of RSA-encrypted communication sessions.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 11, 2012 at 2:34:00 PM CET
Adobe plugs critical Reader X security holes
Adobe fixes six serious vulnerabilities that expose Windows and Mac OS X users to malicious hacker attacks.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 11, 2012 at 2:31:00 PM CET
List of Those Expressing Concern With #SOPA and #PIPA
Share this page and show our strength.
If you oppose SOPA and PIPA and want to take action, please consider contacting Congress. For a list of letters to Congress, press, and blog posts opposing SOPA, click here. Companies, Online Services, and Websites.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on January 11, 2012 at 1:29:00 PM CET
Look at These Fucking Boots!
Last month we went to the dusty city of Matehuala, Mexico, in the northern state of San Luís Potosí on the high plateau of the Huasteca Potosina, in search of the pointiest long-toed cowboy boots ever made. Over the past year, the botas vaqueras exóticas phenomenon has overrun the rodeo dance floors and clubs of this area, much to the dissatisfaction of Mexicans who critique the fashions of their countrymen on hotly trafficked style blogs.
But we were told we were too late, that the wrongly maligned wearers of what are by far the most wondrous footwear we’ve ever seen had been replaced with short, square, “pig-nosed” boots by stubby contrarians.
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Topic: ART - on January 11, 2012 at 1:17:00 PM CET
Robert Anton Wilson Week on Boing Boing
Tomorrow marks the fifth anniversary of Robert Anton Wilson's death. Bob was a writer of fiction and non-fiction, most notably the Illuminatus! trilogy (co-written with Robert Shea) and the non-fiction memoir Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati. In all, he wrote 35 books, countless articles and essays, and a couple of plays and screenplays.
Bob was an intensely curious, intellectually playful, and profoundly insightful person and his writing and talks influenced my world view more than any other writer. He wrote about conspiracy theories, government nuttiness, the future, Freemasonry, quantum physics, magick, occult and paranormal phenomena, human behavior, mental models, psychedelic drugs, cult psychology, and the nature of reality. He had a knack for giving straightforward explanations of hard-to-grok concepts without stripping them of their power or complexity. Before I read RAW's books, the world was confusing and mysterious. After I read his books, the world became much more confusing and mysterious -- but in a good way! Bob converted me from atheism to agnosticism (which, in his words, means "never regarding any model or map of the universe with total 100% belief or total 100% denial").
boingboing.net Maybe Logic - Robert Anton Wilson mit deutschen Untertitel
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 11, 2012 at 1:15:00 PM CET
Verfassungsrichter warnt vor geplanter EU-Datenschutzverordnung
Verfassungsrichter Johannes Masing äußert in einem Beitrag für die Süddeutsche Zeitung die Befürchtung, dass mit der geplanten Neuregelung des Datenschutzes auf EU-Ebene nationale Grundrechte nicht mehr anwendbar seien. Das Verfassungsgericht selbst müsse seine Kontrollfunktion in wesentlichen Bereichen aufgeben, in denen es "weit über die Grenzen hinaus als vorbildlich geltende freiheitliche Strukturen geschaffen hat", mahnt der Jurist.
Offiziell will Justizkommissarin Viviane Reding den Verordnungsentwurf erst am 25. Januar vorlegen. Masing betont, dass die allgemeine EU-Datenschutzrichtlinie von 1980 durch eine Verordnung ersetzt werden solle, die einem europaweiten Gesetz gleichkomme. Anders als eine Richtlinie wirke sie unmittelbar, lasse keine Umsetzungsspielräume und verdränge jede Form bereits in Mitgliedsstaaten geschaffenen einschlägigen Rechts. Dies beziehe sich sogar auf das Grundgesetz.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 11, 2012 at 12:44:00 PM CET
Boycott SOPA for Android Scans Products, Warns You If the Manufacturer Supports SOPA
Armchair activists now have a tool that can transport their SOPA protestations into the real world: Boycott SOPA, an Android app that scans barcodes and tells you whether an object’s manufacturer/publisher is a supporter of the much maligned Stop Online Piracy Act.
If you’ve ever scanned a barcode on your Android phone to look up a book or CD on Amazon, Boycott SOPA works in exactly the same way: First you have to install the ZXing Barcode Scanner app, but then you simply go around pointing your phone’s camera at product barcodes. Boycott SOPA gives you a big red cross if the product is distributed by a SOPA supporter, or a green tick if it’s “clean.” Much to my chagrin, Coca-Cola supports SOPA — but Smirnoff, on the other hand, does not. If you ever needed a sign from Above that you ought to drink more, there it is.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 11, 2012 at 12:33:00 PM CET
Marijuana Juicing is The Next Big Thing (or a Big Waste of Cash)
Weed can be smoked, vaporized and eaten.
But a practice advocated by Dr. William Courtney, an M.D. from Willits, California seems to be gaining traction in 2012:
He wants you to juice your marijuana. That's right, put that valuable green stuff in a blender and drink it up like a banana milkshake. Mmm.
And the best benefit (allegedly)?
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