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Submission + - UK Pirate Party Launches Policy2011 - Looking for (pirateparty.org.uk)

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "The Pirate Party UK is asking for ideas from the public and members alike with it's Policy2011 programme, providing an opportunity for everyone to get involved in an open, public and presumably slightly different policy consultation.

The Pirate Party UK will be holding a public policy consultation from the 3rd of October until the 3rd of November at piratethispolicy.co.uk...

Here in the UK the party has faced criticism for having too narrow a focus and for not communicating its principles and ideas well. This process will deal with that criticism and allow the party to build a strong foundation of principles as well as broad policy objectives for the coming years. It will make clear what we are fighting for and, while we may not agree entirely in all areas, it will show that our principles are relevant and important to the country."
United Kingdom

Submission + - So much for Civil Liberties online in the UK... (pirateparty.org.uk)

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "It's "acceptable to shut Twitter and Facebook off for an hour or two"... But Government has "no intention of restricting Internet services"? Governments don't get technology.

At every turn, the coalition has been exposed as having no coherent policy on digital rights. Nothing illustrates this better than its zig-zag course on Internet filtering and website blocking."
Politics

Submission + - Axe the Act - Digital Economy Act Challenge (pirateparty.org.uk)

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "he Pirate Party is constantly working hard to protect the rights of citizens across the country. From the outset we have been vocal critics of the Digital Economy Act.

On the 14th of June a group of brave MPs, Julian Huppert, MarkDurkan, Andrew George, Robert Halfon, Eric Joyce and Tom Watson brought Early Day Motion 1913 to the House. The Motion criticises some of the worst aspects of the bill, and presses for a much needed re-examination.

The Pirate Party certainly supports them, but we need your help. We need you to make your representatives aware that you oppose this legislation, we need your voice to be heard before it is silenced by draconian and ill thought out legislation."
United Kingdom

Submission + - The future of electoral reform in the UK (pirateparty.org.uk)

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "A statement on the failure of the AV referendum and on the future of electoral reform in the UK by UK Pirate Party Leader Loz Kaye.

On behalf of the Pirate Party, I would like to thank the voters that turned out to cast their ballots in the national referendum on whether to change the electoral system to the Alternative Vote. The outcome is not what The UK Pirate Party or I had hoped for, even if it is what we had come to expect over recent weeks."
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK PIrate Party Leader Loz Kaye on anything (reddit.com)

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "Loz Kaye answers questions in a reddit AMA"

"I'm the elected leader of a small but growing political party that you may have heard about. I have supported a number of elections whilst a party governor, stood for parliament at the Oldham East & Saddleworth by-election and am currently working with party members on campaigns in Scotland and Manchester.
I also campaign on a number of issues ranging Jokes on Trial in the UK to Bradley Manning's plight in the US and as well as more core PPUK issues like the Digital Economy Act."

"Oh and I should probably say that I am also a composer, musical director, and lecturer."
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK Pirate Party launches 2011 manifesto (theinquirer.net)

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "THE UK Pirate Party has launched its 2011 manifesto and promised to fight off the Digital Economy Act, support web fairness and make it a fundamental right to be a whistleblower.

Opposing the Digital Economy Act and supporting Net Neutrality will be high on its agenda though, and Kaye said that in its current state the former is "Unacceptable".

He added, "We face whole families just being kicked off the Internet. That is unacceptable. We would repeal those parts of the Act.""

Comment FBI (Score 1) 1

by Ajehals (#35031888) Attached to: DDoS Attacks and the Law
It seems LOIC may not have been such a great idea (I seem to remember someone hailing this as the first wave of cyber-activism, others categorising it as cyber-warfare..) although I wonder what proportion of those involved in the attacks this group of under 50 actually is...
Security

Submission + - DDoS Attacks and the Law (pirateparty.org.uk) 1

Submitted by Ajehals
Ajehals writes: Earlier this week it was announced that five people had been arrested across the UK in connection with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on "major US companies across several industries" and was done on request from the FBI. While few details have emerged, it is understood that they were arrested under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The aim of this post will be to examine the relevant part of this law and how it applies to DDoS attacks.
United Kingdom

Submission + - UK ID Cards Are No More! (pirateparty.org.uk) 1

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Ajehals
Ajehals writes: "In the last ten years, governments have fallen over themselves to try and obtain more information about their citizens. Sometimes it's databases, or new regulations, or cameras, but the one thing they have in common is that they can be used to identify you, and track you. Today is a positive step then, as in the UK, it's the last day for the "UK Identity Card" — after midnight GMT tonight, they will no longer be valid for use at all."

Comment Re:Since its a redirect... (Score 3, Informative) 116

by tdobson (#34622862) Attached to: D0z.me — the Evil URL Shortener

this is how it shows up in my apache logs:

r00t.me.tld.fail:80 x.x.x.x - - [20/Dec/2010:23:04:08 +0000] "GET /?v=1292886248174 HTTP/1.1" 200 1888 "http://d0z.me/worker.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chromium/8.0.552.215 Chrome/8.0.552.215 Safari/534.10"
r00t.me.tld.fail:80 x.x.x.x - - [20/Dec/2010:23:04:11 +0000] "GET /?v=1292886251634 HTTP/1.1" 200 1888 "http://d0z.me/worker.js" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chromium/8.0.552.215 Chrome/8.0.552.215 Safari/534.10"

Comment Re:This is why we vote Pirate (Score 1) 343

by tdobson (#33532608) Attached to: EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party

Here's the kicker. Every major city in the US has got just as much CCTV surveillance as London! Yes, you're "spied on" just as much in New York as you are in London, and you've got armed police ready and willing to shoot you, too. It must be awful living in the US, with that constant threat over you all the time.

There's a local station near where I live in northern england. It serves a small rural town, has two platforms, a carpark and a ticket office. How many CCTV cameras does it have?

12+

see for yourself:
http://www.tdobson.net/node/161

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