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Submission + - February 11th, 2014 is The Day We Fight Back against Mass Surveillance (naaij.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "Today many websites are calling on their users to Fight Back against Mass Surveillance. Using a script from www.thedaywefightback.org it calls for the people to make themselves heard by offering a direct in the browser option to sign a petition for your country from any website running the script. As you can probably see The NAAIJ is one such site. Other sites we’ve noticed in the first few hours of Feb 11th are:

www.NAAIJ.org www.eff.org www.thehackernews.com www.upworthy.com www.youranonnews.org/ www.bithits.info www.cryptohits.info

Submission + - EFF Launches The Day We Fight Back 2

Submitted by phmadore
phmadore writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is on a holy crusade to protect the fourth amendment. No matter how you feel about the activities of the National Security Agency as revealed to us in the last several months, you should call your representatives and tell them! The campaign is called "The Day We Fight Back" and it encourages all dutiful citizens to take a few minutes to either call or e-mail their representatives to voice their opinion on the looming possibility of or already existing Big Brother we read about in 1984 as children. Personally, I chose to call, and the process was very smooth.

Comment Re:Why the dumb name (Score 2) 142

by jarle.aase (#46215545) Attached to: Why the Internet of Things Is More 1876 Than 1995

Can we stop using these ridiculous buzz words/phrases?

Internet of things? Really?

How else would you describe items that makes themself profitable by Facebook, Gooogle and the like? Would you call them people?

When people act like things, and becomes the very products sold by Big Corporations, I think the prase is accurate.

Oh.. I just realized that this tread is about the internet of crap!

Submission + - Big Investors want Microsoft to Ditch Surface, Xbox, and Bing (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by GuitarNeophyte
GuitarNeophyte writes: It's the morning after Satya Nadella's first day as Microsoft's CEO. Now that the confetti has cleared, Nadella faces tough choices about the path forward for the company. Two influential Microsoft shareholders have been pushing the Redmond software giant to abandon what they view as non-essential product lines so that Microsoft can focus on its core strength: selling enterprise software to businesses. Ballmer envisioned Microsoft as a "device and services" company and reorganized the company last year to better execute that vision. But now Ballmer is out â" though still on the board â" and with a new CEO come fresh questions about the fate of consumer tech at Microsoft. Some investors have suggested that Microsoft spin off its money-losing consumer products and focus solely on the enterprise. Even the Xbox deserves to go, Paul Ghaffari, the wealth manager for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said last year.

Comment Re:I don't know why people are upset with this (Score 1) 208

by jarle.aase (#45550773) Attached to: UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs

They actually aren't "removing" anything. They simply aren't allowing others to sell access to it.

Yes, that is the first thing that will happen, with the new laws.

But do you seriously think they will stop there? That they will not take over the domain name if they find the site sufficiently annoying? That they will not confiscate your servers if the censorship is not efficient? Remember that these slime-balls does not need to break any laws in order to put you up against a wall and shoot you, if they so desire. They will just make it law.

It always starts with censorship - making content illegal to sell. Then illegal to possess. Then comes the times when they burn the books. And then, finally, when they burn the authors.

I'm an author. Therefore, I am concerned.

Submission + - The Internet is Finished as a Global Network

Submitted by Hugh Pickens DOT Com
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: John Naughton writes in the Guardian that the insight them seems to have escaped most of the world's mainstream media regarding the revelations from Edward Snowden is how the US has been able to bend nine US internet companies to its demands for access to their users' data proving that no US-based internet company can be trusted to protect our privacy or data. "The fact is that Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are all integral components of the US cyber-surveillance system," writes Naughton. "Nothing, but nothing, that is stored in their "cloud" services can be guaranteed to be safe from surveillance or from illicit downloading by employees of the consultancies employed by the NSA." This spells the end of the internet as a truly global network. "It was always a possibility that the system would eventually be Balkanised, ie divided into a number of geographical or jurisdiction-determined subnets as societies such as China, Russia, Iran and other Islamic states decided that they needed to control how their citizens communicated. Now, Balkanisation is a certainty." Naughton adds that given what we now know about how the US has been abusing its privileged position in the global infrastructure, the idea that the western powers can be allowed to continue to control it has become untenable. "Why would you pay someone else to hold your commercial or other secrets, if you suspect or know they are being shared against your wishes?" writes Neelie Kroes, vice-president of the European Commission. "Front or back door – it doesn’t matter – any smart person doesn’t want the information shared at all. Customers will act rationally, and providers will miss out on a great opportunity."

Submission + - Hialeah Shooter Downloaded "Anarchist Cookbook" (miamiherald.com) 2

Submitted by matria
matria writes: Reports on the possible motivation of Pedro Vargas, who shot six people before being killed by police, appear to make much of his accessing the "Anarchist Cookbook". Even the name of the page of the article emphasizes this — "at-former-job-hialeah-gunman-downloaded.html"

...an investigation into Vargas prompted by his poor work performance found he had downloaded a slew of inappropriate files onto his office desktop, including a so-called “Anarchist Cookbook,” which includes instructions on making explosives at home, counterfeiting money and killing someone with your bare hands...

Of chief concern to Vargas’ supervisors was a file titled “1000 hacking tutorials,” which, according to the university, included an “Index to the Anarchist Cookbook IV, version 4.14.” The Anarchist Cookbook is a bomb-making manual first published in 1971 during the Vietnam War.

Comment Re:Troll much? (Score 1) 555

by jarle.aase (#44432597) Attached to: Google Argues Against Net Neutrality

A residential service is meant for residential purposes. Your TOS explicitly states this. If you wish to use your internet service for commercial purposes then you pay for commercial service.

How is running my own, private mail-server or VoIP server a "commercial service"?

Comment Re:Another failure of "unlimited" bandwidth (Score 1) 555

by jarle.aase (#44432571) Attached to: Google Argues Against Net Neutrality

The issue here isn't exactly net neutrality, it's that Google has to have some way of stopping users from sucking up all the bandwidth.

On the opposite. I think Google want you to have all the bandwidth you could ever desire, so you can stream youtube-media, use their Cloud storage, and provide them with as much information about your life, family, friends, habits and thoughts as possible. That's how good "you-ar-the-product" net-citizens behave.

What they don't want is for you to run your own private cloud storage, mail server, media server or in any other way take care of your own and your family's privacy. From their perspective, that's unfair for their share-holders and advertisers!

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