Re: [freenet-chat] China starts to get serious over cyberspace
I had wanted a freenode for a long long time. Then I finally got a place of my own. So I set up my node on my athlon 800.. and it just sat there. and collected data, and then I tried to do some browsing, and performance was always horrible. And I left it running for a few weeks... Finally, I decided I needed the bandwidth for something useful. =\ Freenet is a great concept, I just wish it worked. =( Luke771 wrote: Matthew Toseland wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: snip After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has clarified that The use of this software is not compulsory. Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm ___ in the meantime, internet censorship is now law in germany, and it has been for a relatively long time in australia. my guess: eu and uk next, us will take longer because of their constiution but sooner or later the net will be censorted there too. I expect a flow of new users from germany as a reaction to the new censorship laws, pretty much the same as it happened in france after the new fascist laws lots of people installed freenet. I wonder why we have relatiovely few autralian users, when autralia is by far the worst in the formerly free world, when it comes to censorship... also, it looks like italian users are finally growing in number, after the introduction of some new fascist laws with a couple of italian indexes that have been added lately, some blogs, and even a page from an 'alternative' politician (yeah, right) the trend is clear: more fascist laws, more censorship laws = more freenet users. Now the point is how to make them stay and how to make them bring their friends (offering interesting content?) -- New president: Here we go again... Chemistry.com: A total rip-off. Powers are not rights. ___ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [freenet-chat] China starts to get serious over cyberspace
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: All new PCs shipped in China include a piece of software called Green Dam. This is supposedly to prevent children accessing offensive material. A report by the OpenNet Initiative has found that Green Dam can monitor activities outside of web browsing, and can terminate applications. Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard's Berkman Centre told the BBC that it can be used for broader purposes, such as the filtering of political ideas. Recently it has been in the news because of allegations that it includes pirated code from CyberSitter. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8091044.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8101978.stm IMHO this is very interesting. It was always going to be necessary for a totalitarian regime to take control of the client side as well as filtering at the network level (which they already do, extensively although not yet with very sophisticated technology, including blocking access to freenetproject.org, and apparently the 0.5 FNP protocol too). According to surveys, 80% of users won't have Green Dam, presumably mostly because they already have computers and have no desire to add it, or are buying second hand hardware. But this will change over time. Currently it only runs on Windows. The next steps are obvious: Provided that Microsoft completes the implementation of TCPA in Windows 7 or some future version, and provided that Intel and AMD start shipping CPUs with the TPM integrated (which given the demand for TCPA from laptops for the corporate market is likely, despite massive opposition from tech enthusiasts resulting in mail order desktop motherboards almost never having a TPM), and once all the old hardware has been retired (which will take a long time), China can lock down cyberspace completely, excluding any realistic long-term possibility of bypassing government filters by requiring a state-approved operating system to connect to the Internet. Whether similar things happen in the west depends on political trends, the power of the entertainment industry, how much consumers care about DRM, how much of a problem spam and malware become, and so on. After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has clarified that The use of this software is not compulsory. Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm ___ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [freenet-chat] China starts to get serious over cyberspace
Matthew Toseland wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 03:54:31PM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: snip After a sustained campaign in the press, a legal challenge and several security holes being discovered, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has clarified that The use of this software is not compulsory. Those who uninstall it will not face prosecution. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8106526.stm ___ in the meantime, internet censorship is now law in germany, and it has been for a relatively long time in australia. my guess: eu and uk next, us will take longer because of their constiution but sooner or later the net will be censorted there too. I expect a flow of new users from germany as a reaction to the new censorship laws, pretty much the same as it happened in france after the new fascist laws lots of people installed freenet. I wonder why we have relatiovely few autralian users, when autralia is by far the worst in the formerly free world, when it comes to censorship... also, it looks like italian users are finally growing in number, after the introduction of some new fascist laws with a couple of italian indexes that have been added lately, some blogs, and even a page from an 'alternative' politician (yeah, right) the trend is clear: more fascist laws, more censorship laws = more freenet users. Now the point is how to make them stay and how to make them bring their friends (offering interesting content?) ___ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:chat-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
