Re: [liberationtech] Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying a VPN

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hey James,

Thanks for spreading the word.

The study that Torrentfreak wrote about is a part of the Cybernorms
Research Group and our studies regarding social norm strength related to
legal interventions and sanctions regarding online usage.

This study was the third in a series of identical studies, conducted in
feb 09 (during the TPB trial and pre-IPRED); oct 09 (post-IPRED) and feb
12 (long term post-IPRED and in the middle of a new enforcement campaign
against filesharers in Sweden).

The first is described here:
http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol2/iss4/art4/

The second here:
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/09/1461444812439553.abstract

The third is accepted, but needs to go through some peer review first
before publishing.

The linked articles should be possible to download if you're on an
university network. Or if you have such friends...

Best,
Marcin


James Losey skrev 2012-05-02 11.36:
> Hi All,
> 
> Fascinating article from Torrent Freak on the growing data obfuscation arms
> race: use of VPNs by younger users is up 40% over the last couple years. I
> look forward tow reading the full study.
> http://torrentfreak.com/young-file-sharers-respond-to-tough-laws-by-buying-a-vpn-120501/
> 
> Best,
> James
> 


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Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

gt;>> -sw
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Dave
>>> Karpf mailto:daveka...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Agreed that that's what makes it importantly different. This
>>> wasn't the Comm department responding to reporters, it was an
>>> active fundraising ask.
>>>
>>> I'm withholding judgment for the moment, but sincerely hope
>>> the Avaaz folks will be more open with the tech experts on
>>> this list. At the moment, this looks a LOT like a crass
>>> fundraising ploy. If so, I personally would lose a lot of
>>> respect for the org.
>>>
>>> DK
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 4, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Okhin >> <mailto:ok...@okhin.fr>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Fri, 4 May 2012 15:48:35 -0400
>>> > Sahar Massachi >> <mailto:sa...@brandeis.edu>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I'm a bit concerned about all the muttering about Avaaz's
>>> sensationalism.
>>> >>
>>> >> Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding something, but
>>> the following
>>> >> scenario seems pretty plausible to me:
>>> >>
>>> >> The Avaaz site comes under some sort of attack. The tech
>>> team at Avaaz
>>> >> gives a quick "idiots guide" to what's going on to their
>>> communications
>>> >> team, and then goes back to trying to deal with the
>>> problem. The
>>> >> communications team has a partially confused understanding
>>> of exactly
>>> >> what's going on, but tries to deal with the situation as
>>> best they can.
>>> >> When technically minded journalists want to talk to Avaaz, the
>>> >> communications staff doesn't want to bother their
>>> still-hard-at-work tech
>>> >> team, so they give unsatisfying, vague, and unhelpful
>>> replies to these
>>> >> journalists".
>>> >>
>>> >> Am I missing something?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Yeah, they started a funding campaign to fight the attack
>>> and, while
>>> > the attack has stopped (according to their claim), it's
>>> still open and
>>> > their goal is 35k$ (and they're at 33k$)for what?
>>> > https://secure.avaaz.org/en/massive_attack_on_avaaz_a/?fp
>>> >
>>> > Next time I've got a spam bot raiding my corporate network,
>>> I'll ask this amount of money to my boss. Just to see he's face.
>>> >
>>> > Okhin
>>> >
>>>

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Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Thank you, Yvette. 

That statement still does not explain why the donation is needed (since their 
system could stand the attack). 

Marcin 

Yvette Alberdingkthijm  skrev:

Hi all,


Ricken Patel, who heads up Avaaz, asked me to post this on this list (as I 
brought the discussion to his attention) and here is what he said:


It's a statement quoting the CEO of our hosting company. Would you mind posting 
it to that discussion or asking someone to? I'm not part of it - 


https://secure.avaaz.org/act/media.php?press_id=321



YAT 


Yvette J. Alberdingk Thijm

Executive Director
WITNESS
80 Hanson Place
Brooklyn, NY 11217
phone: + 1(718) 783 2271

europe: +31 619031122
mobile: + 1 (347) 210 0152


skype: yvette-a or witnessyvette
email: yve...@witness.org
twitter: @yvettethijm, @witnessorg, #video4change
blog: blog.witness.org
 

When elephants fight, the grass suffers


On May 4, 2012, at 10:33 PM, Erik Sundelof wrote:


I do not know any background of this nor am I in any way linked to the 
issue/concern at hand, but some general projection rules here are needed. 
Especially since I have started to see random numbers thrown around which is 
contraproductive in any way, shape or form.


Throwing out $500k as a result of 35k donations is just unfounded. Just for 
clarity here do check my background as far as donation flows and crowdsourcing.


I really personally want the discussion about the issue/concern at hand to stay 
away from splitting hairs and throwing random numbers around. It is not 
constructive and also will defocus the discussion from what it should be all 
about.


Apologies if I come across as too direct but let us together keep the 
discussion on-point and fair, as well as staying clear from thowing arbitrary 
and unfounded statements around.


Erik


http://sundelof.com



Sent from my iPad


On May 4, 2012, at 5:39 PM, Shaun Wilde  wrote:

Was clarifying Okhin's musing about what their goal of 35k$ was for. Their goal 
is 35,000 donations.  Likely to the tune of... who knows. $500,000? If we're 
wondering what they'd do with 35k$, an even more interesting brainstorm is what 
they'll do with 500k$. Hard to know without knowing anything about the 
attack--except that it was massive.
-sw




On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Jillian C. York  wrote:

Unless those 33,000 individual donations were less than $1 each, I don't really 
see what you're getting at.



On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Shaun Wilde  wrote:

Clarification. That's 33,000 individual donations. Not $33k. That should get 
them started.
-sw

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Dave Karpf  wrote:
Agreed that that's what makes it importantly different. This wasn't the Comm 
department responding to reporters, it was an active fundraising ask.

I'm withholding judgment for the moment, but sincerely hope the Avaaz folks 
will be more open with the tech experts on this list. At the moment, this looks 
a LOT like a crass fundraising ploy. If so, I personally would lose a lot of 
respect for the org.

DK

Sent from my iPad




On May 4, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Okhin  wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2012 15:48:35 -0400
> Sahar Massachi  wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit concerned about all the muttering about Avaaz's sensationalism.
>>
>> Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding something, but the following
>> scenario seems pretty plausible to me:
>>
>> The Avaaz site comes under some sort of attack. The tech team at Avaaz
>> gives a quick "idiots guide" to what's going on to their communications
>> team, and then goes back to trying to deal with the problem. The
>> communications team has a partially confused understanding of exactly
>> what's going on, but tries to deal with the situation as best they can.
>> When technically minded journalists want to talk to Avaaz, the
>> communications staff doesn't want to bother their still-hard-at-work tech
>> team, so they give unsatisfying, vague, and unhelpful replies to these
>> journalists".
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>
> Yeah, they started a funding campaign to fight the attack and, while
> the attack has stopped (according to their claim), it's still open and
> their goal is 35k$ (and they're at 33k$)for what?
> https://secure.avaaz.org/en/massive_attack_on_avaaz_a/?fp
>
> Next time I've got a spam bot raiding my corporate network, I'll ask this 
> amount of money to my boss. Just to see he's face.
>
> Okhin
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[liberationtech] The Research Bay

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

During three days in April last year the Cybernorms Research Group
conducted a big survey study called The Research Bay in cooperation with
the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. The aim was to explore the
demographics of the file-sharing community on site, using the huge user
base of The Pirate Bay to grasp what the file-sharing phenomenon (and
debate) is all about. The response was tremendous. During the three days
we got over 75.000 answers from all parts of the world, which gave us a
great insight and an even greater collection of data regarding issues
like file-sharing, anonymization, leech/seed ratio and much more.

Now we are doing it again. Three days from today, meaning from Wednesday
to Friday this week, we once again are on the front of The Pirate Bay.
The survey is very similar to the one we used last year, with minor
changes and additions. This to make the data as comparable as possible.

Our survey is not the first study that deals with file-sharing. Within
the Cybernorms Research Group we have several others that we use to
compare and even deeper understand the issues that interest us. Other
researchers have done similar work in other contexts. Still, we think
that it is most vital to explore the field from within. This is why we
have chosen to partner up with a site like The Pirate Bay.

If you want to read more about the Cybernorms Research Group and the
researchers connected to it, please check out www.cybernorms.net or the
Swedish blog at www.cybernormer.se - and also the attached email thread
from earlier on this list.

Best,
Marcin


 Ursprungligt meddelande 
Ämne: Re: [liberationtech] Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By
Buying a VPN
Datum: Wed, 02 May 2012 12:12:38 +0200
Från: Marcin de Kaminski 
Till: liberationtech 

Hey James,

Thanks for spreading the word.

The study that Torrentfreak wrote about is a part of the Cybernorms
Research Group and our studies regarding social norm strength related to
legal interventions and sanctions regarding online usage.

This study was the third in a series of identical studies, conducted in
feb 09 (during the TPB trial and pre-IPRED); oct 09 (post-IPRED) and feb
12 (long term post-IPRED and in the middle of a new enforcement campaign
against filesharers in Sweden).

The first is described here:
http://www.psocommons.org/policyandinternet/vol2/iss4/art4/

The second here:
http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/04/09/1461444812439553.abstract

The third is accepted, but needs to go through some peer review first
before publishing.

The linked articles should be possible to download if you're on an
university network. Or if you have such friends...

Best,
Marcin


James Losey skrev 2012-05-02 11.36:
> Hi All,
> 
> Fascinating article from Torrent Freak on the growing data obfuscation arms
> race: use of VPNs by younger users is up 40% over the last couple years. I
> look forward tow reading the full study.
> http://torrentfreak.com/young-file-sharers-respond-to-tough-laws-by-buying-a-vpn-120501/
> 
> Best,
> James
> 


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[liberationtech] Invitation to the conference "ICT in a changing world"

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Sorry for possible cross-posting, but this event might interest those of
you who are planning to attend the European Dialogue on Internet
Governance - EuroDIG - in Stockholm June 14-15. The day before EuroDIG,
on June 13th, the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) in
cooperation with the Julia Group and Svalorna LA is hosting a related
pre-conference called "ICT in a changing world". Invitation and
programme as follows.

Best,
Marcin


Invitation - Conference - ICT in a changing world
A multi stakeholder dialogue on roles, responsibilities and Internet
Governance

When: June 13th 2012, 09.00 – 19.00 hrs
Where: Stockholm City Conference Centre, Barnhusgatan 71b, Stockholm
Hosts: Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) in cooperation
with the Julia Group and Svalorna LA

Most welcome to a full pre-conference day, one day before the EuroDIG
conference, www.eurodig.org <http://www.eurodig.org>

Registration: Registration will open on May 4th, 2012. The seats are
limited, please register before June 3rd 2012! The conference is free of
charge.

Read more and sign up >>
http://www.sida.se/English/Partners/Sida-Partnership_Forum/kurser-o-seminarier/dolda-undersidor/ICT-in-a-changing-world/


Programme:
June 13th will offer a multi stakeholder dialogue, linking NGOs,
Business and the Public sector to a discussion on ICT - focusing on long
term sustainable and inclusive business. The conference will be an
including one, so all participants and speakers will be divided into
smaller discussion groups in the afternoon. The purpose of the seminar
is to gather different stake holders and let them initiate a dialogue of
Internet Governance and how different stakeholders can collaborate. We
believe that offering the opportunity to discuss and get to know each
other might initiate further collaboration in the future.

The seminar will be broadcasted via Internet and open to the public,
through a link on Sida’s home page. A chat link will be available for
those who want to ask questions to the speakers.

The main purpose of this pre-conference, is to encourage development,
strengthen democracy, promote sustainable long term businesses, create
work opportunities and better living conditions for people living in
poverty.

Read more and sign up >>
http://www.sida.se/English/Partners/Sida-Partnership_Forum/kurser-o-seminarier/dolda-undersidor/ICT-in-a-changing-world/


Speakers:

Joachim Beijmo
Director of Communications at Sida
(Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency)

Amaya Gorostiaga
Manager, Advisory Services,
The Business of a Better World (BSR)

Dr. Lisa Emelia Svensson
Ambassador for Corporate Social Responsibility,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Patrik Hiselius
Senior Advisor, Digital Rights,
TeliaSonera

Carina Lundberg Markow
Head of responsible investments,
Folksam

Milka Pietikainen
Coordinator,
Millicom International Cellular’s (Tigo)

Reuben Mugisha
Trade and investment officer,
Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda

Marcin de Kaminski
Internet researcher and PhDc,
Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University

Read more and sign up >>
http://www.sida.se/English/Partners/Sida-Partnership_Forum/kurser-o-seminarier/dolda-undersidor/ICT-in-a-changing-world/



--
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Phone: 0768-045151 (Int: 0046768045151)
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[liberationtech] Reminder: Invitation: ICT in a changing world

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Enclosed you will find an invitation to the ICT in a changing world
conference in Stockholm in a couple of weeks. Registration is open (and
free!), please join us in a dialogue about ICT bsns, rules,
responsibilities and Internet governance.

Best,
Marcin

___


Invitation - Conference - ICT in a changing world
A multi stakeholder dialogue on roles, responsibilities and Internet
Governance

When: June 13th 2012, 09.00 – 19.00 hrs
Where: Stockholm City Conference Centre, Barnhusgatan 71b, Stockholm
Hosts: Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) in cooperation
with the Julia Group and Svalorna LA

Most welcome to a full pre-conference day, one day before the EuroDIG
conference, www.eurodig.org <http://www.eurodig.org>

Registration: Registration will open on May 4th, 2012. The seats are
limited, please register before June 3rd 2012! The conference is free of
charge.

Read more and sign up >> http://j.mp/pre-eurodig


Programme:

June 13th will offer a multi stakeholder dialogue, linking NGOs,
Business and the Public sector to a discussion on ICT - focusing on long
term sustainable and inclusive business. The conference will be an
including one, so all participants and speakers will be divided into
smaller discussion groups in the afternoon. The purpose of the seminar
is to gather different stake holders and let them initiate a dialogue of
Internet Governance and how different stakeholders can collaborate. We
believe that offering the opportunity to discuss and get to know each
other might initiate further collaboration in the future.

The seminar will be broadcasted via Internet and open to the public,
through a link on Sida’s home page. A chat link will be available for
those who want to ask questions to the speakers.

The main purpose of this pre-conference, is to encourage development,
strengthen democracy, promote sustainable long term businesses, create
work opportunities and better living conditions for people living in
poverty.

Read more and sign up >>
http://www.sida.se/English/Partners/Sida-Partnership_Forum/kurser-o-seminarier/dolda-undersidor/ICT-in-a-changing-world/


Speakers:

Joachim Beijmo
Director of Communications at Sida
(Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency)

Amaya Gorostiaga
Manager, Advisory Services,
The Business of a Better World (BSR)

Dr. Lisa Emelia Svensson
Ambassador for Corporate Social Responsibility,
Ministry for Foreign Affairs

Patrik Hiselius
Senior Advisor, Digital Rights,
TeliaSonera

Carina Lundberg Markow
Head of responsible investments,
Folksam

Milka Pietikainen
Coordinator,
Millicom International Cellular’s (Tigo)

Reuben Mugisha
Trade and investment officer,
Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda

Marcin de Kaminski
Internet researcher and PhDc,
Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University

Read more and sign up >> http://j.mp/pre-eurodig

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[liberationtech] Attachments

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Could we please agree on not sending attachments with emails on the libtech 
list? Important information can be enclosed as plain text. 

Marcin


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Re: [liberationtech] Need Wiki or Site for This List's Guidelines

[Marcin de Kaminski]

You can use pads and link the static link to latest revision to make it
more stable (and backend interactive). Whenever the pad is edited, the
doc in the static link also follows the edits.

/Marcin

Douglas Lucas skrev 2012-08-08 22.44:
> Hi Libtech,
> 
> I'm writing up some caveats for using Dropbox or Google Docs as a
> replacement for attaching files to this email list, and we need a
> well-read wiki or other site to publish the information (text and
> links). Does anyone have a suggestion? We're using a PiratePad[1] for
> drafting the information now, but PiratePads aren't too terribly formal
> for a stable link. :)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Douglas
> 
> [1] http://piratepad.net/QJaHdEIWT9
> 

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Re: [liberationtech] Good articles on the Pirate Party and Pirate Bay

[Marcin de Kaminski]

I think the tips provided on the list are all good, but would like to emphasize 
Steal this Film which in my opinion is the best and most clear overview of the 
background of Piratbyran and The Pirate Bay. In particular I see it as 
important to study the pre-pirateparty movements - we started Piratbyran in 
2003 and TPB in 2003/2004 and PP was formed several years later (maybe still 
forming). 

Marcin



11 aug 2012 kl. 00:45 skrev Yosem Companys :

> From: Gabriella Coleman 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Can folks recommend articles on the Pirate Party and the Pirate Bay)
> they find compelling or provocative?
> 
> Thanks,
> Biella
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Re: [liberationtech] [hci-gates3] "Extra-government voting" research project?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

I'm not really down with this kind of technologies, but is the
FB/Twitter auth for _real_ local elections a serious suggestion? I'm not
really sure how that kind of identificatorial process would secure
anything, neither identification in itself nor integrity of the user.

Best,
Marcin


Leslie Wu skrev 2012-09-16 19:43:
> Hi Neema,
> 
> Sounds interesting! I'm volunteering some of my time to help my friend
> Lori get "ipolitic" off the ground, a SF-based startup currently focused
> on the US and local/ballot elections but it already has a decent
> codebase and could be cloned for international use. Authentication
> sounds tricky, but it supports FB/Twitter auth which is at least one
> step towards legitimate identities.
> 
> Access is also a challenge but I'm helping Lori to develop the mobile
> version of ipolitic so a mobile web version may or may not lower (?) the
> barrier of entry. cc'ing Lori =)
> 
> @Lori do you have a public pitch deck that you can share with the
> liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu
> <mailto:liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu> mailing list?
> 
> ~Leslie Wu
> 
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Neema Moraveji  <mailto:ne...@stanford.edu>> wrote:
> 
> Researchers, hackers, and students:
> 
> There is a need in many countries, to support "extra-government
> elections" with web-based technology (i.e., let citizens vote fairly
> without government influence, extortion, etc.).  I think this is a
> valuable investment of time for a Libtech/HCI/CS/ICTD research
> project.
> 
> Imagine a site that allowed citizens to vote, could show the outside
> world and governments themselves (which often have unreliable means of
> voting/counting/etc.) how the citizens really feel about different
> candidates - in a non-biased way.
> 
> The research issues to solve: authentication, visualization,
> accountability, and perhaps even access.  Using common computer
> components (keyboard, webcam, etc.) can such a system be delivered to
> at least approximate the real sentiment of the people? At least to the
> outside world?
> 
> Does such a system already exist?
> 
> I am in Iran right now connecting with young people and intellectuals.
> I can't speak for other countries but Iran will have important
> elections in 9 months.  If even a prototype of such a system exists,
> it could gain wide use here and be used by news agencies around the
> world to broadcast the difference between govt and extra-govt voting
> results.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Neema Moraveji, Ph.D.
> Director
> Calming Technology Lab
> Media-X
> Stanford University
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[liberationtech] New article from the Cybernorms Research Group

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Just wanted to inform you about the latest article from the Cybernorms Research 
Group; Larsson, Svensson & de Kaminski: "Online piracy, anonymity and social 
change: Innovation through
deviance", which is using Merton’s strain theory in order to analyse the levels 
of encrypted anonymity and online piracy in terms of deviance.

The abstract is available at
http://con.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/09/18/1354856512456789.abstract with 
links to the full article, even if sadly locked-in. 

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Invitation to HEX -Digital Cultures seminar October 4 - Professor Lisbeth Klastrup "Friending the enemy"

[Marcin de Kaminski]

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  Friending the Prime Minister – The Culture and Use of Political
  Interaction on Social Media 

*INVITATION TO HEX DIGITAL CULTURES SEMINAR SERIES:*

*WITH:* Lisbeth Klastrup who works as Associate Professor at the
IT-University of Copenhagen, where she is affiliated with the Digital
Culture and Communication and Media Research Groups. She has studied the
culture and use of online worlds and social media format since 1999, and
is currently working on a book on social network media.

*LECTURE:* What happens when people start friending their prime minister
and politicians wash all their dirty laundry in front of a curious
social media audience? In recent years, politicians and political
parties have started to use social media extensively as part of their
political campaigning in relation to local and national elections for
parliament. What does “political life” in social media look like
currently and historically, and how do users in fact engage with
politics and politicians? Is there such a thing as a “political culture”
in the social media sphere and if so, what does it look like? This
lecture will discuss these questions and more, primarily based on the
study of use of social media in Danish election campaigns from 2005 to 2011.

*LAB:* In the lab, we will follow up on the lecture, first by short
group work where you discuss your own use of social media in a political
context, and then followed by joint discussion and commentary.

*WHEN? *4 October, 13.15–16.00
13.15-14.45 Lecture + Q & A
** short break **
15.00-16.00 Exercises in the computer lab

*WHERE?* Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund. Room 201, in
Kulturanatomen at Biskopsgatan 7.

*HOW:* Drop in. It is not mandatory to announce your participation ahead
of time, but it is much appreciated!

Please email: jessica.enev...@kultur.lu.se


For previous lectures in the series see the archive:
http://hyphoff.kult.lu.se/hex/?cat=17


*HEX...*
is a cross-disciplinary experimental humanities and social science
research platform funded by the Faculty of Humanities and Theology, at
Lund University.The aim of the experimental research group, HEX, founded
in 2005, is to make possible the organizing and creating of events and
products (books, films, installations) that are academically and
artistically innovative. HEX serves as a think tank and a breeding
ground for new research projects incorporating formats that go beyond
the ordinary lecture or publication format; for example, in November
2010, Sweden’s first Science Slam was arranged by HEX (for all
activities see www.hex.lu.se ).

*The Digital Cultures and Games Lecture and Lab*.../Digital Cultures Seminar
is a HEX-funded seminar series that features international scholars of
various disciplines well versed in the various fields of digital
culture. The seminars consist of a lecture and a hands-on laboratory
session in order to illustrate and make concrete what the research
lectured on is truly about. The seminar series aims to bring together
scholars from a variety of disciplines with the goal of familiarizing a
wide culturally interested audience, including scholars, professors as
well as students, and laymen to various digital cultures including
games. The seminar series is open to all and conducted in English.

*
*
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*
*
*
Jessica Enevold, PhD, Researcher and Lecturer
Lund University, Dept. of Arts and Cultural Sciences
jessica.enev...@kultur.lu.se 

"Gaming Moms"  - research project, see: http://gamingmoms.wordpress.com

HEX- Humanist Experimental Group:
*
*
Coordinator,
*
*Digital Cultures and Games Seminar series
www.hex.lu.se 

Researcher, Programme K - "Games and Play  - For Better For Worse"
http://www.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=21356&p=421

*
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Course Coordinator:
*
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Master of Applied Cultural Analysis:
TKAM02 (Master's Thesis)

*
*
Bachelor of Digital Cultures
DIKA11 (Dig. Cultures: Theories - Introduction)
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[liberationtech] CyberBudapest

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hi!

Is any one from the libtech community joining me for the CyberBudapest 
conference next week?

http://www.cyberbudapest2012.hu/

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Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Invitation to HEX -Digital Cultures seminar October 4 - Professor Lisbeth Klastrup "Friending the enemy"

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Lund is in southern Sweden, close to Copenhagen. :)

29 sep 2012 kl. 16:11 skrev ilf :

> On 09-26 20:49, Marcin de Kaminski wrote:
>> *WHERE?* Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund. Room 201, in 
>> Kulturanatomen at Biskopsgatan 7.
> 
> You know, on an international list a city and country would be nice :)
> 
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> 
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[liberationtech] New article from the Cybernorms RG published

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Today we got informed about the publication of our article: "Law, norms,
piracy and online anonymity: Practices of de-identification in the
global file sharing community", authored by Stefan Larsson, Måns
Svensson, Marcin de Kaminski, Kari Rönkkö and Johanna Alkan Olsson. The
article was published in Journal of Research in Interactive Marketing.

Short extract from the conclusion of the article:
"Legal enforcement of a copyright regulation that does not correspond
with social norms leads to countermeasures, in this case an increased
use of anonymity services, sprung from the social norms that are not in
compliance with the law. Given the generativity of the technologies of
online communication in networks, these countermeasures imply an
increased diffusion and maybe, in the future, a diversification of
techniques of online anonymisation. The foundations of law enforcement
have changed with new technologies and the internet; at the same time,
the internet has also changed the foundations of social life. We have
only begun to see the implications of traceability in an online
environment in terms of both law enforcement and privacy protection. Law
enforcement and privacy protection are likely issues that will grow in
importance and potentially create political conflict in the years to
come, in line with the absolutely inevitable embeddedness of digital
networks in almost all aspects of life: social, cultural, work-life,
education, citizenship, government, business, etc."

The article is readable as PDF at
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=2040-7122&volume=6&issue=4&articleid=17062504&show=pdf
(from LUnet or via VPN)

Abstract is available at
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17062504&ini=aob

Best regards,
Marcin de Kaminski

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Re: [liberationtech] Arabic Pidgin-OTR Tutorial

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Also, since it was discussed on this list: what is the status of Pidgin OTR? 
Didn't it have some sec flaws?



18 nov 2012 kl. 15:42 skrev KheOps :

> Le 18/11/2012 06:12, Nadim Kobeissi a écrit :
>> I just finished recording this Arabic Pidgin-OTR tutorial, which I hope
>> will be useful for Gazans...
>> 
>> Share widely! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDPeGnzyBgg
> 
> Thanks, hopefully some Syrians could use it too.
> 
> Did you, in your tutorial, remind the watcher to disable logging in
> Piding? Since Pidgin logs in cleartext.
> 
> KheOps
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Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

[Marcin de Kaminski]

The demand for _real_ names in Tunis was not related specifically to the
Cryptoparty, but rather to the OpenITP event afaik?

/Marcin

Asher Wolf skrev 2012-12-02 12:57:
> London Cryptoparty specifically pointed out the usefulness of pseudonyms
> if signing up for an event, on their wikipage.
> 
> 
> On 2/12/12 6:59 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
>> - From memory (anyone knowing the please correct me if I am wrong) but the 
>> London Cryptoparty which was held in the Google Campus also required real 
>> names for "health and safety" reasons. This didn't stop people from 
>> signing-up with fake e-mail addresses and names. (Of course not something I 
>> would suggest!)
> 
> 
>> On 1 Dec 2012, at 14:01, Julian Oliver wrote:
> 
>>> ..on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:31:25AM +, dan jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> You may be aware that a previous event called CryptoParty was
>>>>>> organized during the OpenITP Tech Summit on 27th November.
>>>>>> However, the organizers required people to give their real ID in
>>>>>> order to participate, requirement that was considered as
>>>>>> not acceptable by a number of people, including people from
>>>>>> the Tunis hackerspace.
>>>>> It sucks that it turned out this way. I didn't want to at all, and
>>>>> I was looking forward to meeting Hackerspace TN folks, but I
>>>>> totally get why you were turned off by the name policy. I probably
>>>>> would be too in the same situation.
>>>>
>>>> Could someone explain why there was a name policy? I am having trouble
>>>> imagining why?
> 
>>> Well it's quite absurd really, given one of the primary concerns addressed 
>>> at
>>> Crypto Parties is protecting the right to anonymity.
> 
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>>> http://criticalengineering.org
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[liberationtech] New article from the Cybernorms Research Group

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

A new article from Stefan Larsson if the Cybernorms Research Group, called 
"Copy Me Happy: The Metaphoric Expansion of Copyright in a Digital Society", 
was just published International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

In it Larsson uses conceptual metaphor theory to argue for that copyright has 
expanded in a digital society. To do so Larsson uses a model for calculating 
values for media files that was used in the case against The Pirate Bay and 
calculate the entire value (according to this model) of one entire BitTorrent 
site to show how big the numbers gets. Larsson argues that this 
value-by-click-assumptions can be questioned in a digital context, and that 
these assumptions essentially come from an analogue, pre-internet 
conceptualization of reality. 

Merry Christmas :)

Best,
Marcin


Find it here: 
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-012-9297-2
Copy Me Happy: The Metaphoric Expansion of Copyright in a Digital Society

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de 
Sémiotique juridique
Abstract
The article uses conceptual metaphor theory to analyse how the concept of 
“copy” in copyright law is expanding in a digital society to cover more 
phenomena than originally intended. For this purpose, the legally accepted 
model for valuing media files in the case against The Pirate Bay (TPB) is used 
in the analysis. When four men behind TPB were convicted in the District Court 
of Stockholm, Sweden, on 17 April 2009, to many, it marked a victory over 
online piracy for the American and Swedish media corporations. The convicted 
men were jointly liable for the damages of roughly EUR 3.5 million. But how do 
you calculate damages of file sharing? For example, what is the value of a 
copy? The article uses a model for valuating files in monetary numbers, 
suggested by the American plaintiffs and sanctioned by the District Court in 
the case against the BitTorrent site TPB, in order to calculate the total value 
of an entire, and in this anonymous other, BitTorrent site. These calculated 
hypothetical figures are huge—EUR 53 billion—and grow click by click which, on 
its face, questions some of the key assumptions in the copy-by-copy valuation 
that are sprung from analogue conceptions of reality, and transferred into a 
digital context. This signals a (legal) conceptual expansion of the meaning of 
“copy” in copyright that does not seem to fit with how the phenomenon is 
conceptualised by the younger generation of media consumers.

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[liberationtech] Comprehensive overview of IG related processes

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hi!

I'm looking for a tool (or list) that visualizes the multitude of
Internet Governance related processes going on atm. Is anyone aware of
such a service?

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[liberationtech] Publications from the Cybernorms RG and LUii

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Just wanted to inform the list about the publications from the Cybernorms 
Research Group and the Lund University Internet Institute, on case our research 
interests some of you. 

Cybernorms RG publications: www.cybernormer.se/publikationer

LUii publications: 
www.luii.lu.se/publications

Due to academical categorizing the lists atm are identical, however this'd ghat 
change in the future (esp when more of the LUii projects have generated 
publications of their own).

Best,
Marcin de Kaminski
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[liberationtech] Call for applications: Social Innovation in a Digital Context 2013 (Sweden)

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Please feel free to circulate this freely:

Social Innovation in a Digital Context 2013

Social Innovation in a Digital Context (SIDC) is a one year academic
scholarship programme for social and digital innovators from the Middle
East, North Africa and South Asia. The programme is carried out in
cooperation with Lund University.

SIDC focuses on the relationship between digital technology and
socio-political change, and how change makers can harness this
relationship to build better societies. It contains both practical and
theoretical components and is designed to support social and digital
innovators to pursue work in the fields of digital technology, new
media, and social and political change.

The aim of the programme is for participants to develop creative and
viable individual projects that help strengthen human rights and
democracy building in their home countries, as well as boosting
understanding of the use of digital tools for sociopolitical change.

Who can apply?

Innovators from the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia that want to
engage in innovative project work can apply to SIDC. You should have an
existing outreach platform in your home country and want to bring a
project proposal from idea to reality or want to further develop an
existing project. The project should be directly connected to your home
context and be based on the work and movements that you’re engaged in,
as well as your personal skills. It is important that the project is
tied to digitalization/digital technology to some extent.

For this year’s programme we are particularly looking for applicants
with knowledge of and skills in computer technology and Internet
security. You might for example have a background in law, IT,
entrepreneurship, sociology or political science. The aim is to recruit
individuals from a broad range of disciplines, professions, and
backgrounds and it is important that you both have academic competence
as well as practical skills.

Admitted applicants will be provided with free housing in student
housing complexes in Lund and granted a monthly stipend that covers
meals and living expenses.

SIDC suits innovators who intend to return home upon completion of the
programme and launch the projects they have developed in Sweden in their
home environments.

More information along with instructions for applicants can be found at:
http://www.luii.lu.se/education/sidc2013/
http://eng.si.se/areas-of-operation/leadership-programmes-and-cultural-exchange/social-innovation-in-a-digital-context/

For more information about the application procedure, please contact:
Maria Henoch, programme manager at the Swedish Institute,
maria.henoch(a)si.se

For more information about the program design and content, please contact:
Marcin de Kaminski, Lund University Internet Institute,
marcin.de_kaminski(a)soclaw.lu.se


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Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat: Translation Volunteers Needed

[Marcin de Kaminski]

On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:07 PM, Nadim Kobeissi  wrote:

> On 2013-06-10, at 8:21 PM, Catherine Roy  wrote:
> 
>> On 10/06/2013 6:18 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
>>> Catherine,
>>> Opera is not "shut out". It's simply difficult to develop for Opera due to 
>>> its limited browser extension API. Your email made it sound as if Cryptocat 
>>> had something against the Opera browser.
>> 
>> My email is simply stating that Opera is shut out. How else should I 
>> interpret this message : "Cryptocat is not available for your browser".
>> 
>> See screenshot : http://www.flickr.com/photos/zazie/9010759541/
>> 
>> I sent you a message off-list to inquire about this and received no response.
>> 
>> 
>>> We have a ticket open for Opera compatibility in our code base. If you'd 
>>> like to, you can contribute to Cryptocat for Opera development here:
>>> https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/issues/190
>> 
>> I am not a developer. Must we all be developers to have a significant 
>> influence on these types of issues ?
> 
> No, you can also repeatedly send me blandly demanding emails and then take 
> the issue to the public when I don't answer immediately, and expect me to 
> change Cryptocat's development roadmap to accommodate for you and the 1% that 
> use a browser with a highly limited third-party development API.
> 
> Seriously, you're really frustrating.
> 
> NK


TOUCHÉ:

> Jake,
> I don't agree with x z (and rather agree with you), but I'm really tired of 
> just how aggressive and rude you always are on Libtech. And it doesn't appear 
> to just be towards me. I'm not the only person who feels like this.
> 
> Even if you're right, tone your ego knob down already. Be nice. I can barely 
> read through threads anymore. Thank you.
> 
> NK

:)

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Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

[Marcin de Kaminski]

I just asked the Heml.is team to join the list. 

Marcin

9 jul 2013 kl. 18:52 skrev Julian Oliver :

> 
> Suprised to see Peter Sunde, Leif Högberg & Linus Olsson push out their 
> private
> messaging for Android and iOS as closed-source unlock-ware:
> 
>https://heml.is/
> 
> (Warning: Self-ingratiating video. Fun-guy team shots)
> 
> Cheers,
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[liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

Sorry to ask such a general question but I need input on the issue of 
electronic voting. Is there any comprehensive collection of resources or 
(preferably academic) research already out there?

Any other input or links to prior discussions on this list would be most 
helpful as well. 

Thanks!

Marcin
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Re: [liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

[Marcin de Kaminski]

To add some context; Swedish govt currently has a proposal regarding electronic 
voting, and are looking for comments in it. What I'm looking for is therefor 
not examples of e-voting solutions but rather comments, research and overall 
information about how to regard e-voting from a technical perspective. 

Marcin

10 jul 2013 kl. 20:04 skrev Allen Gunn :

> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but:
> 
> http://blackboxvoting.org/
> http://verifiedvoting.org/
> 
> peace,
> gunner
> 
> On 07/10/2013 10:55 AM, Nick Daly wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Marcin de Kaminski 
>>  wrote:
>>> Sorry to ask such a general question but I need input on the
>>> issue of electronic voting. Is there any comprehensive collection
>>> of resources or (preferably academic) research already out
>>> there?
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> QFdSPP5ZeA3n5WWn3FYgA/+Q2I6HdkLk48dNo1WgZKV8wGTrCpocvGkeRPoxgzkl
> IJ1UCEIjszyPJqZh4zzoVeAyIKE1NLX4AyDsgJK4tuH3RTbW3H5z5Jjr8flsaQ0=
> =UgdX
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Re: [liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Please do! My French is a bit... rusty, but I can at least understand main 
conclusions or gtranslate it. 

10 jul 2013 kl. 21:58 skrev Rayna :

> Do you read French ? :) If so, I can point you to quite a few extremely 
> valuable resources related to e-voting, internet voting and thorough 
> arguments on why FLOSS solutions don't solve all the issues.
> 
> Best,
> Rayna
> 
> Le 10 juil. 2013 20:09, "Marcin de Kaminski"  a écrit :
>> To add some context; Swedish govt currently has a proposal regarding 
>> electronic voting, and are looking for comments in it. What I'm looking for 
>> is therefor not examples of e-voting solutions but rather comments, research 
>> and overall information about how to regard e-voting from a technical 
>> perspective.
>> 
>> Marcin
>> 
>> 10 jul 2013 kl. 20:04 skrev Allen Gunn :
>> 
>> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> > Hash: SHA1
>> >
>> > Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but:
>> >
>> > http://blackboxvoting.org/
>> > http://verifiedvoting.org/
>> >
>> > peace,
>> > gunner
>> >
>> > On 07/10/2013 10:55 AM, Nick Daly wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Marcin de Kaminski
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>> Sorry to ask such a general question but I need input on the
>> >>> issue of electronic voting. Is there any comprehensive collection
>> >>> of resources or (preferably academic) research already out
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>> >
>> > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR3aI8AAoJENVj9yFHsyq3t4wH/RoCBbxfRN67tpOYhlT8yKaL
>> > mv1xNFrFEeMSg57jBjpJNvOuCV1TAFk1OTEJcZBcVk5f5AZ93pbtophVLswEa8v2
>> > 5Wx/sEXZPfsl0cmGuqv5pGg4M2PL15SIEo2CRZrUEuzfh2cKRyuZBQNomviNOsu7
>> > o/10XctD1QUafia2uHizJR2Xc9J6Z5n3UyF7VTGRi8qO47cksorZf7BMcTW2r3I9
>> > QFdSPP5ZeA3n5WWn3FYgA/+Q2I6HdkLk48dNo1WgZKV8wGTrCpocvGkeRPoxgzkl
>> > IJ1UCEIjszyPJqZh4zzoVeAyIKE1NLX4AyDsgJK4tuH3RTbW3H5z5Jjr8flsaQ0=
>> > =UgdX
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Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

[Marcin de Kaminski]

To get back to the original topic: Isn't this just what Peter has been stating 
when asked? That Hemlis first of all hasn't even claimed anything regarding the 
stoics when the criticism came, but more importantly that the potential open 
source development doesn't really solve all problems and risks - why such a 
stringent focus could be dangerous in itself. 

Marcin


11 jul 2013 kl. 22:55 skrev Mitar :

> I hear you what you are saying. That open source is a good (must?)
> practice to do when developing security-sensitive servers. But it is
> far from enough.
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Re: [liberationtech] Viber Hacked

[Marcin de Kaminski]

The SEA, not the FSA. 

23 jul 2013 kl. 20:12 skrev "Bahaa Nasr" :

> After hacking Truecaller and Tango, today the FSA hacked Viber.
>  
> http://thehackernews.com/2013/07/free-calling-app-viber-website-defaced.html
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[liberationtech] The Survey Bay, searchable database of TPB data

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all! 

I'm a part of the Cybernorms Research Group at the Lund University Internet 
Institute, Sweden. For the third year
in a row we are preparing to do a large survey study, using The Pirate Bay for 
data collection about the demographics of the file sharing community. The 
series of studies is called "The Research Bay". You can
read about them here:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/pirate-bay-becomes-research-bay-to-aid-p2p-researchers/
(2011) and
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-partners-with-academic-researchers-to-counter-propaganda-120509/
(2012).

This year we are adding some extra bonus, which I think makes it even more 
interesting - we have released an online database with the data from previous 
surveys (currently the 2011 is up, we are planning on releasing the 2012 data 
as well), free for all to search, browse, read and use. Since we have around 
75000 answers, and 25000 open answers with the respondents own comments, we 
like to think this is the largest database regarding file sharing community 
demographics out there, offering an unique insight in things like file sharing 
habits/anonymity/politics and other.

A couple of articles have already been written on parts of the content of the 
data:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/pirate-bay-becomes-research-bay-to-aid-p2p-researchers/
http://torrentfreak.com/girls-are-not-into-the-pirate-bay-or-bittorrent-110919/
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-users-long-for-anonymity-111021/

A couple academic articles have already been written on the data, some can be 
found here: http://cybernormer.se/publikationer/

What is released now is the complete dataset, searchable with possibility for 
anyone to do comparisons, dig into the data and do some nice graphs. It's all 
up on http://www.thesurveybay.com

Hope you find this interesting!

Best,
Marcin

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Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Agreed. The threat model discussion clearly is too often lost in all the 
current post-Snowden debates. We need to remember that a lot if solutions might 
not be enough to protect anyone against NSAish authorities but more than enough 
against other, most real, threats to peoples personal safety. Regular 
employers, schools, parents, skiddies, whatever. 

Marcin

> 10 okt 2013 kl. 22:11 skrev Pranesh Prakash :
> 
> Interesting. But someone should also write a piece called "1 reason not
> to criticise security tech without clearly stating threat model which
> serves as basis for that criticism".  What if Mallory isn't a
> well-funded governmental organization but is the admin who runs your
> employer's email servers?
> 
> This should actually be two lists: reasons not to use e-mail, and
> reasons not to use OpenPGP over e-mail.
> 
> Only reasons 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 are really about OpenPGP (you should've
> stuck to "6 reasons not to use PGP"), and at least three of them are
> really good reasons to look for alternatives. There are no good
> alternatives over e-mail: S/MIME unfortunately suffers from many of the
> same issues as OpenPGP, and then some more.
> 
> And reason #1 is something that the client should take care of (ideally
> with default settings), and not the encryption protocol.  Why are you
> attacking OpenPGP and OTR for this?
> 
> And thank you so much for the comparative chart.  It is *very* useful.
> 
> Why doesn't telephony have SIP?
> 
> ~ Pranesh
> 
> carlo von lynX [2013-10-10 15:23]:
>> We had some debate on this topic at the Circumvention Tech
>> Summit and I got some requests to publish my six reasons
>> not to use PGP. Well, I spent a bit more time on it and now
>> they turned into 10 reasons not to. Some may appear similar
>> or identical, but actually they are on top of each other.
>> Corrections and religious flame wars are welcome. YMMV.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>--
>>TEN REASONS NOT TO START USING PGP
>>--
>>   Coloured version at http://secushare.org/PGP
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   [01]Pretty Good Privacy is better than no encryption at all, and being
>>   [02]end-to-end it is also better than relying on [03]SMTP over [04]TLS
>>   (that is, point-to-point between the mail servers while the message is
>>   unencrypted in-between), but is it still a good choice for the future?
>>   Is it something we should recommend to people who are asking for better
>>   privacy today?
>> 
>> 1. Downgrade Attack: The risk of using it wrong.
>> 
>>   Modern cryptographic communication tools simply do not provide means to
>>   exchange messages without encryption. With e-mail the risk always
>>   remains that somebody will send you sensitive information in cleartext
>>   - simply because they can, because it is easier, because they don't
>>   have your public key yet and don't bother to find out about it, or just
>>   by mistake. Maybe even because they know they can make you angry that
>>   way - and excuse themselves pretending incompetence. Some people even
>>   manage to reply unencrypted to an encrypted message, although PGP
>>   software should keep them from doing so.
>> 
>>   The way you can simply not use encryption is also the number one
>>   problem with [05]OTR, the off-the-record cryptography method for
>>   instant messaging.
>> 
>> 2. The OpenPGP Format: You might aswell run around the city naked.
>> 
>>   As Stf pointed out at CTS, thanks to its easily detectable [06]OpenPGP
>>   Message Format it is an easy exercise for any manufacturer of [07]Deep
>>   Packet Inspection hardware to offer a detection capability for
>>   PGP-encrypted messages anywhere in the flow of Internet communications,
>>   not only within SMTP. So by using PGP you are making yourself visible.
>> 
>>   Stf has been suggesting to use a non-detectable wrapping format. That's
>>   something, but it doesn't handle all the other problems with PGP.
>> 
>> 3. Transaction Data: He knows who you are talking to.
>> 
>>   Should Mallory not [08]possess the private keys to your mail provider's
>>   TLS connection yet, he can simply intercept the communication by means
>>   of a [11]man-in-the-middle attack, using a valid fake certificate that
>>   he can make for himself on the fly. It's a bull run, you know?
>> 
>>   Even if you employ PGP, Mallory can trace who you are talking to, when
>>   and how long. He can guess at what you are talking about, especially
>>   since some of you will put something meaningful in the unencrypted
>>   Subject header.
>> 
>>   Should Mallory have been distracted, he can still recover your mails by
>>   visiting your provider's server. Something to do with a PRISM, I heard.
>>   On top of that, TLS itself is being recklessly deployed without forward
>>   secrecy most of the time.
>> 
>> 4. No Forward Secrecy: It makes sense to collect it all.
>> 
>>   As Eddie has told us, Mallory is keeping a complete collection of all
>>   PGP mails be

Re: [liberationtech] Swedish press question: How does surveillance change the citizen's behavior?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Thank you for your most kind words, Jessica. :)

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> 17 dec 2013 kl. 22:56 skrev "Jessica L. Beyer" :
> 
> Dear Anders,
> 
> You might look to the world of filesharing, e.g. the implementation of IPRED 
> in Sweden (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7978853.stm). Måns Svensson and Stefan 
> Larsson at Lund University have done some fantastic work on filesharing that 
> have empirical findings related to surveillance.  For instance, they have a 
> 2012 New Media and Society piece titled "Intellectual property law compliance 
> in Europe: Illegal file sharing and the role of social norms" that looks at 
> the implementation of IPRED. The piece is focused on the issue of social 
> norms, but as a side finding shows changes in behavior. They have other work 
> in this area as well - see the Cybernorms working group, 
> http://cybernormer.se/about-us/
> 
> I know the legality issues are different - but the underlying questions about 
> what people do when they think they are being watched could be helpful.
> 
> Best,
> Jessica
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -
> Dr. Jessica L. Beyer, @jlbeyer
> http://www.beyergyre.com/jlbeyer/
> University of Washington
> -
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Anders Thoresson  
>> wrote:
>> I'm a swedish freelance reporter. Presently, I'm doing research for an 
>> article about how surveillance changes the behavior of the citizens. What my 
>> editor want my story to answer is essence one question, but a large one: 
>> "How does mass-surveillance like what's exposed by Edward Snowden change how 
>> people use the Internet?"
>> 
>> Finding theoretical discussions isn't hard. What I'm trying to find is 
>> recent research that is based on real-life observations (or similar) how 
>> this actually happens. The PEN America's report is one good example[1], but 
>> I would also like to have research based on a wider demography, not well 
>> known authors and journalists.
>> 
>> I understand that there hasn't gone long enough to do actual studies based 
>> on what has happened since Snowden's leaks, so what I'm looking for is 
>> studies that look into other kinds of online surveillance.
>> 
>> I'm thankful for any pointers.
>> 
>> [1] – http://www.pen.org/chilling-effects
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Anders Thoresson
>> http://anders.thoresson.se
>> http://www.dn.se/blogg/teknikbloggen
>> http://twitter.com/thoresson
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Re: [liberationtech] Swedish press question: How does surveillance change the citizen's behavior?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Btw, don’t miss our articles on online anonymity and social norms:

Law, norms, piracy and online anonymity: Practices of de-identification in the 
global file sharing community
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17062504&show=abstract

Online piracy, anonymity and social change
Innovation through deviance
http://con.sagepub.com/content/19/1/95.short

/Marcin

 
On 17 Dec 2013, at 23:01 , Marcin de Kaminski  wrote:

> Thank you for your most kind words, Jessica. :)
> 
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> 
> (Sent frpm my iPhbne.)
> 
> 17 dec 2013 kl. 22:56 skrev "Jessica L. Beyer" :
> 
>> Dear Anders,
>> 
>> You might look to the world of filesharing, e.g. the implementation of IPRED 
>> in Sweden (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7978853.stm). Måns Svensson and Stefan 
>> Larsson at Lund University have done some fantastic work on filesharing that 
>> have empirical findings related to surveillance.  For instance, they have a 
>> 2012 New Media and Society piece titled "Intellectual property law 
>> compliance in Europe: Illegal file sharing and the role of social norms" 
>> that looks at the implementation of IPRED. The piece is focused on the issue 
>> of social norms, but as a side finding shows changes in behavior. They have 
>> other work in this area as well - see the Cybernorms working group, 
>> http://cybernormer.se/about-us/
>> 
>> I know the legality issues are different - but the underlying questions 
>> about what people do when they think they are being watched could be helpful.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Jessica
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -
>> Dr. Jessica L. Beyer, @jlbeyer
>> http://www.beyergyre.com/jlbeyer/
>> University of Washington
>> -
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Anders Thoresson  
>> wrote:
>> I'm a swedish freelance reporter. Presently, I'm doing research for an 
>> article about how surveillance changes the behavior of the citizens. What my 
>> editor want my story to answer is essence one question, but a large one: 
>> "How does mass-surveillance like what's exposed by Edward Snowden change how 
>> people use the Internet?"
>> 
>> Finding theoretical discussions isn't hard. What I'm trying to find is 
>> recent research that is based on real-life observations (or similar) how 
>> this actually happens. The PEN America's report is one good example[1], but 
>> I would also like to have research based on a wider demography, not well 
>> known authors and journalists.
>> 
>> I understand that there hasn't gone long enough to do actual studies based 
>> on what has happened since Snowden's leaks, so what I'm looking for is 
>> studies that look into other kinds of online surveillance.
>> 
>> I'm thankful for any pointers.
>> 
>> [1] – http://www.pen.org/chilling-effects
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Anders Thoresson
>> http://anders.thoresson.se
>> http://www.dn.se/blogg/teknikbloggen
>> http://twitter.com/thoresson
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[liberationtech] Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. A Comparison between French and American File-sharers

[Marcin de Kaminski]

New article from the Cybernorms Research Group: 
https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/4016746

Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. A Comparison between French and 
American File-sharers


Larsson, Stefan 
(2014) In Lexis - E-Journal in English Lexicology p.89-102

Abstract
What type of metaphors do file-sharers employ to conceptualise copyright in a 
digital society? How do they understand property and intellectual property in 
this context? How do they conceive the file-sharing community and how does this 
‘online piracy’ connect or not connect to law, social norms, copyright 
enforcement, and computational traceability? 

Given the historical variations in the inherent emphasis on ownership and 
attribution in copyright law within an American vis-à-vis a French continental 
context, are there, for example, noticeable differences between the American 
and the French respondents? 

By drawing heavily from conceptual metaphor theory, this article analyses 
findings from a large-scale survey (20,000 respondents) on online file-sharing. 
The results indicate that copyright is not seen as ‘property’ by the 
respondents at all, that a majority of the US and French file-sharers would 
prefer to be more anonymous online in order to avoid legal enforcement, and 
that almost one out of five already uses such tools. 

The results indicate that there is a difference in how the American and the 
French file- sharers understand or conceptualise the future of file-sharing and 
its relationship to copyright and that the French file-sharers focus more on 
the actual artists, while the American file-sharers focus more on the role of 
the industry and the government. 


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[liberationtech] Current libtech funding initiatives

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hi all,

Is there a comprehensive list of current initiatives funding libtech (and 
related) projects? If not, what initiatives do you know of that are currently 
(or soon) taking applications or are interested in discussing interesting 
projects?

Best,
Marcin

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Re: [liberationtech] Telenor Azerbaijan surveillance documentary link?

[Marcin de Kaminski]

You are not talking about TeliaSonera? 
http://vimeo.com/m/41248885

Telenor, I haven't heard this claims about yet. 
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> 8 feb 2014 kl. 19:26 skrev Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been looking for a link for a Norwegian documentary on the 
> Telenor/Azerbaijan surveillance scandal from a few years ago (2-3?), but my 
> Google foo is weak today.
> 
> I wonder if anyone has a link? From memory it was in Norwegian but with 
> English subtitles. I know it was discussed on this list, but I cannot find it 
> in my archive.
> 
> Any help, much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bernard
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
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Re: [liberationtech] Academicians punished because of joining Gezi Protests in Turkey. Need your help.

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Could you please not attach any files but rather paste the text in an email to 
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> 9 feb 2014 kl. 23:05 skrev Arif YILDIRIM :
> 
> Hello Liberationtech;
> 
> I need your support to help my former colleagues who are punished with 
> stopping the rise by seniority for 24 months by Rector and Dean because of 
> they joined to Gezi Protest and also joined a lawful strike by the union! 
> They need a supportive international public opinion. Here the statement of 
> the union to realize what happened and will happen as an attachment. 
> 
> Thanks to you to all...
> 
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Re: [liberationtech] Hacking Team and the Targeting of Ethiopian Journalists

[Marcin de Kaminski]

//ethsat.com/2014/01/09/udj-says-expressing-opinion-to-media-is-not-terror/
>> 5 https://web.archive.org/web/20130723051052/http://ariave.com/tech.htm
>> 6 http://hackingteam.it/index.php/customer-policy
>> 7 
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57573707-38/meet-the-corporate-enemies-of-the-internet-for-2013/
>> 8 
>> http://www.eluniverso.com/noticias/2013/12/11/nota/1901271/firma-hacking-team-fue-contactada-estado-ecuatoriano
>> 9 
>> http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hacking-team-murky-world-state-sponsored-spying-445507
>> 10 http://hackingteam.it/index.php/customer-policy
>> 11 
>> http://www.cpj.org/2013/11/ethiopia-arrests-2-journalists-from-independent-pa.php
>> 12 http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/ethiopia
>> 13 http://www.hrw.org/node/119814/section/2
>> 14 http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2013/country-chapters/ethiopia?page=3
>> 15 ibid.
>> 16 http://hackingteam.it/index.php/remote-control-system
>> 17 
>> http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/docs/hackingteam/147_remote-control-system.html
>> 18 https://www.securelist.com/en/analysis/204792290/Spyware_HackingTeam
>> 19 
>> http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/13/4723610/meet-hacking-team-the-company-that-helps-police-hack-into-computers
>> 20 ibid.
>> 21 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15868
>> 22 http://slate.me/1eSTeUF
>> 23 
>> http://en.rsf.org/united-arab-emirates-ahmed-mansoor-and-four-other-pro-28-11-2011,41477.html
>> 24 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13043270
>> 25 
>> https://citizenlab.org/2012/10/backdoors-are-forever-hacking-team-and-the-targeting-of-dissent/
>> 26 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/spy-tool-sold-to-governments/
>> 27 https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/298899565388644352
>> 28 http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/category/corporate-enemies/
>> 29 
>> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57573707-38/meet-the-corporate-enemies-of-the-internet-for-2013/
>> 30 https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=DemocracyIndex12
>> 31 https://en.rsf.org/IMG/jpg/2013_wpfi_world_press_freedom_map.jpg
>> 32 http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/03/ethiopia-terrorism-law-decimates-media
>> 33 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17921950
>> 34 
>> http://www.pen.org/press-release/2012/04/12/top-pen-prize-honor-eskinder-nega-jailed-ethiopian-journalist-and-blogger
>> 35 ibid.
>> 36 https://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/LWM2013-Ethiopia
>> 37 
>> http://ethsat.com/2011/10/08/esat-accuses-china-of-complicity-in-jamming-signals/
>> 38 
>> https://citizenlab.org/2013/03/you-only-click-twice-finfishers-global-proliferation-2/
>> 39 This can be verified by consulting the Sonar SSL scans 
>> (https://scans.io/study/sonar.ssl) between 10/30/2013 and 1/13/2014.
>> 40 http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
>> 41 https://scans.io/study/umich-https
>> 42 http://it.linkedin.com/pub/giancarlo-russo/2/2a9/589
>> 43 
>> https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/81e9647a3371568cddd0a4db597de8423179773d910d9a7b3d945cb2c3b7e1c2/analysis/
>> 44 http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0158
>> 45 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-027
>> 46 https://web.archive.org/web/20130723051052/http://ariave.com/tech.htm
>> 47 On 20 December 2013, Belgium’s time zone was 6 hours ahead of Northern 
>> Virginia’s.
>> 48 The article quotes the former head of Ethiopia’s Amhara region (Ayalew 
>> Gobeze) as denying that he was demoted or fired for failing to sign a border 
>> demarcation agreement between Sudan and Ethiopia. Ayalew is quoted as saying 
>> that members of the Ethiopian diaspora concocted the story, and refers to 
>> them as “taxi drivers” and “jobless”.
>> 
>> Ronald Deibert
>> Director, the Citizen Lab 
>> and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
>> Munk School of Global Affairs
>> University of Toronto
>> (416) 946-8916
>> PGP: http://deibert.citizenlab.org/pubkey.txt
>> http://deibert.citizenlab.org/
>> twitter.com/citizenlab
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[liberationtech] The Research Bay #3

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hey all,

The Cybernorms research group and the Lund University Internet Institute (LUii) 
is currently doing a survey on file-sharing in collaboration with The Pirate 
Bay, the bitTorrent site. The survey runs from 25 to 27 February.

The survey has been done twice before, and has been the largest of its kind 
with over 96,000 respondents. The first Research Bay survey was performed in 
April 2011, and it was followed by the Research Bay “re-loaded” about a year 
later in 2012. The Cybernorms research group also released the data from the 
first survey in a searchable database on this site, called the Survey Bay. 
Forbes reported, along with TechDirt and others.

See also post on www.cybernormer.se

Scientific articles based on previous Research Bay data

• Larsson, S., Svensson, M., de Kaminski, M., Rönkkö, K., and Alkan 
Olsson, J. (2012) Law, norms, piracy and online anonymity – Practices of 
de-identification in the global file sharing community, Journal of Research in 
Interactive Marketing 6(4): 260-280.
• Larsson, Stefan, Svensson, Måns and de Kaminski, Marcin (2012) Online 
Piracy, Anonymity and Social Change – Innovation through Deviance, Convergence: 
The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 19(1): 
95-114. 
• Larsson, Stefan (2014) Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. 
A Comparison between French and American File-sharers, Lexis – E-journal in 
English Lexicology.
• de Kaminski, M., Svensson, M., Larsson, S., Alkan Olsson, J., Rönkkö, 
K. (2013) Studying Norms and Social Change in Digital Age: Identifying and 
Understanding a Multidimensional Gap Problem, in M Baier, Social and Legal 
Norms. Towards a socio-legal understanding of normativity, Ashgate Publishing.
• Andersson Schwarz, J. and Larsson S. (forthcoming, 2014) On the 
Justifications of Piracy: Differences in conceptualization and argumentation 
between active uploaders and other file-sharers. In: Arvanitakis J and 
Fredriksson M (eds.), Piracy: Leakages from Modernity. Los Angeles, CA: Litwin 
Books.
• Larsson, Wnukowska-Mtonga, Svensson, de Kaminski (forthcoming, 2014) 
Parallel Norms: File-sharing and Contemporary Copyright Development in 
Australia, Journal of World Intellectual Property.
• Svensson, M., Larsson, S. and de Kaminski, M. (2013) 
Professionalizzazione, gender e anonimato nelle comunità di file sharing 
globale, in Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso (eds.) Piracy Effect, Milano, 
Italy: Mimesis Editore.

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Re: [liberationtech] The Research Bay #3

[Marcin de Kaminski]

The survey can be reached through www.thepiratebay.se ofc… :)

On 25 Feb 2014, at 24:33 , Marcin de Kaminski  wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> The Cybernorms research group and the Lund University Internet Institute 
> (LUii) is currently doing a survey on file-sharing in collaboration with The 
> Pirate Bay, the bitTorrent site. The survey runs from 25 to 27 February.
> 
> The survey has been done twice before, and has been the largest of its kind 
> with over 96,000 respondents. The first Research Bay survey was performed in 
> April 2011, and it was followed by the Research Bay “re-loaded” about a year 
> later in 2012. The Cybernorms research group also released the data from the 
> first survey in a searchable database on this site, called the Survey Bay. 
> Forbes reported, along with TechDirt and others.
> 
> See also post on www.cybernormer.se
> 
> Scientific articles based on previous Research Bay data
> 
>   • Larsson, S., Svensson, M., de Kaminski, M., Rönkkö, K., and Alkan 
> Olsson, J. (2012) Law, norms, piracy and online anonymity – Practices of 
> de-identification in the global file sharing community, Journal of Research 
> in Interactive Marketing 6(4): 260-280.
>   • Larsson, Stefan, Svensson, Måns and de Kaminski, Marcin (2012) Online 
> Piracy, Anonymity and Social Change – Innovation through Deviance, 
> Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media 
> Technologies, 19(1): 95-114. 
>   • Larsson, Stefan (2014) Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. 
> A Comparison between French and American File-sharers, Lexis – E-journal in 
> English Lexicology.
>   • de Kaminski, M., Svensson, M., Larsson, S., Alkan Olsson, J., Rönkkö, 
> K. (2013) Studying Norms and Social Change in Digital Age: Identifying and 
> Understanding a Multidimensional Gap Problem, in M Baier, Social and Legal 
> Norms. Towards a socio-legal understanding of normativity, Ashgate Publishing.
>   • Andersson Schwarz, J. and Larsson S. (forthcoming, 2014) On the 
> Justifications of Piracy: Differences in conceptualization and argumentation 
> between active uploaders and other file-sharers. In: Arvanitakis J and 
> Fredriksson M (eds.), Piracy: Leakages from Modernity. Los Angeles, CA: 
> Litwin Books.
>   • Larsson, Wnukowska-Mtonga, Svensson, de Kaminski (forthcoming, 2014) 
> Parallel Norms: File-sharing and Contemporary Copyright Development in 
> Australia, Journal of World Intellectual Property.
>   • Svensson, M., Larsson, S. and de Kaminski, M. (2013) 
> Professionalizzazione, gender e anonimato nelle comunità di file sharing 
> globale, in Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso (eds.) Piracy Effect, Milano, 
> Italy: Mimesis Editore.
> 
> -- 
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> PhDc Sociology of Law, University of Lund
> Lund University Internet Institute, Cybernorms Research Group
> Personal homepage - www.dekaminski.se
> 
> Phone#: +46-(0)768-045151
> 


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Re: [liberationtech] The Research Bay #3

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hi Alberto,

Yes, we are aware of that - but as we are researching the community at TPB it 
would really not help to have the survey on another address. However, last time 
we did this survey (in 2012) appr 10% of the respondents claimed to have TPB 
censored by their ISP (by their own will or due to legal claims) - and they 
reached the site anyway. We also got a looong (rly long) list of different 
methods given as ways to reach TPB even though it is blocked.

/Marcin


On 25 Feb 2014, at 10:25 , Alberto Cammozzo  wrote:

> Hello Marcin,
> 
> are you are aware that Italy is censoring thepiratebay.* ?
> Perhaps it would be useful to have the survey available at some other
> address, too.
> 
> bests,
> 
> Alberto
> 
> 
> -
> Alberto Cammozzo
> http://cammozzo.com
> http://tagMeNot.info
> 
> 
> 
> On 02/25/2014 12:35 AM, Marcin de Kaminski wrote:
>> The survey can be reached through www.thepiratebay.se ofc… :)
>> 
>> On 25 Feb 2014, at 24:33 , Marcin de Kaminski  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey all,
>>> 
>>> The Cybernorms research group and the Lund University Internet Institute 
>>> (LUii) is currently doing a survey on file-sharing in collaboration with 
>>> The Pirate Bay, the bitTorrent site. The survey runs from 25 to 27 February.
>>> 
>>> The survey has been done twice before, and has been the largest of its kind 
>>> with over 96,000 respondents. The first Research Bay survey was performed 
>>> in April 2011, and it was followed by the Research Bay “re-loaded” about a 
>>> year later in 2012. The Cybernorms research group also released the data 
>>> from the first survey in a searchable database on this site, called the 
>>> Survey Bay. Forbes reported, along with TechDirt and others.
>>> 
>>> See also post on www.cybernormer.se
>>> 
>>> Scientific articles based on previous Research Bay data
>>> 
>>> • Larsson, S., Svensson, M., de Kaminski, M., Rönkkö, K., and Alkan 
>>> Olsson, J. (2012) Law, norms, piracy and online anonymity – Practices of 
>>> de-identification in the global file sharing community, Journal of Research 
>>> in Interactive Marketing 6(4): 260-280.
>>> • Larsson, Stefan, Svensson, Måns and de Kaminski, Marcin (2012) Online 
>>> Piracy, Anonymity and Social Change – Innovation through Deviance, 
>>> Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media 
>>> Technologies, 19(1): 95-114. 
>>> • Larsson, Stefan (2014) Conceptions of Copyright in a Digital Context. 
>>> A Comparison between French and American File-sharers, Lexis – E-journal in 
>>> English Lexicology.
>>> • de Kaminski, M., Svensson, M., Larsson, S., Alkan Olsson, J., Rönkkö, 
>>> K. (2013) Studying Norms and Social Change in Digital Age: Identifying and 
>>> Understanding a Multidimensional Gap Problem, in M Baier, Social and Legal 
>>> Norms. Towards a socio-legal understanding of normativity, Ashgate 
>>> Publishing.
>>> • Andersson Schwarz, J. and Larsson S. (forthcoming, 2014) On the 
>>> Justifications of Piracy: Differences in conceptualization and 
>>> argumentation between active uploaders and other file-sharers. In: 
>>> Arvanitakis J and Fredriksson M (eds.), Piracy: Leakages from Modernity. 
>>> Los Angeles, CA: Litwin Books.
>>> • Larsson, Wnukowska-Mtonga, Svensson, de Kaminski (forthcoming, 2014) 
>>> Parallel Norms: File-sharing and Contemporary Copyright Development in 
>>> Australia, Journal of World Intellectual Property.
>>> • Svensson, M., Larsson, S. and de Kaminski, M. (2013) 
>>> Professionalizzazione, gender e anonimato nelle comunità di file sharing 
>>> globale, in Roberto Braga and Giovanni Caruso (eds.) Piracy Effect, Milano, 
>>> Italy: Mimesis Editore.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Marcin de Kaminski
>>> PhDc Sociology of Law, University of Lund
>>> Lund University Internet Institute, Cybernorms Research Group
>>> Personal homepage - www.dekaminski.se
>>> 
>>> Phone#: +46-(0)768-045151
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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[liberationtech] Public surveillance

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Hi!

Do any of you know of _any_ country that has some kind of transparency 
regarding its domestic suverillance? Are there for instance, somewhere, public 
records if security polic or other law enforcement agency wiretaps, etc?

Marcin

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[liberationtech] Applications open for the SIDC HR/ICT programme 2014/2015

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

I’m happy to announce that applications are now open for the third round of the 
Social Innovation in a Digital Context programme at Lund University Internet 
Institute, Sweden. To learn more about the program, please refer to the 
information attached below or the current programme website www.sidc2013.com

//

Social Innovation in a Digital Context (SIDC)
– A one year academic programme for social and digital innovators from the 
Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, with interactive and practical 
components.
 
Social Innovation in a Digital Context (SIDC) is a one-year academic programme, 
comprising 60 academic credits. Carried out by Lund University on behalf of the 
Swedish Institute, the SIDC programme supports social and digital innovators 
from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia to pursue project work in the 
fields of digital technology, new media, and social-political change.
 
Deadline for applications: April 14th, 2014
 
For practical questions and more information about the application procedure, 
please contact:
Jessica Hansson, project manager, Lund University Commissioned Education:
s...@education.lu.se
 
For more information about the programme design and content, please contact:
Marcin de Kaminski, programme director, Lund University Internet Institute,
marcin.de_kamin...@soclaw.lu.se
 
Find out more about the programme here:
www.si.se/sidc
www.luii.lu.se/education/sidc2014/
www.education.lu.se/sidc
 
www.facebook.com/sidcprogramme
youtube.com/user/sidc2014

//

I would be very happy if this information was circulated in HR/ICT communities 
in MENA region and South Asia, to make sure that it reaches out to potential 
participants. Feel free to forward this email, and don’t hesitate to put my 
email in cc for contact reasons.

Thanks!

/Marcin

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[liberationtech] 4 days left to apply for the SIDC HR/ICT programme 2014/2015

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

This is a reminder that applications are open until April 14th for the third 
round of the Social Innovation in a Digital Context programme at Lund 
University Internet Institute, Sweden. To learn more about the program, please 
refer to the information attached below or the current programme website 
www.sidc2013.com

Please read this and spread it around.

//

Social Innovation in a Digital Context (SIDC)
– A one year academic programme for social and digital innovators from the 
Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, with interactive and practical 
components.

Social Innovation in a Digital Context (SIDC) is a one-year academic programme, 
comprising 60 academic credits. Carried out by Lund University on behalf of the 
Swedish Institute, the SIDC programme supports social and digital innovators 
from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia to pursue project work in the 
fields of digital technology, new media, and social-political change.

Deadline for applications: April 14th, 2014

For practical questions and more information about the application procedure, 
please contact:
Jessica Hansson, project manager, Lund University Commissioned Education:
s...@education.lu.se

For more information about the programme design and content, please contact:
Marcin de Kaminski, programme director, Lund University Internet Institute,
marcin.de_kamin...@soclaw.lu.se

Find out more about the programme here:
www.si.se/sidc
www.luii.lu.se/education/sidc2014/
www.education.lu.se/sidc

www.facebook.com/sidcprogramme
youtube.com/user/sidc2014

//

I would be very happy if this information was circulated in HR/ICT communities 
in MENA region and South Asia, to make sure that it reaches out to potential 
participants. Feel free to forward this email, and don’t hesitate to put my 
email in cc for contact reasons.

Thanks!

/Marcin

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Lund University Internet Institute, Cybernorms Research Group
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Re: [liberationtech] Inside FinFisher: examining the intrusive toolset

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Thank you Nighat, and thanks for sharing.

Very interesting indeed!

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2014-11-11 05:44 skrev Nighat Dad:

Hello all,

We have just published the second detailed article, examining the
FinFisher intrusive toolset while adding some graphics and videos for
readers to understand that how FF toolkit works. Thought some of you
might find it useful and interesting.

"Inside FinFisher: examining the intrusive toolset"
http://digitalrightsfoundation.pk/2014/11/inside-finfisher-examining-the-intrusive-toolset/

Please let us know if you have any feedback.

Best,

Nighat Dad
Director, Digital Rights Foundation, Pakistan
www.digitalrightsfoundation.pk
www.jasoosibandkaro.pk
@nighatdad
@digitalrightsPK
@jasoosibandkaro

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[liberationtech] Afrileaks

[Marcin de Kaminski]

Dear all,

What do you make of Afrileaks?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-for-africa-introducing-afrileaks
https://afrileaks.org/

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