Re: (fwd) a woman in iraq, video on youtube

[jo van der spek]

The short documentary ZAINAB by one of our female correspondents in Iraq has
provoked some very controversial feedback. We appreciate dialogue, but
unfortunately some reactions were based on misinterpretations. Therefore we
have decided to add some information to the movie and took it offline for
the moment. This amended version of ZAINAB will be online hopefully in the
next 5 days. I will let you know, and I am looking forward to your response.



Greetings from Jordan,




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Streamtime at fadaiat06 Barcelona [signed]

[jo van der spek [c]]

Watch out, it may be only an 
<http://images.google.nl/images?q=IED%20Iraq&sourceid=mozilla-search&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi>IED!
 


<http://streamtime.org/>Streamtime at 
<http://fadaiat.net/>Fadaiat2006 in Barcelona

It's a blog. It's a lab. It's net. It's OSS. It's Iraq for real.

Imagine an alternative <http://flossmanuals.org/MuSE>IED, an 
improvised expressive device like a CD that turns your PC into an on 
line streaming studio. Imagine a mob that creates a traffic jam. 
Think of the religious policeman in London, the konfused kollege kid 
and the jealous dentist in Baghdad and the jailed blogger blogging on 
in Cairo. Think of building autonomous networks of exceptional people 
in extreme conditions.

Streamtime uses old and new media for the production of content and 
networks in the fields of media, arts, culture and activism in crisis 
areas, like Iraq. Streamtime offers a diffuse environment for 
developing do-it-yourself media. We like to contribute to finding 
your own way in/into/out-of  the quagmire that is Iraq, and its 
representation in the global media. We should not try to change 
politics in order to foster cultural change; we should support 
cultural manifestation in order to force political change.

Streamtime may take the form of a campaign, a work of collaborative 
art, a current of unheard sounds, unspeakable words and unseen 
imaginations. We have this optimistic idea that in the chaos it is 
not only the law of the jungle that rules, but that there is also a 
range of possibilities to invent new shit, an eagerness to connect 
with alternative ways of living, communicating, etc. We have been 
pioneering, seeding, fact finding in Iraq. We have created a lot of 
content on the site, txt and audio, pics and some video.

DISLOCATED RADIO PERFORMANCE

Remote interaction and ubiquitous dialogues, dematerialized 
communication and participation on the streets. Space  in its 
territorial, acoustic and cybernetic dimensions is fragmented and 
recomposed realtime. Hacking codes both moral and digital, forming 
new maps, mutant drawings and unstable skins. Information overload 
can be abandoned in favor of consciousness and collaborative practices.
Memory has a digital, diverse, horizontal voice.

FADAIAT 06, Thursday 22nd of June 19-21 hours

This program will be an organic and chaotic networked meeting of an 
Iraqi activist from San Francisco, a Swedish video artist, a Swiss 
streamer from Cameroon, another Iraqi hacker, a nomadic coder and the 
guardian of Iraqi bloggers and whoever joins in.
Audio, video, pure data, chat and live interventions from all the 
world in charge of Eleonora (aka Finina) and Yoyo (aka Comandante 
Malaria) produced at the Hangar.
We did it before in Halabja, Baghdad, Basrah and Amsterdam.

DIS - Denial Identity Service

Streamtime proposes a local installation, a 'situationist theatre'.
It offers people a chance to get confused. It offers people a chance 
to confuse others.
There's a dressing room and there is a table, or kiosk, or couch.
The performer can be dressed in Burqa, offering passers-by to wash their feet.
The performer can be a bearded Arab offering bottles of fear.
Anything really.
Anybody can perform.
Even undocumented policemen or pigeons.

This will be wired or wirelessed and made visible and audible on 
line, as part of Fadaiat.
We will be seeking border crossing collaborations with street 
sellers, squatters, sin papeleros and other performers.
We must find the furniture and the dresses, masks, a waterpipe, a pot 
of tea, a massage table, an oil drum, magic bottles, and whatever 
else comes to mind or eye.

Amsterdam, June 2006

Eleonora Oreggia and Jo van der Spek

Streamtime = <http://streamtime.org/>http://streamtime.org/
Doing it with Dyne:bolic <http://dyne.org/>http://dyne.org/
Streaming with Muse <http://flossmanuals.org/MuSE>http://flossmanuals.org/MuSE





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web based border patrol [open sores 0.1] [signed]

[jo van der spek [c]]

 From the BBC, June 0st 2006:

"Web users to 'patrol' US border

Web users worldwide will be able to watch the Texas border. The US
state of Texas, is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal
immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican
border on the internet. Governor Rick Perry said the cameras would
focus on "hot-spots and common routes" used to enter the US. The plan
will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas' border with Mexico and
phone the authorities if they spot any apparently illegal crossings."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5040372.stm

 From Heath Bunting, 1997:

CCTV - World Wide Watch Improve self policing with further absented
police force.

http://www.irational.org/heath/cctv/



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Cartoon memo from Saudi Arabia [signed]

[jo van der spek [c]]

As Your Majesty requested recently, in order to divert public 
attention from the regrettable demise of a small number of pilgrims 
in Makkah during the last Hajj, Saudi newspapers were instructed to 
revive the four-month-old story of cartoons about the Prophet (PBUH) 
in a Danish newspaper, and turn it into an attack on Denmark, 
together with a "spontaneous demand by the people" for a boycott of 
Danish goods.

an iconography of blasphemy by "The religious policeman", famous Blogger from
http://muttawa.blogspot.com/2006/02/memo.html
The diary of a Saudi man, currently living in the United Kingdom, 
where the Religious Police no longer trouble him for the moment.

courtesy: http://streamtime.org



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India: streaming from World Social Forum

[jo van der spek]

1. stream from india world social forum jan 04 (ionnek)


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Hi preplisters,

Programmers, technicians and artists from apo33 and interpreters from=20
babels network are planning to set up a stream from the Mumbay World Social=
=20
Forum in India from  January16th to 21st.

If anyone on this list is up for supporting this project (mirroring,=20
publicising...), ask laurent.vannini at fse-esf.org for details.

best
ionnek

-Forwarded Message-
  > From: Laurent Vannini - fse 2003 
  > Cc: adnane at ras.eu.org
  > Subject: Fwd: [ca] Forum Social Mondial de Mumbai
  > Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:32:58 +0100
  >
  > Hello to all,
  >
  > For the World social forum held in Mumba=EF in january 2004, a new
  > interpretation tool is being developed by programmers, technicians and
  > artists from apo33 and interpreters from babels network. This tool
  > will be used for the first time in the 5 main WSF conference rooms (24
  > 000 persons) and aims at replacing in the future the existing
  > translation equipment currently rent during continental or world
  > social forum. The cost of this tool (and of the whole system called
  > NOMAD) is at least 75 % inferior to what is normally spent on basic
  > equipment, and tends to give a greater autonomy of the movement.
  >
  > This tool will also for the first time enable the debates and
  > translations to be archived and streamed so anybody can virtually
  > attend the meetings or listen to them afterwards.
  >
  > Regarding streaming, the idea is to have in India a main server
  > feeding several mirrors to which surfers can connect so to follow the
  > debates. The more mirrors we have, the wider the debates can be spred.
  > Technical implementation would mean to relay 1 to 2 Mb of streaming
  > flow from the 16th to the 21st, 10 to 12 hours each day.
  >
  > If you are still interested in the process, please let us know so we
  > can send you more information from India (the real moment of truth as
  > we don't know yet what can locally be used).
  >
  > Don't hesitate to spread the information to whoever might wish to
  > install a mirror !!
  >
  > For any question or further information, you can send us a mail at :
  > stream_trad at fse-esf.org , wsfsm at babels.org and info at apo33.org=20
(please
  > copy the 3)
  >
  > In solidarity
  >
  > Amiti=E9s
  >
  > Laurent Vannini
  >
  > > Bonjour =E0 Tout-e-s;
  > >
  > > A l'occasion du Forum Social Mondial de Mumbai, une plateforme
  > > commune d=E9veopp=E9e par le soin de d=E9veloppeurs et d'interpr=E8tes
  > > volontaires de Babel, sera mise en place et permettra de g=E9rer les
  > > intepr=E9tations vers diff=E9rentes langues dans les  salles de d=E9bat=
,
  > > les archiver et les envoyer en streaming. Ceci permettra d'une part
  > > de r=E9duire les co=FBts du mat=E9riel de traduction pour ce genre
  > > d'=E9v=E9nements, mais aussi de restituer les d=E9bats (l'archivage +
  > > ind=E9xation) et de permettre qu'ils soient suivies imm=E9diatement par
  > > les internautes (streaming audio). Pour la fonction de streaming,
  > > l'id=E9e est que depuis l'inde, un serveur de streaming alimente un
  > > certain nombre de mirroirs qui eux relayront vers le public.
  > > Nous avons pens=E9 que le R at S peut s'associer =E0 cet effort en tant=
  que
  > > mirroir.
  > > Si il y a accord sur =E7a, et du point de vue technique il faudra
  > > relayer de 1 =E0 2 M=E9ga de flux en streaming du 16 au 21, 10 =E0 12h=
  par
  > > jour.
  > > Donc, toujours dans l'hypoth=E8se o=F9 le R at S s'engage sur =E7a,=
  quelles
  > > seraient les contraintes techniques et =E9ventuellement financi=E8res
  > > pour le faire ?
  > >
  > > Dans l'attente de vos r=E9actions,
  > > Amiti=E9s Solidaires.
  > > Adnane.

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Bug devices track officials at summit

[jo van der spek]

Bug devices track officials at summit
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20031214-011754-1280r.htm

By Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Officials who attended a world Internet and technology summit in 
Switzerland last week were unknowingly bugged, said researchers who 
attended the forum.
Badges assigned to attendees of the World Summit on the Information Society 
were affixed with radio-frequency identification chips (RFIDs), said 
Alberto Escudero-Pascual, Stephane Koch and George Danezis in a report 
issued after the conference ended Friday in Geneva. The badges were handed 
out to more than 50 prime ministers, presidents and other high-level 
officials from 174 countries, including the United States.
The trio's report said they were able to obtain the official badges with 
fraudulent identification only to be stunned when they found RFID chips  a 
contentious issue among privacy advocates in the United States and 
Europe  embedded in the tags.
Researchers questioned summit officials about the use of the chips and how 
long information would be stored but were not given answers.
The three-day WSIS forum focused on Internet governance and access, 
security, intellectual-property rights and privacy. The United States and 
other countries defeated an attempt to place the Internet under supervision 
of the United Nations.
RFID chips track a person's movement in "real time." U.S. groups have 
called for a voluntary moratorium on using the chips in consumer items 
until the technology and its effects on privacy and civil liberties are 
addressed.
Mr. Escudero-Pascual is a researcher in computer security and privacy at 
the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Miss Koch is the president 
of Internet Society Geneva, and Mr. Danezis studies privacy-enhancing 
technologies and computer security at Cambridge University.
"During the course of our investigation, we were able to register for the 
summit and obtain an official pass by just showing a fake plastic identity 
card and being photographed via a Web cam with no other document or 
registration number required to obtain the pass," the researchers said.
The researchers chose names for the fake identification cards from a list 
printed on the summit's Web site of attendees.
The hidden chips communicate information via radio frequency when close to 
sensors that can be placed anywhere "from vending machines to the entrance 
of a specific meeting room, allowing the remote identification and tracking 
of participants, or groups of participants, attending the event," the 
report said.
The photograph of the person and other personal details are not stored on 
the chip but in a centralized database that monitors the movement. 
Researchers said they are concerned that database will be used for future 
events, including the next summit to be hosted by Tunisian authorities.
"During the registration process, we requested information about the future 
use of the picture and other information that was taken, and the built-in 
functionalities of the seemingly innocent plastic badge. No public 
information or privacy policy was available upon our demands that could 
indicate the purpose, processing or retention periods for the data 
collected. The registration personnel were obviously not properly informed 
and trained," the report said.
The lack of security procedures violates the Swiss Federal Law on Data 
Protection of June 1992, the European Union Data Protection Directive, and 
United Nations' guidelines concerning computerized personal-data files 
adopted by the General Assembly in 1990, the researchers said.
"The big problem is that system also fails to guarantee the promised high 
levels of security while introducing the possibility of constant 
surveillance of the representatives of civil society, many of whom are 
critical of certain governments and regimes," the report said.
"Sharing this data with any third party would be putting civil-society 
participants at risk, but this threat is made concrete in the context of 
WSIS by considering the potential impact of sharing the data collected with 
the Tunisian government in charge of organizing the event in 2005," it said.
The organization Reporters Without Borders was banned from attending the 
summit and launched a pirate radio broadcast to protest the ban and detail 
press-freedom violations by some countries attending the meetings, 
including Tunisia.
"Our organization defends freedom of expression on the Internet on a daily 
basis. Our voice should therefore be heard during this event, despite this 
outrageous ban," said Robert Menard, secretary general of Reporters Without 
Borders.
Tunisia is among several countries Reporters Without Borders has accused of 
censoring the Internet, intercepting e-mails and jailing cyber-dissidents.



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WSIS security hacked and exposed

[jo van der spek]

A group of hackers has succeed in entering unauthorized in the precinct 
where the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is being 
celebrated, thus demonstrating and ridiculing the rudimentary security used 
to control access to the delegates and other participants and invitees.

The system consists of a plastic card containing a chip able to transmit 
the personal identifier as well as the location of the participant in the 
precinct., thanks to some sensors of presence that can be mounted anywhere: 
softdrink selling machines, conference rooms, entries and exits… in this 
way the system cann detect where each individual person is at any moment, 
in which sessions s/he took part, what contacts were made, with whom time 
was passed….

This system not only violates the laws protecting data, since the 
participants have not been informed of the existence of this database, nor 
of the possible ways in which these data  can be stored and at a later 
stage processed without their permission.

But the most interesting is that this advanced security system has managed 
to become vulnerable and neutralized, which brings up the question not only 
its legality, but also its effectivity when controlling accesses.

You may find pictures of the non-registered people in the conference at 
this web site:
http://www.nodo50.org/wsis/pictures/

more on: 
http://galiza.indymedia.org/gz/2003/12/2234.shtml

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