Re: European Islamophobia report - countries needed

[Morlock Elloi]

EUR 16K ??

They should invest at least the same for europhobia reports.



On 1/7/19, 15:04, Molly Hankwitz wrote:


::Call for Islamophobia reports ::

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European Islamophobia report - countries needed

[Molly Hankwitz]

::Call for Islamophobia reports ::

The *European Islamophobia Report* (EIR) is an annual report, which has
been published since 2015. The EIR documents and analyzes trends in the
spread of Islamophobia in various European nation states. Every year on the
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (March 21),
the EIR is published online and in print and disseminated among leading
stakeholders, politicians, NGOs, and anti-racist organizations. The EIR is
presented at several supranational institutions such as the OSCE ODIHR, the
European Parliament, and other important international and national
institutions. One or more persons can author a report of his/her country of
expertise. The executive office will disseminate the reports among key
policy-makers, journalists and NGO activists on the local, national, and
European level.

*Language:* English (Executive Summary in both the native language and
English)

*Dissemination:* Reports will be available in hard copy and accessible
online via www.islamophobiaeurope.com

.

*We are still looking for authors for the following countries:*

Long report (6,000 words): Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands,
Norway, Sweden, Switzerland.

Short report (3,000 words): Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary,
Iceland, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Portugal,
Slovakia, Southern Cyprus, Ukraine.

*Professional fee:*

€1,000 for long reports

€500 for short reports

*Application should include:*

   - CV
   - Expertise in the field of racism studies, including Islamophobia
   Studies (list of publications)
   - List of NGOs in the country with which the author(s) will cooperate to
   get information on Islamophobic incidents on the ground
   -

January 10, Feedback to authors

February 1, 2019: Final draft for country reports

March 21, 2019: Publication


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Re: The Cryptopticon

[jeremy bentham]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 02:00:18PM +0100, Felix Stalder wrote:
> In 2014, a protestor at an anti-fascist rally in Vienna was sentenced to
> 12 months of jail, for alleged participation in violent action.

> Among the evidence that was held against him was using an non-registered
> prepaid card. Even though that was entirely legal at the time, it was
> held against him as evidence that we was actively engaged in obfuscating
> his tracks, which meant, obviously, that he had planned to commit
> crimes. To add to the absurdity of this case, this was before the EU
> eliminated roaming charges, so lots of people bought disposable sim
> cards when traveling aboard (as he did, coming from Germany) for the
> simple reasons of saving telco charges.

> Felix

> [1]
> https://derstandard.at/203552905/Da-macht-es-sich-die-Justiz-recht-einfach



> On 07.01.19 10:07, Patrice Riemens wrote:

> > People have chosen for convenience, even at the cost of all-round
> > surveillance. But somewhere in their mind they know it's not 100% okay.
> > So no wonder they stigmatize 'you'. Nothing like freedom to engender
> > jealousy.
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I suspect a misunderstanding.

Vaidhyanathan is playing with _cryptic_, as in obscure, not
cryptography:

"Unlike Bentham's Panopticon, the Cryptopticon is not supposed to
be obvious.  Its scale, its ubiquity, and even its very existence
are supposed to be hidden from clear view."  _Antisocial Media_
p. 67

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Re: The Cryptopticon

[Morlock Elloi]

A technical note: the actual SIM card, while helpful, is not essential 
for tracking. What is far more useful and harder to circumvent are 
identifier associations and turning patterns into identifiers:


1. If you ever use a particular cell phone (IMEI), a browser with high 
entropy fingerprint, a particular IP number, credit card, car with a 
license plate, you will be forever associated with them. So using a 
different SIM in the same phone (or a friend's phone) is as pointless as 
deleting cookies or as using a different computer from the same house. 
Not only that, others using the same will be forever associated with 
you. I don't need to mention that using the same e-mail address to 
register to multiple services is out.


2. If you carefully avoid #1, and, for example, buy brand new computer 
for cash and then start using it in the same way as you did the old one, 
you are back in the network: computer use patterns are highly individual 
(check this web site, then this e-mail, then ...). Or if you buy 
pre-loaded credit card for cash, and start buying the same food at the 
same supermarket (BTW, did you know that cash-paying supermarket 
consumers are as easily tracked as those using credit cards, as most 
have discerning patterns? Even more if you usually buy with cc, and then 
buy once with cash, it is very likely that the cash purchase record will 
be de-duplicated and consolidated with the credit card purchase history, 
if you buy the same stuff at the same time of the day/week.)


3. If you buy new cell phone and SIM card, then walk with them past face 
recognition posts long enough to correlate GPS tracking (or cell tower 
tracking if you were paranoid enough to disable GPS) with your movement 
on the street, you are back in the network.


The above is not the future - it's the present. It's just not in the 
popular press yet. The psychological barrier is the problem - it's too 
horrific, so it's more comfortable to write it off as conspiracy/lunacy. 
That could even be a rational choice, as it results in better mental health.


The future of tracking will not rely on any consumer-replaceable things 
such as SIM cards; that's old school. It will be mostly biometric, so 
start working on your split personality skills. Develop new gait, for 
the start (hint: the easiest way is to start a slight limp.)





On 1/7/19, 09:08, Adam Burns wrote:

local German voice numbers, Freifunk offers open wifi connectivity, and
with the right app, smart phones work for calls and SMS with no SIM card
over WiFi. The setup is by no means perfect in terms of connectivity,


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Re: The Cryptopticon

[Adam Burns]

Absolutely agree with the thread sentiments of driving people
underground and into disadvantage.

However, situations like this demand effort to circumvent and encourage
the exploration of methods allowing the routing around of such censor
blocks.

For instance in Germany, VoIP gateways (eg sipgate) offer leasing of
local German voice numbers, Freifunk offers open wifi connectivity, and
with the right app, smart phones work for calls and SMS with no SIM card
over WiFi. The setup is by no means perfect in terms of connectivity,
but functional at least without visa/proof of ID (albeit CC or online
payment is still required).

Disadvantages and effort aside, in terms of surveillance and control,
there are distinct advantages to not embedding a SIM card into your
device and your life, so perhaps in some ways such constructions and
their work-arounds show us all a small but more liberated way forward.

Such regimes are pinpoint in their regulatory requirements and create
their own shadows in terms of defining the characteristics of bias,
focusing on suspicion of the adaptable rather than the flaws of
assumptions and intent behind their own constructed regulatory system
(unless their intent is indeed to create the shadows in the first place).

A.


On 07/01/2019 17:03, Emery Hemingway wrote:
> It swings both ways, stricter registration requirements eventually
> pushes more people underground. For example, immigrants in Germany
> with temporary visas (fiktionsbescheinigungen) cannot buy SIM cards,
> but they can hardly complete the administrative process without one.
>
> E.
>
> On Monday, January 7, 2019 2:00:18 PM CET, Felix Stalder wrote:
>> In 2014, a protestor at an anti-fascist rally in Vienna was sentenced to
>> 12 months of jail, for alleged participation in violent action.
>>
>> Among the evidence that was held against him was using an non-registered
>> prepaid card. Even though that was entirely legal at the time, it was
>> held against him as evidence that we was actively engaged in obfuscating
>> his tracks, which meant, obviously, that he had planned to commit
>> crimes. To add to the absurdity of this case, this was before the EU
>> eliminated roaming charges, so lots of people bought disposable sim
>> cards when traveling aboard (as he did, coming from Germany) for the
>> simple reasons of saving telco charges.
>>
>> Felix
>>
>> [1]
>> https://derstandard.at/203552905/Da-macht-es-sich-die-Justiz-recht-einfach
>>
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Re: The Cryptopticon

[Emery Hemingway]

It swings both ways, stricter registration requirements eventually
pushes more people underground. For example, immigrants in Germany
with temporary visas (fiktionsbescheinigungen) cannot buy SIM cards,
but they can hardly complete the administrative process without one.

E.

On Monday, January 7, 2019 2:00:18 PM CET, Felix Stalder wrote:

In 2014, a protestor at an anti-fascist rally in Vienna was sentenced to
12 months of jail, for alleged participation in violent action.

Among the evidence that was held against him was using an non-registered
prepaid card. Even though that was entirely legal at the time, it was
held against him as evidence that we was actively engaged in obfuscating
his tracks, which meant, obviously, that he had planned to commit
crimes. To add to the absurdity of this case, this was before the EU
eliminated roaming charges, so lots of people bought disposable sim
cards when traveling aboard (as he did, coming from Germany) for the
simple reasons of saving telco charges.

Felix

[1]
https://derstandard.at/203552905/Da-macht-es-sich-die-Justiz-recht-einfach


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Re: The Cryptopticon

[Felix Stalder]

In 2014, a protestor at an anti-fascist rally in Vienna was sentenced to
12 months of jail, for alleged participation in violent action.

Among the evidence that was held against him was using an non-registered
prepaid card. Even though that was entirely legal at the time, it was
held against him as evidence that we was actively engaged in obfuscating
his tracks, which meant, obviously, that he had planned to commit
crimes. To add to the absurdity of this case, this was before the EU
eliminated roaming charges, so lots of people bought disposable sim
cards when traveling aboard (as he did, coming from Germany) for the
simple reasons of saving telco charges.

Felix

[1]
https://derstandard.at/203552905/Da-macht-es-sich-die-Justiz-recht-einfach



On 07.01.19 10:07, Patrice Riemens wrote:

> People have chosen for convenience, even at the cost of all-round
> surveillance. But somewhere in their mind they know it's not 100% okay.
> So no wonder they stigmatize 'you'. Nothing like freedom to engender
> jealousy.
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Re: The Cryptopticon

[Patrice Riemens]

Aloha,

Agreing with Morlock, but it's in fact even worse than. Before using 
crypto, you're already into using a lot of devices, and non-possession 
of these, e.g. smartphones, not only makes you suspect, it increasingly 
makes your life impossible. Same with banking without a debit/credit 
card - in NL it's next to impossible to sue public transport without 
these (*). So tracking happens everywhere and all the time, and the less 
traces you leave the more you are excluded and seen as potentially 
dangerous (potentially = 'we' decide when and where to eliminate you, 
'potentially' for ever).


People have chosen for convenience, even at the cost of all-round 
surveillance. But somewhere in their mind they know it's not 100% okay. 
So no wonder they stigmatize 'you'. Nothing like freedom to engender 
jealousy.


Have a funky 2019 all the same!
p=7D!

(*) Get a car, you loser!? - forget it, you can't paypark without a 
bankcard!



On 2019-01-07 04:26, Morlock Elloi wrote:

There isn't much there, other than expanding on the nature of the
invisible threat with long term consequences, which is usually dealt
with by the organized government (smoking, pesticides, etc.), except
that in this case the government is the cause of the threat, so it
won't touch it, and there is no other body of sufficient weight to do
anything about it.

What would be more interesting to analyze is the phenomenally
successful installation of social stigma against those who are
effectively protecting themselves against organized surveillance.
Unlike early users of car seat belts (before they were mandated) who
were just weenies and chicken, people using PGP, one email per each
service, tor, fake names, etc., are considered potentially dangerous
psychopaths.

It will take more than one R. Nader to fix this one.

On 1/6/19, 17:46, jeremy bentham wrote:

Why haven't this list's mavens de-, re-, pre- and otherwise-
constructed Siva Vaidhyanathan's Cryptopticon?

If for no other reason than it is such a lovely neologism?


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