Re: Who remembers CD-ROMs ?...

2013-12-15 Thread Yves Bernard
i agree Joe! here is a text i wrote end of 2009 in preparation for a symposium about Media Libraries and Archives for the 21st century which happened at LAboral in May 2010. [...] I mean mainly the works made by artists on cd-rom, designed for personal computer, published by small or major comp

Re: VIDEO: Snowden, the NSA, and Fre e Software – Bruce Schneier and Eben Moglen

2013-12-15 Thread John Young
A perdurable characteristic of cryptography and cryptographers is duplicity often discussed and debated in the field, cheated and lied about, preened and ridiculed. Crypto's essential role in projecting and protecting power requires duplicity to serve officials and counter-officials, know thy ene

Open Letter to Commoners from the FLOK Society, Ecuador

2013-12-15 Thread Felix Stalder
by way of David Bollier An Open Letter to the Commoners and Co-operators of the World to participate in the Ecuadorian transition towards an Open Commons-based Knowledge Society. Dear Global Co-operators and Commoners, In a speech on Sept. 19, 2012 [1], President Correa of Ecuador appealed to t

VIDEO: Snowden, the NSA, and Free Software – Bruce Schneier and Eben Moglen

2013-12-15 Thread Joly MacFie
I briefly talked with Bruce after this event, and suggested that it was much better than the recent DC one. He heartily agreed. His essential theme is that while ultimately there is no real defense to targeted surveillance, but plenty that can be done to make bulk surveillance both impractical and