Yesterday, as Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, some people on the Internet
noticed a strange thing. I'm not going to comment on the big picture except to
say
that the situation is terrible, the invasion criminal and the failure of other
countries to do anything meaningful to stop it, reprehen
Dmytri Kleiner writes:
> Federated small groups with voluntary structures that analyze and
> iterate. [...] The trouble is the western left has mostly abandoned
> this strategy in favour of third party "advocacy" or "mobilizing" or
> other punditry and doesn't want to be on the same team as the g
Marcel Salathé: I fear we will need stronger measures
Interview by Sylvie Logean for Le Temps
Original:
https://www.letemps.ch/sciences/marcel-salathe-crains-ne-devions-aller-vers-mesures-plus-strictes
Translation by William Waites
2020/03/25
EPFL professor expresses his
James Wallbank writes:
> And, shockingly, the value of a lawyer who is not working is,
> apparently, greater than the value of a waste disposal worker who is
> working!
Necessary to point out that, at least as of now, lawyers, especially
junior ones taking legal aid cases, are being required to
Felix Stalder writes:
> So, is there a possibility to use this data without it turning
> it into an authoritarian power grab? I think there is, under the
> following guidelines:
>
> - Data needs to be deleted after immediate purpose of the analysis
> has been achieved.
The thing is these data
> To my limited understanding, the black box in the airplane is not a
> device to limit the complexity of the pilots' interaction with, or
> understanding of, the plane by reducing a complex process to a simple
> in/out relationship.
>
> No, it's a flight recorder. During the flight, it has no out
> What it really needed for me to believe in the efficacy of science as a
> political force ...
When this event was advertised on a departmental mailing list here in
Edinburgh, it was specifically described to be "non-political". That struck
me as at best nonsensical but at the same time oddly rev
Hi John,
Yes, `social power' has a form a lot like `potential
energy'. Confusing choice of words here since `power' in pysics means
something quite different. Also perhaps confusing was my choice of the
symbol E for the product which might normally be used for some kind of
total
This short article is to try to put discussion about surveillance into
theoretical framework. It is far from rigorous and is more a guide to
a certain way of thinking about the topic.
The word `sousveillance', coined in the late 90s by Steve Mann in
analogy with `surveillance' was meant to
On Sun, 24 May 2015 22:09:00 -0400, "t byfield" said:
> I'm skeptical about crypto absolutism because one of its first
> effects would be, in effect, to *privatize* everything. 'Public'
> would be reduced to whatever was cracked or leaked
As was pointed out to me on IRC, and I agree
Edinburgh, May 24 2015
Back in late April, an invitation [1] was circulated around the School
of Informatics which asked academics for ideas about what projects
they should fund in the area of ``Cyber Defense''. Presumably the same
invitation went out to various universities and other organisation
Salut Michel! Congratulations on the publication of your book. I would
like to read it but am concerned that I would have to break the law to
do it. Using Free Software on my computer to read it means breaking
the law because all of the distributors employ some sort of Digital
Restrictions Manageme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
Edinburgh, June 2014
Google has announced that they are working on a way to do PGP
encryption inside web browsers. When it's finished this means that, if
you use the GMail web site, your
Surveillance in Scotland -- More of the Same
Edinburgh, May 2014
There is a petition [1] in front of the Scottish Parliament to
conditionally grant Edward Snowden a
Just now from our engineers:
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7258.txt
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)S. Farrell
Request for Comments: 7258Trinity College Dublin
BCP: 188 H. Tschofenig
Cat
We used to say, back when collaborating with Steve Mann in the late 1990s
that it isn't a camera, it's a visual memory prosthetic. I think it's an
accurate description.
It's disappointing that the writer was intimidated into giving up all of
his memories to the police in order to clear his name u
valued company that has little regard
for your interests. Same with passing messages to friends and
collegues, where the path that a message takes mirrors more closely
the path that it would likely take with old-fasioned word of
mouth. The "cloud" starts to diffuse. "social networks&qu
ive, definitely
"post-industrial". I'm not an economist, but I suspect it is largely
financed by similar stories of industrialisation and wealth extraction
simply being replayed further afield, reaping the benefits of being
"first to market".
Comments on porn and surveillance to
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