The issue of copyright continues to be a major problem over the life of the personal computer. Companies have consistently tried to limit the ability of users to make the most of their machines, using a variety of protection schemes. In his talk at the 28th annual Chaos Communication Congress (28c3), Cory Doctorow reviews the history of the copyright fight and discusses how developers and political organizations will continue to limit the use of the general purpose computer.
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That reddit guy on a podcsat
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Cory Doctorow | The Coming War on General Computation
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Anyone Could Read This: a clip from Linux Outlaws 129
http://soundcloud.com/philipdurbin/anyone-could-read-this
Fab: Basically, when I use the Internet, I assume that people see what I’m doing. If I don’t want them to see, which really, really rarely happens, I’ll use Tor, but I know that I’m not a typical person because I’ve got a pretty thick skin; I don’t care. I surf porn. So what? Like if they would publish a newspaper article "Fab surfs these porn sites" I would be like, "So what?" You know? Other people do that too. If you deny… if you’re a guy and you’re on the Internet and you deny you surf porn, I mean, come on, that’s just hypocritical. I don’t believe that one second. I think you have to control… in your head, you have to make up for yourself how much information you want to get out there, and you have to be aware that it gets out there. That’s the point. I know that when I use Gmail, that Google can read all my email. But I also know that I don’t do anything important by… I would never send… let’s say I’d have a conversation with my lawyer. I would never do that over unencrypted email. I’d probably not even do it over a cell phone if it would be really bad stuff.
Dan: This is something I always say. I think a lot of people don’t realize when they’re using things like microblogs or blogs or whatever it might be… or Facebook is a massive one, people writing things on walls on Facebook not realizing everyone can see that. My kind of attitude whenever I’m using the Internet is, "Ok, anyone could read this." Unless, as you said, you’re using encryption, and you’re using Tor, and all the rest of it. I don’t post anything that I wouldn’t be happy for someone to say, "You said that," and bring it up because then I shouldn’t have posted it. If I didn’t want people to know, I shouldn’t have posted it.
Fab: Exactly, and people are saying on microblogs, "Aren’t you afraid that somebody who might hire you in the future will read this?" And I’m like, "No." I mean, you can Google me… I don’t want to work for a company that wouldn’t hire me because of what I’m posting there, I mean, lots of that’s private… there’s some political stuff on there… but I mean, if I work for. I work for the company. I’m outside doing tech support. I’m not talking to people about politics there. I know how to… basically, behave, let’s put it that way, when you’re in front of a customer. So, for example, that, and I don’t want a company that wouldn’t hire me because I said something like that. I would basically have to put on a mask every time I go to the office, which I can’t do either. I’d rather flip burgers at McDonald’s.
Dan: You do get people who post really stupid things like, "I can’t stand my boss and he’s a dickhead and he’s done this and he’s done that." But you and I would not do that because we’d think, "Ah, everyone in the world is going to see this." But you do hear stories of people who post things on Facebook like, "My boss has robbed the…" and stupid things that you would not want to share with the entire world, but for some reason they are.
Fab: That’s what I mean. You have to be acutely aware of… basically I go there, like you probably… like you said, with the expectation that everybody could read this. Even on Facebook when you have privacy settings.
Dan: It doesn’t work.
Fab: Whenever I do something on the Internet, it doesn’t matter, I say, "Everybody could read this." Because you can’t just… their software could break or they have a bug and then everybody can read it. So, I go there with that in mind, and, as you said, stuff that I don’t want my boss to read I’m not gonna put on the Internet.
Dan: Not gonna post it… yeah, exactly.
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This transcription is an excerpt of Linux Outlaws 129 ( http://old.linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/129 ) starting at 01:11:46.5 and ending at 01:15:24. Reactions and remixes are welcome, but please note that the original podcast was released under the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ). See also Dan’s remarks about publishing this clip at https://plus.google.com/107770072576338242009/posts/EaycNBRDx6x
The text of this transcript is also available at http://wiki.greptilian.com/podcasts/clips/anyone-could-read-this
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PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Privacy — What kinds of personal information have you posted online recently? Your credit card number? Your mother’s maiden name? A photo of yourself drinking a beer? Whatever it is, these details could ruin your career, your marriage, or even your entire future. We’ll explore social networks and the death of privacy.
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Why Your Cellphone Could Be Called A ‘Tracker’ : NPR
ProPublica investigative reporter Peter Maass says cellphone companies monitor where we are, who we call, what we buy â and often provide it to law enforcement when requested. "They are collecting a heck of a lot more information than we expect them to be collecting about us," he tells Fresh Air.
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/06/160627856/why-your-cell-phone-could-be-called-a-tracker
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this WEEK in LAW 167: Are You Game?
Austrian politicians and privacy, legal liability for the quantified self, and more.
Tagged with twit austria politics privacy law evan brown rob pegoraro joseph gratz sherwin siy
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Folge 8 â Ãber Datenschutz, Post-Privacy und die Spackeria | Politology
Ben hat diesmal Julia âlaprintempsâ Schramm und den MdB Konstatin von Notz zu Gast. Die beiden stritten über den Datenschutz, die Utopie der âPost-Privacyâ und die Standpunkte der datenschutzkritischen Spakeria.
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The Digital Human: Conceal
What is the biggest threat to our privacy: governments, corporate entities or our friends? And do people have different attitudes towards privacy depending on their culture?
Aleks Krotoski charts how digital culture is moulding modern living. Each week join technology journalist Aleks Krotoski as she goes beyond the latest gadget or web innovation to understand what sort of world we’re creating with our ‘always on’ lives.
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Recognize This! Ethics of Mobile Face Tagging
With the ready availability of social media, digital databases of ID photos, high-resolution cameras and free, powerful face recognition software that can run on smartphones, we are entering into an unprecedented shift in the visual privacy of everyday people. Technology that was once the domain of authoritarian states, is now being put to use by the hottest tech startups, who often lack the capacity or capability to consider the broader cultural impact.
What right do people have to control personal images in a socially-networked age or to be visually anonymous in a video-mediated world? Startups like Viewdle are building compelling user experiences that correlate people who appear in photos taken with your smartphone, with all of the profile photos stored in your address book and social graphic. The question is, how is it decided who can be recognized and indexed, how and when, and where does control of that record reside?
The ObscuraCam project (developed by WITNESS and the Guardian Project, funded by Google) will be shared as one countermeasure to these trends. It is a mobile app that allows users to automatically conceal faces or objects in photos and video, using pixelization, masks or redaction. It also removes extra metadata, such as GPS location, often stored in media.
Bryan Nunez will represent WITNESS, presenting human rights advocacy driven user stories and challenges. Harlo Holmes will counter with "privacy by design" technology solutions.
Speakers: Bryan Nunez, Harlo Holmes
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