Sunday 30 June 2013

130630


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130629 - http://bit.ly/17LvOzq yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Former #NSA contractor warns of “murky” interception arrangements - http://bit.ly/17tuZYd here's the story the guardian took down #EU

 HS2: ministers 'have misled public' over report on costs - http://bit.ly/157Byj8 #HS2 is going to be a costly, and utter fiasco

A Discussion With Cryptome - http://bit.ly/11VKUue about #snowden, #nsa et al. good fun (v @newsbrooke @ChMadar)

Data Dealer - Legal? Illegal? Whatever. - http://kck.st/12dgEe1 interesting idea for a game... #kickstarter #cc

 Geheimdokumente: #NSA überwacht 500 Millionen Verbindungen in Deutschland - http://bit.ly/12dgUd5 is merkel happy with that? #EU

With Journalism Persecuted, The United States Is Now At Event Horizon To A Police State - http://bit.ly/18o2QVw thought-provoking as ever

New #PRISM slides say the program allows #NSA to eavesdrop on live conversations - http://bit.ly/18o3Itl "direct" access returns...

Why Glenn Greenwald Drives The Media Crazy - http://onforb.es/1cCG3CL simple: he shows them up for being spineless, craven flunkies

Conservative Columnist Says Gun Violence Isn't Priority - http://bit.ly/11VNC2T "20,000 Americans kill themselves each year with firearms"

‘You’ve nothing to fear…’ - http://bit.ly/1170CHF useful comments from @simonmckay following thursday's meeting at Houses of Parliament

#China To Send Combat Troops To Mali - http://mil-com.me/13i7LFb er, isn't this rather significant? (v @Jodsvall)

EU demands clarification over US spying claims - http://bit.ly/12z1Fdo "would have a "severe impact" on relations between the EU & the US"

#Egypt's Mohamed Morsi remains defiant as fears of #civilwar grow - http://bit.ly/14iClwE this is deeply worrying

A bionic arm gives life back to a deserving man - http://tnw.co/12z4knj impressive tech, moving story

Important new paper: how #TPP will undermine tobacco, health & environment regs - http://bit.ly/1arHreK excellent #ISDS (v @ProfGlantz)

here's full paper on threat that #TPP represents to tobacco, health & environment regs. - http://bit.ly/13fySCh recommended #investorstate

Freunde machen so etwas nicht! - http://bit.ly/14j03Zv "Ich erwarte eine sofortige Beendigung der Bespitzelung. " #nsa #prism

Key US-EU trade pact under threat after more NSA spying allegations - http://bit.ly/12wgD8t #TAFTA/#TTIP in trouble before it even starts

UK's ancient forests could spread again thanks to plan to clone 'super-trees' - http://bit.ly/12dUgBr sounds a great idea

 U.S. Said to Explore Possible #China Role in #Snowden Leaks - http://bloom.bg/14j3Eqy ah, commie spy, now.... (v @maxkeiser @kaatje36)

#NSA-Spähprogramm in Deutschland: Steinbrück fordert von Merkel Aufklärung - http://bit.ly/17M4wsz quite right too

[ v e r a x ] : Edward #Snowden / 斯諾登 - Short Film - http://bit.ly/16I9h1Q only 5 mins, but rather atmospheric & fun... (v @DerSPIEGEL)

La #NSA espionnait aussi l'Union européenne - http://bit.ly/1arUsVL "Barack Obama a menti." (v @endrazine @ioerror)

Breaking the Seal on Drug Research - http://nyti.ms/17vH4wh useful piece on #opendata for #clinicaltrials (v @howardknopf)

Washington Post releases 4 new slides from #NSA's Prism presentation - http://bit.ly/12e7yOj huh? doesn't Guardian have them too? #confused

EU officials slam US over alleged bugging of EU offices; German prosecutors start probe - http://wapo.st/1aZvYBY (v @howardknopf)#TAFTA

New #NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies - http://bit.ly/15VSA0s more detail emerge; EU people won't like this... #TAFTA

Reaktionen zu NSA-Enthüllungen: EU-Kommissarin stellt Handelsabkommen mit USA in Frage - http://bit.ly/15VT5HU & before latest leak

Berlin accuses US of cold war tactics over snooping - http://bit.ly/128nUXI "probably entailed elements of industrial & trade espionage"

#Prism event in Parliament last thursday - http://bit.ly/128oFQG lots of good stuff; worth watching (v @open_spectrum)#NSA #UK

#Prism, privacy and politics with a small p - http://bit.ly/12eTnIO useful #EU summary if you've not been keeping up.... (v @sinkdeep)

"Great care has been taken to make sure Mr Snowden cannot be pressured by any state to stop the publishing process" - http://bit.ly/10td426

How The #Copyright Industry Pushed For Internet Surveillance - http://bit.ly/14jRj5o they must have it to tame the Net

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Can't Tell You About #NSA Abuses - http://bit.ly/12eVxIm Stalin would be so proud (v @schestowitz)


130629


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130628 - http://bit.ly/14CDD40 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Why all the fuss about GM food? Other innovations are available - http://bit.ly/12arAsU rightly focuses on real issue here: power

The Big Comparison Of Google Reader RSS Feed Alternatives - http://bit.ly/14gebTo useful table to help you choose

Royal Family granted new right of secrecy - http://ind.pn/114mEe6 even when public interest: not right (v @tom_watson)

Dentist Threatens Patient Who Left Yelp Criticism With Criminal Charges - http://bit.ly/14CIRgi what a crazy tale

A hail and farewell to #AltaVista - http://cnet.co/11TP6dX end of an era; I remember when this first appeared #search

U.S. Prism, Meet China’s Golden Shield - http://nyti.ms/1ao7rYq of course

Your input needed: Questions for panel w/ Eben Moglen, #RMS, 4 MEPs - http://bit.ly/19Jy3QR including father of #linus

If PRISM doesn’t freak you out about cloud computing, maybe it should, says privacy expert - http://bit.ly/1cylNCo yet more about thursday

6 Things We'd Change About #Feedly - http://on.mash.to/13fHojk I pretty much agree with those

DARPA-Funded Software Could Usher In the Era of #OpenSource #Robotics - http://bit.ly/17rLog0 that would be good

Judge: WikiLeaks Tweets Admissible in Bradley Manning Trial - http://on.mash.to/12avi5M don't seem to have any bearing whatsoever

A Sustainable Energy Future is Within Our Grasp - http://bit.ly/1550RCj @WorldBank still pushing disastrous 20th cent solutions #fail

Internet2 Announces Proposals for #OpenSource SDN Networking Apps - http://bit.ly/11PkCNJ good to see

Edward #Snowden has not weakened president, says Susan Rice - http://bit.ly/17JW50Q = we don't care what foreigners think anyway...

 Geheimdokumente: NSA horcht EU-Vertretungen mit Wanzen aus - http://bit.ly/14EsgsS publish #TAFTA/#TTIP dox - the US already has copies...

Who Helped #Snowden Steal State Secrets? - http://on.wsj.com/155Gdlu wow: biased & one-sided much? (v @mathewi)

UNSG report takes pro-IP approach, omits concerns - http://bit.ly/12tWyzm @UN hopelessly out of touch again #intellectualmonopolies

Freedom: The Big American Lie - http://bit.ly/11Q7Azu "It’s America’s world; the rest of you are just scenery." fab. (V @Asher_Wolf)

Former #NSA contractor warns of “murky” interception arrangements - http://bit.ly/17tuZYd original source of new revelations #EU

secret EU deals to hand over private data to America - http://bit.ly/126OIYf "Denmark, Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain & Italy" did so

#Ecuador's Correa says Biden asked him to deny Edward #Snowden asylum - http://bit.ly/14hwO9z  "But the decision is ours to make."


Saturday 29 June 2013

130628


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130627 - http://bit.ly/12un2fM yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Snooper's charter has practically zero chance of becoming law, say senior MPs - http://bit.ly/17nAQhQ useful summary of yesterday's meeting

#TPP: "against any extension of patent rights on drugs if it is going to force prices of medicine to escalate" - http://bit.ly/11RyBiC #my

Reject #DRM and you risk walling off parts of the web, says W3C chief - http://zd.net/11MV6bL rubbish: #W3C getting desperate

Movement to Label GMOs Gains Steam - http://bit.ly/19B89ST "Social media is feeding this effort and making it more difficult to confront"

#NZ Exports Face Destruction If Minister Changes GMO Rules - http://bit.ly/14e1fxa the reality of #TPP #democracy

OpenChem, Open Curriculum, and the Value of Openness - http://bit.ly/1282RFD interesting

Opening the EU procurement database - http://bit.ly/16DQPrd important moves for #transparency

MPs: laws on #GCHQ snooping "completely useless" - http://bit.ly/151LBpO #RIPA "is essentially voluntary code"; #NSA

Turning the Sow's Ear of Surveillance into a Silk Purse - http://bit.ly/14e5kBN it's an opportunity #eu #cloudcomputing #opensource

Former Second Highest Ranking General In The US Apparently Under Investigation For 'Leaking' Stuxnet Info - http://bit.ly/1akU6jC #manning

Protect Our Freedoms with “Pi-xels”: Support La Quadrature du Net! - http://bit.ly/12uxSCu a worthy cause - we need these people #lqdn

French parliament says #freesw is priority in education - http://bit.ly/14ec96c UK should do same to make up for lost years (v @carlopiana)

#Tor Anti-Censorship and Anonymity Infrastructure needs some help - http://bit.ly/14BHApT I've given; pl. donate if you can

Kiwi ISP Slingshot lets users bypass copyright geo-blocking to access services like Netflix - http://bit.ly/14zMH9V clever (v @slashdot)

Klöster in #Tibet: #China erlaubt offenbar wieder Bilder des Dalai Lama - http://bit.ly/11RRJwL good news if confirmed

Defense Department Blocks All Web Access To The Guardian In Response To NSA Leaks - http://bit.ly/10p7vl9 making China look good...

Un traité "historique" sur l'accès des aveugles aux livres signé - http://bit.ly/12qnAI3 #wipo #copyright

"organiser une harmonisation ou une reconnaissance mutuelle des normes réglementaires" - http://bit.ly/152c06S levelling down #TAFTA/#TTIP

The Washington Statement: Aufruf zu stärkerem Datenschutz in der EU - http://bit.ly/14BXKQe we badly need this

G-Cloud – how to win - http://bit.ly/14BZfxY read; weep. #uk

#Cambodia's vast lost city: world's greatest pre-industrial site unearthed - http://bit.ly/16EFRl8 impressive to lose something this big

#India's seed saviour goes against the corporate grain - http://bit.ly/11SpzBP #commons & diversity, not #monopolies & #monocultures

CIS's Closing Statement at Marrakesh on Treaty for the #Blind - http://bit.ly/19CSF0L fine, moving speech by @pranesh_prakash #copyright

US Pushback Against Privatization Across the Country - http://bit.ly/1535ywu time for this in UK (f @schestowitz)

PRISM should make businesses think twice about cloud computing - http://bit.ly/1cvFwTg more on yesterday's meeting

Is It the Dawn of the Encryption App? - http://on.mash.to/19DsE15 let's hope #opensource ones

#EU Parliament piles up tools to turn democratic deficit into surplus - http://bit.ly/17pR6Pg more #transparency would go a long way

Google To Push Android Further By Making A Games Console, Smart Watch, Media-Streamer & Low Cost Smartphones Itself - http://tcrn.ch/124Xbes

Open source projects aren't tax scams - http://bit.ly/14CNIyl putting the #IRS straight

#Ecuador Using Copyright To Try To Take Down Leaked Documents About Its Surveillance Practices - http://bit.ly/18l0vdY

#Facebook Will Remove Ads From Pages, Groups With Offensive Content - http://on.mash.to/12rtIj9 oh look, money talks

What It’s Like to Get a National-Security Letter - http://nyr.kr/124YLwU the amazing @brewster_kahle shows hows it's done (v @BoingBoing)

CIA Memo On Stopping Leaks To Reporters Is Promptly Leaked To Reporters - http://bit.ly/1amtTBh maybe there's a lesson here...

The Miracle in Marrakesh: #Copyright Reform to End the "Book Famine" - http://osf.to/10pOzTe I love this "miracle in marrakesh" meme

We lack mandate to act against breach of privacy by internet providers: Indian Supreme Court - http://bit.ly/10pP3sI not good #nsa

Encryption practices vary widely in the cloud, survey finds - http://bit.ly/153dNZy letting cloud co. handle keys is like zero encryption

#PRISM Parliamentary event packed out - http://bit.ly/11O78BD it was; now let's channel that #NSA

#Encryption Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say - http://bit.ly/14BbtGC important (assuming they're not lying...)


Friday 28 June 2013

130627


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130626 - http://bit.ly/12rKydy yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Harvard, let everyone have access to the Bluebook! - http://bit.ly/1agWhVq knowledge must not be locked down (v @xpectro)

UK shale gas survey likely to reveal reserves higher than expected - http://bit.ly/14vp02z "uses vast quantities of fresh #water" #fracking

re last tweet: problem with #fracking is -ve externalities not taken into account; we are already short of water, this makes it worse #uk

#AU Drugs patent bill clears first hurdle - http://bit.ly/1cpdXe7 still a way to go (v @DrRimmer)

Shameful: Other Journalists Now A Part Of Ridiculous Smear Campaign Against Glenn Greenwald - http://bit.ly/1395snZ they are pathetic

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype & Yahoo Hit With #Prism Data Protection Complaints In Europe - http://tcrn.ch/11P5TPo interesting move

Es wird Zeit für digitale Selbstverteidigung - http://bit.ly/17EhUPk "Nicht nur politisch, auch technisch." #rpism #nsa

Consumer groups urge Brussels to act faster on endocrine disruptors - http://bit.ly/11P7k01  implement the 'precautionary principle' now...

Saudi Arabia Starts Clamping Down On Encrypted VoIP Services; US And UK Strangely Silent On The Moves - http://bit.ly/14yWOMy

UK Police Routinely Spy On 9000 'Domestic Terrorists' Very Loosely Defined - http://bit.ly/14vJgkB redefining dissent

#NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama - http://bit.ly/19FmXfL well, look at that... #surveillance

#WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI - http://bit.ly/122JooR this individual is beneath contempt

The Tragedy of the Commons - http://bit.ly/12nQMzq more thoughts on using the cloud - or not... #nsa

The True Deservers of a Food Prize - http://nyti.ms/1cr8qE1 well-argued & interesting piece

Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire - http://nyti.ms/19yoI1A useful profile, frightening pic #wikipedia #london

Advertencia a Ecuador - http://bit.ly/14cI5bg yeah, bullying always goes down well... (v @Commonify)#snowden

Obama Won't Order Military to Force Down #Snowden's Plane - http://on.mash.to/18iMLR8 well, isn't he Mr Generous?

"weil Spähsysteme wie Prism und Tempora Cloud Computing in Verruf bringen" - http://bit.ly/11Lrf3x you think?

#Copyright Levies Can Be Imposed On Sale Of Printers, Computers, EU High Court Rules - http://bit.ly/126r92G bonkers (v @howardknopf)

Internet Freedom: How Canadians Are Kept in the Dark - http://huff.to/12occw8 maybe canadians should do something about it? #TPP

#Guardian is looking for Technology News Reporter - http://bit.ly/18iXUBq you'd better brush up your Spanish, though...

Ecuador breaks US trade pact to thwart 'blackmail' over #Snowden - http://bit.ly/10nTbcz shocking; they'll be ignoring Special 301s next

Don’t get overly excited about UK’s new shale gas findings - http://bit.ly/19yVaBc all smoke and, er, polluted water supplies.. #fracking


Thursday 27 June 2013

130626


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130625 - http://bit.ly/14rC9cU yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

Marrakech Treaty For The #Blind Signed; MPAA Unable To Kill It - http://bit.ly/19B9mpL fab news, but expect ratification resistance now

Founder of web @timberners_lee accuses West of hypocrisy over internet spying - http://dailym.ai/1aMxV4y bravo (v @CasparBowden)#nsa #gchq

FSFE compliance workshop discovers GPL violation by FANTEC, Welte wins in court - http://bit.ly/18foZp2 yay, Welte wins again

European Commission meeting on #TAFTA/#TTIP - First Negotiation Round - http://bit.ly/14rHzoc I can't go, hope others can #Brussels

New book finds many US foods banned overseas for cancer links - http://bit.ly/15EyrvI will #TAFTA/#TTIP "harmonisation" force them on #EU?

#Privacy is not a commodity to be traded - http://bit.ly/149jPGW "Regulatory convergence is just euphemism for deregulation" #TAFTA/#TTIP

#TPP and #monsanto - http://bit.ly/10TZXJA "chief agricultural negotiator for US is the former Monsanto lobbyist"; conflict of interest?

iPhone loses market share in Europe as Android surges - http://cnet.co/14WXUDH as expected

Where did Chinese tones come from and where are they going? - http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4906 fascinating #linguistics

Studie über Pennsylvania: #Fracking treibt Gase ins Trinkwasser - http://bit.ly/10kldFW enjoy!

Ad group blasts cookie-#privacy project from #Mozilla, Stanford - http://cnet.co/11ZX5ov if they hate it, it must be good for Net users

Clear Thinking Needed in a Cloudy World - http://bit.ly/1clFrBz are you sure you want to put that confidential data in the cloud...? #nsa

Hague says we can’t do without #PRISM - http://bit.ly/10Uo3Eb i.e. UK & US need PRISM to spy on their own citizens to keep us in line

Digital copy of text on Marrakesh treaty for the blind, as approved by Committee 1 - http://bit.ly/1aMWWwx

Walfang-Prozess: Japan muss sich vor Uno-Gericht verteidigen - http://bit.ly/14wS229 yay, go #AU and #NZ

Wal-Mart’s Super-Counterintuitive Health Care Plan - http://bit.ly/19tqhhi whoa: "sending its workers to top-tier hospitals" (v @dozykraut)

In 2009, Ed #Snowden said leakers “should be shot.” Then he became one - http://ars.to/10l16HM much more than that; fascinating stuff

Congratulations to Harald Welte on Another One - http://bit.ly/136SCGQ plus some background #gpl #licensing

The #tarsands disaster - http://bit.ly/10laCKQ level-headed analysis from a few months back #canada

Students cite EU data protection laws, challenge firms over NSA data transfers - http://ars.to/1aeJPFz nice move

WIPO Treaty for the Blind Shows that #Transparency Can Work (and is Necessary) - http://bit.ly/11NyODk #TAFTA/#TTIP take note #EU

#Australia censures #Japan for 'scientific' #whaling - http://bit.ly/18gllev #AU is the world's conscience on this – kudos

In a legal victory for #Wikipedia, the Wikimedia Foundation wins lawsuit brought by former Berlusconi advisor - http://bit.ly/138Reog nice

#Snowden 'not likely to gain asylum in #Ecuador for months' - http://bit.ly/14xPm4d what does he do until then? (v @MiriamElder @ioerror)

Great Ormond Street Hospital gagged top doctor on safety fears - http://bit.ly/137BIaY this is not acceptable #nhs

Forget Nato v the Taliban. The real Afghan fight is #India v #Pakistan - http://bit.ly/12kUDNu illuminating analysis #afghanistan

KEI on Marrakesh agreement on #copyright exceptions for #blind persons - http://bit.ly/14u66ZP "a shift in power in global negotiations"

The personal side of taking on the #NSA: emerging smears - http://bit.ly/14u6NT2 important post on dirty tricks (v @a_greenberg @ioerror)

Jimmy Wales Thinks #Snowden Is 'An Innocent Party' And 'A Hero'; Wants To Know If He Ever Edited #Wikipedia - http://bit.ly/11J8nC8


Wednesday 26 June 2013

130625

Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130624 - http://bit.ly/19xzFx1 yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

When Whitehall shuns statutory scrutiny - http://bit.ly/18cPH1q disgraceful; gagging clauses must be banned #uk #transparency

#Australia Drops #Snooping Plans -- For Now - http://bit.ly/17zpCuc but it will probably be back... #prism

Warum #Snowden uns eine Warnung sein sollte - http://bit.ly/14nGcXz (v @oler @JanAlbrecht)

#Assange, Back in News, Never Left U.S. Radar - http://nyti.ms/179yvH5 "criminalizing reporting process” (v @FreedomofPress @suigenerisjen)

JP Morgan wants EU to be rid of social rights, democracy, employee rights &right to protest - http://bit.ly/1a9PoFg nice (v @marcuschown)

bp;dr - http://bit.ly/14nS7Vu nice, but maybe should be "bp:cr" - "behind paywall, couldn't read" (v @mmasnick)

Warner Bros: Pirates Show Us What Consumers Want - http://bit.ly/11K6Eco "piracy as a proxy of consumer demand": do they finally get it?

Business Source (A software license with some #OpenSource aspects) - http://bit.ly/132ppwK clever, but maybe not so wise... #licensing

#Backdoor in #HP backup servers - http://bit.ly/179Tvxt gosh; now, who do we know that might want to use such a thing...? #nsa #prism

Anglo-Saxon Spies: German National Security Is at Stake - http://bit.ly/1aJV87n good analysis of German situation (v @ioerror)#nsa #gchq

EU-US trade negotiations must be #transparent - http://bit.ly/12ShGkT tabled documents must all be public (v @ALTEREU)#TAFTA/#TTIP

excellent piece on the historical roots of #TAFTA/#TTIP - http://bit.ly/19xVBIi ‘cosmopolitical corporate consolidation’ (v
@c_natacha)

Meet the WikiLeaks Guy Who Got His Gmail Seized by the Feds - http://bit.ly/12gcwgE will happen to more (v @birgittaj @deCespedes @nnelken)

#ECHR: Serbian Intelligence Agency must reveal electronic snooping data - http://bit.ly/11E7HxT useful (v @janthonybarnes @ioerror)#gchq

Donald Trump Thinks The Extradition Process Is Too Slow, Suggests Just Killing Edward #Snowden - http://bit.ly/12mUHIl deranged

Privacy for anyone anywhere - http://bit.ly/1339MoT "live DVD or live USB that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity" (v @jmcest)


Shallow Surveillance Efforts Like PRISM Will Only Catch The 'Stupidest, Lowest-Ranking Of Terrorists' - http://bit.ly/1aKt9ET same for UK

#EC tells public bodies to break free from lock-in - http://bit.ly/17aCN0Y that's great, but maybe it should lead by example.... #EU

EU erhöht Grenzwert: Zuchtlachs darf mehr Gift enthalten - http://bit.ly/11EkVuu exactly what #TAFTA/#TTIP will bring to our plates: poison

Don't even bother asking governments not to spy on us - http://bit.ly/19yjxLS interesting, if depressing, points #gchq #nsa #prism

British intelligence is involved in PRISM, says Liberty - http://bit.ly/1aKccuf "has issued a legal claim against intelligence services"

The Doha dictionary - http://bit.ly/10QN3w0 exciting: "will chronicle the history of Arabic terms over 2,000 years" #arabic

MT @EU_TTIP_team EU #TTIP chief negotiator to EP monitoring group: commits to briefings before & after each negotiating round>>& the public?

Senators To NSA: Your 'Fact Sheet' Isn't Factual; Can You Tell Us The Truth For Once? - http://bit.ly/147e6Bn probably forgotten what it is

US Gov’s 'Insider Threat Program' Obligates Federal Workers to Spy on Their Colleagues - http://bit.ly/120WVhI East Germany would be proud

Equador concede asilo a Edward #Snowden - http://bit.ly/14phSob so does that mean he's still going there, or is this another bluff?

#Firefox Delivers 3D Gaming, Video Calls and File Sharing to the Web - http://mzl.la/17AkkPd good to see yet more innovation from #mozilla

Perfect Forward Secrecy can block the NSA from secure web pages, but no one uses it - http://bit.ly/17Akq9u obviously they should now

China targets U.S. products, calls them 'terrible security threat' - http://cnet.co/10iCBe4 well, the closed-source ones...

#NYT uses work of journalist covering Manning hearings, refuses to call her a journalist - http://bit.ly/11F6vKx shabby & petty

Free Software post-#PRISM - http://bit.ly/18e81Ht it's based on #opensource; here's how free software can fight back #mozilla

Greenwald: #Snowden’s Files Are Out There if “Anything Happens” To Him - http://thebea.st/1cj3rFm v wise (v @emptywheel @Asher_Wolf)

#Prism und #Tempora: Zügellose Überwachung zurückfahren! - http://bit.ly/11YuAaX sensible stuff (v @dozykraut)

#SOPA Didn't Die, It Just Emigrated - http://bit.ly/10RSvi7 to #russia, with love #copyright

American Bankers' Association Claims Routing Numbers Are Copyrighted - http://bit.ly/121wTee yeah, right... #copyright

Flat Earth Society believes in climate change - http://bit.ly/1abIdwx
@TheOnion strikes again...or does it? (v @AlexSteffen @drgrist)

Greenwald Teases More NSA Info: ‘Majority’ Of ‘Significant’ Revelations ‘Have Yet To Be Made’ - http://bit.ly/19zIqqr (v @Thomas_Drake1)

#Germany blasts Britain over #GCHQ's secret cable trawl - http://bit.ly/14vt2bi geh geh geh....

UK Police unit monitors 9,000 'extremists' - http://bit.ly/14VT21G it's the police who are the extremists here... (v @PaulLewis @asteris)

Fast and US trade rep commit to concluding #TPP in 2013 - http://bit.ly/18etKiE by riding roughshod over public's right to know (v @mgeist)

#NSA Boss Pretends He Doesn't Know Anything About #Wikileaks - http://bit.ly/12iaFb5 either lying, or incompetent; so which is it?

Clueless Spanish Politicians Want To Join The Government Malware Club - http://bit.ly/19A7oG4 estupidez honda #es


Tuesday 25 June 2013

130624


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130623 - http://bit.ly/10f4Qui yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

The murky world of 'secretive #lobbying' in Brussels - http://bit.ly/11zWDC2 "lobby register must become mandatory for all" (v @ALTEREU)

Betrayals of the #NHS must end. It's time for doctors to fight back - http://bit.ly/11Y8DK2 also time for the #BBC to do its job and report

Ed #Snowden Leaves Hong Kong, Seeks Asylum In Ecuador, As US Officials Flip Out - http://bit.ly/12cPuHs good summary of weekend's events

Katharine Gun - http://bit.ly/15y08q7 kudos to the brave iraq war #whistleblower; unending shame on #blair, as ever (v @jmcest @ralpost)

Who'd try to smear Stephen Lawrence's family? A Met that's out of control - http://bit.ly/14kexqH "Praise be for #whistleblowers."

NSA Now Revealing A Lot More About What It Does Than #Snowden Leaks Did; So Is That Harming America? - http://bit.ly/134LRqn

Die Positionen der Bundestagsfraktionen zur Netzneutralität - http://bit.ly/10MLZZV useful background info #netneutrality

Richard Stallman Speaks About #Surveillance in the Post-Leaks Era - http://bit.ly/19k5Ymz first of a series #rms

Doctors pass motion of no confidence in health secretary Jeremy Hunt - http://bit.ly/12dgFBUUK Gov's "ideological attack on the service" #nhs

Government cutting #NHS resources 'beyond the bone', says doctors' leader - http://bit.ly/1aHttnL "ministers risking patient safety"

Open source Python-based Freedom of Information platform - http://red.ht/10NfWJq important tool for transparency #de

Public Consultation on the EU guidelines on Freedom of expression - http://bit.ly/12dvvsd deadline 15 July: pl. respond if you can #EU

#Snowden: "to deprive him of his computer would be totally intolerable."  - http://nyti.ms/1a7ircH true geek (v @KeithBradsher @gadyepstein)

Senegalese award winner tells France to shove it - http://bit.ly/13504nd great story, great example (f @JulieOwono)#africa

US warns Moscow not to let Edward #Snowden escape Russia - http://bit.ly/18aRx33 otherwise obama will be very sad...

USA snokar i Europaparlamentets e-post -  http://bit.ly/15yFLcn let's hope the EP knows what to do... #dataprotection

How Barrett Brown shone light on the murky world of security contractors - http://bit.ly/10Ntqoz war on whistleblowers (v @BiellaColeman)

US film industry tries to weaken #copyright treaty for #blind people - http://bit.ly/14T62VT contemptible scumbags (@jamie_love)

#TAFTA/#TTIP FAQ & docs - http://bit.ly/144NMrC v useful resource; NB #EU ‘precautionary principle’, in danger of being sacrificed here

U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists - http://bloom.bg/1aHLDWz 'cos terrorists know how to avoid it (v @WeldPond @normative)

Protest (n.): A declaration of dissent.  - http://bit.ly/14lh7fW fine, angry piece (v undefined)

#Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance - http://bit.ly/1aHRpaC well, well (v @declanm)

Rep. Rogers: Snowden's Secrets 'Belong To The People Of The US' & He's A Traitor For Giving Them What They Own - http://bit.ly/15z8Rbv

When Jeremy Hunt can become health secretary, it's a sign Britain is sick - http://bit.ly/14loa8l great invective, sadly all true... #NHS

#GCHQ Revelations Destroy Case for #Snooper'sCharter - http://bit.ly/1ceHN52 UK gov already has all info, but it doesn't help police...

Questions for the UK government - http://bit.ly/12lhTqt excellent points from @OpenRightsGroup (v @tom_watson)#gchq #nsa

#MPAA's Actions, Emails Show That They're Doing Everything Possible To Screw Over The #Blind - http://bit.ly/14me47n

Scotland Yard spied on critics of police corruption - http://bit.ly/19wo8hD & they want us to let them spy on all of us? #snooperscharter

Demonizing Edward #Snowden: Which Side Are You On? - http://nyr.kr/1aIHYrt excellent, clear-sighted analysis (v @jjn1)

How can we invest our #trust in a government that spies on us? - http://bit.ly/10gYwm3 superb piece by @GeorgeMonbiot #surveillance

Assange reveals details of 'Snowden Op', slams US 'war on whistleblowers' - http://bit.ly/18bY4dC (v @alanhaggard @birgittaj)

Pirate Party Norway: - #Snowden Passed Through #Norway to #Iceland - http://bit.ly/14TQaCw (v @schestowitz)

Rep. Grayson: I've Seen The Details And There Is No Reason To Keep #TPP Secret - http://bit.ly/17yDl4i make all tabled documents public


Monday 24 June 2013

130623


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130622 - http://bit.ly/14QT3UJ yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD starring #GCHQ, again

privately-run NHS hospital to have licence suspended: 3 patients died after routine surgery - http://bbc.in/187K0Sz welcome to NHS 2.0

#Snowden leaves hong kong on commercial flight to moscow - http://bit.ly/141Swya "not his final destination" (v @YanniKouts @kaatje36)

The US farm bill is globally stupid, too - http://bit.ly/14gExDg & cuts right across #TAFTA/#TTIP too... #notfreetrade

For Spiegel, Tempora is front page news. Apart from Guardian, British press stays silent. - http://bit.ly/1712G3d disgraceful (v @auerfeld)

#Morsi prison escape referred to Egypt prosecutors - http://bit.ly/12aB6PR is this true? seems unlikely... (v @MahirZeynalov @asteris)#eg

Communications Surveillance, Protest and Control… - http://bit.ly/10JzfTO good piece joining all the dots. also: includes badgers... #gchq

BBC Business Unit & the public interest - http://bit.ly/1a42a8e excellent analysis of how #BBC has lost its soul (v @ToruOkada69)#pravda

#TAFTA/#TTIP & #CETA have serious implications for #NHS - http://bit.ly/10cWXp6 spot on: not many people get this yet: huge threat to UK

Überwachungsprogramm Tempora: Es geht um unsere Freiheit - http://bit.ly/12b4vJT "einen Wendepunkt."

#SecondLife turns 10: what it did wrong - http://bit.ly/12jnqxA easy: it tried to impose #scarcity on a world of digital #abundance

Edward #Snowden asks for asylum in #Ecuador: live updates - http://bit.ly/10dJbme will be crowded out there #assange

#WikiLeaks Statement On Edward #Snowden’s Exit From Hong Kong - http://bit.ly/14r2JmM interesting coalition

Now the Government Knows You're a Dog - http://on.mash.to/19hG4jo nicely done

Темы для блога - http://bit.ly/11H6ZMS "напишите, и я напишу пост об этом подробнее." an offer you can't refuse #opendata

Tempora-Abhörskandal greift die gemeinsamen  Werte des Westens an. höchste Zeit, sich zu wehren - http://bit.ly/19hJcM5 (v @JanAlbrecht)

Civil liberties: Guarding the guards - http://bit.ly/172DMjT secret actions, abuse of power - just as with #tempora

to understand terrorism and threat assessment, look to Aum - http://bit.ly/1aFwmFI interesting analysis (v @auxbuss)

Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" - http://bit.ly/19tttpG the future: complaint = terrorism...

Anger mounts after Facebook's 'shadow profiles' leak in bug - http://zd.net/19hZ2q3 I hope #EU dataprotection people looking into this...

Funders have all power in #OA negotiations. why aren’t they using it? - http://bit.ly/10L56DK "why RCUK betrayal hurts so much" (v @brembs)

We can use European law to challenge this spying - http://bit.ly/10L7fPP great post: "manifest breach of the ECHR" (v @IanBrownOII)


Sunday 23 June 2013

130622


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130621 - http://bit.ly/17tDPZI yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD starring #GCHQ

The democratization of the #drone - http://cnet.co/185hlxt well, that's only fair

Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees Under New Copyright Law - http://tcrn.ch/131hIbs quite right

GCHQ tapping into world's fibre optic cables, shares intel with NSA - http://bit.ly/11u5Njm "essential that proper oversight is instituted"

WIPO Treaty Should Allow Libraries to Make All Books Accessible 2 Visually Impaired Patrons - http://bit.ly/11u68lY shame on EU negotiators

Secret summit where slick #lobbyists for bio-tech giants seduced Tory Ministers into changing their tune on GM food - http://dailym.ai/12TNNAq

#Copyright #Exceptions Gaining Ground Around The World -- But Not For The Blind - http://bit.ly/10G81O3 sacrificed on altar of copyright

Internet surveillance in English law - http://bit.ly/11EQS2l excellent summary: "Legal challenges to the UK regime are likely very soon"

now might be a good time to take another look at @OpenRightsGroup's"Digital Surveillance" report - http://bit.ly/185m8yK (v @elmyra)#UK

How Much Would It Cost To Store All US Phone Calls Made In A Year? - http://bit.ly/10GbA6Z cheaper than you think #nsa

Why #Monopolies Make Spying Easier - http://nyr.kr/1c6Ne5U another reason to prefer #opensource where possible (v @minabird @IanBrownOII)

Edward #Snowden Charged With Espionage By US Government - http://bit.ly/11ETOfi and so the legal travesty begins

#Microsoft And #Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday - http://tcrn.ch/185oxcN a marriage made in heaven...

#GM food off the menu in UK Parliament's restaurants despite ministers telling the public to drop their opposition - http://dailym.ai/14PtLX1

MT @IanBrownOII My &@ChrisTMarsden's recent book on fixing the various Internet oligopolies: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/regulating-code … #RegulatingCode

ICYMI: How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? - http://bit.ly/15cyPkV a popular post this week, for some reason...

Suppressed report reveals companies routinely hire criminals to steal rivals' information - http://ind.pn/186eNiD still trust UK police?

and after these latest revelations, we're supposed to trust UK police to protect our data in the Snooper's databases? #notcredible

"Victims of computer hacking identified by #Soca... suffered eBlaster Trojan attacks" - http://ind.pn/186eNiD i.e. thanks to #windows again

#Netflix #opensources its Hadoop manager for AWS - http://bit.ly/128KKmd that's good news

Trading Lives For Freedom Is The American Way - http://bit.ly/12UQKkj excellent analysis #nsa

#GCHQ monitoring described as a 'catastrophe' by German politicians - http://bit.ly/1aD1CoH so do something about it

#Snowden spy row grows as US is accused of hacking China - http://bit.ly/11FFkvG over to you, #china...

US spies on Chinese mobile phone companies, steals SMS data: Edward Snowden - http://bit.ly/14Q3bgr more details from #SCMP

US hacked Pacnet, Asia Pacific fibre-optic network operator, in 2009 - http://bit.ly/12V1Wxe doing to the East what #GCHQ did to West #nsa

#hacked "Pacnet provides connections to 16 data centres for telecom companies, multinationals and governments across Asia Pacific." #nsa

This really is Big Brother: the leak nobody's noticed - http://bit.ly/1a2hPFc US turns into East Germany (v @DavidOAtkins @Mlsif)#stasi

If you think #GCHQ spying revelations don't matter, it's time to think again - http://bit.ly/16YThJq wake up, people...

Nathan Myhrvold Tries To Avoid a Lodsys Deposition and Spills Some Beans - http://bit.ly/17uD2aH this could be fun

MI5 feared GCHQ went 'too far' over phone & Net monitoring - http://bit.ly/12967na UK people must read this (v @IanBrownOII @CasparBowden)

quotes from previous link: "People from MI5 were complaining that they were going too far from a civil liberties perspective" #gchq

"They are going round #Ripa. The legislation doesn't exist for this. They are using old legislation and adapting it." #gchq

"police used to ask for a warrant before intercepting communications, they now ask #GCHQ to intercept & then use info to seek a warrant."

"At one point, I was told that we were getting 85% of all UK domestic  traffic – voice, internet, all of it – via international cables."

"We're sitting there, watching them debate the #snoopers' charter, thinking: 'Well, #GCHQ have been doing this for years'."

"If the terrorists are wise to it, why are we increasing the capability?" #gchq

"If analysts believe it is proportional, they can look at all the traffic – content and metadata – relating to all of the target's contact."

"All you need is to have the wrong government in place. It is capable of abuse because there is no independent scrutiny." #gchq

all previous quotes taken from this latest @guardiannews article: http://bit.ly/12967na please read - it's v important... #GCHQ

Breastfeeding figures fall as #NHS budget is cut - http://bit.ly/11vCgWw why look after future when you can increase profits now? #tories

Filmmakers’ group tries to reshape treaty that would benefit the blind - http://wapo.st/19eXXiP blind can't watch films, so to hell with 'em

USPTO releases 142 pages of emails from MPAA to USPTO re treaty 4 blind - http://bit.ly/14fdlos my stomach isn't strong enough to read them

how ratings agencies helped trigger meltdown - http://rol.st/14Qb59I staggering facts, brilliant writing (v @asteris @raypride)#austerity


Saturday 22 June 2013

130621


Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130620 - http://bit.ly/1c2Cg1h yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

"Wir werden zum Teil dieser Maschinen werden" - http://bit.ly/14mqjkF we must have strong #dataprotection (v @surferrechte @JanAlbrecht)

WikiLeaks plane 'ready' to bring Edward #Snowden to Iceland - http://bit.ly/182efKx we shall see (v @xor @normative)

Environmental groups hope soil directive will grow out of EU's 7th green masterplan - http://bit.ly/19mE1Hd interesting

Foxconn to hire 3000 to support #Firefox OS and software development - http://bit.ly/19XnCf5 could be a really big boost #opensource

Why NSA surveillance is a threat to British doctors & lawyers - http://bit.ly/13XbzK3 hugely important point: not just us, but our contacts

US Congress votes down bill to unshackle 'tied' food aid - http://bit.ly/149AA31 wastes money, increases pollution - clever stuff

#China: credit crunch or worse? - http://bbc.in/11CtXVo this could get interesting... (v @jjn1)

#Turkey divided more than ever by #Erdoğan's Gezi Park crackdown - http://bit.ly/10CLFNj he blew his place in #posterity

Samsung Unveils #Android Camera with Interchangeable Lenses - http://bit.ly/1ayWIsU the future, I presume

Randomise Me is a platform that enables individuals and organisations to run trials of varying sizes - http://bit.ly/19XuKbp great idea

Woman dressed as vagina stops street fight between penis and man in Glastonbury - http://bit.ly/106JwHh riiight (v @EugeneByrne @cstross)

Prometheus - http://bit.ly/124L0T9 oooh, I predict this one will be really popular #sharing #xkcd

Christian Domestic Discipline (CDD) - http://bit.ly/11RnbLm is this some kind of sick joke?

EU ministers leave the door open for harmful food speculation - http://bit.ly/12ZgQUs morally unacceptable

Keir Starmer's Obscene Solution - http://bit.ly/12fcPUq thought-crimes in the UK; this will be an utter disaster (v @Asher_Wolf)

Anti-Prism - http://bit.ly/16le7lk nice move from #Pirates, but note this: http://bit.ly/16PcNrU (v @vavoida @alexanderhanff)

question: has anyone ever tried to build a "source tree" of technology - which tech is needed to build more complex, dependent tech?

EU zeigt sich ratlos gegen US-Überwachung - http://bit.ly/11QZe63 great historical comparison between #prism & #echelon (v @netzpolitik)

Just released - UK Statutory Exceptions for Education, Libraries & Research - http://bit.ly/12ftWp8 useful summary #copyright

Google told to delete Street View payload data or face UK prosecution - http://bit.ly/13XKLtd let's hope the #NSA is next on the list

McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer - http://bit.ly/107o3ho extraordinary tale of police deceit (v @JackofKent)

Leistungsschutzrecht: Verlage sollen ihr Okay für Google News geben - http://bit.ly/14O5JeR natural selection: idiot publishers will say no

Next-Next Generation Video: Introducing Daala - http://bit.ly/125tbU2 "royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license."

How Web mail providers leave door open for #NSA surveillance - http://cnet.co/13XUHmd only #google gets brownie points here...

Mailvelope - http://bit.ly/12fHgtP "OpenPGP #encryption for webmail"; haven't used it, can't vouch for it, but #opensource (v @dozykraut)

Obama Administration Has Declared War On #Whistleblowers, Describes Leaks As 'Aiding The Enemy' - http://bit.ly/19YFeHr from bad to worse

Exclusion of #water from Concessions Directive: Statement by Barnier - http://bit.ly/11sec6R fab news (v @olivierhoedeman)#commons

GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's comms - http://bit.ly/16maMTf  UK "produces larger amounts of metadata than NSA"

so given GCHQ's world-beating ability to access metadata, why is UK gov still calling for Snooper's Charter to get it again? #Snowden

"850,000 NSA employees and US private contractors with top secret clearance had access to GCHQ databases." - & no UK privacy breaches eh?

so maybe Mr Hague ought to resign after suggesting in Parliament everything was under control and above board, "nothing to see here"?

also, this revelation undercuts argument that UK law enforcement don't have enough info - they have *all* of it - & still miss major plots

as many of us have been saying, having more data about all of us is not the solution; instead they should concentrate on the right info

also, who now would want to route their cables through the UK if every bit going over them is going to be spied on?

this news also undercuts UK gov arguments that #RIPA ensures everything is legal: they have been circumventing RIPA entirely...

"#GCHQ & #NSA avoid processing same data twice & seek to converge technical solutions and processing architectures" http://bit.ly/11RnxAx

Whistleblower Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of #Obama In 2004 - http://huff.to/1c4ElKd warning: may contain #irony (v @kopfzeiler @netzpolitik)

The Dragnet at the Edge of Forever - http://bit.ly/19ZdtPd wow: actual court orders to google to turn over specific gmail accts - do read

mastery of the internet will mean mastery of everyone - http://bit.ly/11Sv5UT "heedless delinquency in 2 of world's oldest democracies."

Carbon  emissions transparency should be at the heart of the global #opendata  agenda - http://bit.ly/11sDjq1 important point, great post

EU-Kommission setzt Arbeitsgruppe zur Aufklärung von PRISM ein – Zusammensetzung unbekannt - http://bit.ly/11sDUrZ a secret one, I expect

Open source spatial monitoring gets SMART for conservation - http://red.ht/12g4tMh great idea

EU-US trade negotiations must be transparent - http://bit.ly/12ShGkT otherwise they will have no legitimacy #TAFTA/#TTIP

Take That, SCOTUS: Appeals Court Reinstates Patent On Video-Ad Technology - http://onforb.es/14nzIIA fight, fight, fight

Civil liberties: the world at their fingertips - http://bit.ly/130fWHB this editorial lacks guts to name the real threat: a UK police state

In WikiLeaks Probe, Feds Used a Secret Search Warrant to Get Volunteer’s Gmail - http://bit.ly/17sAw4Z not an American, be it noted

#GCHQ's Mastering the Internet (MTI) was written about by @theregister *4* years ago - http://bit.ly/19obMb6 kudos to them (v @AnnieMachon)