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May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act.
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Have you read any good research lately? Well, i stumbled upon an article a while back in FreeHaven's bibliography and it catched my attention:

The Economics of Mass Surveillance and the Questionable Value of Anonymous Communications by George Danezis.

Today we heard on /. by the timesonline that "Almost 450,000 requests were made to monitor people’s telephone calls".

Now, if we put the two very quickly and blatantly together, it would mean that somewhere around 25M people are being spied on in the UK. That's just 42% of the population, fieeww, and i though we'd have more than half! What a relief, so yeah forget about it, it's a non-news. I'm sorry. ;-)


In the mean time, I'll do my homework and watch Every Step You Take.


The FreeHaven link was added to the guerilla backpack bibliography.

Here is the collection of links, there is a bit of everything, sorting is probably not exact but still, a lot of food for thoughts. I'll try to maintain them or repost updates... (yes i know, release early, release often! ;)

Anything pertaining to building and thinking a wearable (or not? :P) technology, knowledge and culture reaproriation architecture goes here, enjoy and comment! :)

Bibliography:

Where knowledge lives is as important as our ability to access it. It is as much a feedback loop as it is a given piece of information and so it happens between people. The less 3rd party acknowledgment we need, the better we can cooperate. Imagine having to ask a server to be able to talk to a friend in a bar: sounds stupid? Well, many protocols work like this either passively or actively. The more complex they get, the more control is owned by the operators. And the fewer the operators, the less benevolent they get, but that we already knew...

Let us consider how we get access today. We have long been used to buy internet access from companies or, for some "lucky" few, academics and such. If we are to have a word to say on this network we need to own at least some part of it in some way. In this sense, I'm not saying no commercial entity can exist, to the contrary, just the fact that in residential areas, for example, we should either own our networks and manage them democratically or have a strong sets of rules to protect the users. An internet bill of right in some way... Producing content is no guarantee of ownership of this content as we regularly see in web's site agreements. An infrastructure for and by the people must be put in place so people's choice of licenses on content they produce can have some value.