Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 130616 -
http://bit.ly/12CxuYA yesterday's
tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
#Woz:
This is not my America - http://cnet.co/11T9leq sad
geek: "I was so proud of my country & now I find out it's
just the opposite"
"133 UK universites & colls of
higher education forced to sign a new Concordat for Research
Integrity" - http://ind.pn/13TccCP (v
@brembs)
Fleur Pellerin chez #Mozilla:
le logiciel libre, "garant de la souveraineté numérique"
- http://bit.ly/16aIoDs (v
@tnoisette @nitot)#fr
Persuading David Simon -
http://bit.ly/12Q5OAZ excellent,
detailed rebuttal (v @LukasKawerau)#nsa #scaling
ISPs to include porn filters as default
in the #UK by 2014
- http://ars.to/10pvFhF an
alliance of prudes & failed parents...
pic of the week - April torrential
downpours http://bit.ly/1bMrtIv ah,
#London (v
@Londonist)
Trade deal would benefit US more
than EU, Ifo study finds - http://bit.ly/125YjhG so
US must make concessions, not EU #TAFTA/#TTIP
French Minister’s vibrant speech in
favour of free software - http://bit.ly/11G1sFe good
to hear #fr
Why The NSA And President Bush Got The
FISA Court To Reinterpret The Law In Order To Collect Tons Of Data -
http://bit.ly/12D3njW
Chinese supercomputer tops the charts
-- two years early - http://cnet.co/17fMDlN runs
on #kylin, chinese
#linux distro
New Principles Address Balance between
National Security and the Public’s Right to Know -
http://osf.to/19d483m (v
@webmink)#transparency
Verizon sees “trade” deal as
the next “Share everything” plan - http://bit.ly/11G2Uaq sees
#TAFTA/#TTIP as
way to destroy privacy in #EU
Edward #Snowden Q&A:
NSA whistleblower answers your questions 4pm BST -
http://bit.ly/11sS2xS whoa,
could be fun...
Achat patriotique ? Si on passait à la
pratique ! - http://bit.ly/126tMjN so
why buy US sw - especially after Prism? (v @MarthadM)#fr
How Can Any Company Ever Trust
#Microsoft Again?
- http://bit.ly/15cyPkV passes
zero-day flaws to #nsa for
breaking into foreign systems
Big Data, Big Government, Big
Companies: NSA spying raises new Qs on corporate human rights
responsibilities - http://bit.ly/13UbQvF
UK Advisory group publishes identity
assurance principles for consultation - http://bit.ly/13NOEAC (v
@williamheath)
Who benefits from a free trade deal? -
http://bit.ly/1bNp4gE help
pl.: economists needed to look this through #TAFTA/#TTIP
#EU Data
Protection Responses To PRISM "A Smokescreen" -
http://bit.ly/15cCCPp important
interview with @CasparBowden on what we can do
"#EU could offer legal
immunity and financial rewards for reporting #surveillance which
breaks EU law" - http://bit.ly/15cCCPp great
idea
New #Microsoft Privacy
Campaign Promotes Consumer Control - http://bit.ly/12QE2V1 ORLY?
- http://bit.ly/15cyPkV (v
@ToruOkada69)#nsa
MT @kristacox #SCOTUS holds
in 5-3 decision pay-for-delay settlement agreements not immune from
#antitrust scrutiny:
http://1.usa.gov/1bNv6Oq
NB: all my unreferenced tweets with
#snowden refer
to this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower
High Profitability of
#Copyright-Intensive
Industries - http://bit.ly/11GswE8 yeah,
it's called price-gouging #intellectualmonopolies
#snowden:
"Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the public
could have a chance to make their feelings known"; hence Hong
Kong
#snowden:
"media outlets used argument that "documents were dumped"
to smear Manning, & want to make it clear it is not a valid
assertion."
The Document Foundation Welcomes
France’s MIMO In The Advisory Board - http://bit.ly/15cKsIB good
news #libreoffice
#snowden:
"$200,000 was my "career high" salary. I had to take
pay cuts in the course of pursuing specific work."
#snowden:
"if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA analyst has access to query raw SIGINT
databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want"
#snowden:
"The restrictions against this are policy based, not technically
based, and can change at any time." refers to previous tweet
#snowden:
"For at least #GCHQ,
the number of audited queries is only 5% of those performed."
i.e. they can get whatever they want
#TTIP :
l'accord USA-Europe intégrera bien la propriété intellectuelle -
http://bit.ly/ZXGANa as we
already expected
It's Not Whether NSA Surveillance
Helped Stop Any Plots, But Whether Or Not It Needed To Spy On
Everyone To Do So - http://bit.ly/11t6eqC
#snowden:
"Americans’ communications are collected and viewed on a daily
basis on the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant."
#snowden:
" the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content,
headers, attachments, everything. & it gets saved for a very long
time"
#snowden:
Net companies "legally compelled to comply and maintain their
silence, but that does not comply them from ethical obligation"
The Economic Case for #NetNeutrality -
http://bit.ly/13Uw1JM interesting
analysis (v @Coadec)
#snowden:
"filter is set at what is euphemistically referred to as the
"widest allowable aperture," and can be stripped out at any
time."
#snowden:
"Suspicionless surveillance does not become okay simply because
it's only victimizing 95% of the world instead of 100%" #EU
#snowden:
"Our founders did not write that "We hold these Truths to
be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal."
Yuri Gagarin air crash details emerge -
http://bbc.in/17gsdZS interesting
(v @BoingBoing)#ru #space
#snowden:
"if I were a Chinese spy, why wouldn't I have flown directly
into Beijing? I could be living in a palace petting a phoenix by now"
Wikimedia Foundation says it hasn’t
received any PRISM requests - http://tnw.co/16zChth er,
why would they? it's an encyclopaedia
To What Extent Can Global IP Rules Be
Responsive To Public Interest Demands? - http://bit.ly/12QLmzW they
can't; bin them all
Demonstrating "a load of cock"
to censorship-crazed UK MP Claire Perry - http://bit.ly/17gtJuS we
need much more of this...
#snowden:
"Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems
are one of the few things that you can rely on." let's hope
#snowden:
"Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that
NSA can frequently find ways around it." oh, pity
Barroso on #TAFTA/#TTIP
- http://bit.ly/15cUfOZ
"moving our regulatory regimes closer" = diluting #EU
protection for food, health & safety
#snowden:
"disclosure provides Obama an opportunity to appeal for a return
to sanity, constitutional policy, & rule of law rather than men"
#snowden:
"There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are
excused from scrutiny - should be setting example of transparency"
SCOTUS rules in 5-3 opinion that
pay-for-delay settlement agreements not immune from antitrust
scrutiny - http://bit.ly/15cVMVe bit
weak
EU Ombudsman: #EFSA fails
on conflict of interests - http://bit.ly/15aH8QG big
slapdown: now do something about it
#snowden:
"Seeing someone in position of Clapper baldly lying to the
public without repercussion is the evidence of a subverted
democracy."
#snowden:
"I have had no contact with the Chinese government. Just like
with Guardian & Washington Post, I only work with journalists."
#snowden:
"Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more
interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks
like"
#snowden:
"...rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless
surveillance in human history." and on that note...
Europe and US launch plans for
ambitious transatlantic trade deal - http://bit.ly/11tgjUp v
weak and uncritical stuff from @guardian #tafta
Israeli trade minister Naftali Bennett
dismisses two-state solution as 'hopeless' - http://bit.ly/14e57ND &
who made it 'hopeless'? #israel
Whistleblowers and the economy of
esteem - http://econ.st/1bO3ngu good
to see this in @TheEconomist (v @timbray)#snowden
I fear the chilling effect of NSA
surveillance on the open internet - http://bit.ly/16bY2yi no,
damage is to Net companies, who deserve it
An International Perspective on FISA:
No Protections, Little Oversight - http://bit.ly/ZYkt9q excellent
& detailed
South Tyrol to adopt
#freesoftware strategy
- http://bit.ly/11tGYAE great
news (v @ohnewein)#it
CISPA's Sponsors Can't Keep Their Story
Straight: If Snowden's Leaks Are False, How Do They Harm America? -
http://bit.ly/1bOukkm
BlackBerry says it remains confident in
its security, following claim that UK spies accessed data from its
servers - http://tnw.co/ZYobQo
Droning for #Rhinos -
http://bit.ly/11k3fnK "to
fight the war against poachers". great idea & worthy cause;
needs lots of help... #drones
Snowden: NSA snoops on U.S. phone calls
without warrants - http://cnet.co/14ezUK3 more
weasel-words from NSA
Blowback from the NSA Surveillance -
http://bit.ly/14eAkjy "affects
the US's role in Internet governance"
Six Strikes “Copyright Alert” Warns
Subscribers For Dangerous P2P Software - http://bit.ly/12RegA1 utter
#FUD & drivel
The #Snowden Principle
- http://bit.ly/ZYqDpY I can
see this catching on...
Microsoft defends Xbox One’s $499
pricetag, claims it will deliver “thousands of dollars of value”
to users - http://tnw.co/11KZOmJ ha-ha
Onion Pi - Convert a #RaspberryPi into
a Anonymizing #Tor Proxy,
for easy anonymous internet browsing - http://bit.ly/11tQ00x that's
nice
Japanese gov’t seeks industry
lobbies’ opinions on #TPP -
http://bit.ly/19e6KOs how
about asking Japanese people - remember them?
EU cloud computing firms see silver
lining in Prism scandal - http://reut.rs/13Vsn2v let's
hope they actually do something (v @CasparBowden)
#Fracking Is
Already Straining US Water Supplies - http://bit.ly/12RhKT3 people
don't realise this is another adverse effect #externalities
Church of #Scientology Lands
in Takedown Hall of Shame - http://bit.ly/11tTf8i surprised
it took this long
MoD serves news outlets with D notice
over surveillance leaks - http://bit.ly/17TT5OC 4
anyone who still doubts material (v @CasparBowden)
#Egypt's
Mohamed Morsi appoints hardline Islamist to govern Luxor -
http://bit.ly/16c7Acw sad:
expect #tourism to
be badly affected
Who’s scripting EU-US trade deal? -
http://bit.ly/11HbrKe shameful
lack of #transparency -
again: what have they got to hide? #TAFTA/#TTIP
#TPP undermines
health system - http://aje.me/13OHgoP good,
detailed explanation why
Looking Deeper into MPAA's
#Copyright Agenda
- http://bit.ly/11kbxfB good
points
Cameron promises biggest bilateral deal
in history as #TAFTA/#TTIP talks
open - http://bit.ly/17U5ouj naivety
of reporting here is painful
