EFDbackup: September 2015

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The Next Web by Amanda Connolly

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has officially come out of the shadows and joined Twitter using the handle @Snowden, which was verified within two hours of joining.

Facing Sweeping Surveillance Bill, French Public Falls Between Alarm and Indifference

Global Voices Online by Advox

Anti-surveillance demonstration in France. Photo via Amnesty International.

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attack, and despite vehement opposition from civil liberties groups, France’s parliament passed in May 2015 a bill allowing the government to monitor the phone calls and emails of suspected terrorists without prior authorization from a judge.

France’s Government Aims to Give Itself—and the NSA—Carte Blanche to Spy on the World

EFF.org Updates by Danny O’Brien

The United States makes an improper division between surveillance conducted on residents of the United States, and the surveillance that is conducted with almost no restraint upon the rest of the world. This double standard has proved poisonous to the rights of Americans and non-Americans alike. In theory, Americans enjoy better protections. In practice there are no magical sets of servers and Internet connections that carry only American conversations. To violate the privacy of everyone else in the world, the U.S. inevitably scoops up its own citizens’ data. Establishing nationality as a basis for discrimination also encourages intelligence agencies to make the obvious end-run: spying on each other’s citizens, and then sharing that data. Treating two sets of innocent targets differently is already a violation of international human rights law. In reality, it reduces everyone to the same, lower standard.

New Leak Details Kremlin’s Plans For a Russian ‘National Internet’

Global Voices Online by Aric Toler

What would an autonomous Russian Internet look like? Images mixed by Tetyana Lokot.

Weapon of choice: 10 of the worlds most notorious hacker groups
Catch News
In 2010, Anonymous launched Operation Payback, after several companies, including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, refused to process payments to WikiLeaks. It also publicly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, attacking the website of the .

A 1950s computer indexed the entire Bible

Mashable! by Alex Arbuckle

Univacbible-3-thumb

1955

Rev. John Ellison, who conceived the idea of using a computer to create a concordance of the Bible.

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1LRzRMS

Filed under: Uncategorized

HDP’s Demirtaş uses Facebook Live streaming, reaches more than 455 K views….

http://ift.tt/1Gi9tWe

Posted by Selahattin Demirtaş on Wednesday, September 30, 2015

CHP to campaign on good governance, Kurdish issue and economy

CHP has presented a detailed framework for its program ahead of the Nov. 1 elections, listing concrete and down-to-earth promises it says will solve problems in the divisive issues of democracy and the rule of law, the economy, foreign policy, education, as well as societal peace and the Kurdish issue

Parliamentary Question for Police Raid against DİHA

Bianet :: English

HDP Diyarbakır deputy Sibel Yiğitalp asked the Ministry of the Interior a parliamentary question for detentions and police raid against Aram Publishing House, Azadiya Welat, Kurdi-Der and DİHA.

Turkey: The price of Erdogan’s power grab

FT.com – Analysis

Critics say his bid for an executive presidency risks making the nation ungovernable

Turkey asks world to ignore campaign against Kurds

EurActiv.com

Turkey’s prime minister will tell world leaders next week that Ankara can play a key role in stopping a spread of terrorism, including Islamic State, but expected understanding for its own battle against Kurdish militants.

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1P60Ll8

Filed under: Uncategorized

New photo from Facebook September 30, 2015 at 05:13PM

Eski zamanlar- SSCB’deki otobüs durakları. via http://ift.tt/1WxU51l via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: facebook

Cyberculture agenda: “The Snowden Treaty

http://ift.tt/1KRxXYC

The US’s Campaign Against Encryption Is Based on Blind Faith in Silicon Valley

Stanford Center for Internet and Society by Center for Internet and Society

Date published:

September 22, 2015

“”The unanimous conclusion—the scientific consensus—in industry, in academia, and even among government experts is that there is a significant security risk associated with facilitating government access via a backdoor,” Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who is considered one of the nation’s top security experts, said at an encryption policy event in Washington DC Monday.

The Snowden Treaty: protecting the world’s whistleblowers in the age of privacy breaches

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

AP_166186450540-promo

The Treaty on the Right to Privacy, Protection Against Improper Surveillance and Protection of Whistleblowers [PDF] (AKA “The Snowden Treaty”) was created by David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald’s partner, who was detained by UK policeunder terrorism legislation while transiting through London’s Heathrow airport with a encrypted thumbdrive containing some of the Snowden leaks.

The Bizarre, Bony-Looking Future of Algorithmic Design

Wired Top Stories by Margaret Rhodes

Generative design could be the next frontier in industrial design.

Longer Tweets Would Spell Death to the Tweetstorm

Wired Top Stories by Issie Lapowsky

But they would also spell the birth of plenty of other Twitter abuses.

Don’t Kill the Password. Change the Password

Wired Top Stories by Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog

It’s time for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to step in and give the lowly password some backup in high risk contexts by requiring a second factor for authentication.

These tech giants just asked US government for more surveillance; call Congress now!

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

logocloud

Evan from Fight for the Future writes, “Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Salesforce / Heroku, and a handful of other tech companies just betrayed billions of people’s trust. They signed a letter endorsing CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act.”

Google’s Three Tips for Sabotaging the Cybercrime Economy

Wired Top Stories by Andy Greenberg

In a broad study, a team of Googlers and academic researchers suggest attacking the cybercrime supply chain.

Microsoft Built Its Own Linux Because Everyone Else Did

Wired Top Stories by Cade Metz

For years, Microsoft actively worked to suppress Linux. Now it’s using the open source operating system to help run its online empire.

Nikola Tesla’s Predictions for the 21st Century: The Rise of Smart Phones & Wireless, The Demise of Coffee, The Rule of Eugenics (1926/35)

Open Culture by Josh Jones

The fate of the visionary is to be forever outside of his or her time. Such was the life of Nikola Tesla, who dreamed the future while his opportunistic rivalThomas Edison seized the moment. Even now the name Tesla conjures seemingly wildly impractical ventures, too advanced, too expensive, or far too elegant in design for mass production and consumption. No one better than David Bowie, the pop artist of possibility, could embody Tesla’s air of magisterial high seriousness on the screen. And few were better suited than Tesla himself, perhaps, to extrapolate from his time to ours and see the technological future clearly.

Taken Offline: Years in Prison for a Love of Technology

EFF.org Updates by Danny O’Brien

Writing a letter with a pen has an odd feeling in a digital age. You pick your words carefully, without a delete key. You urge your hands to recall their best handwriting. You ponder about forms of address and how much space to leave; should I fill the page, or sign off half-way down?

The shape of the Internet (according to patent drawings)

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

thumb39

The stylized art of patent drawings is instantly recognizable. Before the information age, the drawings were drafter’s jewelboxes, designed to make the workings of new mechanical inventions legible to other inventors (and patent examiners).

The ethical ad blocker

Boing Boing by Laura Hudson

Yes, advertisements on websites are annoying at best, but they’re also a large and important part of how websites make money so that they can keep providing you with sweet, sweet content. So what’s an ethical person who desperately wants to install an ad blocker supposed to do?

Happy Birthday Enters ‘Public Domain,’ Judge Rules Copyright Invalid

TorrentFreak

copyright-branded Starting today everyone is free use “Happy Birthday” without having to pay a license fee, as a California federal court ruling suggests that the popular song is now the public domain*.

New, Improved Facebook Notes

All Facebook by David Cohen

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1KRxYeY

Filed under: Uncategorized

New photo from Facebook September 30, 2015 at 04:57PM

3 saatte Şam. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: facebook

New photo from Facebook September 30, 2015 at 10:40AM

Molly Crabapple’dan Suriye illüstrasyonları via http://ift.tt/1YH6sKu via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: facebook

Feedly (@feedly) introduces Shared Collections. Here’s Erkan’s; where most input to EFD generated!

http://ift.tt/1WxaGm6

http://ift.tt/1O1evNd

What is Feedly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedly

Feedly is a news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service….

Vía Erkan’s Field Diary http://ift.tt/1WxaGma

Filed under: Uncategorized