Called Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty (PORTAL), the project is a pre-built software image for an inexpensive pocket-sized “travel router” to automatically protect its owner’s Internet traffic. Portal provides always-on Tor routing, as well as “pluggable” transports for Tor that can hide the service’s traffic signature from some deep packet inspection systems.
After a months-long investigation, the SEC has declared that they may soon take action against Standard & Poor’s. S&P’s misleading ratings were a key cause of the 2008 financial crisis. They deserve to have their government seal of approval revoked.
Call the SEC and tell them to revoke S&P’s government seal of approval.
About surveillance as the internet’s dominant business model.
Ethan Zuckerman’s recent The Internet’s Original Sin is inspired by this talk:
The fiasco I want to talk about is the World Wide Web, specifically, the advertising-supported, “free as in beer” constellation of social networks, services, and content that represents so much of the present day web industry. I’ve been thinking of this world, one I’ve worked in for over 20 years, as a fiasco since reading a lecture by Maciej Cegłowski, delivered at the Beyond Tellerrand web design conference. Cegłowski is an important and influential programmer and an enviably talented writer. His talk is a patient explanation of how we’ve ended up with surveillance as the default, if not sole, internet business model.
The Internet With A Human Face – Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk by Maciej Ceglowski
An NGO petitioned to have the movie banned because of nudity and potential offense to religious sentiment. The Indian Supreme Court denied it …
“If you don’t like it, don’t watch the film. Don’t bring religious facets here,” Chief Justice of India, RM Lodha, said, adding, “These are matters of entertainment. If you restrict it, it will affect others’ rights. Everything is on the internet. What will you hide?”
MilkDrive Performs “SoHo” on The Texas Music Scene
In 2008, when it was discovered that the satellite was still transmitting a signal and would fly close to Earth, NASA realized that they no longer had the funding or equipment to reinitiate contact. So a volunteer group of scientists, programmers, and engineers organized the ISEE-3 Reboot Project, which was crowd-funded with over $150,000 in donations, and set out to contact the spacecraft, fire its engine, and bring it closer to Earth to resume its original mission.
Over the course of his research, Valentine secured over 100 in-depth interviews with Phoenix participants. He developed a rapport with his interviewees and was able to elicit from them how the Phoenix program operated organizationally, and gained unique insight into how the CIA thinks in regard to its “operational targets.”
Against Forgetting: “The Phoenix Program” and the Awakening of Historical Memory
