http://petition.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/

This petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications.

Please if you live in Europe consider helping this is very important for BinaryFreedom

Thanks

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=5900
Background History

The way we write software both now and in the past is heavily influenced by the history of software and computers. People tend to think as software being a recent phenomena, which it is and thus they do not tend to think in terms of histories. Its as if not a long enough time period has elapsed for history to begin.

The beginnings of software got off to a relatively slow start and was restricted to a very limited number of individuals, although they made huge progress and contributions. It wasn't really until the late 70's and onwards into the 80's that it became something, done by masses of people to the present situation where perhaps a million or more people now write software.

Ayer en un comunicado emitido por la Oficina Federal Alemana para la Seguridad en Tecnologías de la Información (conocida como BSI), recomendó a todos los usuarios de Internet Explorer cambiar a un navegador alternativo, al menos hasta que Microsoft arregle la vulnerabilidad crítica implicada en el ataque cibernético de China contra Google.
En un reciente informe de McAfee, se revela los recientes ataques a Google y otras 20 empresas, fue gracias a una falla crítica en todas las versiones de Internet Explorer que permite a los piratas informáticos “realizar tareas de reconocimiento y obtener el control completo sobre el sistema comprometido”. Mientras tanto, Microsoft ha respondido que está desarrollando una actualización para la vulnerabilidad.

De acuerdo con la declaración de BSI, usar Internet Explorer en “modo protegido” no es suficiente para evitar que un hacker explote esta falla de seguridad.

http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=98830

A while back (around a year ago), we helped lead a campaign with MoveOn.org to shut down Facebook's beacon program. While we didn't shut it down, we did force them to make it easy to opt out and landed our story on CNN, USA Today, and other major news outlets. A lawsuit filed shortly after has caused Facebook to completely shut down their beacon program. Additionally, they have to fund an independent organization dedicated to promoting privacy which will probably just turn into another bullshit non-profit. So pats on everybody's back and close your account in celebration!

more at http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/19/1632229/Facebook-Will-Shut-Down-B...

Oh yeah, and fuck facebook!

Retomo desde mi último artículo "Wikimania, Richard Stallman y el anarco-capitalismo" y rectifico mis dichos, no fui muy claro y quizás
se hayan mal interpretado. En este caso hay que valorar y apoyar las acciones de Richard Stallman, el cuál defendió valientemente a
Rebelion.org frente a la censura de la casta de burócratas de la Wikipedia, con repercusiones a nivel del establishment mundial (New
York Times).

Desde mi parte, desde 2008, que he escrito "La enciclopedia del imperialismo", en la cual expreso: "El hecho de centralizar a la
población en la Wikipedia, y como al mismo gobierno de EEUU, presentarlos como defensores de la libertad y la democracia. Ese
apoderamiento, monopolio, y centralización, no tienen otro trasfondo que la clara dominación, la hegemonía, el reescribir la historia a
antojo. El condenar a todo libre pensador y crítico de estas formas de totalitarismo encubiertas, en "terroristas" o "vándalos". Y en su
poder como legitimo poseedor de la más justa verdad.

Es esa la importancia, o el hecho mas relevante. Que las formas de administración de la Wikipedia se corrompieron fácilmente a aplicar

from https://hackbloc.org/node/1991

Cryptome.org, the site run by crypto-anarchist John Young that publishes thousands of censored, classified, and secret documents seems to have tried to sweep an issue under the rug: that of informant John Towery infiltrating anti-war groups in Olympia/Tacoma, WA. This story has been covered by major media outlets including Democracy Now! and the New York Times, so what is Cryptome so afraid of?

According to the Cryptome website, “Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance—open, secret and classified documents—but not limited to those”. The John Towery story certainly sounds like it fits within these guidelines. Furthermore, the Cryptome website states that content will only be removed if forced by a US Court Order.

Good news is coming out of Sweden today as we learn that half of the charges against the operators of The Pirate Bay were dropped by the prosecutors. Many people in the tech community have been carefully watching this trial as it progresses and the entertainment industry attempts to prosecute The Pirate Bay for running, what essentially is, a search engine.

Manifiesto por el Software Comunitario (Rev. 1)
- lunes, 22 de diciembre de 2008
Manifiesto por el Software Comunitario
"No es un extremo es revolución"
00:17 12/11/2008.

Hasta ahora nos han hablando de licencias, es hora de hablar de quienes son las manos que escriben todos los códigos fuentes del mundo.

WIKILEAKS
Tue Jan 20 21:54:55 GMT 2009

"Thailand must stop imprisoning and censoring writers"

What do imprisoned Australian writer Harry Nicolaides, BBC correspondent Joathan Head, Thai Prof. Giles Ji Ungpakorn and social critic Sulak Silvaraska have in common?

They are some of the many detained or facing charges under Thailand's "lese Majesty" laws for criticizing the dealings of the monarchy.

Please sign and distribute the following demand on behalf of those imprisoned and charged:

We, the undersigned, oppose the use of lese Majeste in Thailand in order to prevent freedom of speech and academic freedom. We demand that the government cease all proceedings in lese Majeste cases.

The 19th September 2006 military coup in Thailand claimed "Royal legitimacy" in order to hide the authoritarian intentions of the military junta. Lese Majeste charges have not been used to protect "Thai Democracy under a Constitutional Monarchy" as claimed. The charges are used against people who criticized the coup and disagree with the present destruction of democracy. They are used to create a climate of fear and censorship.

The National Centre for Information Technology conducted a workshop to train professionals
Venezuela promotes free software

Translated with google translator sorry if some things are weird but you get the idea:
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=72435

As part of strategies designed by the National Centre for Information Technology (CNTI) to strengthen the National Free Software Industry, the institution conducted the workshop multipliers in the field of information technology (IT) entrepreneurs programme, in order to prepare professionals who will be responsible for train-on development of business-to potential industrial products units.

The program entrepreneurs looking to strengthen national capacities in the sector of information technology Free, with the intention of promoting the supply of services, application development, consultancy and technical assistance to meet the needs of public and private sectors of the country by strengthening Model endogenous development proposed by the Bolivarian Government.

Less than 24 hours after the public found out that Facebook was blocking bugmenot.com, they unblocked it. Major props to everybody who helped get bugmenot.com unblocked.

Once again, Binary Freedom was at the forefront of defending free speech online. Direct action gets the goods.

Last year, we helped lead a successful campaign against Facebook's privacy invading beacon program. When Facebook refused to drop Beacon, we got their advertisers to drop them. When Facebook said they dropped Beacon, we showed that they lied. Throughout the campaign, we kept on the heat. The campaign was covered by Slashdot, Digg, CNN, USA Today, and hundreds of other news ourlets. Eventually, we won.

Later, a union organizer had his account closed without any good reason. With other union groups, we fought to have it reinstated. Once again, we won.

The Thai Government has recently declared a state of emergency and ordered the blocking of hundred of more websites through their online censorship program.

In response, Binary Freedom members have offered to host these free speech websites on their servers free of charge. If you are interested in offering some hosting space, send an email to ringo{at}coimc=dot=org. Tell us what you have (PHP, SQL, etc.) and we will try and place an orphan site in your hands.

In such troublesome times in Thailand, it is critical that freedom fighters in other countries stand in solidarity and work to insure that the Thai people have the revolution they deserve, and have been asking for.

The online communication networks they use to further their goals are critical.

I was notified today that a class action lawsuit was filed against Facebook today for their Beacon program. The defendants in the suit are Facebook and advertisers who used their Beacon program such as Blockbuster, Fandango, Hotwire, Overstock, Zappos, Gamefly, and 40 "doe" corporations. Earlier this year, Binary Freedom helped lead a successful campaign to stop Beacon. In the end, several advertisers dropped Beacon due to public pressure. The Beacon program was a clear violation of Facebook's privacy policy and automatically shared user information with advertisers as well as telling a user's friends on facebook what they were looking at/buying online. This obviously has huge privacy implications.

How can people in the US complain about human rights violations in other
countries when the US violates the biggest ones? The U.S. uses the death
penalty, prison or often assasination for political dissidents,
sanctuary for anti left wing terrorists and in some cases Nazis, atomic
bomb proliferation, atomic bomb use and killing of massive amounts of
civilians, free speech "zones", the necessity of permits for a protest
or getting arrested for "disturbing the peace" or getting called and
arrested as a terrorist for being a political dissident. Every revolt
is punished and retaliated with a brutal amount of police(military)
force. So yes you have a freedom as long you do not exercise it against
the wrong people. Now we have the dictatorship of the corporations,
waging their biases on the Internet just like they do with mass media
and TV and basically anything that you can buy.
But private corporations are like small dictator ships at a level of
modern feudalism, were each CEO/CTO are the kings of their empire and in
their land they do what they please, all living under the protection of
the biggest and most hypocritical war maker in modern history. The U.S.

I finally cancelled my Yahoo account this week mainly because I never used it and also because it would just be one less entry about me in a database. After I cancelled it, I got a confirmation email stating that my account data would be deleted in 90 days. I think this is normal for an online business and they are honest about their data retention policies, unlike Google whose privacy policy says that they can collect any information they want and use it any way they want. The scary part about Yahoo's email to me however, was the data retention on Premium Yahoo Finance accounts.
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