{"id":3429,"date":"2012-12-03T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2012-12-03T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T01:01:10","slug":"thoughts-about-cypherpunks-freedom-and-the-future-of-the-internet-assange-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2012\/12\/thoughts-about-cypherpunks-freedom-and-the-future-of-the-internet-assange-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts about Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet (Assange et al)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet<\/a> ebook pdf download free<\/p>\n

u really shud buy it<\/a> if u want to read it, just to support Wikileaks. its priced at 10$ for a DRM-free PDF.<\/p>\n

heres another review<\/a><\/p>\n

the summary is that its a rather short book, 170ish pages, which is based on a four way conversation between Julian Assange and three other interesting and influential computer ppl. it contains a lot of rather dystopian information about the future and present of surveillance. apparently, there is a lot more of it than i thought. certainly this gave me som more ideas that i will discuss with the pirate parties.<\/p>\n

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some quotes and comments<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A 120-strong US Pentagon team called the WikiLeaks Task <\/span><\/p>\n

Force, or WTF, was set up ahead of the release of the Iraq War Logs <\/span><\/p>\n

and Cablegate, dedicated to \u201ctaking action\u201d against WikiLeaks. Simi-<\/span><\/p>\n

lar publicly declared task forces in the FBI, the CIA and the US State <\/span><\/p>\n

Department are also still in operation.19<\/span><\/p>\n

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hilarious accidental use of internet slang? :D<\/p>\n

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The Obama administration warned federal employees that mate-<\/span><\/p>\n

rials released by WikiLeaks remained classified\u2014even though they <\/span><\/p>\n

were being published by some of the world\u2019s leading news organiza-<\/span><\/p>\n

tions including the New York Times and the Guardian. Employees were <\/span><\/p>\n

told that accessing the material, whether on WikiLeaks.org or in the <\/span><\/p>\n

New York Times, would amount to a security violation.21<\/span><\/p>\n

Government agencies such as the Library of Congress, the Commerce Department <\/span><\/p>\n

and the US military blocked access to WikiLeaks materials over their <\/span><\/p>\n

networks. The ban was not limited to the public sector. Employees from <\/span><\/p>\n

the US government warned academic institutions that students hop-<\/span><\/p>\n

ing to pursue a career in public service should stay clear of material <\/span><\/p>\n

released by WikiLeaks in their research and in their online activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

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wtf<\/p>\n

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JULIAN: Andy, for years you\u2019ve designed cryptographic telephones. <\/span><\/p>\n

What sort of mass surveillance is occurring in relation to telecommu-<\/span><\/p>\n

nications? Tell me what is the state of the art as far as the government <\/span><\/p>\n

intelligence\/bulk-surveillance industry is concerned?<\/span><\/p>\n

ANDY: Mass storage\u2014meaning storing all telecommunication, all voice <\/span><\/p>\n

calls, all traffic data, any way groups consume the Short Message Service <\/span><\/p>\n

(SMS), but also internet connections, in some situations at least limited <\/span><\/p>\n

to email. If you compare the military budget to the cost of surveillance <\/span><\/p>\n

and the cost of cyber warriors, normal weapon systems cost a lot of <\/span><\/p>\n

money. Cyber warriors or mass surveillance are super-cheap compared <\/span><\/p>\n

to just one aircraft. One military aircraft costs you between\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

JULIAN: Around a hundred million.<\/span><\/p>\n

ANDY: And storage gets cheaper every year. Actually, we made some <\/span><\/p>\n

calculations in the Chaos Computer Club: you get decent voice-quality <\/span><\/p>\n

storage of all German telephone calls in a year for about 30 million <\/span><\/p>\n

euros including administrative overheads, so the pure storage is about <\/span><\/p>\n

8 million euros.42<\/span><\/p>\n

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scary. it gets more scary when u think about the fact that most systems that i use to communicate with are american owned: skype, facebook, google. perhaps i shud get srs about this encryption thing. sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

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JACOB: We can also tie this back to John Gilmore. One of John <\/span><\/p>\n

Gilmore\u2019s lawsuits about his ability to travel anonymously in the <\/span><\/p>\n

United States resulted in the court literally saying, \u201cLook, we\u2019re <\/span><\/p>\n

going to consult with the law, which is secret. We will read it and <\/span><\/p>\n

we will find out when we read this secret law whether or not you <\/span><\/p>\n

are allowed to do the thing that you are allowed to do.\u201d And they <\/span><\/p>\n

found when they read the secret law that, in fact, he was allowed <\/span><\/p>\n

to do it, because what the secret law said did not restrict him. He <\/span><\/p>\n

never learned what the secret law was at all and later they changed <\/span><\/p>\n

the US Transportation Security Administration and Department <\/span><\/p>\n

of Homeland Security policies in response to him winning his law-<\/span><\/p>\n

suit, because it turns out the secret law was not restrictive enough <\/span><\/p>\n

in this way.115<\/span><\/p>\n

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dafuq. the reference is:<\/p>\n

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Jacob is referring to Gilmore v. Gonzales, 435 F.3d 1125 (9th Cir. <\/span><\/p>\n

2006). John Gilmore, an original cypherpunk, took a case as far as the <\/span><\/p>\n

US Supreme Court to disclose the contents of a secret law\u2014a Security <\/span><\/p>\n

Directive\u2014restricting citizens\u2019 rights to travel on an airplane without <\/span><\/p>\n

identification. Besides challenging the constitutionality of such a provi-<\/span><\/p>\n

sion, Gilmore was challenging the fact that the provision itself was secret <\/span><\/p>\n

and could not be disclosed, even though it has binding effects on US <\/span><\/p>\n

citizens. The court consulted the Security Directive in camera, and ruled <\/span><\/p>\n

against Gilmore on the Directive\u2019s constitutionality. The contents of the <\/span><\/p>\n

law were, however, never disclosed during the course of the proceedings. <\/span><\/p>\n

See Gilmore v Gonzales at PapersPlease.org: http:\/\/papersplease.org\/<\/span><\/p>\n

gilmore\/facts.html (accessed October 22, 2012).<\/span><\/p>\n

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ANDY: I totally agree that we need to ensure that the internet is <\/span><\/p>\n

understood as a universal network with free flow of information; <\/span><\/p>\n

that we need to not only define that very well, but also to name those <\/span><\/p>\n

companies and those service providers who provide something they <\/span><\/p>\n

call internet which is actually something totally different. But I think <\/span><\/p>\n

we have not answered the key question beyond this filtering thing. <\/span><\/p>\n

I want to give you an example of what I think we need to answer. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some years ago, about ten years ago, we protested against Siemens <\/span><\/p>\n

providing so-called smart filter software. Siemens is one of the big-<\/span><\/p>\n

gest telcos in Germany and a provider of intelligence software. And <\/span><\/p>\n

they actually sold this filtering system to companies so that, for exam-<\/span><\/p>\n

ple, employees couldn\u2019t look at the site of the trade unions to inform <\/span><\/p>\n

themselves of their labor rights and so on. But they also blocked the <\/span><\/p>\n

Chaos Computer Club site which made us upset. They designated <\/span><\/p>\n

it as \u201ccriminal content\u201d or something, for which we brought legal <\/span><\/p>\n

action. But at an exhibition we decided to have a huge protest meet-<\/span><\/p>\n

ing and to surround Siemens\u2019 booths and filter the people coming <\/span><\/p>\n

in and out. The funny thing was that we announced it on our site <\/span><\/p>\n

to attract as many people as possible through the internet, and the <\/span><\/p>\n

people in the Siemens booth had no fucking clue because they also <\/span><\/p>\n

used the filter software so they couldn\u2019t read the warning that was <\/span><\/p>\n

obviously out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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hah!<\/p>\n

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JULIAN: The Pentagon set up a filtering system so that any email sent <\/span><\/p>\n

to the Pentagon with the word WikiLeaks in it would be filtered. And <\/span><\/p>\n

so in the case of Bradley Manning, the prosecution, in attempting to <\/span><\/p>\n

prosecute the case, of course, was mailing people outside the mili-<\/span><\/p>\n

tary about \u201cWikiLeaks,\u201d but they never saw the replies because they <\/span><\/p>\n

had the word \u201cWikiLeaks\u201d in them.118 The national security state <\/span><\/p>\n

may eat itself yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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oh god retards<\/p>\n

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J\u00c9R\u00c9MIE: This debate about full disclosure makes me think of the <\/span><\/p>\n

group known as LulzSec, who released 70 million records from <\/span><\/p>\n

Sony\u2014all the users\u2019 data from Sony\u2014and you could see all the <\/span><\/p>\n

addresses, email addresses and passwords. I think there were even <\/span><\/p>\n

credit card details from 70 million users. As a fundamental rights <\/span><\/p>\n

activist I thought, \u201cWow, there is something wrong here if to prove <\/span><\/p>\n

your point or to have fun you disclose people\u2019s personal data.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I was very uncomfortable with seeing people\u2019s email addresses on <\/span><\/p>\n

the record. In a way, I thought those people were having fun with <\/span><\/p>\n

computer security, and what they were demonstrating is that a <\/span><\/p>\n

company as notorious and powerful as Sony wasn\u2019t able to keep its <\/span><\/p>\n

users\u2019 secrets secret, and having those 70 million users search in <\/span><\/p>\n

a search engine for their email address or for their name and find <\/span><\/p>\n

this record would make them instantly realize, \u201cOh wow, what did <\/span><\/p>\n

I do when I disclosed this data to Sony? What does it mean to give <\/span><\/p>\n

personal data to a company?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

JACOB: Then they shoot the messenger.<\/span><\/p>\n

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interesting angle on the LulzSec disclosure<\/p>\n

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–<\/p>\n

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