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Fwd: The calendar for the EP Sakharov Prize for 2013
by Erik Josefsson 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Hej listan. Som EU-nörd utan sjukdomsinsikt med svårartad dragning till omöjliga och rådjävulskt jobbiga projekt vill jag härmed launcha ytterligare ett mycket långt skott: att få EP att ge Snowden Sacharovpriset. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/aboutparliament/sv/00f3dd2249/Sakharov-Prize-… Se instruktioner nedan. Frågor på det? //Erik -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The calendar for the EP Sakharov Prize for 2013 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:11:55 +0200 From: Erik Josefsson <erik.hjalmar.josefsson(a)gmail.com> To: edri-members(a)mailman.edri.org Nominations for Sakharov Prize can be made by at least 40 MEPs. Here's the calendar, the form and the rules: http://erikjosefsson.eu/sites/default/files/SAKHAROV_2013_EN.pdf (excerpt below) Currently there is less than zero interest in nominating Snowden for the Sakharov Prize in EPP, ALDE and ECR. Therefore, this project is huge. It's probably impossible to succeed. To be successful it requires: 1) the first signature to be an EPP MEP and the right EPP MEP 2) the following 10 signatures to be EPP too 3) the following 30 to be a mix of EPP+ALDE+ECR *No S&D, Greens/EFA, GUE/NGL, EFD or NI signatures allowed.** * Best regards. //Erik *Deadline for nomination of candidates * *Thursday, 12 September 2013 at 17h00* Strasbourg Presentation of nominees in a joint meeting of AFET/DEVE/DROI (open to all Members) Monday or Tuesday, 16 or 17 September 2013 Brussels, tbc *Vote* *on three finalists in a joint meeting of AFET/DEVE* *Monday, 30 September 2013*, Brussels Conference of Presidents' decision on final Laureate Thursday, 10 October 2013, Strasbourg Joint AFET/DEVE/DROI meeting with 2013 Laureate(s) Monday, 18 November 2013, at 19h00 Strasbourg Prize award ceremony in plenary Tuesday 19 or Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 12h00 Strasbourg

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Hur mycket gillar vi VPN?
by Linus Nordberg 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

Hej! Rent principiellt, praktiska frågor undantagna, vill DFRI erbjuda VPN-providers co-location (dvs placera en server i någon av "våra" datorhallar, på vårt nät). En del av det är att DFRI skall tillhandahålla infrastruktur till projekt som gör saker som vi gillar. Gillar vi VPN? Det krypterar (bra). Det hjälper inte mycket mot trafikanalys (dåligt). Inte heller mot "rubber hose attacks", utpressning, mutor mm mot VPN-providern (dåligt). Flera av VPN-lösningarna använder någon slags trasig teknologi som PPTP (dåligt). Men det är ju samtidigt mycket bättre än ingenting. Som sagt, gillar vi VPN? En separat fråga är om vi vill tillhandahålla co-location/VPS (virtuella maskiner) mot betalning. Förutsatt att vi gillar projektet som vill betala för det, är det problematiskt på något sätt?

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Olagligt med avkodningsutrustning för TV
by Elof Ofel 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

"Det ska bli olagligt att köpa och använda avkodningsutrustning för privat bruk för att kringgå att betala för betal-tv-tjänster. Det föreslår Kulturdepartementet i en departementsskrivelse som i dag har skickats ut på remiss." <http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c6/21/97/87/bd52cee7.pdf> "I departementsskrivelsen föreslås att straffet för anskaffande och användning för privat bruk av olovlig avkodningsutrustning ska vara böter. För övrig privat olovlig hantering föreslås straffskalan vara böter eller fängelse i högst två år, vilket i dag gäller för kommersiell olovlig hantering." "Senast den 30 september 2013 ska remissvaren ha kommit in till Kulturdepartementet. Regeringen väntas besluta om en proposition senast under våren 2014. Lagändringarna föreslås träda i kraft den 1 juli 2014." <http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c6/21/97/87/d4262c59.pdf>: "Remissinstanser: l. Justitiekanslern 2. Riksdagens ombudsmän 3. Hovrätten för Västra Sverige 4. Södertälje tingsrätt 5. Helsingborgs tingsrätt 6. Domstolsverket 7. Åklagarmyndigheten 8. Rikspolisstyrelsen 9. Kriminalvården 10. Datainspektionen 11. statskomoret 12. Kommerskollegium 13. Tullverket 14. Konsumentverket 15. Stockholms universitet 16. Kungliga tekniska högskolan 17. Myndigheten för radio och tv 18. Post- och telestyrelsen 19. Boxer TV Access AB 20. Bredbandsbolaget AB 21. C More Emertainment AB 22. Canal Digital Sverige AB 23. Com Hem AB 24. Copyswede 25. Centrala antennföreningen 26. D il og N or di c AB 27. Film- och TV-producenterna i Sverige ek. för. 28. Föreningen för svensk medie- och kommunikationsforskning 29. Föreningen STOP 30. Företagarna 31. Google Sverige AB 32. HBO N ordic AB 33. Hi3G Access AB (3) 34. IT -företagen 35. Konstnärliga och litterära yrkesutövares samarbetsnämnd (KLYS) 36. Modern Times Group AB 37. MTV Networks Europe 38. Nokia AB 39. Non Stop Television AB 40. Sagemcom N ordic AB 41. SBS TV AB 42. SES Astra AB 43. Stiftelsen Svenska Filminstitutet 44. Svenska Artisters och Musikers Intresseorganisation (SAMI) 45. Svenska Amipiratbyrån 46. Svenska kabel-TV -föreningen 47. Svenska stadsnätsföreningen 48. Svenska tonsättares internationella musikbyrå (STIM) 49. Sveriges advokatsamfund 50. Sveriges Filmuthyrareförening u.p.a. 51. Sveriges Konsumenter 52. Sveriges Television AB 53. Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB 54. Sveriges Videodistributörers Förening 55. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 56. Telekområdgivarna 57. Tele2 AB 58. Telenor AB 59. TeliaSonera AB 60. Teracom AB 61. TV 4 AB 62. Tevefolket 63. Viasat AB 64. Voddler" Undrar hur många av dessa remissinstanser som ser några problem med kriminalisering, med fängelse i straffskalan, av någon godtycklig "avkodningsutrustning"?

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Missing ACTA documents
by Andreas Jonsson 04 Jul '13

04 Jul '13

Dear Court/Registry, Following a dialogue with both the EP and the EC[1], we turn to you to better understand the ACTA process. As the Commission made it clear in June last year that a negative vote on ACTA would not stop the proceedings before the Court[2] we think there is an overwhelming public interest in disclosure of the document that, according to a Commission spokesperson[3], made the Commission withdraw its referral.The case has been referred to as "A-1/12". Would it be possible for the Court/Registry to answer the following questions? 1) Does the document "the question asked by the Court of Justice to the Commission in case A-1/12" that the Commission refers to in its email[4] exist? 2) Is that document a "procedural document" or a document of another type? 3) Did the Court notify the Parliament this document? If so, when? Was the document notified a person, a Committee Representative, the Legal Service of the EP, the Parliament as an institution or the President? 4) Did the Court notify the Commission this document? If so, when? To whom was it addressed? 5) Has the Commission or the Parliament asked for permission to make this document public? Would such permission be necessary for its publication? 6) Was the Court informed of the Commissions position that a negative vote on ACTA would not stop the proceedings before the Court[2]? Thank you in advance for your kind help. With best regards, Andreas Jonsson DFRI - Föreningen för digitala fri- och rättigheter https://dfri.se/index.en [1] https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Q8sSndEcsand http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-12-477_en.htm?locale=en [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCBTFh3IhQY [4] https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/EC-response-2013-06-19.txt

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Fwd: Re: [at4am] Information about at4am during RMLL
by Erik Josefsson 29 Jun '13

29 Jun '13

Med anledning av mötesprotokollets per 20130626 omfattning https://www.dfri.se/dfri/motesprotokoll/5-20130626/ önskar jag särskilt lyfta fram punkt 10 genom att förmedla följande dialog mellan Philip Luppens (programmerare AT4AM Core Toolkit) och Nicolas Pettiaux (drivkraft RMLL): https://at4am.eu/pipermail/at4am/2013-June/date.html Yay! \o/ Vänligen. //Erik -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [at4am] Information about at4am during RMLL Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:35:29 +0200 From: Philip Luppens Reply-To: Automatic Tool for AMendments Mailing List To: Nicolas Pettiaux CC: Automatic Tool for AMendments Mailing List On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Nicolas Pettiauxwrote: 2013/6/27 Philip Luppens: Dear Philip, > The idea is that I refuse to call a 1.0 before all loose > ends have been resolved, even if that means a delay of several weeks/months. I can understand > We're still learning ourselves the hangs of governing an open source > project, and while I do have some experience from within the ASF, it's > something else to start from scratch. We'll see where it takes us, and I > hope to get some honest criticism and feedback about what works, and what > doesn't. at least we could let the participants of RMLL/LSM know that their honest criticism and feedback is expected. Any feedback is welcome. Due to the nature of the project, the assumed adopters are not exactly known for being a) very vocal nor b) very quick in their adoption. We're low on resources, but we aim high - even if just to develop a vision that can be shared for the future. Â Wouldn't an access to a running instance of at4am, filled with data would help the community to work with Â at4am ? Would it be possible to announce such a thing ? It's perfectly possible to run your own instance of AT4AM, backed by for example a PostgreSQL database (which is what I'm running locally). The instances on at4am.org <http://at4am.org>, however, are backed by an in-memory database, so whenever we do a (nightly) deployment, the backend is wiped clean. Now, I have been thinking (a lot) about federation & importing of trusted content, but until we can convince the EP to share its published proposals in a more open format (preferably in Akoma Ntoso (AN)), this will be limited to those source text that are converted (semi)-manually. Afaik, the AN transformation in the EP is not yet entirely into place, and the existing XML schema in use is too limited and would prove quite challenging to transform automatically (of course, once again Italy shows us how it's done by providing pretty much all their documents in AN). Â > What kind of information are you looking for, exactly? Anything that would attract the attention to many people from France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and elsewhere who try hard to convince their parlements and governements to use free software and who could push them to use at4am. Well, at this moment we seem to have some interest coming from Italy. I'm not familiar at all with the procedures nor the way of amending or drafting in any of the aforementioned countries, but I do believe the core is flexible enough to handle those cases as well. The only problem is the availability of source texts ... I'm not entirely sure what would be of interest to those attending the workshop; we do aim to provide in time (given enough resources), a full turn-key parliamentary solution (drafting, marking, amending, voting, consolidating, ... ), but this will remain a distant dream until we get more backing. There's also the difference in target audience: we aim to provide governments and large organisations with these tools, but they might just as well be used to improve legislation by allowing citizens to participate actively, and even for lobbyists to make their lives easier (although no-one wants to admit that publicly, of course). Â There will also be a political rond table at RMLL/LSM onTuesday 9 morning with MEP http://schedule2013.rmll.info/programme/plenieres/article/table-ronde-polit… where the topic of at4am could also in few words be discussed. Anything related to AT4AM is considered a step forward, so yes, if possible, try to raise the topic. Â As I understand it, at4am will be a free software that could help parliaments to collaborate on the tools they use, but also allow the citizens to follow more closely the evolution of the legislative texts. All this is for me very important. It will become more and more important as more people want to participate in the making of laws, as they demand more transparency and insight into the legislative processes, and as they demand a more streamlined and cost-effective government. Our tool is but once tiny building block in getting governments to adopt a new strategy and to migrate away from closed source & proprietary formats (I do start to sound like a political activist now, don't I? *sigh*). Â > By the way, I originally had this workshop planned on the 12th of July - did > it move? I don't know if it was announced earlier on July 12th. This JURI session at the EP has as last talk at 17.20 - 17.35 Â« The experience of the EP with free and open source softwareÂ» Giancarlo Vilella, Director-General, DG ITEC Mr Vilella could speak about at4am too. Just a guess. I'm assuming he will. And 'paperless'. Or 'papersmart', as our friends from the UN so eloquently put it. Cheers, Phil Â Thanks, Nicolas -- Nicolas Pettiaux - http://rmll.info - #rmll2013 - 8 au 11 juillet Libre Software Meeting @ Brussels : 200 talks, 30 workshops - July 8-11 Rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre @ Bruxelles : 200 confÃ©rences, 30 ateliers -- "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." - Randy Pausch

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Fwd: [EPFSUG] Your input needed: Questions for panel w/ Eben Moglen, RMS, 4 MEPs
by Erik Josefsson 29 Jun '13

29 Jun '13

FSFE frågar efter frågor att fråga politikerna (typ, vad dom ska göra åt sakernas tillstånd). //Erik -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [EPFSUG] Your input needed: Questions for panel w/ Eben Moglen, RMS, 4 MEPs Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 22:49:12 +0200 From: Karsten Gerloff <gerloff(a)fsfeurope.org> Reply-To: Karsten Gerloff <gerloff(a)fsfeurope.org> To: epfsug(a)epfsug.eu Hi everyone, as mentioned here before, on July 9 at the Libre Software Meeting / RMLL in Brussels, we're organising a big panel discussion on "Technology, Power and Freedom": http://fsfe.org/events/2013/rmll-2013.html After the news about wide-ranging communications surveillance we've heard in recent weeks, this topic is arguably even more pressing than it was before. But we want to look at the long term: What do we need to change in politics and technology today to build a better world tomorrow? For this discussion we're bringing some of the Free Software movement's leading minds together with the people who represent us in the European Parliament. We're extremely happy to have a list of first-rate participants: Eben Moglen (Columbia University / Software Freedom Law Center) Richard M Stallman (FSF) Judith Sargentini (MEP Greens/EFA) Marc Tarabella (MEP S&D - tbc) Nils Torvalds (MEP ALDE) Ioannis A. Tsoukalas (MEP EPP) I'd like your input: What should we ask these people? What are your most urgent questions on technology and politics? Please post your questions here, and we'll gather them and get them to Brussels. Thanks & best, Karsten -- Karsten Gerloff [ ] <gerloff(a)fsfeurope.org> Free Software Foundation Europe [ ][ ][ ] [http://fsfe.org] President | | +49 176 9690 4298 Support software freedom! [http://fsfe.org/support] Free Software Foundation Europe e.V. is a German Verein registered at the Registergericht Hamburg (VR 17030).

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GNOME Privacy Fundraising
by Emil Tullstedt 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

FYI: GNOME-projektet har för närvarande en fundraising där pengarna går till att öka möjligheten till privacyinställningar och privacy-per-default i GNOME. https://www.gnome.org/friends/ Lista på projekt GNOME-teamet jobbar med är: - application containment - enhanced disk encryption support *- Tor integration* - user control over diagnostic reporting features - robust VPN routing - application integration with system-wide privacy settings - controls for how GNOME devices are identified on local networks - anti-phishing features for Web, GNOME's web browser Förutom sista punkten (vem tusan använder Epiphany?) så känns det ju värt att donera några dollar till GNOME-teamet för att uppmuntra resterande punkter. Ha det bra! -- Emil Tullstedt

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9 JULY *** "Earth Connections" «Connexions Terriennes» *** WORKSHOP
by JOSEFSSON Erik 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Earth Connections and Small Networks, a Greens/EFA workshop in the European Parliament Welcome to a low key dialogue between Eben, Eva, Julien, Sandrine, Jonas, Christian and Markus where they give their perspectives on how one can deal more responsibly with "The Cloud" and the problems it brings. Bienvenue dans un dialogue informel entre Eben, Eva, Julien, Sandrine, Jonas, Christian et Markus, qui discuteront de comment aborder le «Cloud» de manière plus responsable, et des problèmes qu'il engendre. Event link: http://www.greens-efa.eu/earth-connections-and-small-networks-10200.html Workshop participants will ask questions as they come up and the setting is informal, only to make sure the following questions are covered: Les participants à l'atelier poseront les questions comme elles viennent, dans un cadre informel. Néanmoins les questions suivantes seront traitées: 1. What would you say is the aim of "Earth Connections" and "Small Networks"? Quel est, pour vous, l'objet des «Connexions Terriennes» et des «Petits Réseaux»? 2. Why do you think it is important and urgent? Pourquo pensez-vous qu'il est important et urgent de les prendre en compte? 3. If all the right technologies exist already, why are we still using Google, Facebook, etc? Si toutes les technologies nécessaires existent déjà, pourquoi utilisons-nous toujours Google, Facebook, etc? 4. What exactly are you trying to create? Qu'essayez-vous de créer exactement? 5. Why would I wanna be an early adopter? Pourquoi voudrais-je devenir un des premiers utilisateurs de ces réseaux? Further activities in the room A5E1 will be announced on http://www.earth-connections.eu/ as they occur with possible presentations of concrete examples of "Earth Connections". D'autres activités dans la salle A5E1 seront annoncées au fur et à mesure sur http://www.earth-connections.eu/, avec éventuellement des démonstrations concrètes de «Connexions Terriennes». INVITEES: * Markus Sabadello from Project Danube <http://projectdanube.org/> is working on developing and promoting the FreedomBox in Austria. * Julien Rabier <http://www.libre-parcours.net/about-me/> is setting up a local non-profit ISP in France and helps the creation of such organizations through FDN Federation <http://www.ffdn.org/> . * Jonas Smedegaard <http://dr.jones.dk/> from Debian <http://debian.org/> is an accomplished software developer interested in large scale software deployments like e.g SkoleLinux <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu> and DebianParl <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianParl> . * Eben Moglen <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen> is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University and the founder of Software Freedom Law Center <http://softwarefreedom.org/> . INVITERS: * Sandrine Bélier <http://sandrinebelier.wordpress.com/> is a French MEP for Europe Écologie <http://eelv.fr/> and member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety <http://parltrack.euwiki.org/mep/Sandrine%20Belier#committees> . * Eva Lichtenberger <http://eva-lichtenberger.eu/> is an Austrian MEP for Die Grünen <http://www.gruene.at/> and member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism <http://parltrack.euwiki.org/mep/Eva%20LICHTENBERGER#committees> . * Christian Engström <http://christianengstrom.wordpress.com/> is a Swedish MEP for Piratpartiet <http://www.piratpartiet.se/> and member of the Committee on Legal Affairs <http://parltrack.euwiki.org/mep/Christian%20ENGSTROM#committees> . All MEPs are members of the Greens/EFA Internet Core Group <http://icg.greens-efa.eu/> . -- Erik Josefsson Advisor on Internet Policies Greens/EFA Group <http://www.greens-efa.eu/36-details/josefsson-erik-138.html> GSM: +32484082063 BXL: PHS 04C075 TEL: +3222832667 SBG: WIC M03005 TEL: +33388173776

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Flash-proxy
by Linus Nordberg 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Hej listan! Mötet igår beslutade att DFRI skall ha en s.k. flashproxy-badge på hemsidan. Här är ett utkast till svensk text som förklarar vad det går ut på. Förbättringsförslag? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Flashproxy är ett program som låter en webläsare reläa trafik mellan blockerade internetanvändare och Tor-nätverket. Genom att klicka på flashproxy-symbolen förvandlar du din webläsare till en slags proxy. Din webläsare kommer periodiskt att fråga en s.k. facilitator om det finns några blockerade Tor-användare som har bett om en proxy. När den får information om en blockerad användare kopplar den upp sig till denna och börjar reläa trafik till och från Tor-nätet. När du stänger fliken som flash-proxy kör i så slutar din browser att reläa trafik. Läs mer om flashproxy på https://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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"Still no access to ACTA documents"
by Erik Josefsson 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

Om inte annat så har man lärt sig försöka :-) //Erik * ************************************************************* Link to **EDRi-gram 11.12**:* http://edri.org/edrigram/number11.12/no-acccess-ACTA-documents Still no access to ACTA documents Today, 19 June 2013, the European Commission answered within the time limit it had set for itself to answer to DFRI's requests for ACTA documents. On 29 May 2013 the Commission extended the time limit with 15 working days arguing the "new time limit" was statutory under Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. The Commission explained it had to extend the period by 15 working days because its reply to DFRI was "circulating for signature by the hierarchy" and that "circulating for signature by the hierarchy" is an "exceptional case" under the same article. The answer EDRi member DFRI received today was not signed by anyone but the sender of the email. Neither did it contain any ACTA documents. The Commission argues that: "The question of the Court to the Commission, being a procedural document, does not fall within the scope of Regulation 1049/2001 as Article 15(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE) specifies that the Court is only subject to obligations on Transparency when exercising their administrative tasks. This has as consequence that the document itself can't be disclosed by the Commission." Email from European Commission refusing disclosure of ACTA documents (19.06.2013) https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/EC-response-2013-06-19.txt Email from European Commission extending deadline (29.05.2013) https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/EC-extending-deadline-2013-05-29.txt All ACTA documents @ DFRI website https://www.dfri.se/wiki/ep-acta-docs/ (Contribution by EDRi member DFRI - Sweden)

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