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From: Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@???>
Reply-To: Bricolabs <brico@???>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 09:48:17 +0200
To: <brico@???>
Subject: [Bricolabs] Resistance, Liberation Technology
Resistance, Liberation Technology
newly published, may interest some people on bricolist. PDF download.
Resistance, Liberation Technology
and Human Rights in the Digital Age
by Giovanni Ziccardi
300 pages, pdf
http://cryptome.org/2013/03/hacking-digital-dissidence.pdf
summary below
JN
summary
Opening Remarks: Hacking and Digital
Dissidence.............................. 1
1.1 Using Computers for the Pursuit of Political and Social
Changes and for the Bene fi t of All Mankind
..................................... 1
1.2 From Early Hackers to Digital Resistance Activities
........................ 5
1.3 The So-Called Twitter Revolutions
.................................................... 7
1.4 The Worldwide Scenario, and Some Preliminary
Interpretative Questions
..................................................................... 9
References
............................................................................
....................... 22
2 Digital Resistance, Digital Liberties and Digital Transparency
........... 27
2.1 A Preliminary De fi nition of Digital Resistance
and Digital Liberties
..........................................................................
27
2.1.1 Some Focal Aspects of Digital Dissidence
............................ 27
2.1.2 Preliminary Legal and Political Remarks
.............................. 28
2.1.3 The Power of Technology in Critical Contexts
and the New Public Sphere
.................................................... 30
2.2 The Fundamental Role of a Secure (and Peer-Reviewed)
Liberation Technology: The Haystack Case-History .........................
32
2.3 Two Key Aspects of Digital Resistance Activities,
and Several Case Studies
................................................................... 36
2.3.1 The Key Aspects of Dissident Activities
............................... 36
2.3.2 Digital Resistance Case-Studies
............................................. 41
2.4 Open Government, Collaborative Transparency
and Civic Hacking as a Form of Digital Resistance ..........................
47
2.4.1 The Idea of Government as a Platform
for
Transparency................................................................
..... 47
2.4.2 The Metaphor of Government 2.0 and the Idea
of Collaborative Transparency
............................................... 49
2.4.3 Citizen Engagement for the Oversight
of Political Activity
................................................................ 51
2.4.4 Collaborative Mapping and Digital Resistance ......................
59
References
............................................................................
....................... 68
3 Hacking and Digital Dissidence Activities
.............................................. 73
3.1 The Role of Hackers in the Landscape of Digital Resistance
.......... 73
3.2 A First Analysis of Common Threats to Digital
Freedom and to Hacker Activities
................................................... 74
3.3 Being a Hacker in This Framework
................................................. 76
3.3.1 Thinking Like a Hacker
....................................................... 76
3.3.2 State Antagonism, Fear and Violence
.................................. 79
3.4 A Brand New Playground
................................................................ 81
3.4.1 Liberation Technologies
....................................................... 81
3.4.2 Anonymity and Bloggers' Rights
........................................ 84
3.4.3 Innovation
............................................................................
86
3.4.4 Intellectual Property and Privacy
......................................... 86
3.4.5 EPIC Activities in the Field of Privacy
................................ 88
3.4.6 Transparency
........................................................................ 89
3.5 A New Perspective on Hacking
....................................................... 90
3.5.1 The Essence of hacking
....................................................... 90
3.5.2 The Hacker Spirit and Some Lessons
from the Ushahidi Project
.................................................... 91
3.5.3 A New Breed of Hackers
..................................................... 94
3.6 The Do-It-Yourself Approach
........................................................... 97
3.7 The Hacker Ethic
............................................................................
. 99
3.8 Hacking and Crime
..........................................................................
101
3.9 Threats to Hackers
...........................................................................
105
3.9.1 The EFF Report Unintended Consequences ........................ 105
3.9.2 Some Signi fi cant Recent Legal Cases:
Cease-and-Desist Actions
.................................................... 106
3.10 Hacking Electronic Voting Machines
for the Purpose of Transparency
...................................................... 117
References
............................................................................
....................... 122
4 Digital Resistance, Digital Liberties and Human Rights
....................... 125
4.1 Internet and Human Rights
.............................................................. 125
4.2 Internet and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
............... 130
4.3 The Council of Europe and the Human Rights Guidelines
for Internet Service Providers: The Role of ISPs
in Human Rights Environments and Protection ...............................
133
4.4 The WSIS Declaration of Principles
................................................ 134
4.5 The 2011 United Nations Report on the Promotion
and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion
and Expression
............................................................................
..... 137
4.6 A Charter of Human Rights and Principles for the Internet
............ 144
4.7 The "Bill of Rights" Projects
........................................................... 152
4.7.1 The Internet Bill of Rights Drafted
within the IGF Works
........................................................... 152
4.7.2 The Internet Rights and Principles Dynamic
Coalition Bill of Rights
........................................................ 154
4.7.3 A Bill of Rights in Cyberspace
............................................ 155
4.7.4 The EFF Bill of Privacy Rights
for Social Network Users
..................................................... 156
4.8 A Human Rights Approach to the Mobile Internet
............................ 157
4.9 The Relationship Between Human Rights and Technology
Sales to Oppressive Regimes
............................................................. 159
References
............................................................................
....................... 159
5 The Use of Liberation Technology
........................................................... 161
5.1 Technical Resistance Tactics
.............................................................. 161
5.2 Surveillance Self-Defense or Self-Defense Against
Surveillance and Monitoring
.............................................................. 167
5.3 A Recent Circumvention Tool Usage Report
.................................... 169
5.4 Tools and Guides
............................................................................
.... 171
5.4.1 Leaping Over the Firewall: A Review of Censorship
Circumvention Tools by Freedom House............................. 171
5.4.2 Ten Fundamental Aspects of a Typical Liberation
Technology Tool
.................................................................. 176
5.4.3 An Interesting (Comparative) Article
on Real Anonimity of VPN Systems Users ......................... 180
References
............................................................................
....................... 184
6 Digital Activism, Internet Control, Transparency,
Censorship, Surveillance and Human Rights:
An International Perspective
................................................................... 187
6.1 An Introductory Overview
................................................................. 187
6.1.1 The Global OpenNet Initiative Analysis
.............................. 187
6.1.2 Techniques and Tools Commonly Used to Censor .............. 201
6.2 An Analysis of Several Countries with Critical
Human Rights Issues
..........................................................................
203
6.2.1 Burma: Internet and Human Rights in a Particular
Technological, Political and Legal Framework ................... 203
6.2.2 Cuba: Internet Control, User Restrictions, Legal
and Regulatory Frameworks, Blogosphere,
Digital Dissidents and Civil Society ....................................
214
6.2.3 South Korea: Digital Resistance Issues
............................... 227
6.2.4 Saudi Arabia: The Digital Liberties Landscape ...................
230
6.2.5 Syria: Digital Liberties Issues
.............................................. 233
6.2.6 Iran: Internet and Digital Liberties Issues
............................ 239
6.2.7 China: The Internet and Types and Levels
of Chinese Internet Censorship ............................................
247
6.2.8 Turkmenistan: Censorship and Control ...............................
259
6.2.9 Uzbekistan: Internet, Censorship and Surveillance .............
262
6.2.10 Vietnam: Digital Resistance and Censorship .......................
269
6.2.11 Australia: Internet Filtering Policies, Digital Liberties
and Circumvention Tools
..................................................... 273
6.2.12 Iceland: Digital Resistance Issues
and Freedom of Information ................................................
279
6.2.13 India: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information
and Electronic Censorship
................................................... 283
6.2.14 Russia. Internet and Human Rights: Political
and Technological Frameworks ........................................... 290
6.2.15 North Korea: The Main Digital Liberties Issues ..................
295
6.3 Revolts and Digital Dissidence in Egypt and Tunisia:
Where It All Began
............................................................................
301
6.3.1 A Brief Summary of Digital Dissidence in Egypt ............... 301
6.3.2 A Brief Summary of Digital Dissidence in Tunisia ............. 303
References
............................................................................
....................... 304
7 Conclusions: The Landscape of Digital Liberties and the Future ........
309
7.1 Human Rights in the Digital Era and the Role of Law
...................... 309
7.2 Technology as an Antibody
................................................................ 311
7.3 The Technological Scenario
............................................................... 313
7.4 The Relationships Between Hacking and Digital Resistance ............
314
References
............................................................................
....................... 315
Author
Index.......................................................................
............................. 317
Subject Index
............................................................................
....................... 321
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