Piracy, Privacy and Thought Control ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jaromil Ars Electronica Symposium GOODBYE PRIVACY Date: Sep 07 2007 __ __ _ ___ _ ___ \ \ / /| |_ _ _ | _ \ _ _ (_)__ __ __ _ __ _ _|__ \ \ \/\/ / | ' \| || | | _/| '_|| |\ V // _` |/ _|| || | /_/ \_/\_/ |_||_|\_, | |_| |_| |_| \_/ \__,_|\__| \_, |(_) |__/ |__/ ******************************************** The distinction between what is public and what is private is becoming more and more blurred with the increasing intrusiveness of the media and advances in electronic technology. While this distinction is always the outcome of continuous cultural negotiation, it continues to be critical, for where nothing is private, democracy becomes impossible. http://www.newschool.edu/centers/socres/privacy/Home.html (stated 1 year before the 9/11 escatological brainwash) __ __ _ _ _ \ \ / /___ | |__ _ __ __ _ (_)| | \ \/\/ // -_)| '_ \| ' \ / _` || || | \_/\_/ \___||_.__/|_|_|_|\__,_||_||_| ******************************************** The internet offers plenty of free services, on the wave of the Web2.0 fuzz and the community boom, while all private informations are hosted on servers owned by global corporations and monopolies. It is important to keep in mind that noone else than *you* can ensure the privacy of your personal data. Server hosted services and web integrated technologies gather all data into huge information pools that are made available to established economical and cultural regimes. ___ ___ __ __ _ |_ _|| _ \ | \/ | ___ _ _ ___ _ __ ___ | | _ _ | | | _/ | |\/| |/ _ \| ' \ / _ \| '_ \/ _ \| || || | |___||_| |_| |_|\___/|_||_|\___/| .__/\___/|_| \_, | |_| |__/ ******************************************** Piracy of objects: Mobile devices are not in complete control of their legitimate owners: it is not clear what the software running on them is doing and. With the rise of "trusted computing" technologies, the possibility to run homebrew applications is denied as Piracy. Piracy of content: Piracy does not simply exist because there are bloody-minded people who don't care for the rules and laws of the civilised world. It tends to emerge whenever there is a hegemonic power that asserts itself by establishing a trade monopoly. A monopoly, by its very nature, cuts out competition by other traders and destroys existing means of trade. People deprived of their traditional way of making a living resort to criminal activity. The hegemonic power, itself not averse to using violence to force others into submission, considers itself to be the law and defines others' activity as piracy. (Armin Medosh) ___ _ _ ___ | _ \(_) _ _ __ _ | |_ ___ / __| ___ _ __ _ _ | _/| || '_|/ _` || _|/ -_) | (__ / _ \| '_ \| || | |_| |_||_| \__,_| \__|\___| \___|\___/| .__/ \_, | |_| |__/ ******************************************** Chinese movie about piracy Directed by He Jianjun Produced by the Rotterdam Film Festival Tony Onouha died in august 2007 trying to escape undercover cops chasing him for selling copied DVDs in an internet cafe in Athens. ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ |_ _| | _ \ | _ \ | __| | \ |_ ) | | | _/ | / | _| | |) | / / |___| |_| |_|_\ |___| |___/ /___| ******************************************** Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Proposed on July 12, 2005 by the Commission of the European Communities. This directive moves towards the "privatisation of justice" delivering to copyright holdings a direct role in investigations for copyright violations. Following the IPRED2, informations about citizens can be collected and used by private corporations in marketing surveys even without explicit authorization of the subjects, in contrast with the article 8 of the EU convention on human rights. (excerpts translated from the italian analisys by Giuseppe Corasaniti) _ _ | | | | _ _ __ _ ___ _ _ __ _ _ | |_| || '_|/ _` |/ -_)| ' \ / _|| || | \___/ |_| \__, |\___||_||_|\__| \_, | |___/ |__/ ******************************************** Context is crucial, indeed. Imagine: * jailed bloggers in Cairo * investigative journalist in Palermo * self determined women in patriarcal environments * native communities in Oaxaca * citizens demonstrating at the G8 Building autonomous networks in extreme conditions is exposing nodes to a risk that is directly proportional to the size of the network. The risk grows higher as more digital communication systems pervade societies with centralized architectures. ___ _ _ _ _ / __| ___ | | _ _ | |_ (_) ___ _ _ ___(_) \__ \/ _ \| || || || _|| |/ _ \| ' \ (_-< _ |___/\___/|_| \_,_| \__||_|\___/|_||_|/__/(_) ******************************************** * build peer to peer communication architectures * leave private individuals store their own data * build autonomous, intuitive and embedded security systems * in extreme cases, scale security from personal to collaborative _ _ ___ ___ __| | _ _ _ _ ___ (_)|_ _||_ _| / _` || || || ' \ / -_) _ | | | | \__,_| \_, ||_||_|\___|(_)|___||___| |__/ ******************************************** GNU/Linux liveCD (easy to employ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Nomadic architecture * Mobile personal data storage system * Fairly strong encryption - Rijndael hashed sha256 (linux dm-crypt aes-i586) * Easy and intuitive, no extra operations required * All your home directory stays in an encrypted file * Operations are done *live* on the file during usage ... more on http://dynebolic.org _ _ _ ___ _ _ /_\ | | __ _ _ _ (_) / __|| |_ ___ ___ ___ __ _ _ _ | | / _ \ | |/ _` || '_|| | _ _ _ \__ \| ' \ / -_)|_ /|_ // _` || ' \ |_| /_/ \_\|_|\__,_||_| |_|(_)(_)(_) |___/|_||_|\___|/__|/__|\__,_||_||_|(_) ******************************************** a simple but effective encryption scheme ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Data <--- your private data (in a physical file) * Key <--- the key to your data (in another physical file) * Password <--- the password unlocking the key (to be remembered) Data + ( Key + Password) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___ Key _______________________ / \ Point A -- // dangerous transport // --> Point B (online) (offline) \__ Data _______________________/ `--------------------------- Only when Key and Data meet again the informations can be accessed, if one of them is missing AES/SHA256 is locking access. Password can be communicated (also over unsafe channels) once Key and Data met again. _ __ _ _ _ _ /_\ _ _ / _| __ __ __(_) ___ __| | ___ _ _ ___ ___ | |_ ___ _ _ | | / _ \| || || _| \ V V /| |/ -_)/ _` |/ -_)| '_|(_-