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Piracy, Privacy and Thought Control
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Jaromil <jaromil@dyne.org>




                           Ars Electronica Symposium

                                GOODBYE PRIVACY

                               Date: Sep 07 2007


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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)


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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.



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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)


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                           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.

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Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive 2
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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)





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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.





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* 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



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GNU/Linux liveCD (easy to employ)
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* 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


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a simple but effective encryption scheme
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 * 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)
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              ___ Key _______________________
             /                                \
       Point A  -- // dangerous transport // --> Point B
       (online)                                (offline)
              \__ Data _______________________/

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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.


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Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
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