July 2013 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Re: [P2P-F] hashtag-based storytelling app first to connect Instagram videos
by Michel Bauwens 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

Hi Mihaly, I have no time for the moment, ut perhaps someone in our community does, so I cc'ed our mailing list, Michel On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Mihaly Borbely < mihaly.borbely(a)brickflow.com> wrote: > Hi Michel, > > I thought you might find this interesting as a story. > > Brickflow is a curation tool for turning social media noise into > visual stories. It's the first tool that can connect multiple > Instagram videos to tell a longer story, but also supports Twitter, > Instagram, Tumblr, and YouTube. > > We are launching on Saturday, the 20th, but I'd be happy to give you > early access. > > See our press release with examples below. > > http://blog.brickflow.com/press > > Best, > > > > -- > Mihaly Borbely > co-founder > Brickflow > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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rational optimism
by Michel Bauwens 20 Jul '13

20 Jul '13

I'm all for rational optimism, but surely there must be better sources than the arch-neoliberal Matt Ridley? see http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/19/rational-optimist-prosperity-ev…; http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jun/18/matt-ridley-r… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: New From Pluto Press - Nature for Sale: The Commons versus Commodities
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jon Wheatley <jonw(a)plutobooks.com> Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM Subject: New From Pluto Press - Nature for Sale: The Commons versus Commodities To: Jon Wheatley <jonw(a)plutobooks.com> * ** P R E S S R E L E A S E ** -- Traces the erosion of the commons from the Industrial Revolution to today’s neo-liberalism, arguing that a new commons is needed today. -- * * * *Nature for Sale: The Commons versus Commodities* * * *Giovanna Ricoveri* *Foreword by** Vandana Shiva* ** *Out Now* PB / £14.99 / 9780745333700 / 215mm x 135mm / June 13 *This book fills a gap, as it allows to understand the foundations for waging a survival struggle against an encroaching climate. It will help readers to penetrate the systematic nature of the war against Nature and it can be a very useful tool in strengthening the movements to stop the assault.* *Saul Landau, Vice Chair of the Institute for Policy Studies, Berkeley* ** *An historical-philosophical inquiry into an alternative route to the current devastating economic and social order. Written by one of the leading intellectuals of the Italian left, among the first in Europe to deal with political ecology issues.* *Grazia Francescato, leading environmentalist and previous leader of the Italian Green Party* ** Nature for Sale uncovers the rich heritage of common ownership which existed before the dominance of capitalist property relations. Giovanna Ricoveri argues that the subsistence commons of the past can be reinvented today to provide an alternative to the current destructive economic order. Ricoveri outlines the distinct features of common ownership as it has existed in history: cooperation, sustainable use of natural resources and decision-making through direct democracy. In doing so, she shows how it is possible to provide goods and services which are not commodities exchanged on the capitalistic market, something still demonstrated today in village communities across the global South. Tracing the erosion of the commons from the European enclosures at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the new enclosures of modern capitalism, the book concludes by arguing that a new commons is needed today. It will be essential reading for activists as well as students and academics in history, politics, economics and development studies. *Giovanna Ricoveri is a writer and activist. She is the author of a book on the commons in Italian, Beni comuni vs Merci (2010) and editor of Beni comuni tra tradizione e futuro (2005). She is the founding editor of Capitalismo Natura Socialismo, which is part of the international network Capitalism Nature Socialism.* * * ** *For further information, to request a review copy or to speak to the author please contact Jon Wheatley at jonw(a)plutobooks.com or on 0208 374 6424* * * * * -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: [fcf_discussion] Why the EU Commission's True Intent is to Kill Net Neutrality
by Michel Bauwens 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: La Quadrature du Net <jz(a)laquadrature.net> Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM Subject: [fcf_discussion] Why the EU Commission's True Intent is to Kill Net Neutrality To: fcforum_discussion(a)list.fcforum.net Themes: NET NEUTRALITY, NEELIE KROES, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, ANALYSE La Quadrature du Net – For immediate release Permanent link: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/why-the-eu-commissions-true-intent-is-to-ki… Why the EU Commission's True Intent is to Kill Net Neutrality *** Paris, 19 July 2013 — Since last week, after citizen groups started criticizing the EU Commission over its leaked draft regulation threatening to kill Net neutrality, Commissioner Neelie Kroes and her staff have tried to defend their proposal on Twitter, arguing that these criticisms were “misleading European citizens”. Here is a summary of what was said, not said, and how it reveals that these criticisms are absolutely right: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/why-the-eu-commissions-true-intent-is-to-ki… ** About la Quadrature du Net ** La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group that defends the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. More specifically, it advocates for the adaptation of French and European legislations to respect the founding principles of the Internet, most notably the free circulation of knowledge. In addition to its advocacy work, the group also aims to foster a better understanding of legislative processes among citizens. Through specific and pertinent information and tools, La Quadrature du Net hopes to encourage citizens' participation in the public debate on rights and freedoms in the digital age. La Quadrature du Net is supported by French, European and international NGOs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Open Society Institute and Privacy International. List of supporting organisations: https://www.laquadrature.net/en/they-support-la-quadrature-du-net ** Press contact and press room ** Jérémie Zimmermann, jz(a)laquadrature.net, +33 (0)615 940 675 http://www.laquadrature.net/en/press-room -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd:Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops
by Darren 19 Jul '13

19 Jul '13

Forgive the cross posting -------- Original Message -------- Anyone up for a bit of this? https://p2pu.org/en/courses/77/collaborative-workshops-in-informal-learning… nice one Mick Invitation to sign up for a course on collaborative workshops I’m helping to run a course on delivering workshop which is going to be hosted on p2pu.org as part of the School of Open- I’ve designed some badges and we are due to start sign up on the 22nd of July. While I like to think that we have added our own special touch, most materials have been gathered from existing sources. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all published under open licences. The main sources have their own excellent websites so if you want to go straight to the source then check them out here; http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/ http://aspirationtech.org/ http://rhizomenetwork.wordpress.com/ Would you like to be a part of this course? Maybe you already know a bit about delivering workshops and would like to share your experiences? Maybe you are new to workshops and facilitation? Perhaps you can join this course with some of your colleagues as a way of learning together? One of the reasons that I am helping to run this course is to use it as a way of doing some professional development. I’ve spend some time working with partners from Creative Commons and the P2PU.org to research and pull together some of what we feel are the best introductory materials and techniques on delivering collaborative and interactive workshops. This course is a way of bringing existing materials to a new audience on new platforms (p2pu.org and FLOSS Manuals). Also by remixing them into an online course it allows people to share their experiences while they work through the materials and suggestions for planning a workshop. We are adding Open Badges into the mix too. We are keeping it simple. If you plan a workshop you can submit it for peer review to get a badge. And if you deliver a workshop and take photos and write up your learning, well that deserves a badge too. Though online discussion via comments, and via live group chat sessions we hope to build a community of people who will plan and then ideally deliver a workshop with peer support from other course participants. If you are new to delivering workshops then this is a great opportunity to learn from a great group of trainers some of whom have some fantastic experiences to share. On the other hand, this course is a perfect chance for existing trainers to experiment with this online learning tool and community. You can dip a toe in the water while working with familiar subject matter. To sign up visit the course home page, click on Start Course on the left of the column. You will need to sign up for p2pu.org. If you have any questions you can find me on @mickfuzz on twitter or email me on – mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org

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Fwd: FABFUSE#2 Last update
by Michel Bauwens 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: FabFuse <info(a)fabfuse.org> Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:04 PM Subject: FABFUSE#2 Last update To: We are counting down to FABFUSE#2 which will start in 2 days. The final program is online now, see http://www.fabfuse.org/en/**program<http://www.fabfuse.org/en/program> The conference is open to last minute attendees, however we appreciate a notice so we can estimate our catering needs. All documentation and a video registration of the presentations will become available on our website asap. best regards, Bram Geenen, Diana Wildschut, Dirk van Vreeswijk, Harmen Zijp, Joachim de Koning, Peter Troxler -- disclaimer: If you don't want to receive further emails about it please let us know and we'll remove you from our mailing list. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: NUEVOS MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES: EVOLUCIÓN Y PERSPECTIVAS. EN POS DE UNA VÍA HACIA LA REVOLUCIÓN INTEGRAL
by Michel Bauwens 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Félix Rodrigo Mora <esfyserv(a)gmail.com> Date: 2013/7/17 Subject: NUEVOS MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES: EVOLUCIÓN Y PERSPECTIVAS. EN POS DE UNA VÍA HACIA LA REVOLUCIÓN INTEGRAL To: Amigas y amigos He preparado el texto "Nuevos movimientos sociales: evolución y perspectivas. En pos de una vía hacia la revolución integral", para la 86 edición del Congreso anual de la organización centrada en el esperanto, SAT (Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda/Asociación Mundial Anacional). En la página de la SAT está ya colgada la versión en esperanto. Abajo van los enlaces de la versión en castellano. El texto es una reflexión muy actual sobre la naturaleza arcaica y senil de los movimientos sociales creados en los años 60 del siglo XX, todos ellos de carácter conciliador con el orden establecido. En contraposición a todo ello formulo el proyecto, programa y estrategia de revolución integral. Con afecto Félix WEB: http://es.scribd.com/doc/153939937/MOVSOC -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Fwd: Empathy Notes #3: Empathy versus rationality?
by Michel Bauwens 17 Jul '13

17 Jul '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Atlee <cii(a)igc.org> Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:53 PM Subject: Empathy Notes #3: Empathy versus rationality? To: michel(a)p2pfoundation.net [image: Like this on Facebook]<http://mad.ly/f4e5e3?pact=486716119239373648&fe=1&facebook_like=true> [image: Share this on Twitter]<http://mad.ly/f4e5e3?pact=486716119239373648&fe=1&twitter_share=true> [image: Pin to Pinterest]<http://mad.ly/f4e5e3?pact=486716119239373648&fe=1&pinterest_share=true> [image: Share this on with +1]<http://mad.ly/f4e5e3?pact=486716119239373648&fe=1&plusone_share=true> [image: RockEggs] Important Notice I am changing the way I send out my messages. Future messages will look like this one. *If you wish to continue receiving my messages in the previous plain text email format* send me an email at cii(a)igc.org with "Revert to previous format" in the Subject line. 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Please consider donating now so your donation will be doubled.* *Funds raised so far:* $5210 + $4710 matching grant = *$9920* Our target: $20,000 // Percentage of needed funds raised so far: 49.6% People on our list: 1814 // Days remaining in this fundraiser: 15 Thank you to the 53 people who have responded so far! *If you value our work*, please participate with a donation. See the end of this mailing for how to contribute. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Empathy Notes #3: Empathy versus rationality?<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-44a86c996bddcd1c1d9d0c115021ea7…> Several weeks ago my good friend Miki Kashtan sent me two articles - The Baby in the Well<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-399467070059ccdf41fb7d1093a4ad8…>by Paul Bloom and The Case Against Empathy<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-b0b4421a29ebc3491213207d9ffb0eb…>by David Harris-Gershon - that critically compare empathy with reason. *These two essays maintain that empathy causes us to focus on the narrow needs of visibly suffering individuals - especially those who are like us or whom we know and love. This focus distracts us from broader or invisible suffering - and from the systemic causes of suffering - for which changes in policy, systems, culture, etc., are called for rather than our personal kindness and help. Therefore, suggest the essayists Paul Bloom and David Harris-Gershon, reason is a more dependable guide to our moral responses than empathy.* Bloom calls empathy "parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate". Because of empathy's "identifiable victim effect", he maintains, "the story of [a missing teenager] took up far more television time than the concurrent genocide in Darfur." His examples don't stop there: "Each day, more than ten times the number of people who died in Hurricane Katrina die because of preventable diseases, and more than thirteen times as many perish from malnutrition... In the past three decades, there were some sixty mass shootings, causing about five hundred deaths; that is, about one-tenth of one per cent of the homicides in America" and yet, thanks to our empathy, we focus on the dramatic mass shootings rather than the more everyday murders. Bloom quotes the economist Thomas Schelling about how thousands of people will send nickels and dimes to help “a six-year-old girl with brown hair [who needs] thousands of dollars for an operation that will prolong her life until Christmas" but they won't support a sales tax without which hospital facilities will deteriorate, resulting in even more preventable deaths. Political Consequences Reducing it all to real-life absurdity, Bloom tells us that "Newtown, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre, was inundated with so much charity that it became a burden. More than eight hundred volunteers were recruited to deal with the gifts that were sent to the city—all of which kept arriving despite earnest pleas from Newtown officials that charity be directed elsewhere. A vast warehouse was crammed with plush toys the townspeople had no use for; millions of dollars rolled in to this relatively affluent community. We felt their pain; we wanted to help. Meanwhile—just to begin a very long list—almost twenty million American children go to bed hungry each night, and the federal food-stamp program is facing budget cuts of almost twenty per cent." To make his point that reason is needed but impeded, Bloom invites us into a thought experiment: "Imagine reading that two thousand people just died in an earthquake in a remote country, and then discovering that the actual number of deaths was twenty thousand. Do you now feel ten times worse? To the extent that we can recognize the numbers as significant, it’s because of reason, not empathy." He then notes a further impediment generated by empathy: "Sensible policies often have benefits that are merely statistical but victims who have names and stories." By focusing on the victims, we end up with bad policy that doesn't give us the benefits. In another reference to politics, both Bloom and Harris-Gershon point to what they call "the politics of empathy in which each side vies for an empathetic response. While progressives... point to the children at Sandy Hook as clear evidence for our need to tightly regulate firearms, conservatives... point to those helpless, unarmed victims. And America empathizes." This empathy-driven dynamic does not help America make up its collective mind on a moral issue, but rather confuses us and sets us against each other. Planetary Survival Harris-Gershon notes "this beautiful human characteristic – beneficial when the world is small, say a family or a village – has become a liability and, in some cases, a destructive force in our world. In some ways, empathy is killing us." He raises the issue of climate change - on which I share some of his concerns, but fear he goes too far when he asserts that "We cannot possibly feel emotionally the lives of those who do not yet exist, nor can we emotionally absorb the staggering numbers of those who will suffer and perish as a result of climate change." He may not experience powerful emotional feelings for those unseen, unborn people, but such empathic feelings are a driving force in my own psyche. However, I can well imagine that many or even most people have a hard time stretching their empathy in that direction or having such an overwhelming gut impact from the personally felt suffering of future generations. Harris-Gershon concludes with this: "if we are to survive as a society, if our planet is to survive, we are going to somehow have to become smart enough to rely on reason, and not empathy, to make our most important decisions. Yes, we will always be moral. And empathy will always, as an emotion, focus our attention on the personal stories we encounter. As it should. But our survival depends, paradoxically, on our ability to overcome our emotionally-informed morality. On our ability to look at climate change statistics and say, 'Yes, I must act. Immediately.'” Bloom agrees: "If a planet of billions is to survive... we’ll need to take into consideration the welfare of people not yet harmed—and, even more, of people not yet born. They have no names, faces, or stories to grip our conscience or stir our fellow-feeling. Their prospects call, rather, for deliberation and calculation. Our hearts will always go out to the baby in the well; it’s a measure of our humanity. But empathy will have to yield to reason if humanity is to have a future." What they miss Obviously Bloom and Harris-Gershon are making excellent points - especially that we need to expand beyond the narrow focus of most empathy. But there is a serious fallacy in their reasoning: they pose empathy and reason as opposed sides in a dichotomy. They have framed the issue as reason, logic, and statistics *VERSUS* emotion, empathy, and compassion. While acknowledging the value of empathy, both essayists argue that reason is far superior for dealing with today's challenges. However, their arguments narrowly focus on the shortcomings of empathy, neglecting the considerable shortcomings of rationality. Rationality has a strong tendency to be neatly reductionist and cleverly self-serving. It is prone to mistaking its maps for the territories they describe. It too often asserts that it operates objectively, independent of values and biases, when closer examination reveals it to be rife with values and assumptions that just happen to be invisible to its supposedly detached practitioners. Reason also tends to serve our need for rationalizations more often than our need for wisdom. This is of course not to say that empathy is superior to reason. The truth - the truth that we most need to grasp - is that *both* reason and empathy can be used in inadequate or destructive ways, and that *both* reason and empathy can be used in wholesome, life-serving ways. They can also serve to ameliorate each other's worst shortcomings. The integration of empathy and reason So we need to frame our problem here not in terms of how inferior one of these powerful cognitive modes is compared to the other, but in terms of their need for balance, for integral wholeness and interactivity, for supporting each other and functioning in mutually enhancing ways to generate the deeper, richer wisdom we need. [image: 220px-Yin_and_Yang.svg] To represent this, I imagine a yin-yang symbol (Taijitu) in which reason is the white "fish" and empathy is the black "fish" (or vice versa). Note that in that image empathy and reason move or dance together, intimately related to each other. In our healthiest interactions with the world, we find reason at the heart of our empathy and empathy at the heart of our reason. * That's * the kind of consciousness - and world - we need and want. We need empathy to guide our reasoning, and reason to guide our empathy. Both our reason and our empathy have evolved in conditions very unlike what we have today. So to meet today's challenges we need both reason and empathy to expand, to evolve, to stretch so that they embrace - with each other's help - more of reality, more of the whole of life. *That evolution is already happening.* Historically we find empathy embracing more of the whole through progressive movements for the rights of slaves, women, gays, animals, nature, etc. In another thread of history, we find reason embracing more of the whole through science breaking out of its separate silos and mechanistic assumptions into interdisciplinary investigations and holistic fields like ecology, nonlinear systems, complexity and chaos theories, quantum uncertainty, etc. And we find the two threads merging in the work of people like Buddhist systems thinker Joanna Macy<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-1594fabaff5393cd78411853a0838be…>and spiritually inspired evolutionary cosmologist Brian Swimme<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-736cd07652f8c651cbbf02fec1a9341…>, and in movements like the Pachamama Alliance<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-6bcdef4b5f39be12848b6f12f3d59e0…>and Permaculture<https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1374040292-1a92e3a5f2ca77061f7db36f94aac73…>, which weave indigenous insights with scientific understandings of our global and local situations to guide wiser forms of caring. 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Re: [P2P-F] Bottom-up Broadband
by Michel Bauwens 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Dear Jaume, I can't add another mailing list on my diet, but will do what I can do publicise your projects and its insights This is what we have so far: Bottom-up Broadband <http://p2pfoundation.net/Bottom-up_Broadband> (2 changes | hist<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges?title=Bottom-up_Broadband&cu…>) . . *(+4,066)* . . [Mbauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/User:Mbauwens> (2×)] [image: +] <http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges#>N 15:28 Bottom-up Broadband for Europe<http://p2pfoundation.net/Bottom-up_Broadband_for_Europe> (2 changes | hist<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges?title=Bottom-up_Broadband_fo…>) . . *(+1,344)* . . [Mbauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/User:Mbauwens> (2×)] [image: +] <http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges#>N 15:19 Bottom-Up Broadband Project<http://p2pfoundation.net/Bottom-Up_Broadband_Project> (5 changes | hist<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges?title=Bottom-Up_Broadband_Pr…>) . . *(+2,630)* . . [Mbauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/User:Mbauwens> (5×)] [image: ]N 08:24 Open Access Networks<http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Access_Networks> (diff | hist<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges?title=Open_Access_Networks&c…>) . . *(+2,519)* . . Mbauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/User:Mbauwens> (Talk<http://p2pfoundation.net/User_talk:Mbauwens>| contribs <http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/Mbauwens> | block<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Block/Mbauwens> ) (Created page with " =Description= "Open Access Networks present a layered model in which different service providers can share the same infrastructure. The participating entities agree in a se...") [image: ]N 07:27 Mobile Node <http://p2pfoundation.net/Mobile_Node> (diff | hist<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:RecentChanges?title=Mobile_Node&curid=2596…>) . . *(+1,416)* . . Mbauwens <http://p2pfoundation.net/User:Mbauwens> (Talk<http://p2pfoundation.net/User_talk:Mbauwens>| contribs <http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/Mbauwens> | block<http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Block/Mbauwens> ) (Created page with " '''* Master Thesis: A mobile streaming solution for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure and mesh networks. Fernando Gros Gonzalez. Universidad Pompue Fabra, Barcelona, 2013.''' URL =...") [image: ]N 07:17 Open Sensor Network<http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Sensor_Network> > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:55:24 +0200 > From: Jaume Barcelo <jaume.barcelo(a)upf.edu> > Subject: Re: [P2P-F] bottom-up broadband > To: P2P Foundation mailing list <p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org>, > "bub(a)lists.guifi.net" <bub(a)lists.guifi.net> > Message-ID: > < > CAJpd8ptVbYJOZEr-hHntos3hAZNn2iLRpk7je0Xzm8HF2eONJA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Thanks for your interest Michel! > (This mail is addressed to both the p2p foundation mailing list and > the bottom-up broadband mailing list) > > You can join the BuB mailing list here > https://llistes.guifi.net/sympa/arc/bub > > I wanted to attend your talks in Barcelona and I arrived late to both > of them. Still, even I was there only for the last 20 minutes, it was > an eye-opener for me. I saw the pieces of the puzzle falling into > place and I realized that there is only a way to go. There is a change > taking place and we are (luckily) moving to better production models. > > We are trying to particularize the general ideas you explained in your > talk to data networks in this paper: > > https://github.com/jbarcelo/open_networks_paper/blob/master/bub.pdf?raw=true > > Obviously we are writing it in a collaborative way. Any thoughts, > comments, suggestions and contributions are welcome. One of our goals > is to provide policymakers with the information they need to enable > the proliferation of peer-to-peer network deployments that can close > the digital divide. > > I will ask Alejandro Andreu to update the p2p foundation wiki on "Open > Access Networks". Alejandro has been working on this topic for a whole > year has documented it in his degree thesis. He presented it and > graduated last Tuesday. I also asked him to consider the option of > organizing a hands-on workshop to further disseminate his work. > > Cheers, > Jaume > > <p2p-foundation-request(a)lists.ourproject.org> wrote: > >> > >> From: Jaume Barcelo <jaume.barcelo(a)upf.edu> > >> Subject: [P2P-F] bottom-up broadband > >> To: p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org > >> Message-ID: > >> > >> <CAJpd8pveJZfSVQcJ3FAHHOaWuY8jRwbO87jef+0DRye3wk2Tdw(a)mail.gmail.com> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> We are interested in studying and trying "p2p" and "commons" models to > >> create data networks. Last year students participate and document > >> initiatives of interest. > >> > >> For example, this one > >> https://github.com/aandreuisabal/OSN/blob/develop/Thesis/main.pdf > >> is about the creation of a sensor network by the citizens to gather > >> and share data. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > P2P Foundation - Mailing list > > http://www.p2pfoundation.net > > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > P2P-Foundation mailing list > P2P-Foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org > https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation > > > End of P2P-Foundation Digest, Vol 31, Issue 7 > ********************************************* > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/

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Cyberwarrior jailed: Barret Brown's journalism & hacktivism
by Michel Bauwens 15 Jul '13

15 Jul '13

Subject: [Debate-List] (Fwd) Cyberwarrior jailed: Barret Brown's journalism & hacktivism To: DEBATE <debate-list(a)fahamu.org> fascinating *Democracy Now! *coverage of Brown case: http://williambowles.info/2013/07/11/video-jailed-journalist-barrett-brown-… The Strange Case of Barrett Brown Amid the outrage over the NSA's spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points to a deeper and very troubling problem. Peter Ludlow <http://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-ludlow> June 18, 2013 *Barrett Brown. (Photo courtesy of Barrett Brown’s YouTube channel.<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOW7GOrXNZI>) * In early 2010, journalist and satirist Barrett Brown was working on a book on political pundits, when the hacktivist collective Anonymous caught his attention. He soon began writing about its activities and potential. In a defense<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barrett-brown/anonymous-australia-and-t_b_457…>of the group’s anti-censorship operations in Australia published on February 10, Brown declared, “I am now certain that this phenomenon is among the most important and under-reported social developments to have occurred in decades, and that the development in question promises to threaten the institution of the nation-state and perhaps even someday replace it as the world’s most fundamental and relevant method of human organization.” About the Author Peter Ludlow <http://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-ludlow> Peter Ludlow, a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, is currently co-producing (with Vivien Lesnik... Also by the Author WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture<http://www.thenation.com/article/154780/wikileaks-and-hacktivist-culture> (Internet and New Media<http://www.thenation.com/section/internet-and-new-media>, Law <http://www.thenation.com/section/law>, Media Activism<http://www.thenation.com/section/media-activism>, Peace Activism <http://www.thenation.com/section/peace-activism>) WikiLeaks is not the one-off creation of a solitary genius, and with or without Julian Assange, it is not going away. Peter Ludlow <http://www.thenation.com/authors/peter-ludlow> 6 comments <http://www.thenation.com/node/#comment> By then, Brown was already considered by his fans to be the Hunter S. Thompson of his generation. In point of fact he wasn’t like Hunter S. Thompson, but was more of a throwback—a sharp-witted, irreverent journalist and satirist in the mold of Ambrose Bierce or Dorothy Parker. His acid tongue was on display in his co-authored 2007 book, *Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny*, in which he declared: “This will not be a polite book. Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.” But it wasn’t Brown’s acid tongue so much as his love of minutiae (and ability to organize and explain minutiae) that would ultimately land him in trouble. Abandoning his book on pundits in favor of a book on Anonymous, he could not have known that delving into the territory of hackers and leaks would ultimately lead to his facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison. In light of the bombshell revelations published by Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman about government and corporate spying, Brown’s case is a good—and underreported—reminder of the considerable risk faced by reporters who report on leaks. In February 2011, a year after Brown penned his defense of Anonymous, and against the background of its actions during the Arab Spring, Aaron Barr, CEO of the private intelligence company HBGary, claimed to have identified the leadership of the hacktivist collective. (In fact, he only had screen names of a few members). Barr’s boasting provoked a brutal hack of HBGary by a related group called Internet Feds (it would soon change its name to “LulzSec”). Splashy enough to attract the attention of *The Colbert Report<http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/426198/may-09-2013/c…> *, the hack defaced and destroyed servers and websites belonging to HBGary. Some 70,000 company e-mails were downloaded and posted online. As a final insult to injury, even the contents of Aaron Barr’s iPad were remotely wiped. The HBGary hack may have been designed to humiliate the company, but it had the collateral effect of dropping a gold mine of information into Brown’s lap. One of the first things he discovered was a plan to neutralize Glenn Greenwald’s defense of Wikileaks by undermining them both. (“Without the support of people like Glenn, wikileaks would fold,” read one slide.) The plan called for “disinformation,” exploiting strife within the organization and fomenting external rivalries—“creating messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization,” as well as a plan to submit fake documents and then call out the error.” Greenwald, it was argued, “if pushed,” would “choose professional preservation over cause.” Other plans targeted social organizations and advocacy groups. Separate from the plan to target Greenwald and WikiLeaks, HBGary was part of a consortia that submitted a proposal to develop a “persona management<http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/hbgarys-high-volume.html>” system for the United States Air Force, that would allow one user to control multiple online identities for commenting in social media spaces, thus giving the appearance of grassroots support or opposition to certain policies. The data dump from the HBGary hack was so vast that no one person could sort through it alone. So Brown decided to crowdsource the effort. He created a wiki page, called it ProjectPM<http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page>, and invited other investigative journalists to join in. Under Brown’s leadership, the initiative began to slowly untangle a web of connections between the US government, corporations, lobbyists and a shadowy group of private military and information security consultants. One connection was between Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce. WikiLeaks had claimed to possess a large cache of documents belonging to Bank of America. Concerned about this, Bank of America approached the United States Department of Justice. The DOJ directed it to the law and lobbying firm Hunton and Williams <http://www.hunton.com/>, which does legal work for Wells Fargo and General Dynamics and also lobbies for Koch Industries, Americans for Affordable Climate Policy, Gas Processors Association, Entergy among many other firms. The DoJ recommended that Bank of America hire Hunton and Williams, explicitly suggesting Richard Wyatt<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-still_n_768076…>as the person to work with. Wyatt, famously, was the lead attorney in the Chamber of Commerce’s lawsuit against the Yes Men. In November 2010, Hunton and Williams organized a number of private intelligence, technology development and security contractors—HBGary, plus Palantir Technologies, Berico Technologies and, according to Brown, a secretive corporation with the ominous name Endgame Systems—to form “Team Themis”—‘themis’ being a Greek word meaning “divine law.” Its main objective was to discredit critics of the Chamber of Commerce, like Chamber Watch<http://images2.americanprogress.org/ThinkProgress/ProposalForTheChamber.pdf>, using such tactics as creating a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” giving it to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then subsequently exposing the document as a fake to “prove that US Chamber Watch cannot be trusted with information and/or tell the truth.” In addition, the group proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to infiltrate Chamber Watch. They would “create two fake insider personas, using one as leverage to discredit the other while confirming the legitimacy of the second.” The leaked e-mails showed that similar disinformation campaigns were being planned against WikiLeaks and Glenn Greenwald. It was clear to Brown that these were actions of questionable legality, but beyond that, government contractors were attempting to undermine Americans’ free speech—with the apparent blessing of the DOJ. A group of Democratic congressmen asked for an investigation<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/28/AR201102280…>into this arrangement, to no avail. By June 2011, the plot had thickened further. The FBI had the goods on the leader of LulzSec, one Hector Xavier Monsegur, who went under the nom de guerre *Sabu.* The FBI arrested him on June 7, 2011, and (according to court documents) turned him into an informant the following day. Just three days before his arrest, Sabu had been central to the formation of a new group called AntiSec, which comprised his former LulzSec crew members, as well as members as Anonymous. In early December AntiSec hacked the website of a private security company called Stratfor Global Intelligence. On Christmas Eve, it released a trove of some 5 million internal company e-mails. AntiSec member and Chicago activist Jeremy Hammond<http://www.dailydot.com/news/lulzsec-jeremy-hammond-bail-denied-hacker/>has pled guilty to the attack and is currently facing ten years in prison for it. The contents of the Stratfor leak were even more outrageous than those of the HBGary hack. They included discussion of opportunities for renditions and assassinations. For example, in one video, Statfor’s vice president of intelligence, Fred Burton, suggested taking advantage of the chaos in Libya to render Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who had been released from prison on compassionate grounds due to his terminal illness. Burton said that the case “was personal.” When someone pointed out in an e-mail that such a move would almost certainly be illegal—“This man has already been tried, found guilty, sentenced…and served time”—another Stratfor employee responded that this was just an argument for a more efficient solution: “One more reason to just bugzap him with a hellfire. :-)” (Stratfor employees also seemed to take a keen interest in Jeremy Scahill’s writings about Blackwater in *The Nation*, copying and circulating entire articles, with comments suggesting a principle interest was in the question of whether Blackwater was setting up a competing intelligence operation. E-mails also showed grudging respect for Scahill: “Like or dislike Scahill’s position (or what comes of his work), he does an amazing job outing [Blackwater].”) When the contents of the Stratfor leak became available, Brown decided to put ProjectPM on it. A link to the Stratfor dump appeared in an Anonymous chat channel; Brown copied it and pasted it into the private chat channel for ProjectPM, bringing the dump to the attention of the editors. Brown began looking into Endgame Systems<http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems>, an information security firm that seemed particularly concerned about staying in the shadows. “Please let HBGary know we don’t ever want to see our name in a press release,” one leaked e-mail read. One of its products, available for a $2.5 million annual subscription, gave customers access to “zero-day exploits”—security vulnerabilities unknown to software companies—for computer systems all over the world. Business Week<http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/cyber-weapons-the-new-arms-race-072120…>published a story on Endgame in 2011, reporting that “Endgame executives will bring up maps of airports, parliament buildings, and corporate offices. The executives then create a list of the computers running inside the facilities, including what software the computers run, and a menu of attacks that could work against those particular systems.” For Brown, this raised the question of whether Endgame was selling these exploits to foreign actors and whether they would be used against computer systems in the United States. Shortly thereafter, the hammer came down. The FBI acquired a warrant<http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/exclusive-fbi-escalates-war-on-anonymous>for Brown’s laptop, gaining the authority to seize any information related to HBGary, Endgame Systems, Anonymous and, most ominously, “email, email contacts, ‘chat’, instant messaging logs, photographs, and correspondence.” In other words, the FBI wanted his sources. When the FBI went to serve Brown, he was at his mother’s house. Agents returned with a warrant to search his mother’s house, retrieving his laptop. To turn up the heat on Brown, the FBI initiated charges against his mother for obstruction of justice for concealing his laptop computer in her house. (Facing criminal charges, on March 22, 2013, his mother, Karen McCutchin, pled guilty to one count of obstructing the execution of a search warrant. She faces up to twelve months in jail. Brown maintains that she did not know the laptop was in her home.) By his own admission, the FBI’s targeting of his mother made Brown snap. In September 2012, he uploaded an incoherent YouTube video<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOW7GOrXNZI>, in which he explained that he had been in treatment for an addiction to heroin, taking the medication Suboxone, but had gone off his meds and now was in withdrawal. He threatened the FBI agent that was harassing his mother, by name, warning: “*I know what’s legal, I know what’s been done to me.… And if it’s legal when it’s done to me, it’s going to be legal when it’s done to FBI Agent Robert Smith—who is a criminal.”* “*That’s why [FBI special agent] Robert Smith’s life is over. And when I say his life is over, I’m not saying I’m going to kill him, but I am going to ruin his life and look into his fucking kids…. How do you like them apples?”* Please support our journalism. Get a digital subscription for just $9.50!<https://subscribe.thenation.com/servlet/OrdersGateway?cds_mag_code=NAN&cds_…> The media narrative was immediately derailed. No longer would this be a story about the secretive information-military-industrial complex; now it was the sordid tale of a crazy drug addict threatening an FBI agent and his (grown) children. Actual death threats against agents are often punishable by a few years in jail. But Brown’s actions made it easier for the FBI to sell some other pretext to put him away for life. The Stratfor data included a number of unencrypted credit card numbers and validation codes. On this basis, the DOJ accused Brown of credit card fraud for having shared that link with the editorial board of ProjectPM. Specifically, the FBI charged him with traffic in stolen authentication features, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, as well as an obstruction of justice charge (for being at his mother’s when the initial warrant was served) and charges stemming from his threats against the FBI agent. All told, Brown is looking at century of jail time: 105 years in federal prison if served sequentially. He has been denied bail. Considering that the person who carried out the actual Stratfor hack had several priors and is facing a maximum of ten years, the inescapable conclusion is that the problem is not with the hack itself but with Brown’s journalism. As Glenn Greenwald remarked in*The Guardian*: “It is virtually impossible to conclude that the obscenely excessive prosecution he now faces is unrelated to that journalism and his related activism.” Today, Brown is in prison and ProjectPM is under increased scrutiny by the DOJ, even as its work has ground to a halt. In March, the DOJ served the domain hosting service CloudFlare with a subpoena<http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/doj-issues-subpoena-for-info-on-…>for all records on the ProjectPM website, and in particular asked for the IP addresses of everyone who had accessed and contributed to ProjectPM, describing it as a “forum” through which Brown and others would “engage in, encourage, or facilitate the commission of criminal conduct online.” The message was clear: Anyone else who looks into this matter does so at their grave peril. Some journalists are now understandably afraid to go near the Stratfor files. The broader implications of this go beyond Brown; one might think that what we are looking at is Cointelpro 2.0—an outsourced surveillance state—but in fact it’s worse. One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working alongside the HBGarys and Stratfors on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups. The mere fact that the FBI’s senior cybersecurity advisor has recently moved to Hunton and Williams shows just how incestuous this relationship has become. Meanwhile, the Department of Justice is *also*using its power and force to trample on the rights of citizens like Barrett Brown who are trying to shed light on these nefarious relationships. In order to neutralize those who question or investigate the system, laws are being reinterpreted or extended or otherwise misappropriated in ways that are laughable—or would be if the consequences weren’t so dire. While the media and much of the world have been understandably outraged by the revelation of the NSA’s spying programs, Barrett Brown’s work was pointing to a much deeper problem. It isn’t the sort of problem that can be fixed by trying to tweak a few laws or by removing a few prosecutors. The problem is not with bad laws or bad prosecutors. What the case of Barrett Brown has exposed is that we confronting a different problem altogether. It is a systemic problem. It is the failure of the rule of law. Read more: The Strange Case of Barrett Brown | The Nation<http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown#ixzz2Z1n…> http://www.thenation.com/article/174851/strange-case-barrett-brown#ixzz2Z1n…

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