A Hall of Shame of State Snooping, Prying, and Informing Aimed at Destroying the Fabric of Civil Society The dried blood on the concrete floor is there for all to see, a stain forever marking the spot on a Memphis motel balcony where Martin Luther King, Jr. lay mortally wounded by a sniper’s bullet. It is a [...]

The New York Times reported this morning on a Federal government plan to put government-mandated back doors in all communications systems, including all encryption software. The Times said the Obama administration is drafting a law that would impose a new "mandate" that all communications services be "able to intercept and unscramble encrypted messages" — including ordering "[d]evelopers of software that enables peer-to-peer communication [to] redesign their service to allow interception". Throughout the 1990s, EFF and others fought the "crypto wars" to ensure that the public would have the right to strong encryption tools that protect our privacy and security — with no back doors and no intentional weaknesses. And now, the crypto wars are back in full force, and it's time for everyone who cares about privacy to stand up and defend it: no back doors and no bans on the tools that protect our communications.

Activistas alertan sobre la posible pérdida de privacidad con el lanzamiento de un ambicioso programa para identificar biométricamente a cada uno de sus 1.156 millones de habitantes. A lo largo de este mes, funcionarios de la Autoridad Única de Identificación de India (UIDAI), portando máquinas de impresión digital, escáneres de iris y computadoras portátiles con cámaras, recorrerán las aldeas y localidades en el meridional estado de Andhra Pradesh. Será la primera fase de un proyecto que busca darle a cada indio un único número de identidad vitalicio, conocido por sus siglas en inglés UID. La biometría es una tecnología de seguridad que se basa en la identificación de las personas de acuerdo con alguna de sus características físicas intransferibles...

Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso del autor Una nota sobre el cretinismo “internético” * por Atilio A. Boron Se ha vuelto un lugar común creer que la Internet es por excelencia el ámbito de la libertad de nuestro tiempo. Muchísima gente, y no pocos teóricos, sostienen que se trata de un espacio libérrimo donde las antiguas restricciones [...]

Source: Salon by Glenn Greenwald April 1, 2010 While torture and aggressive war may have been the most serious crimes which the Bush administration committed, its warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens was its clearest and most undeniable lawbreaking.  Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker yesterday became the third federal judge — out of three who have considered the question [...]

Traducción en español abajo Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Paul Craig Roberts In the Swiss newspaper Zeit-Fragen, Professor Dr. Eberhard Hamer from Germany asks, “How Sovereign is Europe?” He examines the issue and concludes that Europe has little, if any, sovereignty. Professor Hamer writes that the sovereign rights of Europeans as citizens of nation states [...]

Source: Antiwar by William Fisher November 29, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a law that critics say treats human rights advocates as criminal terrorists, and threatens them with 15 years in prison for advocating nonviolent means to resolve disputes. The case is known as Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, and is the [...]

Fuente: The National Traducción: Sinfo Fernández, Rebelión Tras una investigación, Sudáfrica deporta a un oficial de las líneas aéreas israelíes por Jonathan Cook 22 de noviembre, 2009 La semana pasada Sudáfrica deportó a un oficial de las líneas aéreas israelíes después de que se acusara al Shin Bet, la policía secreta de Israel, de haberse infiltrado en el aeropuerto internacional [...]

What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness — Bush’s NSA program — is now deemed a vital state secret. by Glenn Greenwald November 1, 2009 The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among [...]

Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. by BBC News November 17, 2009 Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks. Analysis of the motives of the actors behind many attacks carried out via the internet showed that many were mounted with a explicitly political aim. It said that [...]