Here is greeting from the maker... Dear Internets! My name is Simon and I am the director/producer of the film TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard. After 5 years of hard work, it's a great pleasure to finally upload a torrent about this great website onto the site itself. In a way, I guess TPB AFK has finally come home. This is not just a film about the founders of TPB, but also a film about all of you who use the site.

The Serval Project consists of two systems.
The first is a temporary, self-organising, self-powered mobile network for disaster areas, formed with small phone towers dropped in by air.
The second is a permanent system for remote areas that requires no infrastructure and creates a mesh-based phone network between Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones, and eventually specially designed mobile phones that can operate on other unlicensed frequencies, called Batphone. The two systems can also be combined.

We have developed software which we’ve called Distributed Numbering Architecture (‘DNA’) that allows people in isolated or temporary networks to immediately use their existing phone numbers.

We believe that for a phone network to be useful, you must be able to call people, and have people call you on numbers that they know. This is especially true in disasters. This is the magic of DNA: it allows people to use their existing phone numbers, so that others can call them easily.

Il se passe quelque chose d’assez extraordinaire actuellement sur Internet suite à la tragique disparition d’Aaron Swartz : des centaines de professeurs et scientifiques du monde entier ont décidé de publier spontanément leurs travaux en Libre Accès !
Il faut dire que sa mort devient chaque jour plus controversée, les pressions judiciaires dont il était l’objet n’étant peut-être pas étrangères à son geste. Comme on peut le lire dans Wikipédia : « En juillet 2011, le militant américain pour la liberté de l’Internet Aaron Swartz fut inculpé pour avoir téléchargé et mis à disposition gratuitement un grand nombre d’articles depuis JSTOR. Il se suicide le 11 janvier 2013. En cas de condamnation, il encourait une peine d’emprisonnement pouvant atteindre 35 ans et une amende s’élevant jusqu’à 1 million de dollars. »
On peut suivre l’évolution du mouvement derrière le hashtag #pdftribute (pdf hommage) qui a déjà son site et son compte Twitter dédiés.
Dans la foulée nous avons décidé de traduire ensemble un autre article important d’Aaron Swartz (rédigé à 21 ans), en lien direct avec la motivation de tous ceux qui lui rendent ainsi un vibrant, concret et utile hommage : Guerilla Open Access Manifesto.
Ce manifeste s’achève sur cette interrogation : « Serez-vous des nôtres ? »

Many activists have been tracked via their mobile phones, and some countries conduct surveillance more extensively than others. You need to assess the risk for your own activities given the practices used in your country, how high-profile your work is, and what others in your community have experienced.
Phone companies have the capability to track and collect information about your use of mobile phones, including your location, and may share that information with the government if so requested. There is also the possibility of installing surveillance software on a phone that runs in the background without the user noticing. There is a risk of this, if your handset has been physically out of your hands for a period of time.

Face à ces constats, la seule voie praticable semble être de devenir capables d’imaginer et de mettre en place des politiques de sécurité adéquates. Tout l’enjeu de ce guide est de fournir cartes, sextant et boussole à quiconque veut cheminer sur cette route.
Un guide à lire, relire, pratiquer, en solitaire ou à plusieurs, à faire découvrir et à partager… ou comment affiner l’art de la navigation dans les eaux troubles du monde numérique.

« L’intelligence économique est l’ensemble des activités coordonnées de collecte, de traitement (d’analyse) et de diffusion de l’information utile aux acteurs économiques. On peut y ajouter les actions d’influence et de notoriété ainsi que celles liées à la protection de l’information indique Wikipédia.
Le nombre de guides méthodologiques ou de gestion de projets en intelligence économique pour les entreprises et les organisations se multiplie à mesure que l’Internet prend une place de plus en plus importante dans les processus de veille stratégique ainsi que l’utilisation des outils mobiles.

WE FIGHT CENSORSHIP: Sheltering news and information
WeFightCensorship.org (WeFC) is a Reporters Without Borders project that aims to combat censorship and promote the flow of news and information.
Publishing censored and banned content : The WeFC website is used to publish content that has been censored or banned or has led to reprisals against its creator (murder, arrest, harassment, pressure and so on). The site hosts content (articles, photos, videos and sound files) in their original language (including Chinese, Arabic, Russian and Spanish) and in translation (above all in French and English). Reporters Without Borders took the initiative of creating this website because it wants to make censorship obsolete, to show that depriving content creators of their freedom, seizing copies of a newspaper or blocking access to a website containing a video will not prevent the content from being seen throughout the world – quite the contrary. The content posted on this website includes both raw content and content that has been written, edited or processed by journalists. So that its importance can be appreciated, WeFC adds an explanation of the context. Before selected content is posted on the site, the WeFC editorial committee verifies that it meets a series of very precise criteria.

We’ve covered a couple of DNS tools in the past, such as the DNS propagation checker, which are useful for anyone that owns a domain. The problem is that you generally have to jump around to a bunch of different sites in order to do simple things like reverse IP lookups, traceroutes, Chinese firewall tests, propagation checks, and more. Normally you need to find a site that is dedicated to do each of those things, but ViewDNS.info pulls that all together into a single site with a simple interface.
This site makes it extremely easy to perform all of the things I mentioned earlier plus some. In fact it has over 20 different tools you can use on any domain and IP address you might have. Many of the tests, such as the DNS report, are essential tools for determining the health of the DNS for your site.

Nos récents articles sur Reflets, celui sur Syria News, et celui sur le Parlement syrien, comme  chaque fois lorsque l’on parle de la Syrie, ont soulevé quelques commentaires exprimant une certaine perplexité. Ces commentaires sont parfois parfaitement construits et expriment des interrogations et  des réserves parfaitement légitimes. Nous essayons donc de répondre à ces commentaires, et c’est aussi un peu l’objet de ce billet.

Quel est le point commun entre feu Mouammar Kadhafi et Bachar el-Assad ? La dictature sanguinaire, oui. Mais pas que. Tous deux ont pu compter – directement ou non – sur le savoir-faire de sociétés françaises pour surveiller les télécommunications de leur population.