Now Scott has used Gilmore’s tape archives to resurrect the IUMA site. As Scott says, “you are in for a treat and a hell of a lot of modern musical history just got saved.” The rescued archive doesn’t have everything that ever appeared on IUMA, but it does resurrect some 25,000 bands and artists and […]
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Fortunately John Gilmore – perhaps best known for helping to start the Electronic Frontier Foundation – had the foresight to grab a copy of the site, The Internet Underground Music Archive, shortly before it disappeared
Posted: 2012/05/30 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsBlast From The Past. John Gilmore, Cypherpunk & EFF co-founder: ‘The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it
Posted: 2011/01/23 in Education / AwarenessFrom: Julian Assange Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 19:05:34 +1100 To: funtimesahead[at]lists.riseup.net Subject: [WL] John Gilmore [This is a restricted internal development mailinglist for w-i-k-i-l-e-a-k-s-.-o-r-g. Please do not mention that word directly in these discussions; refer instead to 'WL'. This list is housed at riseup.net, an activist collective in Seattle with an established lawyer and […]
Has Cyberbunker Launched The Largest Publicly Announced DDoS Attack In The History Of The Internet?
Posted: 2013/03/27 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Network Security, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsA squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts Web sites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the Internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world. Millions of ordinary Internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or […]
The Anonymous Documentary We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists Can Now Be Bought Through The “We Are Legion” Website. It Is Also On iTunes And Available For Purchase On DVD And Blu-ray
Posted: 2012/10/31 in Blocking, Copyright, Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Filtering, Illegal File Sharing, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Net Neutrality, Network Security, New Business Models, Online advertising, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports“If the film makes back its costs, 10 percent of the profits will be donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.” Much more: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/we-are-legion-online-release/ See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=john+perry+barlow&submit=Search http://vrritti.com/?s=john+gilmore&submit=Search http://vrritti.com/?s=electronic+frontier+foundation&submit=Search http://vrritti.com/?s=loosely+knit&submit=Search Previously: So, just like the entertainment companies who struggle to make money against free, BitTorrent Inc. has to employ techniques to give away their free product, in […]
Julian Assange continues to look for solutions to the problems of privacy, online communication and freedom, with the people he believes know the answers – the Cypherpunks
Posted: 2012/06/12 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsThe movement argues against governments and powerful corporations monopolizing information, and says citizens should have a greater right to their own privacy. In this interview they rekindle the atmosphere of the informal chats they used to have before the Wikileaks firestorm, but the subject matter is anything but cozy. If you missed it, you can […]
If anything, The Pirate Bay crew believes that BREIN is giving them a helping hand
Posted: 2012/03/23 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation“Thanks yet again for the free advertising,” they say. The Pirate Bay has a point here. All the talk about censorship and blockades only appears to strengthen the notorious torrent site. When there was talk about a UK blockade two weeks ago, local traffic surged. And visitors from Belgium and the Netherlands have massively turned […]
The “MAFIAA Fire” team has now released the “Gee! No evil!” Firefox add-on
Posted: 2011/06/15 in Education / Awareness, Tech EvolutionA perfect illustration of John Gilmore’s famous quote: “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” http://torrentfreak.com/google-censorship-gee-no-evil-add-on-110613/ See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=gilmore
Blast From The Past. I’m sure many people that were watching events back then have this same feeling of deja-vue I’m having
Posted: 2011/01/24 in Education / AwarenessTo: declan () well com Subject: UK terrorism bill is a true terror itself Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:38:35 -0800 From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com> From: “Rop Gonggrijp” <rop () xs4all nl> Subject: FW: STATE OF TERROR Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:26:36 +0100 Executive summary: Personal note, followed by interesting and […]
Blast From The Past. ‘The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.’ – John Perry Barlow
Posted: 2011/01/24 in Education / Awarenesshttp://twitter.com/jpbarlow/status/10627544017534976 John Perry Barlow (born October 3, 1947) is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Since May 1998, he has been a […]
Leaseweb’s Alex de Joode provides additional details about AnonOps takedown in relation to pro-WikiLeaks attacks
Posted: 2010/12/11 in Education / AwarenessFollowing up on the recent raid at Leaseweb, Leaseweb’s Chief Security Officer Alex de Joode provides further details in web magazine WebWereld.nl: The Denial of Service attack on MasterCard was indeed launched from a server at Leaseweb but the investigation portrayed in the media only focused on the seizure of 143 servers at affiliate EvoSwitch […]
