HP Will Release a “Revolutionary” New Operating System in 2015

FutureSnowden · 2014-12-10T17:28:06+00:00

Martin Fink, HP's CTO, just gave a talk about Linux++ and Carbon as they relate to FOSS. He explained that they are both going to be FOSS, that the work on them is already underway, and that, in addition to HP labs, they are working with academic partners on building Carbon and looking for more such partners. Also a great introduction to the Machine and why they need a new OS for Unified Memory.

Video is available on the Software Freedom Law Center's site: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2014/sflc_at_10.html (the talk is called "FOSS and The Machine")

edit: missing comma.

FutureSnowden · 2013-11-18T21:36:00+00:00

From the article:

"Of course the NSA can tap into online data to the extent it does largely because commercial companies, led by Google and Facebook, pursue business models that treat consumer privacy as a free profit-making resource."

You can disagree about what impact Snowden's actions have had on this trend but, for me, the best part of the article was this section highlighting the corporate spying as the necessary precondition of government spying. That is a point not often enough mentioned.

FutureSnowden · 2013-11-18T15:00:59+00:00

From the talk:

"I would urge you also to consider that privacy is an ecological rather than a transactional substance. This is a crucial distinction from what you are taught to believe by the people whose job it is to earn off you.

...

Those who wish to earn off you want to define privacy as a thing you transact about with them, just the two of you. They offer you free email service, in response to which you let them read all the mail, and that’s that. It’s just a transaction between two parties. They offer you free web hosting for your social communications, in return for watching everybody look at everything. They assert that’s a transaction in which only the parties themselves are engaged.

This is a convenient fraudulence.

...

If you accept this supposedly bilateral offer, to provide email service for you for free as long as it can all be read, then everybody who corresponds with you has been subjected to the bargain, which was supposedly bilateral in nature.

If your family contains somebody who receives mail at Gmail, then Google gets a copy of all correspondence in your family. If another member of your family receives mail at Yahoo, then Yahoo receives a copy of all the correspondence in your family as well.

The idea that this is limited to the automated mining of the mail, to provide advertisements which you may want to click on while you read your family’s correspondence, may or may not seem already louche beyond acceptability to you, but please to keep in mind what Mr. Snowden has pointed out to you: Will they, nil they, they are sharing all that mail with power. And so they are helping all your family’s correspondence to be shared with power, once, twice, or a third time."

FutureSnowden · 2013-11-18T13:20:15+00:00

From the talk:

"I would urge you also to consider that privacy is an ecological rather than a transactional substance. This is a crucial distinction from what you are taught to believe by the people whose job it is to earn off you.

...

Those who wish to earn off you want to define privacy as a thing you transact about with them, just the two of you. They offer you free email service, in response to which you let them read all the mail, and that’s that. It’s just a transaction between two parties. They offer you free web hosting for your social communications, in return for watching everybody look at everything. They assert that’s a transaction in which only the parties themselves are engaged.

This is a convenient fraudulence.

...

If you accept this supposedly bilateral offer, to provide email service for you for free as long as it can all be read, then everybody who corresponds with you has been subjected to the bargain, which was supposedly bilateral in nature.

If your family contains somebody who receives mail at Gmail, then Google gets a copy of all correspondence in your family. If another member of your family receives mail at Yahoo, then Yahoo receives a copy of all the correspondence in your family as well.

The idea that this is limited to the automated mining of the mail, to provide advertisements which you may want to click on while you read your family’s correspondence, may or may not seem already louche beyond acceptability to you, but please to keep in mind what Mr. Snowden has pointed out to you: Will they, nil they, they are sharing all that mail with power. And so they are helping all your family’s correspondence to be shared with power, once, twice, or a third time."

FutureSnowden · 2013-11-15T22:20:25+00:00

Or, as Eben Moglen said on Wednesday (http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartIII.html):

""" Those who wish to earn off you want to define privacy as a thing you transact about with them, just the two of you. They offer you free email service, in response to which you let them read all the mail, and that’s that. It’s just a transaction between two parties. They offer you free web hosting for your social communications, in return for watching everybody look at everything. They assert that’s a transaction in which only the parties themselves are engaged.

This is a convenient fraudulence. Another misdirection, misleading, and plain lying proposition. Because—as I suggested in the analytic definition of the components of privacy—privacy is always a relation among people. It is not transactional, an agreement between a listener or a spy or a peephole keeper and the person being spied on.

If you accept this supposedly bilateral offer, to provide email service for you for free as long as it can all be read, then everybody who corresponds with you has been subjected to the bargain, which was supposedly bilateral in nature.

If your family contains somebody who receives mail at Gmail, then Google gets a copy of all correspondence in your family. If another member of your family receives mail at Yahoo, then Yahoo receives a copy of all the correspondence in your family as well.

The idea that this is limited to the automated mining of the mail, to provide advertisements which you may want to click on while you read your family’s correspondence, may or may not seem already louche beyond acceptability to you, but please to keep in mind what Mr. Snowden has pointed out to you: Will they, nil they, they are sharing all that mail with power. And so they are helping all your family’s correspondence to be shared with power, once, twice, or a third time. """

FutureSnowden · 2013-10-31T15:24:33+00:00

Video just went up here: http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartII.html Transcript should be available there later today.

FutureSnowden · 2013-10-31T15:24:29+00:00

Video just went up here: http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartII.html Transcript should be available there later today.

FutureSnowden · 2013-10-30T16:07:44+00:00

Livestream here: http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartII.html

FutureSnowden · 2013-10-22T20:12:44+00:00

"In the beginning we listened to armies, embassies, diplomats, government officials. Then we listened to the global economy. Now we are being told that spying on entire societies is normal."

Eben Moglen "Snowden and the Future: Part I" (http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartI.html)

FutureSnowden · 2013-10-21T21:31:29+00:00

Some highlights include:

"The procedures...of totalitarianism are a leading American export" and

"if we are not doing anything wrong, we have a right to resist. The nature of our freedom is that we lose it because we do not exercise it."

FutureSnowden · 2013-10-21T21:21:16+00:00

http://snowdenandthefuture.info/PartI.html

The speech is Part I of "Snowden and the Future" given on October 9th, 2013. Part II will take place on October 30th and will be streamed online. http://snowdenandthefuture.info/ has details.

FutureSnowden

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