UK Indymedia - Sheffield Technology Newswire Archive

FBI Seize Riseup Server in New York

FBI seizes server providing anonymous remailer and many other services from colocation facility.

Extradition Watch: Richard's Story

On 29th March 2012 Liberty, hosted a public meeting at Sheffield Hallam University on the subject of the threatened extradiction of Richard O'Dywer. The meeting was addressed by Shami Chakrabarti, Julia O'Dywer, Isabella Sankey, an impromptu appeareance from David Davis, Jawed Siddiqi and Jessica Zeun.

Announcing Open Rights Group Sheffield

Richard | 29-03-2012 14:37 | Social Struggles | Technology | Sheffield

Announcing a new digital-rights discussion group in Sheffield

Lifting the Lid on NSA Menwith Hill

Attached is a recording of the Sheffield launch of Yorkshire CND's new research report on Menwith Hill, "Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill: The Strategic Roles and Economic Impact of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire" which was introduced by the author of the report Dr Steve Schofield and was held on 21st match 2012 at the Quaker Meeting House in Sheffield.

Extradition Watch: Richard’s Story

@jrodwyer | 12-03-2012 22:30 | Repression | Technology | Sheffield

A Liberty Extradition Watch event, chaired by Shami Chakrabarti, Thursday, 29 March 2012 from 18:30 to 20:00 Sheffield Hallan University, Stoddart Lecture Theatre, Howard Street, please register in advance on the web site for a ticket

http://extraditionwatch-richardsstory.eventbrite.co.uk/

Menwith Hill: Lifiting the Lid and Occupying

Yorkshire CND have published a new report about the secret US spy base at Menwith Hill and on April 17th there is a protest to Occupy Menwith Hill, starting at 11am.

ISSE opposes extradition of UK student Richard O’Dwyer

Julie Hyland | 13-02-2012 17:07 | Repression | Technology | Sheffield

On February 7, the International Students for Social Equality held a meeting on campus to oppose the deportation to the United States of Sheffield Hallam University student Richard O’Dwyer.

O’Dwyer is facing a maximum 10 years in prison on charges of copyright infringement. The meeting was addressed by Julie Hyland, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party and attended by a number of students and lecturers.

A second meeting will be held Tuesday, February 21, at 5:30 p.m., to continue the campaign in O’Dwyer’s defence.

Below we publish Hyland’s remarks.

Mother of Richard O’Dwyer “America is trying to control and police the Internet”

Richard O’Dwyer, a 23-year-old computer science student at Sheffield Hallam University, faces extradition to the US on copyright infringement charges.

SHU Meeting, 7th Feb: Oppose extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the US!

Sheffield Hallam University computer science student Richard O’Dwyer faces extradition to the United States on copyright infringement charges, where he faces five to ten years imprisonment in a US federal jail.

Tuesday, February 7, 5:30 p.m.

Sheffield Hallam University Students’ Union
The Fishbowl @ The Hubs
Paternoster Row, S1 2QQ

Pirate Party UK condemns US take-down of MegaUpload

The Pirate Party UK and I are alarmed at the US's continued efforts to enforce its excessive and unpopular copyright legislation outside of the USA.

UG#569 - The Light Within (Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole?)

This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of "Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places", on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

The Dangerous Cult of the Guardian: A Thought Police for the Internet Age

There could be no better proof of the revolution – care of the internet – occurring in the accessibility of information and informed commentary than the reaction of our mainstream, corporate media.

JSTOR documents released in act of solidarity with Aaron Swartz

This essay originally appeared at The Pirate Bay as the description for the torrent of documents. You can see this message and the torrent here:

http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6554331

See also Defend Internet Activist Aaron Swartz

http://sheffield.indymedia.org.uk/2011/07/482483.html

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Why did police declare death of News of the World whistleblower “not suspicious?”

When the former News of the World reporter Sean Hoare was found dead Monday at his home in Watford, north of London, the immediate response of the Hertfordshire police was to issue a public statement declaring his death to be “unexplained but not thought to be suspicious.”

Defend Internet Activist Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz, who has been a life long progressive and highly ethical, internet activist, who founded Demand Progress, has been charged in the US for downloading academic documents and potentially faces up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. A political campaign to support Aaron Swartz has been launched and he deserves the widest support — the charges, threatened sentence and fine are truly outrageous.

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#lulzsec 50 Days of Lulz

We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us.

Britain’s First Cyber-Strike – How the June 30th strike may play out online #j30

June 30th marks a very considerable mobilisation of industrial action in Britain, in the shape of a large public sector strike. The Trades Unions are making their first tentative steps towards politically motivated action for a generation, with a massive withdrawal of workers labour in response to government plans for pensions reform; whilst the pensions dispute is the legal justification for industrial action (under Britain’s strict, Thatcherite anti-strike legislation), in reality the issue is the tip of the iceberg. The consensus behind the strikes is that of a political fight against the cuts in general. The range of action we will see on June 30th will stretch far beyond those “directly” affected by pensions plans, with a cross-section of those worst hit by the cuts expected to engage with the day of action– the disabled, those who face massive reductions to vital welfare benefits, students, schools pupils and parents and other public-service users.

Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified US Intelligence Mass Surveillance

According to a Project PM announcement, here are some of the 'classified intelligence' details about Romas/COIN (Odyssey) with capabilities to monitor and automatically analyze millions of conversations, and then secretly store a wide range of personal data. It appears as if even Apple, Google, and Disney's Pixar were trying to be brought aboard to help out in this mass surveillance apparatus.

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Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the
free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of
requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and
other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also
deleting search terms by government mandate.

Think before you use Skype or any other audio application - who's listening in?

There is an interesting article in the WSJ about how documents found in Egypt prove the security services were listening to activists conversations which were conducted via Skype, now owned by Microsoft, extracts follow.

Open Splice: an afternoon of short open source documentaries

Access Space | 08-06-2011 13:47 | Culture | Technology | Sheffield

A celebration of docs made using Open source Software; about open source subjects; or created with an open source ethos.

Friday 10th June 4pm-5pm @ Access Space, 3-7 Sidney St., Sheffield S1 4RG

UG#548 - What You Don't Know Can Kill You (Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Safety)

An unusually topical show for you this week. We start by adapting an Adam Curtis film on the development of the nuclear industry. Next the scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, Christopher Busby, explains that the nuclear industry relies on a massive underestimation of the health effects of radiation. We conclude with a compilation of recordings on shutting down nuclear power plants from TUC Radio.

rotherham remembers chernobyl

local residents marked the 25th anniversary of chernobyl with a message to local town council and nuclear research centre

Bramham's GM crops

On 8th April 2011 a public meeting organised by Stop GM

http://www.stopgm.org.uk/ was held in Bramham about the genetically modified potatoe trials being held there. The meeting was chaired by local minister Rev. Menzies and addressed by Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, Peter Riley from GM freeze,

http://www.gmfreeze.org/ and Gerald Miles.

European Copyright Law: Collusion for the Control of the Net

Today, a college meeting of the European Commissioners will take place to decide the future of European copyright policy. This revision takes place in conditions that raise severe concerns from a democratic perspective and put fundamental rights at risk, especially when it comes to the Internet.

Liberal Democrat Conference Fringe Meeting: Who controls the internet? #ldconf

Chris | 14-03-2011 20:24 | Technology | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a meeting held by Liberal Democrat Voice,

http://www.libdemvoice.org/ on 12th March 2011 in Sheffield at the Liberal Democrat conference titled, Who controls the internet?

Japan Atomic Emergency Bulletin #3

Ecoshock Bulletin #3 The real news about the unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan. A second reactor blows up, while a third may have total melt down. U.S. Navy hit by radiation. European governments re-assess. Stocks in nuclear companies hit hard. And more

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Richard Stallman: Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks

Richard Stallman spoke in Sheffield on 5th March 2011 on Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks.

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