UK Indymedia - Sheffield Technology Newswire Archive

The Digital Economy - state control of the internet

AF | 16-06-2010 17:10 | Other Press | Technology | Sheffield

The digital economy act is an important step in reining in the availability of information. A pivotal moment, just like the printing press was. The question is, will we defend what we have, or will we let it slip away into the never ending pit of commoditization?

Europe wide surveillance on ‘extremists’.

Fitwatch | 10-06-2010 17:21 | Repression | Technology | Sheffield

Statewatch has obtained documents showing that the EU has agreed a plan to gather intelligence on those they consider ‘extremists’.

Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: An Activist Guide to the Web

Chris | 22-05-2010 22:00 | Indymedia | Technology | Sheffield

Attached is a recording of a session at the Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair on 22nd May 2010, titled, An Activist Guide to the Web, a talk exploring the potential advantages (and dangers) of new technologies to political activists.

Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy #debill

Attached is the audio and the slides from a presentation titled 'Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy' that Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law at Sheffield University gave at the Café Scientifique,

http://www.sciencecafesheffield.org/ in The Showroom, Sheffield, on 19th April 2010.

Dissident Island Radio - 2 April broadcast - check it out!

Check out the latest show featuring Election Meltdown, Steal Something from Work Day, Zapatista Solidarity, Hackers v. Scientology and Rastko on video activism in Serbia...

Audio: Ideas Around Hacking / How Does Openness Work?

Attached are recordings of two discussions, Ideas Around Hacking and How Does Openness Work? which were held at Access Space

http://www.access-space.org/ in Sheffield on 27th March 2010.

Urgent: Stop Google from joining National Security Agency

Everyone: call on Google not to make a deal with the NSA:

http://action.aclu.org/site/R?i=3DTXS9fqBu5Q0JEcYvZoJvlQ

An Orwellian World for Big Brother

Around the world, a near invisible network of RFID wireless tags is being put on almost every type of consumer item. Wireless tags and sensors are being produced in their billions and are capable of being connected to the Internet in an instant. Yet this network is being built with little public knowledge or consent.

Support community radio, sign the petition - four days to go!

Audiophile | 21-09-2009 14:16 | Culture | Technology | Sheffield

I write with regard to community radio funding and to call on your urgent support to help achieve a better settlement for the sector from Government.

Indymedia Server Seizure news

Police have dropped their controversial six-month investigation of a Sheffield IT worker who had a minor role administering the activist website Indymedia UK.

Autonet - an autonomous internet

Autonet is a project to create a wireless, global internet that can provide more reliability than corporate phone companies by being community based and freely licensed.

Orgreave - 25 years today

To mark 25 years since the Battle of Orgreave, we have created an ironic Parody of the battle using an 80s sountrack and game format of the time.

4th Oekonux Conference: Free Software and Beyond - The World of Peer Production

Attached are some recordings of some of the sessions from the 4th Oekonux Conference, Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production

http://fourth.oekonux-conference.org/ which was organised in in cooperation with the P2P Foundation,

http://p2pfoundation.net/ and which was held in Manchester on 27th to 29th March 2009.

No2ID Sheffield Meeting

NO2ID is getting organised in Sheffield. There was a successful meeting in Sheffield at the Harlequin Pub last night, with plans being made to raise the awareness of the campaign and the the threats to our privacy.

Brown Gets In You Facebook!

State Watch: | 25-03-2009 13:32 | Analysis | Technology | Sheffield

If Brown’s government minister’s get their own way everyone who uses a social network like Bebo, Facebook, Myspace or Twitter - some 25 million people in the UK - will have their conversations logged and stored on a central government database. The excuse, as usual, is that it’s for our own safety - if we’ve done nothing wrong then we’ve got nothing to fear.

Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK’s public databases, says report

A new report entitled Database State by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust shows just how far towards fascism the modern UK state is leaning. The so called ‘War on Terror’ has been used to introduce practices and laws that our forebears would have found utterly abhorrent (in fact our ancestors have won hard fought battles throughout history to ensure basic freedoms for all - Magna Carta anyone?). The excuses are always the same “It’s for your protection.” and “The innocent have nothing to fear.”

The police need help, but they're frightened to ask

The article below taken from the Torygraph demonstrates the justifications the police aim to use in order to back moves to give them full access to all digital communications and insist on full data retention. This obviously has relevance to the recent indymedia server seizure and the arrest that followed.

A Technical Guide to Anonymous Posting

Recent events have got people talking and thinking about security implications of using indymedia or other online publishing outlets. Below is a guide to how to implement security measures for hiding your identity online.

Police bail sysadmin in animal rights extremism probe

Here is the latest from the register about the arrest related to the latest imc server seizure. The arrested man is a sys admin who hosted several servers including the indymedia server. Apparently this is enough to get you held for 8 hours and bail conditions. But the comments get it -

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/indymedia/comments/

DFEY-NW :: January 18th :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West

DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) is a group focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital world, based in the Northwest of England at the moment.

Sheffield Technology Newswire Archive

The Digital Economy - state control of the internet

Europe wide surveillance on ‘extremists’.

Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair: An Activist Guide to the Web

Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy #debill

Dissident Island Radio - 2 April broadcast - check it out!

Audio: Ideas Around Hacking / How Does Openness Work?

Urgent: Stop Google from joining National Security Agency

An Orwellian World for Big Brother

Support community radio, sign the petition - four days to go!

Indymedia Server Seizure news

Autonet - an autonomous internet

Orgreave - 25 years today

4th Oekonux Conference: Free Software and Beyond - The World of Peer Production

No2ID Sheffield Meeting

Brown Gets In You Facebook!

Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK’s public databases, says report

The police need help, but they're frightened to ask

A Technical Guide to Anonymous Posting

Police bail sysadmin in animal rights extremism probe

DFEY-NW :: January 18th :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West

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