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IPREDATOR.SE - IPRED Un-Intelligence
Image from IPREDATOR.SE. It’s a parody of the painpills “IPREN” and reads:

IPRED
Un-Intelligence 400mg
Stops technical evolution and cultural distribution.
Impedes integrity.

30 pills.
For politicians missing contact with reality.

The Government has now released their final suggestion for our Swedish IPRED1 directive and it’s just as messed up as we had feared.

I’m not even going to go into the details, as I’m too tired of reading about them myself. I’ll link to some information instead. The common thing with all of these new laws is the discrepancies between what is being said in the media and what is actually in the lawtext… it’s sick that politicians are allowed to lie in that way and get away with it. If I were to do the same to any of my customers we would get sued and I would get fired.

The worst part of this mess really isn’t the law on its own, but the fact that the people that are really criminal, and commits real commercially motivated crimes against our copyright laws, will not be affected. It’s only the regular citizens that doesn’t know better will be affected and criminals (and other people with deep technical knowledge like me) will be unaffected as we know how to avoid being caught in this kind of surveillance.

So, in short, the Swedish politicians has once again shown their incompetence and inability to adapt to an increasingly connected world. I just get so tired of this…

Theoretically there is one hope left, and that is that the parliament votes down the suggestion. This is however not likely as our representative democracy has failed long ago and the government controls all votes in the parliament…

Not so cheery cheers,

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Stoppa FRA affisch - Stop FRA poster
Stop FRA poster…

Today we made the last effort to get our fellow citizens to join us in the manifestation tomorrow against the FRA-law. A lot of flyers distributed and many posters taped in legal places ;) Followed up with a cup of latte in Café Gråmunken in Old Town.

Tomorrow, we’ll see if our efforts has payed off. Tomorrow, we’ll meet the Members of Parliament as they are taking their yearly tour around the official sites in Stockholm. Tomorrow, they’ll hear us protest against their decision to rip our integrity and freedom of speech in pieces.

There is going to be two different demonstrations under two different organizers. Both will have thousands of participants and we’ll meet up at mid-day in Sergels torg (main square in Stockholm).

I would recommend coming to our (Pirate Party) manifestation if you want to greet the MPs and if you want to listen to speeches you should join the other one (Hoppets demonstration). We start ours at 10:30 on Mynttorget near Old Town.

If I have access to an Internet connection I will post images several times during the day (create one post and then update it several times).

So for the latest images from both events you can tune in here all day tomorrow. This time the images are released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license which means that you are free to use, remix and distribute all photos as long as you reference me (Daniel Nyström, www.icmpecho.com).

My guess is that there will also be some Swedish live-blogging from other people like Rick Falkvinge during the day so if you understand the language or know how to use Google Translate you are free to follow the events.

See you tomorrow!

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Carl Bildt, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Photo: Bertelsmann Stiftung on Flickr.

The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, today confirmed in a documentary interview (Swedish link) that we are selling and buying intelligence data with dictatorships.

As you might have guessed the documentary was about the FRA-law and in part on how information gathered by the Radio Defense Agency is being or might be used.

It also discussed the methods used by the Government to push the Parliament into accepting the law and voting yes. How it was done can easiest be described as bullying. Individual MPs were threatened into voting yes, even by the Prime Minister himself.

This is starting to look less and less democratic for each report that becomes public… So maybe it isn’t such a weird thing that we deal surveillance data about our own citizens and our neighbours to dictators.

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NOTE: This is the first “quick post”. These are posts written on the fly and often when I’m mobile. They will have more thoughts and general subjects and will not have any nice pictures like most of my other posts. All posts like this one will have their title marked with Q.P. In them.

During the summer the parliament has been closed and it officially re-opens on the 16th of September.

During this day the politicians visit certain sites in Stockholm according to traditions, and they’ll do the same this year. With one “minor” detail this year.

People will not be cheering for them. Instead they’ll be chanting anti-FRA-law slogans and showing up in thousands at the different sites.

There are two major demonstrations/manifestations that day and they’ll grow together into one around mid-day and speeches will be held by different oppositional politicians and civil liberties groups.

The discussions has been intense from the time the law took the first step into becoming a part of our legislation, and now even the parties (liberals and green liberals) that took part in pushing the law through parliament is taking a step back in the discussion and either request that the law be remade or totally dropped.

My private wish is that the law is dropped and that a truth commission be deployed to the FRA offices to find out exactly what they’ve been monitoring so far when they did not have positive juridical support, which is required for their type of business.

A secondary wish is that the FRA is demoted and maybe even dropped as a whole. If we need military singal-intelligence gathering, this can be done by the military intelligence force (MUST) as they are the one’s doing the in-battle SIGINT’s today. The people no longer trust the FRA with our secrets. Too much has leaked and politicians looking to using or supporting FRA are commiting political suicide.

In Sweden, we have never had the same disrespect and lack of faith in for our elected officials as we have right now. The coalition (Alliansen) that is the ruling force in Sweden right now will not be able to keep that position after the next election which will be held in 2010.

I do not think this is a good thing. In other aspects they are running the country in much better ways than the socialist government that was at power the previous mandate period. Corporate finances and the job market has not looked as good as it has done the last couple of years and we have been somewhat shielded from the economic failures of the United States.

It is a shame that our liberal and conservative parties are going about ruining the traditional Swedish ideas of a free and open society. They are destroying a lot of their credebility for years to come.

You might even take me as an example. Before they started this farse I was a member of the liberal party (Folkpartiet) but when they kept pushing this integrity-hostile law I left. I wonder how many others have done the same.

We’ll see what happens on the 16th… See you on the barricades ;)

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Bruno Girin on Flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/brunogirin/
Photo: Bruno Girin on Flickr.

Monica Horten at IPTegrity.com on the “Data retention directive”:

The proponents were the British Presidency and EU justice ministers, who argued that retained data was needed in the fight against terrorism. The directive was opposed by the Internet industry, who found themselves on the same side as privacy campaigners. The industry raised many technical, business and legal issues, highlighting the high cost of implementation and flaws in the directive’s content – it is written from a voice telephony standpoint and ill-fitting for the Internet industry.

Read the full text, which is an abstract of Monica Horten’s masters dissertation, over at IPTegrity.com.

The “Data retention directive” was passed very quickly in 2006 after 7th July bombings in London. This is a directive that forces ISP’s to store traffic data for future analysis by Governments and others that have that privilege.

This is not part of anything I’ve written about lately but it’s still very actual here in Sweden. The Government is preparing to put it into our legislation soon, as they are required to do so by the European Union.

This is the next fight for us in Sweden after the FRA-law and the Telecoms package so it’s worth mentioning and raising some awareness about.

Update: More information here!

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Sorry but posting in Swedish this time. Please use Babelfish or Google’s equivalent for translation if needed. The post details the swedish political parties (both the current administration and the opposition) that is being monitored by the swedish Radio Defense Agency (FRA) today.

Talande bild om folkstormen just nu mot Riksdag och Regering

Hej!

Första svenska posten på denna blog. Tänkte bara lite kort detaljera vilka partier vars medlemmar och väljare i dagsläget löper störst risk för åsiktsregistrering. Detta bygger på att 1) trafiken till de servrar som hanterar Webben (HTTP) eller Mail (SMTP) passerar rikets gräns eller 2) att servrarna står utomlands (enligt RIPE/ARIN etc.).

Detta kan verka givet för många men för de mindre tekniskt insatta kan det också vara trevligt att veta vilka som man kan kommunicera med eller besöka utan att man (förhoppningsvis) blir avlyssnad och/eller registrerad.


Moderaterna – Både webserver samt mailserver står i Tyskland (talande va) hos ett företag som heter HostEurope GmbH och övervakas alltså av FRA.


Piratpartiet – Både webserver samt mailserver står inom Sveriges gränser och i de försök jag gjort har jag haft varierande resultat, givetvis baserat på vart min startnod legat. Som FRApedia skriver så studsar all trafik i BBB’s nät genom Norge och det garanterar då att trafiken är avlyssnad. Om jag börjar i Dataphone’s nät så går det dock bättre och jag ser inte ut att lämna Sverige i den routing som nu gjordes.


Centerpartiet – Webservern befinner sig i Sverige och från Dataphone’s nät såg jag ut att klara mig fram till denna utan att lämna landet. Centerpartiet har dock köpt e-posttjänster av ett företag som heter Active24 och ingår i Mamut koncernen. Detta företag hanterar centern’s e-post på servrar som står utanför Sverige’s gräns i Norge vilket verkar mycket rimligt (Mamut är norskt, HK i Norge).


Folkpartiet – Både webserver samt mailserver står inom Sveriges gränser och i de försök jag gjort har jag haft varierande resultat, givetvis baserat på vart min startnod legat. Som FRApedia skriver så studsar all trafik i BBB’s nät genom Norge och det garanterar då att trafiken är avlyssnad. Om jag börjar i Dataphone’s nät så går det dock bättre och jag ser inte ut att lämna Sverige i den routing som nu gjordes. Intressant är att mailen hanteras av servrar som står hos Bahnhof som har uppgett i media att de inte kommer att tillåta installation av övervakningsmateriel i sina nät.


Kristdemokraterna – De kanske skulle slå de danska prästerna sällskap i protesten mot FRA då både Webserver samt Mailserver potentiellt avlyssnas. Båda står i Bostream nätet som nu via BBB får lite norska Telenor avstickare på vägen.


Miljöpartiet – Webservern står i Danmark och är därav potentiellt avlyssnad. Mailservern ser ut att stå i Sverige hos Internet Border Technologies, men från de nät jag testat så får jag flera hopp i Norge (Telenor) och även den trafiken löper därav risk för avlyssning.


Socialdemokraterna – Både webserver samt mailserver står inom Sveriges gränser och i de försök jag gjort har jag haft varierande resultat, givetvis baserat på vart min startnod legat. Som FRApedia skriver så studsar all trafik i BBB’s nät genom Norge och det garanterar då att trafiken är avlyssnad. Om jag börjar i Dataphone’s nät så går det dock bättre och jag ser inte ut att lämna Sverige i den routing som nu gjordes.


Vänsterpartiet – Webservern står i Sverige men har samma hopp som MP’s mailserver då den står hos Internet Border Technologies. Mailservern verkar dock stå fint hos Admax AB utan några hopp i Norge eller annat land (när jag testade från Dataphone, BBB är som sagt skevt).


Cheers…

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