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Erich M. | 1 Apr 2012 20:07
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Re: The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida(WSJ)

On 03/30/2012 01:57 PM, John Young wrote:

> The postal system remains the most secure public communication
> system for all its faults and invasive letter opening and craven
> cooperation with official spies and their corporate cohorts.

Servus John et al,

Ack to all you wrote with a single exception, squire John. The first
paragraph ought to be in past tense. I just started digging into that
topic, what I already know is: Address scanning/reading in, applying 2-D
Codes and timestamps at every stage of transportation. When post office
cars or private delivery services stop in front of my house here in .AT
my signature is performed on an electronic pad.

At first sight I'd say massive datasets generated by snail mail and
packet sorting and processing systems are generously inviting companies
to spy on each other and combat competitors abroad. Analysis of delivery
cycles, timely detection of hostile marketing campaigns, tracking and
blocking delivery of goods under patent/copyright claims or whatever the
clone offsprings of ancient DMCA ACTA/TPP/SOPA/PIPA require.

What a nice topic to dig - ahem - to dive into, methinks. Not forgetting
my nose clamp I remain
humbly yours
Erich M.

> All digital comsec is faulty -- by design so its designers say to
> aid sysadministration and security/privacy updates. No official
> agency has ever had such intimate sustained access to those
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Aliette GC | 2 Apr 2012 20:29
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2002-2012 Ten years after the electoral acclaim in France

2002-2012 Paul Voise, Minor Current Affair, Insecurity & Politics: ten
years after the electoral acclaim in France (editorial)

After a long silence of the publication over the the internet, here is
www.criticalsecret.com #16. So, what’s new since podcasts and 3G
phones ? At this point, the passe-partout of the digital world, in
synchronicity with the urban society, is the open sesame of internet
tablet devices : html5. The reason why this issue is digitally
relevant to the html5 version of an hour long movie is so that it can
be watched on any computer or tablet screen, without consideration for
the browser used to watch it.*

The subject of this current issue of criticalsecret is shedding a
peculiar diachronic light on the renewal of the french presidential
electoral campaign.

- It finds itself at the crossroads of the European supranational
orientation in a financial crisis that obliterates currencies. Thus,
after the signing of the stability pact that forces national economies
upon deserting economic growth, involving the ruin of societies to
ensure the hegemony of financial markets.

- April 2012 comes after the Lisbon treaty, a text that abused the
consulted people over the European constitution and that, among other
things, militarizes the police and binds Justice to the raison d’état.

To fully understand the current french presidential electoral
campaign, and the subversion of the civic consciousness by the opinion
and particularly by the press since the last decade, one needs to go
back to the infamous 2002 presidential campaign and the Paul Voise
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Heiko Recktenwald | 2 Apr 2012 12:13

Re: The (Letter-) Post Office's last stand ... in Florida(WSJ)

Erich M. wrote:

> On 03/30/2012 01:57 PM, John Young wrote:
>   
>> The postal system remains the most secure public communication
>> system for all its faults and invasive letter opening and craven
>> cooperation with official spies and their corporate cohorts.
>
> Servus John et al,
>
> Ack to all you wrote with a single exception, squire John. The first
> paragraph ought to be in past tense. 

But this shows only how unrealistic you are:

> I just started digging into that
> topic, what I already know is: Address scanning/reading in, applying 2-D
> Codes and timestamps at every stage of transportation. 

Amen!

In most cases they dont read your mail. Yes, traffic data is important, 
but it is not everything, it could be much worse.

H.
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Tjebbe van Tijen | 5 Apr 2012 12:17
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AMNESTY for political murder in Surinam but NO AMNESTIA

AMNESTY for political murder in Surinam but NO AMNESTIA

April 5, 2012 by Tjebbe van Tijen

The full illustrated and linked version can be found at:

http://limpingmessenger.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/amnesty-for-political-murder-in-surinam-but-no-amnestia/

[Negative of state portrait of Desi Bouterse with beneath the following caption: "amnesty
|ˈamnistē|noun ( pl. -ties)an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political
offenses : an amnesty for political prisoners | the new law granted amnesty to those who illegally left the
country.• an undertaking by the authorities to take no action against specified offenses or offenders
during a fixed period : a month-long weapons amnesty.verb ( -ties, -tied) ( trans. grant an official
pardon to : the guerrillas would be amnestied and allowed to return to civilian life.ORIGIN late 16th
cent.: via Latin from Greek amnēstia ‘forgetfulness.’")]

The negative image of Surinam as a country where ‘rule of law’ is not properly practiced has last night
once more been established. With a vote of 28 for and 12 against a new law that grants amnesty to those
involved in the political murder of fifteen Surinam citizens in December 1982 (Decembermoorden), has
been approved, after three days of fierce debate. The persecution of this crime committed in 1982  has been
delayed for three decades now. Those murdered were fifteen citizens playing a public role in Surinam
society, from lawyers and trade union leaders  to journalists and political opponents. There supposed
attempt at a contra-coup against the newly established military regime by a group of rebelling sergeants
of the Surinam army in February 1980, has never been established.

Only in the last years a slow juridical process by a Military Tribunal of trying the accused had been started
and this was going to come to a conclusion finally in this mont, April 2012. The  special amnesty law for
those involved in the December Murders of 1982 has been proposed very recently only. One of the accused is
the actual president of Surinam Desi Bouterse, who has always denied having had direct involvement in the
summary execution of the fifteen, though he has admitted (in 2007) that he – as a state leader of that time
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Alan Sondheim | 7 Apr 2012 16:28
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PCMs (real and virtual arrays in the worlds)


PCMs

Years ago I designed a PCM, this was around 1970 maybe. PCM stands for
Parameter Control Module; the idea was to create a unit which could
connect and control other similar units. PCMs were digital but they didn't
need to be. There were any number of inputs and outputs. The idea was that
anything could be connected to anything else. In other words, there were
standardized simple protocols in terms of voltage and bandwidth; every-
thing functioned like blood in the veins of some untoward ganglion. In
order to enter the PCM array, translation was necessary from an outside
world into the protocols; this was the job of an input interface which
could be tailored for particular situations. The interface was divided
into two sections: the outer section was tailored to the world, and the
inner, to the emission of protocols. So the input interface was generous
in its acceptance. At the other end of the array, there was a similar
output interface, divided into two sections; the inner section was
tailored to the protocols, sending the signal current to the outer
section, which was tailored to the world, and generous. For example, an
audio input interface might take microphone signals and standardize them,
sending them to the array; an audio output interface might take the array
protocols and send them simultaneously to audio amplifiers and a lighting
board. What made the array of greater interest, of course, is that input
and output signals could also be applied directly to any particular PCM,
bypassing the standard interfaces. The array as a whole, as a ganglion,
would be in effect a ganglion open to the world at any place or space,
both for input and output. One might think of the PCMs as formal neurons.
Internally, the components of the PCMs might be smoothly voltage-control-
led, with the possibility of directly inputting different equations; one
might begin with standard smooth trigonometric functions and replace them
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nettime's_roving_reporter | 8 Apr 2012 22:35

From MPAA and Verizon to ISOC

PRIVACY Forum mailing list <privacy@...>

     Paul Brigner: ISOC's amazing flexible man
     Seth Johnson: Brigner flunks on NN [Net Neutrality]

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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 23:44:20 -0700
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Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ]  Paul Brigner: ISOC's amazing flexible man

Paul Brigner: ISOC's amazing flexible man
http://j.mp/Ho8dWB  (This message on Google+)

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You may recall some days ago I expressed surprise at ISOC's hiring
of Paul Brigner for a key role.  CNET discussed aspects of this
controversial appointment at the time:

http://j.mp/H6IWPT  (CNET)

Mr. Brigner when at Verizon was publicly opposed to Net Neutrality.
When at the MPAA -- where he was before the ISOC hiring -- he
specifically spoke and blogged in favor of PIPA legislation --
apparently expressing his own views, not just those of his employer.
And all of these views in question would appear to be in direct
conflict with ISOC positions.
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brian carroll | 11 Apr 2012 05:10
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bloodletting 2 + erotic therapy


  Hello. I have uploaded several new texts to a temporary FTP site
  accessible for a few days via web browser at the following URL:

   ==>  ftp.blackflag.synology.me

   username:	public
   password: 	public

  --- The Bloodletting - part 2 ---

* 	The second in a three part series (1st volume) personal history,
	spanning the years of highschool and entering into university

--- Erotic Therapy Intro + Urls ---

* 	A consideration of the merits of pornography as a therapeutic
	tool for those dealing with sexual dysfunction & sexual abuse
  	as a way to understand if not rewire basic sexual dynamics

	note: the idea of erotic therapy is much larger than porno
	yet the filename was used here to contextualize it in the
	larger framework of erotic truth and issues of exchange.
	erotic therapy unlike pornos would involve relationships
  	between people, interactions beyond projection, yet that
	is not dealt with here in an attempt to broach the subject.

   warning: this content may be disturbing, read at your own risk.

   One notebook of a handwritten history still awaits transcription.
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cris cheek | 9 Apr 2012 05:07

network archaeology

The conference occurs April 19th-21st and includes keynotes from
Adrian Johns, Jussi Parikka, Lisa Gitelman, Richard R. Johns and Alan
Liu.

The Network Archaeology conference at Miami University, co-convened
by cris cheek and Nicole Starosielski, will bring together scholars
and practitioners to explore the resonances between digital networks
and “older” (perhaps still emergent) systems of circulation; from
roads to cables, from letter-writing networks to digital ink. Drawing
on recent research in media archaeology, we see network archaeology
as a method for re-orienting the temporality and spatiality of
network studies. Network archaeology might pay attention to the
history of distribution technologies, location and control of
geographical resources, the emergence of circulatory models, proximity
and morphology, network politics and power, and the transmission
properties of media. What can we learn about contemporary cultural
production and circulation from the examination of network histories?
How can we conceptualize the polychronic developments of networks,
including their growth, adaptation, and resistances? How might the
concept of network archaeology help to re-envision and forge new paths
of interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and scholarship?

The conference will trace continuities and disjunctures between
a variety of networks, including telecommunication networks,
distribution systems for both digital and non-digital texts,
transportation routes, media storage (libraries, databases,
e-archiving), electrical grids, radio and television broadcast
networks, the internet, and surveillance networks. We seek to address
not only the technological, institutional, and geopolitical histories
of networks, but also their cultural and experiential dimensions,
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pavlos hatzopoulos | 11 Apr 2012 09:54
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Athens has no centre: The digitalisation of migration

from http://bit.ly/HGwHsz

The discourse on migration in Athens is anchored to three propositions
that are often shared by both the pro-migration and anti-migration
positions.

1. The Centre: The first proposition is that migration is constituted
as a problem primarily in the Centre of Athens. Contrary to the
conceptualization of migration as a movement, whose form and impact
are dispersed, migration becomes condensed in a specific bounded
location, a near static phenomenon that can be easily identified and
mapped in Cartesian geographical terms. Anti-migration arguments
concentrate on a “kick the migrants out of the centre of Athens”
position, while pro-migration on a “we need to design social policies
for the improvement of the social conditions and the infrastructures
in the centre of Athens” stance. In both cases, dealing with migration
is associated with the claim that something “needs to be done” with
the Centre of Athens.

If we were to map the discourse of migration in Athens we would simply
have to fill a bright colour (a red perhaps to represent occupation or
racist conflict) a large chunk of the centre of the city, leaving the
rest of the urban space untouched.

2. The city as a cell: The second proposition (which is linked to the
first) is that migration threatens the city’s historical, cultural and
geographical core, its very essence. The city becomes, along these
lines, conceptualized as a cell. In racist rhetoric, the centre of the
cell is seen as being invaded by alien and hostile forces. The
bio-medical metaphors do not stop there, as migrants are routinely
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michael gurstein | 12 Apr 2012 20:29
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Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in Chennai and Other Matters


Two Worlds of Open Government Data: Getting the Lowdown on Public Toilets in
Chennai and Other Matters 

For links etc.
http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/two-worlds-of-open-government-data-
getting-the-lowdown-on-public-toilets-in-chennai-and-other-matters/

TinyURL http://wp.me/pJQl5-98

Posted on April 10, 2012

On the face of it (so to speak) locating public toilets would appear to be a
natural for Open Government Data (OGD). Most cities have such
toilets-maintained at public expense for the use of residents with an urgent
need. Data on such facilities should be relatively accessible from municipal
government offices and making that information available to the general
public as a service via a mobile app is an obviously useful application and
seemingly win-win-win. A win for municipal government-they get to appear
public-spirited and supportive of citizens/tourists; a win for app maker and
the platform providing the app-what better application for a globally
accessible smart phone than a map of facilities for folks on the run; and a
natural for private sector sponsorship particularly as in the case of a
leading provider of info and apps on public toilets,
http://www.SitOrSquat.com who are sponsored by Proctor and Gamble (the
"leading toilet tissue" brand); and of course a win for the user
whoever/wherever they may be.

Good news for OGD all round and the folks at SitOrSquat.com (SOS) have quite
naturally seen the marketing potential and have their marketing information
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