Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-10 Thread The Doctor
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On 04/06/2013 12:14 PM, Kate Krauss wrote:
 To me, the real question is, /If/ Bluecoat, why are things going so
 well for them when they are a 45 minute drive from activists in
 San Francisco? Happy to explain--off this list--what this means in
 terms of political strategy and offline, nonviolent direct action.
 
For entities that are looking for the sort of capability Bluecoat
equipment offers, this is free advertising for them.

Bluecoat's surveillance and censorship gear is so good, not only did
the Syrian government deploy it but it worked well enough to make
those damned techno-hippies angry!  Must be good stuff!  Let me Google
their sales site...

Bad publicity is still publicity.

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-10 Thread Collin Anderson
Quantitative data!
https://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=663863startdate=Jul+1%2C+2011enddate=Apr+10%2C+2012ei=p8NlUZinGurN0AH89gE


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:43 PM, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote:

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 On 04/06/2013 12:14 PM, Kate Krauss wrote:
  To me, the real question is, /If/ Bluecoat, why are things going so
  well for them when they are a 45 minute drive from activists in
  San Francisco? Happy to explain--off this list--what this means in
  terms of political strategy and offline, nonviolent direct action.
 
 For entities that are looking for the sort of capability Bluecoat
 equipment offers, this is free advertising for them.

 Bluecoat's surveillance and censorship gear is so good, not only did
 the Syrian government deploy it but it worked well enough to make
 those damned techno-hippies angry!  Must be good stuff!  Let me Google
 their sales site...

 Bad publicity is still publicity.

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-10 Thread Griffin Boyce
Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com wrote:

 Quantitative data!
 https://www.google.com/finance/historical?cid=663863startdate=Jul+1%2C+2011enddate=Apr+10%2C+2012ei=p8NlUZinGurN0AH89gE

 The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote

 For entities that are looking for the sort of capability Bluecoat
 equipment offers, this is free advertising for them.

 Bad publicity is still publicity.


  Well that's extremely annoying.  Generating awareness online is a great
thing, but it feels extremely thin without in-person demonstrations or
active policy changes/enforcement.  Though I do wonder if some of that
increase is due to automated trading systems. For example, shares of
Berkshire Hathaway go up when Anne Hathaway is in the news, partly for this
reason.[1]  But of course, increased visibility to the general public means
increased visibility to the types of people who make recommendations within
Bahrain's government.

  Not really sure what the solution here is though.  It's hard to know if a
campaign will produce positive change before actually doing it.

~Griffin

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfQt6FWDi6c
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[liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
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Hi,

I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical reason. 
Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.

I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this attention 
regarding use in countries where the governments are not nice? Is it because 
they are a public, well known company? A lot the same stories repeat the same 
stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in the same oppressive regimes. 

As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while (thankfully no 
longer), I've seen the equipment used for neutral uses - network management, 
etc.

However, there are a lot more sinister and disgusting companies who's products 
*sole-purpose* is surveillance and censorship, and sole market is those 
oppressive countries we talk about on this list.

My point of view is not to defend Bluecoat, quite the opposite, but there are 
nastier and uglier fish out there.

Can anyone set me right, or give an opinion? On or off list is fine.

thanks,
Bernard

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 4/6/13 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:

 Hi,

 I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical
reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.

 I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this
attention regarding use in countries where the governments are not
nice? Is it because they are a public, well known company? A lot the
same stories repeat the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in
the same oppressive regimes.

 As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while
(thankfully no longer), I've seen the equipment used for neutral uses
- network management, etc.
That's activism, you need an enemy to fight even if they have no
concrete liability!

Do we want to speak about Cisco protecting North Korea infrastructure? :-)

$ nc mail.silibank.com 25
220
**
expn let-me-see-if-this-is-cisco-ASA-smtp-fixup
500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: 
let-me-see-if-this-is-cisco-ASA-smtp-fixup

* North Korean's Silibank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sili_Bank
* Cisco ASA/PIX: http://www.squiggle.org/2009/01/fixup-on-cisco-firewalls/

Fabio

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Jillian C. York
Honestly?  Because there is ample evidence to support it at the moment.  I
would also suggest that it's only singled out in the US - in Europe, the
focus right now is on Gamma (FinFisher) and Amesys, largely.

Activists have been accused in the past of singling out Cisco as well.
 Attention has now turned to Bluecoat.  When there is evidence of another
company's misdeeds, attention will surely turn there.

Is that sufficient logic for you?

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
ei8...@ei8fdb.orgwrote:

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 Hi,

 I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical
 reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.

 I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this
 attention regarding use in countries where the governments are not nice?
 Is it because they are a public, well known company? A lot the same stories
 repeat the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in the same
 oppressive regimes.

 As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while (thankfully
 no longer), I've seen the equipment used for neutral uses - network
 management, etc.

 However, there are a lot more sinister and disgusting companies who's
 products *sole-purpose* is surveillance and censorship, and sole market is
 those oppressive countries we talk about on this list.

 My point of view is not to defend Bluecoat, quite the opposite, but there
 are nastier and uglier fish out there.

 Can anyone set me right, or give an opinion? On or off list is fine.

 thanks,
 Bernard

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Kate Krauss
To me, the real question is, *If* Bluecoat, why are things going so well
for them when they are a 45 minute drive from activists in San Francisco?
Happy to explain--off this list--what this means in terms of political
strategy and offline, nonviolent direct action.

This is definitely not an indictment of any group--there's amazing activism
going on an a zillion fires to put out.

But there are great opportunities to be explored.

Kate Krauss
(formerly of ACT UP Golden Gate, a group that successfully targeted major
companies on the peninsula, from SF)

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.comwrote:

 Honestly?  Because there is ample evidence to support it at the moment.  I
 would also suggest that it's only singled out in the US - in Europe, the
 focus right now is on Gamma (FinFisher) and Amesys, largely.

 Activists have been accused in the past of singling out Cisco as well.
  Attention has now turned to Bluecoat.  When there is evidence of another
 company's misdeeds, attention will surely turn there.

 Is that sufficient logic for you?

 On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org
  wrote:

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 Hash: SHA1


 Hi,

 I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical
 reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.

 I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this
 attention regarding use in countries where the governments are not nice?
 Is it because they are a public, well known company? A lot the same stories
 repeat the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in the same
 oppressive regimes.

 As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while (thankfully
 no longer), I've seen the equipment used for neutral uses - network
 management, etc.

 However, there are a lot more sinister and disgusting companies who's
 products *sole-purpose* is surveillance and censorship, and sole market is
 those oppressive countries we talk about on this list.

 My point of view is not to defend Bluecoat, quite the opposite, but there
 are nastier and uglier fish out there.

 Can anyone set me right, or give an opinion? On or off list is fine.

 thanks,
 Bernard

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
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It was an honest question Jillian. No ulterior motive. 

I would argue there is ample evidence to support it for Cisco, Redback, 
Ericsson, Siemens, NSN, F5, Apache Squidthe list goes on.

I have read stories from European media (I can't give you a list right now, but 
if you'd like I can find) which use the Bluecoat example. 

Maybe thats actually a good project - to track the media coverage of network 
hardware vendors in connection with surveillance and censorship stories through 
out the world.

If this has brought up a previous thorny conversation that was not my 
intention. It was a question I had been thinking about.

Is it sufficient logic? Personally, not really but I understand the point of 
view now.

thanks,
Bernard

On 6 Apr 2013, at 15:41, Jillian C. York wrote:

 Honestly?  Because there is ample evidence to support it at the moment.  I 
 would also suggest that it's only singled out in the US - in Europe, the 
 focus right now is on Gamma (FinFisher) and Amesys, largely.  
 
 Activists have been accused in the past of singling out Cisco as well.  
 Attention has now turned to Bluecoat.  When there is evidence of another 
 company's misdeeds, attention will surely turn there.
 
 Is that sufficient logic for you?
 
 On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org 
 wrote:
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 Hash: SHA1
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical reason. 
 Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.
 
 I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this attention 
 regarding use in countries where the governments are not nice? Is it 
 because they are a public, well known company? A lot the same stories repeat 
 the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in the same oppressive 
 regimes.
 
 As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while (thankfully no 
 longer), I've seen the equipment used for neutral uses - network 
 management, etc.
 
 However, there are a lot more sinister and disgusting companies who's 
 products *sole-purpose* is surveillance and censorship, and sole market is 
 those oppressive countries we talk about on this list.
 
 My point of view is not to defend Bluecoat, quite the opposite, but there are 
 nastier and uglier fish out there.
 
 Can anyone set me right, or give an opinion? On or off list is fine.
 
 thanks,
 Bernard
 
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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Griffin Boyce
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Kate Krauss ka...@critpath.org wrote:

 To me, the real question is, *If* Bluecoat, why are things going so well
 for them when they are a 45 minute drive from activists in San Francisco?
 Happy to explain--off this list--what this means in terms of political
 strategy and offline, nonviolent direct action.

 This is definitely not an indictment of any group--there's amazing
 activism going on an a zillion fires to put out.

 But there are great opportunities to be explored.

 Kate Krauss
 (formerly of ACT UP Golden Gate, a group that successfully targeted major
 companies on the peninsula, from SF)


  Seconded. Cisco is based in San Jose as well, and they are certainly not
immune from criticism, given that they sell censorship/filtering equipment
to pretty much anyone.  I've stood in the street with an anti-Bluecoat
sign, but in terms of long-term damage, Cisco is probably the winner.

  From an activism perspective, it's important to pick One target and focus
all energy there.  Divided attention among the base means a higher
likelihood of failure.  You also have to pick a target where there's a
reasonable chance of success.  If five hundred activists protested in front
of Bluecoat HQ, they'd likely change their internal policies because they
are small enough that it would have a dramatic impact on their business to
*not* acquiesce.  If the same activists protested in front of Cisco, I'm
not sure there'd be much change, if any.  Geography is also a factor, as
Jillian mentioned.

  To reiterate: Bluecoat is winnable with the right strategy.

best,
Griffin Boyce

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Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
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I left the other wonderful people out:  ZTE and their monitoring centre (shown 
in pictures from Libya), and of course Huawei.

Just to give a good global representation.


On 6 Apr 2013, at 15:41, Jillian C. York wrote:

 Honestly?  Because there is ample evidence to support it at the moment.  I 
 would also suggest that it's only singled out in the US - in Europe, the 
 focus right now is on Gamma (FinFisher) and Amesys, largely.  
 
 Activists have been accused in the past of singling out Cisco as well.  
 Attention has now turned to Bluecoat.  When there is evidence of another 
 company's misdeeds, attention will surely turn there.
 
 Is that sufficient logic for you?
 
 On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org 
 wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical reason. 
 Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough.
 
 I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this attention 
 regarding use in countries where the governments are not nice? Is it 
 because they are a public, well known company? A lot the same stories repeat 
 the same stories of Bluecoat equipment being used in the same oppressive 
 regimes.
 
 As someone who worked in ISP level infrastructure for a while (thankfully no 
 longer), I've seen the equipment used for neutral uses - network 
 management, etc.
 
 However, there are a lot more sinister and disgusting companies who's 
 products *sole-purpose* is surveillance and censorship, and sole market is 
 those oppressive countries we talk about on this list.
 
 My point of view is not to defend Bluecoat, quite the opposite, but there are 
 nastier and uglier fish out there.
 
 Can anyone set me right, or give an opinion? On or off list is fine.
 
 thanks,
 Bernard
 
 - --
 Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb
 
 IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org
 
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