Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds
Hey Doug; I have always noticed your amateur radio callsign attached to your signature. I looked you up on QRZ.com and see you have an advanced rating. So now that this subject has come up I have to ask if you have any involvement with the Hinternet or any HSMM activity on the 9cm amateur band?? About 10 years ago I began playing with microwaves and set a record (along with VE3SMA) on the 24 Ghz band at 76km using 1mW of power and a surplus military radar dish. That experience made it pretty easy for me to build a hinternet node using a junked satelite tv dish hacked to a wireless router which I have reprogrammed with new firmware.( not necessary but gives increased functionality to the router) I believe it is important for the techies and especially ones who hang around places like this to take some steps towards holding ground with information connectivity. Ever considered it? I can show you how. 72 Joe (ve3vxo) Doug Younker wrote: MK DuPree wrote: Anyone know how JTF List members can know if JTF is ever filtered? Would each member stop receiving posts to the List? Would we each receive only certain posts? Thanks in advance for any ideas, comment. Mike DuPree As I read the article what was labeled, filtering would more accurately be called, blocking access to to web content. As in the U. S. military recent action of blocking service personnel's access to myspace, youtube along with other web pages. This access is blocked when using military computers, LANs, but not from other internet access options like home and public computers. Doug, N0LKK ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds
What are you running? DD-WRT? That's what I run on my Buffalos. Been tinkering with antennas some. Joe Street wrote: Hey Doug; I have always noticed your amateur radio callsign attached to your signature. I looked you up on QRZ.com and see you have an advanced rating. So now that this subject has come up I have to ask if you have any involvement with the Hinternet or any HSMM activity on the 9cm amateur band?? About 10 years ago I began playing with microwaves and set a record (along with VE3SMA) on the 24 Ghz band at 76km using 1mW of power and a surplus military radar dish. That experience made it pretty easy for me to build a hinternet node using a junked satelite tv dish hacked to a wireless router which I have reprogrammed with new firmware.( not necessary but gives increased functionality to the router) I believe it is important for the techies and especially ones who hang around places like this to take some steps towards holding ground with information connectivity. Ever considered it? I can show you how. 72 Joe (ve3vxo) Doug Younker wrote: MK DuPree wrote: Anyone know how JTF List members can know if JTF is ever filtered? Would each member stop receiving posts to the List? Would we each receive only certain posts? Thanks in advance for any ideas, comment. Mike DuPree As I read the article what was labeled, filtering would more accurately be called, blocking access to to web content. As in the U. S. military recent action of blocking service personnel's access to myspace, youtube along with other web pages. This access is blocked when using military computers, LANs, but not from other internet access options like home and public computers. Doug, N0LKK ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds
Yep although I can only run the micro build because I have a neutered linksys wrt54G. Wish I'd have known about that when I bought it. But I can still do more with the DD-WRT firmware than the stock program cisco gave it. BTW it's dead easy to make a biquad feed for the dish and rather than farting around with some kind of gender bending adapter for the reverse polarity TNC connectors on the linksys router ( what a lame attempt to stop us eh?) I just soldered an SMA connector to the back of the board on the same solder pads used by the RP-TNC connector and left that connector open. Then I run some semirigid line to the feedpoint of the dish. Just for giggles I threw the biquad feed ( which I made in about an hour) on a very high frequency network analyzer here at the U and without any tuning, (just built by measurements) the antenna feed showed about 23 dB return loss at 2.4 Ghz. I was happy with that. At about 2 degrees beam width off the dish, aiming is a challenge for anything far out. Still trying to do some long haul links, seems to be plenty of gain, but I need some kind of utility that shows me the signal strength in realtime. Having to search for connections and hit the refresh button every time doesn't make me smile. Do you have any suggestions? Joe Mike Weaver wrote: What are you running? DD-WRT? That's what I run on my Buffalos. Been tinkering with antennas some. Joe Street wrote: Hey Doug; I have always noticed your amateur radio callsign attached to your signature. I looked you up on QRZ.com and see you have an advanced rating. So now that this subject has come up I have to ask if you have any involvement with the Hinternet or any HSMM activity on the 9cm amateur band?? About 10 years ago I began playing with microwaves and set a record (along with VE3SMA) on the 24 Ghz band at 76km using 1mW of power and a surplus military radar dish. That experience made it pretty easy for me to build a hinternet node using a junked satelite tv dish hacked to a wireless router which I have reprogrammed with new firmware.( not necessary but gives increased functionality to the router) I believe it is important for the techies and especially ones who hang around places like this to take some steps towards holding ground with information connectivity. Ever considered it? I can show you how. 72 Joe (ve3vxo) Doug Younker wrote: MK DuPree wrote: Anyone know how JTF List members can know if JTF is ever filtered? Would each member stop receiving posts to the List? Would we each receive only certain posts? Thanks in advance for any ideas, comment. Mike DuPree As I read the article what was labeled, filtering would more accurately be called, blocking access to to web content. As in the U. S. military recent action of blocking service personnel's access to myspace, youtube along with other web pages. This access is blocked when using military computers, LANs, but not from other internet access options like home and public computers. Doug, N0LKK ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds
MK DuPree wrote: Anyone know how JTF List members can know if JTF is ever filtered? Would each member stop receiving posts to the List? Would we each receive only certain posts? Thanks in advance for any ideas, comment. Mike DuPree As I read the article what was labeled, filtering would more accurately be called, blocking access to to web content. As in the U. S. military recent action of blocking service personnel's access to myspace, youtube along with other web pages. This access is blocked when using military computers, LANs, but not from other internet access options like home and public computers. Doug, N0LKK ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds
. Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds By Doreen Carvajal Published: May 18, 2007 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/17/business/censor.php PARIS: With the aid of sophisticated software, government censorship of the Internet is spreading into a global phenomenon, with tech-savvy governments filtering forbidden themes from politics and human rights to sexuality and religion, according to a new academic survey of 40 countries. In the past five years, the practice has grown beyond a handful of countries, including Iran, China and Saudi Arabia, to 26 nations that block a wide range of topics as they adopt filtering techniques, according to an OpenNet Initiative report to be issued Friday in Oxford, England. It's an alarming increase, said Ron Deibert, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, one of four universities participating in the yearlong study along with Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. Once the tools are in place, authorities realize that the Internet can be controlled. There used to be a myth that the Internet was immune to regulation. Now governments are realizing it's actually the opposite. Instead of blocking static Web sites, governments are focusing on entire Internet-based applications like YouTube, Skype and Google Maps, according to the report. They also are adopting furtive, just-in-time filtering to knock out the Web sites of political opposition groups during critical election periods, Deibert said. About 100 researchers studied thousands of Web sites and discovered 200,000 examples of Internet filtering. Most of the countries evaluated in the study filtered out a wide set of themes, suggesting that once nations adopt blocking tools, they expand their range. Countries like China, Iran, Syria, Tunisia, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Oman and Pakistan followed a broad approach, accord to the report. Tunisia, which was host to a United Nations summit on the information society in 2005, focused on four themes: human rights, political opposition to the government, pornography and anonymizer sites that offer tools to circumvent controls online. But there are territorial differences. Vietnam and Uzbekistan tend to focus mostly on local content while largely ignoring international Web sites. Middle Eastern countries pay more attention to international news, with Iran blocking the BBC's site. Saudi Arabia focuses on censoring social content like pornography and gambling, though it also restricts political sites critical of the Saudi monarchy or non-Sunni Islam sites. This balance mirrors the use of commercial software, generally developed in the West, to identify and block Internet content, according to the study. One of the more popular software tools is SmartFilter, a product of Secure Computing in San Jose, California, which is used by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sudan and Tunisia. In Tunisia's case, researchers found that when they tried forbidden sites, a page that looked like an Internet Explorer browser default page was displayed to disguise that censorship was taking place. The report also found that some countries pursued only specific approaches or exerted little control over the online universe. South Korea filters only North Korean sites, many of them originating in Japan. Jordan, Morocco and Singapore were also sparing, filtering just a handful of sites. Researchers discovered no evidence of filtering in more than a dozen of the surveyed countries, among them Russia, Venezuela, Egypt, Hong Kong, Israel and Iraq. The United States and much of Europe were not studied in the survey because in those countries, filtering is focused primarily on copyright infringement issues and is generally pursued in the private sector. In contrast, according to the report, Internet censors in the 40 countries surveyed did not filter in connection with intellectual property rights. The research was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. In Iraq, researchers limited their testing to the civilian networks and did not include the network run by the U.S. military. Earlier this week, officials with the U.S. Department of Defense announced plans to block a dozen Web sites. The military grid includes more than five million computers, which are now barred from sites like YouTube, MySpace and two popular Internet radio sites, Pandora.com and Live365.com. The U.S. authorities said they had taken the step as a pre-emptive measure to prevent the sites from clogging the networks, although they said that had not happened yet. - No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started.___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined
Re: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds
Anyone know how JTF List members can know if JTF is ever filtered? Would each member stop receiving posts to the List? Would we each receive only certain posts? Thanks in advance for any ideas, comment. Mike DuPree - Original Message - From: Kirk McLoren To: biofuel Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 10:47 AM Subject: [Biofuel] Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds . Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds By Doreen Carvajal Published: May 18, 2007 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/17/business/censor.php PARIS: With the aid of sophisticated software, government censorship of the Internet is spreading into a global phenomenon, with tech-savvy governments filtering forbidden themes from politics and human rights to sexuality and religion, according to a new academic survey of 40 countries. In the past five years, the practice has grown beyond a handful of countries, including Iran, China and Saudi Arabia, to 26 nations that block a wide range of topics as they adopt filtering techniques, according to an OpenNet Initiative report to be issued Friday in Oxford, England. It's an alarming increase, said Ron Deibert, associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, one of four universities participating in the yearlong study along with Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. Once the tools are in place, authorities realize that the Internet can be controlled. There used to be a myth that the Internet was immune to regulation. Now governments are realizing it's actually the opposite. Instead of blocking static Web sites, governments are focusing on entire Internet-based applications like YouTube, Skype and Google Maps, according to the report. They also are adopting furtive, just-in-time filtering to knock out the Web sites of political opposition groups during critical election periods, Deibert said. About 100 researchers studied thousands of Web sites and discovered 200,000 examples of Internet filtering. Most of the countries evaluated in the study filtered out a wide set of themes, suggesting that once nations adopt blocking tools, they expand their range. Countries like China, Iran, Syria, Tunisia, Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Oman and Pakistan followed a broad approach, accord to the report. Tunisia, which was host to a United Nations summit on the information society in 2005, focused on four themes: human rights, political opposition to the government, pornography and anonymizer sites that offer tools to circumvent controls online. But there are territorial differences. Vietnam and Uzbekistan tend to focus mostly on local content while largely ignoring international Web sites. Middle Eastern countries pay more attention to international news, with Iran blocking the BBC's site. Saudi Arabia focuses on censoring social content like pornography and gambling, though it also restricts political sites critical of the Saudi monarchy or non-Sunni Islam sites. This balance mirrors the use of commercial software, generally developed in the West, to identify and block Internet content, according to the study. One of the more popular software tools is SmartFilter, a product of Secure Computing in San Jose, California, which is used by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Sudan and Tunisia. In Tunisia's case, researchers found that when they tried forbidden sites, a page that looked like an Internet Explorer browser default page was displayed to disguise that censorship was taking place. The report also found that some countries pursued only specific approaches or exerted little control over the online universe. South Korea filters only North Korean sites, many of them originating in Japan. Jordan, Morocco and Singapore were also sparing, filtering just a handful of sites. Researchers discovered no evidence of filtering in more than a dozen of the surveyed countries, among them Russia, Venezuela, Egypt, Hong Kong, Israel and Iraq. The United States and much of Europe were not studied in the survey because in those countries, filtering is focused primarily on copyright infringement issues and is generally pursued in the private sector. In contrast, according to the report, Internet censors in the 40 countries surveyed did not filter in connection with intellectual property rights. The research was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago. In Iraq, researchers limited their testing to the civilian networks and did not include the network run by the U.S. military. Earlier this week, officials with the U.S. Department of Defense announced plans to block a dozen Web sites. The military grid includes more than five
