Worth remembering that not a few cypherpunks have
died, suicided, homocided, gone to jail,
disappeared, were exiled, were prosecuted and
persecuted, became informers, testified against
other cpunks, stole code, planted malware, ran
ransomware, lied, cheated, abused trusted friends
and list postings, established other lists for
prim and proper discourse, and just about
whatever the villainous digital era fostered
while braying about encryption, freedom, privacy,
corrupt governments and corporations and media and list subscribers.
Hooting about injustice is a venerable cover-up
of complicity with authorities to fuck other
people for money, for reputation, for cowardice,
for damaged brains and diseased morals.
This list is where that shit is promulgated and
allowed to persist, no matter that a few angels
pretend they would never do that.
At 01:41 PM 10/25/2021, zeynepaydogan wrote:
BREAKING: Amnesty International demands release
of Julian Assange: âDrop the charges, stop the
extradition and free Julian Assange
<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/news-news/2021/10/us-uk-drop-the-charges-stop-the-extradition-and-free-julian-assange-says-amnesty-head/>https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/news-news/2021/10/us-uk-drop-the-charges-stop-the-extradition-and-free-julian-assange-says-amnesty-head/
US/UK: âDrop the charges, stop the extradition
and free Julian Assange,â says Amnesty head
Ahead of an appeal hearing against the decision
by a UK court not to extradite Julian Assange to
the USA, Amnesty Internationalâs Secretary
General has called on US authorities to drop the
charges against him and the UK authorities not
to extradite him but release him immediately.
The call by Agnès Callamard follows an
investigation by Yahoo News revealing that US
security services considered kidnapping or
killing Julian Assange when he was resident in
the Ecuadorian embassy in London. These reports
further weaken already unreliable US diplomatic
assurances that Assange will not be placed in
conditions that could amount to ill-treatment if extradited.
âAssurances by the US government that they
would not put Julian Assange in a maximum
security prison or subject him to abusive
Special Administrative Measures were discredited
by their admission that they reserved the right
to reverse those guarantees. Now, reports that
the CIA considered kidnapping or killing Assange
have cast even more doubt on the reliability of
US promises and further expose the political
motivation behind this case,â said Amnesty
Secretary General, Agnès Callamard.
âIt is a damning indictment that nearly 20
years on, virtually no one responsible for
alleged US war crimes committed in the course of
the Afghanistan and Iraq wars has been held
accountable, let alone prosecuted, and yet a
publisher who exposed such crimes is potentially facing a lifetime in jail.â
The appeal hearing, scheduled for 27-28 October,
is expected to consider five grounds of appeal
by the US, including the reliability of
assurances offered by the US after a lower UK
court ruled against Assangeâs extradition in
January 2021. Amnesty International has
concluded that the assurances are unreliable.
The US charges allege that Assange conspired
with a whistleblower army intelligence analyst
Chelsea Mannning to illegally obtain
classified information. Theyy want him to stand
trial on charges under the Espionage Act and the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the US where he
could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years.
The US governmentâs indictment poses a grave
threat to press freedom both in the United
States and abroad. The conduct it describes
includes professional activities undertaken by
investigative journalists and publishers on a
daily basis. Were Julian Assangeâs extradition
to be allowed it would criminalize common
journalistic practices and permit the US and
possibly other countries to target publishers
and journalists outside their jurisdictions for
exposing governmental wrongdoing.
âThe US governmentâs unrelenting pursuit of
Julian Assange makes it clear that this
prosecution is a punitive measure, but the case
involves concerns which go far beyond the fate
of one man and put media freedom and freedom of
expression in peril,â said Agnès Callamard.
âJournalists and publishers are of vital
importance in scrutinizing governments, exposing
their misdeeds and holding perpetrators of human
rights violations to account. This disingenuous
appeal should be denied, the charges should be
dropped, and Julian Assange should be released.â
For more information or to arrange an interview
contact at the court:
press@amnesty.orgstefan.simanow...@amnesty.org +44 2030365599
BACKGROUND
The US extradition request is based on charges
directly related to the publication of leaked
classified documents as part of Julian
Assangeâs work with Wikileaks. Publishing
information that is in the public interest is a
cornerstone of media freedom and the publicâs
right to information about government
wrongdoing. Publishing information in the public
interest is protected under international human
rights law and should not be criminalized.
If extradited to the US, Julian Assange could
face trial on charges under the Espionage Act
and under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He
would also face a real risk of serious human
rights violations due to detention conditions
that could amount to torture or other
ill-treatment, including prolonged solitary
confinement. Julian Assange is the first
publisher to face charges under the Espionage Act.
For further information see
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur45/4450/2021/en/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/the-us-diplomatic-assurances-are-inherently-unreliable-julian-assange-must-be-released/
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Açık Pzt, Eki 25, 2021 12:22, zeynepaydogan
<<mailto:zeynepaydo...@protonmail.com>zeynepaydo...@protonmail.com> yazdı:
I don't have a connection to WL. The future of
journalism,war crimes
.CClamour for humanity. Not for donor.
that's for the ex answers you wrote me
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Açık Pzt, Eki 25, 2021 11:24, Digitalfolklore
<<mailto:digitalfolkl...@protonmail.ch>digitalfolkl...@protonmail.ch> yazdı:
you seen those riots in Eucadorian jails? brutal stuff..
VH
âââââââ Original Message âââââââ
On Thursday, October 21st, 2021 at 8:15 AM,
zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydo...@protonmail.com> wrote:
#FreeOlaBini
Ola Biniâs trial this week. Ola Biniâs
trial is set for Thursday and Friday this
week, despite a series of recognized due
process violations in the free software
developer criminalâs prosecution and flimsy
evidences presented to support the charges.
Ola Biniâs pretrial hearing was suspended
at least five times during 2020 and again in
2021 until its conclusion in June. Now,
thereâs a risk the trial keep on the same slow-motion tragedy.
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/after-years-delays-and-alarmingly-flimsy-evidence-security-expert-ola-binis-trial>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/after-years-delays-and-alarmingly-flimsy-evidence-security-expert-ola-binis-trial
After Years of Delays and Alarmingly Flimsy
Evidence, Security Expert Ola Biniâs Trial Set for This Week
For over two years EFF has been following the
case of Swedish computer security expert Ola
Bini, who was arrested in April, 2019, in
Ecuador, following Julian Assange's ejection
from that countryâs London Embassy.
Biniâs pre-trial hearing, which was
suspended and rescheduled at least five times
during 2020, was concluded on June 29, 2021.
Despite the cloud that has hung over the
casepolitical ramifications
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ecuador-political-actors-must-step-away-ola-binis-case>have
seemed to drive the allegations, and Bini has
been subjected to
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/slow-motion-tragedy-trial-ola-bini>numerous
due process and human rights violationswe
are hopeful that the securiity expert will be
afforded a transparent and fair trial and that due process will prevail.
Ola Bini is known globally as a computer
security expert; he is someone who builds
secure tools and contributes to free software
projects. Olaâs team at ThoughtWorks
contributed to Certbot, the EFF-managed tool
that has provided strong encryption for
millions of websites around the world, and in
2018, Ola co-founded a non-profit
organization devoted to creating user-friendly security tools.
From the very outset of Biniâs arrest at
the Quito airport there have been
significant concerns about the legitimacy of
the allegations against him. In our visit to
Ecuador in July, 2019, shortly after his
arrest, it became clear that the political
consequences of Biniâs arrest overshadowed
the prosecutionâs actual evidence. In
brief, based on the interviews that we
conducted, our conclusion was that Bini's
prosecution is a political case, not a
criminal one. His arrest occurred shortly
after Maria Paula Romo, then Ecuadorâs
Interior Minister, held a press conference
to claim (without evidence) that a group of
Russians and Wikileaks-connected hackers
were in the country, planning a cyber-attack
in retaliation for the government's eviction
of Assange; a recent investigation by
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3sd6-Hbq4&feature=youtu.be>La
Posta revealed that the former Minister knew
that Ola Bini was not the "Russian hacker"
the government was looking for when Bini was
detained in Quito's airport. (Romo
<https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ecuador-s-interior-minister-dismissed/2054980>was
dismissed as minister in 2020 for ordering
the use of tear gas against anti-government protestors).
A so-called piece of evidence against Bini
was leaked to the press and taken to court: a
photo of a screenshot, supposedly taken by
Bini himself and sent to a colleague, showing
the telnet login screen of a router. The
image is consistent with someone who connects
to an open telnet service, receives a warning
not to log on without authorization, and does
not proceedrespecting the warning. Ass for
the portion of a message exchange attributed
to Bini and a colleague, leaked with the
photo, it shows their concern with the router
being insecurely open to telnet access on the wider Internet, with no firewall.
Biniâs arrest and detention were fraught
with due process violations. Bini faced 70
days of imprisonment until a Habeas Corpus
decision considered his detention illegal (a
decision that confirmed the weakness of the
initial detention). He was released from
jail, but the investigation continued,
seeking evidence to back the alleged
accusations against him. After his release
the problems continued, and as the delays
dragged on, the Office of the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special
Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression included
its concern with the delay in Biniâs trial
in its 2020's annual report. At the time of
our visit, Bini's lawyers told us that they
counted 65 violations of due process, and
journalists told us that no one was able to
provide them with concrete descriptions of what he had done.
In April 2021, Ola Biniâs Habeas Data
recourse, filed in October 2020 against the
National Police, the Ministry of Government,
and the Strategic Intelligence Center (CIES),
was partially granted by the Judge. According
to Bini's defense, he had been facing
continuous monitoring by members of the
National Police and unidentified persons. The
decision requested CIES to provide
information related to whether the agency has
conducted surveillance activities against the
security expert. The ruling concluded that
CIES unduly denied such information to Ola
Bini, failing to offer a timely response to his previous information request.
Though the judge decided in Juneâs
pre-trial hearing to proceed with the
criminal prosecution against Bini, observers
indicated
<https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/213067>a
lack of a solid motivation in the judge's
decision. The judge was later
"<https://inredh.org/la-jueza-yadira-proano-fue-separada-del-caso-que-investiga-a-ola-bini/>separated"
from the case in a ruling that admitted the
wrongdoing of successive pretrial suspensions
and the violation of due process.
It is alarming, but perhaps not surprising,
that the case will proceed after all these
well-documented irregularities. While Ola
Biniâs behavior and contacts in the
security world may look strange to
authorities, his computer security expertise
is not a crime. Since EFF's founding in 1990,
we have become all-too familiar with overly
politicized "hacker panic" cases, which
encourage unjust prosecutions when the
political and social atmosphere demands it.
EFF was founded in part due to a notorious,
and similar, case pursued in the United
States by the Secret Service. Our Coderâs
Rights Project has
<https://www.eff.org/issues/coders>worked for
decades to protect the security and
encryption researchers that help build a
safer future for all of us using digital
technologies, and who far too often face
serious legal challenges that prevent or
inhibit their work. This case is,
unfortunately, part of a longstanding history
of countering the unfair criminal persecution
of security experts, who have unfortunately
been the subject of the same types of
harassment as those they work to protect,
such as human rights defenders and activists.
In June of this year, EFF called upon
Ecuadorsâ Human Rights Secretariat to give
special attention to Ola Biniâs upcoming
hearing and prosecution. As we stressed
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/eff-ecuadors-human-rights-secretariat-protecting-security-experts-vital-safeguard>in
our letter,
Mr. Bini's case has profound implications
for, and sits at the center of, the
application of human rights and due process,
a landmark case in the context of arbitrarily
applying overbroad criminal laws to security
experts. Mr. Bini's case represents a unique
opportunity for the Human Rights Secretariat
Cabinet to consider and guard the rights of
security experts in the digital
age. Security experts protect the computers
upon which we all depend and protect the
people who have integrated electronic devices
into their daily lives, such as human rights
defenders, journalists, activists,
dissidents, among many others. To conduct
security research, we need to protect the
security experts, and ensure they have the tools to do their work.
The circumstances around Ola Bini's detention
have sparked
<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/ecuador-authorities-must-monitor-trial-digital-defender-ola-bini/>international
attention and indicate the growing
seriousness of
<https://www.accessnow.org/latin-america-information-security-researchers/>security
experts' harassment in Latin America. The
flimsy allegations against Ola Bini, the
series of irregularities and human rights
violations in his case, as well as its
international resonance, situate it squarely
among other cases we have seen of
<https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2018/10/canada-chile-security-researchers-have-rights-our-new-report>politicized
and misguided allegationsagainst technologists and security researchers.
We hope that justice will prevail during Ola
Biniâs trial this week, and that he will
finally be given the fair treatment and due
process that the proper respect of his fundamental rights requires.
âââââââ Original Message âââââââ
On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at 8:09 AM,
zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydo...@protonmail.com> wrote:
He has a case tomorrow.Amnesty issued this statement
<https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/usa-uk-president-biden-must-drop-politically-motivated-charges-against-assange/>https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/usa-uk-president-biden-must-drop-politically-motivated-charges-against-assange/
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