s.a. http://at.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16189&group=webcast | Spanische Big Brother zum ersten Mal premiert
BTW, morgen, Mi. gehts dann schon weiter mit den 1st Big Brother Awards Belgium -> http://www.be.bigbrotherawards.org/ zum Einstieg erstmal in einer Sparvariante (nur Internet-bezogen) im Rahmen des jaehrlichen belg. IT-Szene-Events "Night of The Internet" in Kuerze dann auch wieder in .de/ .at/ .ch/ .hu -> http://www.bigbrotherawards.org/ At 16:09 05.10.02 +0200, Peter Kuhm wrote: >Heute abend (5.10.) gibt es im Rahmen der madhack02 (Hackmeeting >Madrid) die Premiere der spanischen BBAs. Veranstalter ist das >Spanish Chapter of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. > >-> http://www.bigbrotherawards-es.org/index.php?lang=en --- snip --- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 BBA SPAIN: AN EVENT�S VIEW Arturo Quirantes Sierra "The bull is already waiting in the arena ... and we�ve decided to jump down." With these words, David Casacuberta and this writer started our BBA adventure. For some time, independently from each other, we had the Big Brother Awards mosquito biting our minds. It was one of those projects stinging you day by day, under the "one of these days" sector. After yet another country joining in the BBA brotherhood, the wish to turn the project into reality grew, like the swimmer waiting on the edge of the water. Till, in may 2002, we jumped in. From then on, the BBA Spain started taking shape I will not bore you with the entire process. The words of encouragement from the other BBAers, the shy beginnings in June, the long vacation period, the end of the summer, and the clock ticking. There�s the jury to choose, webpages to set up, start the meeting machinery in Madrid, last-minute nomination ... some day we might even recover our strength so we can tell the whole story. One thing was clear: the spanish last-minute-effort capability was streched to the limit. In spite of the hard work by the few collaboratros, many things went resolved, or just turned wrong. The calendar tyranny gave so little time for the jury to decide, that the nerves of the Madrid organizers were on the verge of a breakdown. At the moment of truth, the press just didn�t show up -we didn�t seem to be as important as the latest soccer team; still, the public 2nd Channel of spanish TV aired a long documentary on the subject of hacking, along with the movie "Sneakers", it was chance, but welcome indeed-; add the lack of material means and funding, and the recipe for disaster seemed to be cooking. But the human capability for adaptation and response beat it all. Still no physical awards to give at t minus 2 hours? No problemo, just borrow a few empty CDs -a good symbol for the state of privacy rights in Spain, besides having a canon- and that�s it. The master of ceremonies is MIA? Well, the prof -that�s me- will have to jump up the stage. I lose the "winner is" envelopes? Good that memory didn�t completely fail, and there�s still some BBA-labelled sheets. Lack of funding preventing us from making even a few posters, but nothing some A3 color enlargements can�t solve. In the best spanish tradition, the first BBA ceremony started with some delay, in the evening of 5 October 2.002, in the yearly hackers reunion known as the Hackmeeting; the chosen place for this year is the Labo 03 (Laboratory 3) squatter center in Madrid. A video made for the beginning refuesed to be played, a bad omen right in the start. Success was finally achieved, and Microsoft�s Steve Ballmer welcomed the audience from his now famous I-love-this-company show. An audience of 99%+ Linux users could only love it! I can confess it now: I had my doubts on the conveniency of celebrating the first BBA in a Hackmeeting. But it turned out a complete success. Over 300 people crowded the meeting hall, watching and cheering at their favorite Big Brothers as they showed up on the screen. How much energy they spent while "loved" companies as Microsoft and Telef�nica (Spain�s largest phone company) made their debut is something I leave to your imagination. If you didn�t experience, well, there�s no possible substitute in my words. But you won�t be left out in the cold. Here�s the BBA Spain 2002 winners, along with the runners-up. It was a fierce competition indeed -the roar of the people was the best withness to it- but there�s place for only one winner. Several, to be true, for awards were given in five categories: PUBLIC SECTOR AWARD: The Danish Presidency of the EU. Qualifications: its plans to make data retention mandatory in all Member States Runners-ups: - Ana Palacio, currently Spain�s Foreign Affairs Minister (for her role in the race for data retention while she was a Member of the EP) - The LSSI (Information Society Services Bill, which includes data-retention obligations among other beauties). PRIVATE SECTOR AWARD. Deutsche Bank. Qualifications: Deutsche Bank Spain�s firing of one of his workers (a worker union liaison), whose email was intercepted without his consent and without a judge order, in violation of Article 18 of the spanish constitution; the worker is currently suing DB for that reason Runner-ups: - Corte Ingl�s, Spain�s largest department store, for his all-out surveillance by CCTV cameras both inside and outside its facilities. - Telef�nica, Spain�s largest phone operator, for his aggresive market tactics, his lack of interest toward users, and other abuses (BTW: it didn�t win, but got by far the largest applause from the crowd!) INTRUSIVE TECHNOLOGIES AWARD: Microsoft Passport Qualifications: this technology, initially designed for e-commerce, can be easily abused and large amounts of personal data snatched by large companies, with little or no control at all from the user. Runner-ups: - Eresmas, a spanish ISP recently known to track and log its user�s behavior, allegedly for commercial gains. - Intel, for his repeated attempts to ID every chip it makes, thus allowing an easy tracking of each computer�s activity. PEOPLE�S CHOICE: SGAE (spanish association of authors and editors Qualifications: his support to highly aggresive anticopy systems, and also for forcing ever virgin CD to have a canon to compensate authors for lost revenue due to piracy; the fact that EVERY CD carries this canon regardless of its final use, doesn�t seem to bother them. Runners-ups: lots of them, take from me! "MARIANA PINEDA" (POSITIVE) AWARD IN DEFENSE OF CYBER-RIGHTS: the "Stop1984" campaign, for its fight against data-retention initiatives in the EU. Runner-ups: Senator F�lix Lavilla, Kriptopolis.com website, Jordi Murg� (designer of anti-sniffer detector systems), sindominio.net). Lack of time prevented us from contacting the winners to get their opinion, or even to have them pick up their prize (not that we expected it, anyway). But we did manage to get Stop1984 the news on time. One of their representatives managed to email us back their thanks, which were read on the stage by journalist and hacktivist Merc� Molist: - - -------------------------------------- Ladies and Gentlemen On behalf of Stop1984 I would like to say thank you for this price. Being called "defenders of freedom and privacy at the Internet" does make me proud. And it tells me that initiatives like Stop1984 are important and can make a difference. Here, on the first Spanish "Big Brother Awards" we can see that privacy is endangered in Spain, as well as it is anywhere. Organisations like Mienten, Villanos and Kriptopolis in Spain have shown that this fact - privacy endangered - is something that makes people realize how much privacy is worth fighting for. All around the world organisations try to create awareness for the problems of surveillance in society, try to make people see what is going on. This is most important in a world where the dangers of a lost privacy are often underestimated and where a lot of people is lost in a helpless struggle against becoming the "digital citizen". I regret that I can not be here tonight to show you how much this price means to me and Stop1984. But I want to take this opportunity to ask you, Ladies and Gentlemen, for support. Not for Stop1984 alone, but for all the organisations, for all the data security officers and for all the citizens who want to keep their privacy. Please help us to keep privacy alive. Thank you Twister STOP 1884 - - -------------------------------------- Thank you, Twister. We do intend to keep it alive and thriving. Now that the first BBA Spain is behind us, I�d like to thank those who helped to its success: Marcos Serrano, Esteve, Manje, David Casacuberta, and other who I should remember if only my memory worked fine. Thanks to the organizers of the Hackmeeting and to the Labo03 people. Thanks to all the audience, your cheers and roars kept the event alive. Now we have an entire year to prepare better. You learn from your mistake, and we have no doubt that the second BBA will outdo the first one. And yet, that first-time feeling is a one-time-only sensation, and none of us will forget it. To end it up, here�s a copule press cuts, in Spanish. Media coverage has been scarce, but it�s slowly spreading. We hope it will spread to the english-speaking world, too. You can help, too, by sharing thsee views with whomever you please. Feel free to distribute it at will. Reproduction authorized. http://www.bigbrotherawards-es.org http://www.elpais.es/articulo.html?xref=20021007elpmad_9&type=Tes&anchor=elpmad&d_date=20021007 http://libertaddigital.es/./noticias/noticia_1275319741.html - - -- Salu2. Arturo Quirantes (PGP key 0x4E2031EC: http://www.ugr.es/~aquiran/cripto/claves.htm) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQA/AwUBPaHwL9Pjg85OIDHsEQLUNwCdFe3uY1Ag+N0iZsFh5tfJFWfYr0QAoOVc A/ID6Ejoaks7iWSB80umylRG =VdjM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- snap ---
