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-               <title>TISA - nok en problematisk og hemmelig handelsavtale</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TISA___nok_en_problematisk_og_hemmelig_handelsavtale.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2015 09:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Norge er aktiv i Trade in Services Agreement-forhandlingene, og
-regjeringen forteller at
-«&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/no/tema/utenrikssaker/handelspolitikk/tisa/id2403335/&quot;&gt;TISA
-vil sikre norske tjenesteeksportører forutsigbar og
-ikke-diskriminerende adgang til utenlandske tjenestemarkeder&lt;/a&gt;».
-Det er mulig at det stemmer.  Men den gjør mye mer enn det.  Avtalen
-forhandles i hemmelighet, og kun takket være
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://wikileaks.org/tisa/&quot;&gt;Wikileaks&lt;/a&gt; er
-utkast og biter kjent i offentligheten.  Det som er blitt kjent er
-for eksempel at TISA kan
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150604/06324931218/tisa-agreement-might-outlaw-governments-mandating-open-source-software-many-situations.shtml&quot;&gt;blokkere
-myndigheter fra å kreve bruk av fri programvare i mange
-situasjoner&lt;/a&gt;, hvilket vil fjerne muligheten vår til å ha kontroll
-over egne datasystemer i slike tilfeller.  Den kan også
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/tisa-yet-another-leaked-treaty-youve-never-heard-makes-secret-rules-internet&quot;&gt;blokkere
-Norges mulighet til å holde kontroll med overføring av
-personinformasjon ut av landet&lt;/a&gt;, hvilket Snowden-bekreftelsene har
-dokumentert er svært problematisk.
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble derfor veldig glad da jeg i dag ble tipset i dag om at det
-allerede finnes en aktiv organisasjon,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.folkeaksjonenmottisa.no/&quot;&gt;Folkeaksjonen mot
-TISA&lt;/a&gt;, som jobber for å hindre at Norge signerer på TISA-avtalen.
-Her må alle gode krefter jobbe sammen.  Jeg skal sende dem litt
-penger, og se om jeg har kapasitet til å bidra med mer.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Detecting NFS hangs on Linux without hanging yourself...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detecting_NFS_hangs_on_Linux_without_hanging_yourself___.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Thu, 9 Mar 2017 15:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Over the years, administrating thousand of NFS mounting linux
+computers at the time, I often needed a way to detect if the machine
+was experiencing NFS hang.  If you try to use &lt;tt&gt;df&lt;/tt&gt; or look at a
+file or directory affected by the hang, the process (and possibly the
+shell) will hang too.  So you want to be able to detect this without
+risking the detection process getting stuck too.  It has not been
+obvious how to do this.  When the hang has lasted a while, it is
+possible to find messages like these in dmesg:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+nfs: server nfsserver not responding, still trying
+&lt;br&gt;nfs: server nfsserver OK
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;It is hard to know if the hang is still going on, and it is hard to
+be sure looking in dmesg is going to work.  If there are lots of other
+messages in dmesg the lines might have rotated out of site before they
+are noticed.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;While reading through the nfs client implementation in linux kernel
+code, I came across some statistics that seem to give a way to detect
+it.  The om_timeouts sunrpc value in the kernel will increase every
+time the above log entry is inserted into dmesg.  And after digging a
+bit further, I discovered that this value show up in
+/proc/self/mountstats on Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The mountstats content seem to be shared between files using the
+same file system context, so it is enough to check one of the
+mountstats files to get the state of the mount point for the machine.
+I assume this will not show lazy umounted NFS points, nor NFS mount
+points in a different process context (ie with a different filesystem
+view), but that does not worry me.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The content for a NFS mount point look similar to this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+[...]
+device /dev/mapper/Debian-var mounted on /var with fstype ext3
+device nfsserver:/mnt/nfsserver/home0 mounted on /mnt/nfsserver/home0 with fstype nfs statvers=1.1
+        opts:   rw,vers=3,rsize=65536,wsize=65536,namlen=255,acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60,soft,nolock,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=129.240.3.145,mountvers=3,mountport=4048,mountproto=udp,local_lock=all
+        age:    7863311
+        caps:   caps=0x3fe7,wtmult=4096,dtsize=8192,bsize=0,namlen=255
+        sec:    flavor=1,pseudoflavor=1
+        events: 61063112 732346265 1028140 35486205 16220064 8162542 761447191 71714012 37189 3891185 45561809 110486139 4850138 420353 15449177 296502 52736725 13523379 0 52182 9016896 1231 0 0 0 0 0 
+        bytes:  166253035039 219519120027 0 0 40783504807 185466229638 11677877 45561809 
+        RPC iostats version: 1.0  p/v: 100003/3 (nfs)
+        xprt:   tcp 925 1 6810 0 0 111505412 111480497 109 2672418560317 0 248 53869103 22481820
+        per-op statistics
+                NULL: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
+             GETATTR: 61063106 61063108 0 9621383060 6839064400 453650 77291321 78926132
+             SETATTR: 463469 463470 0 92005440 66739536 63787 603235 687943
+              LOOKUP: 17021657 17021657 0 3354097764 4013442928 57216 35125459 35566511
+              ACCESS: 14281703 14290009 5 2318400592 1713803640 1709282 4865144 7130140
+            READLINK: 125 125 0 20472 18620 0 1112 1118
+                READ: 4214236 4214237 0 715608524 41328653212 89884 22622768 22806693
+               WRITE: 8479010 8494376 22 187695798568 1356087148 178264904 51506907 231671771
+              CREATE: 171708 171708 0 38084748 46702272 873 1041833 1050398
+               MKDIR: 3680 3680 0 773980 993920 26 23990 24245
+             SYMLINK: 903 903 0 233428 245488 6 5865 5917
+               MKNOD: 80 80 0 20148 21760 0 299 304
+              REMOVE: 429921 429921 0 79796004 61908192 3313 2710416 2741636
+               RMDIR: 3367 3367 0 645112 484848 22 5782 6002
+              RENAME: 466201 466201 0 130026184 121212260 7075 5935207 5961288
+                LINK: 289155 289155 0 72775556 67083960 2199 2565060 2585579
+             READDIR: 2933237 2933237 0 516506204 13973833412 10385 3190199 3297917
+         READDIRPLUS: 1652839 1652839 0 298640972 6895997744 84735 14307895 14448937
+              FSSTAT: 6144 6144 0 1010516 1032192 51 9654 10022
+              FSINFO: 2 2 0 232 328 0 1 1
+            PATHCONF: 1 1 0 116 140 0 0 0
+              COMMIT: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
+
+device binfmt_misc mounted on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc with fstype binfmt_misc
+[...]
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The key number to look at is the third number in the per-op list.
+It is the number of NFS timeouts experiences per file system
+operation.  Here 22 write timeouts and 5 access timeouts.  If these
+numbers are increasing, I believe the machine is experiencing NFS
+hang.  Unfortunately the timeout value do not start to increase right
+away.  The NFS operations need to time out first, and this can take a
+while.  The exact timeout value depend on the setup.  For example the
+defaults for TCP and UDP mount points are quite different, and the
+timeout value is affected by the soft, hard, timeo and retrans NFS
+mount options.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The only way I have been able to get working on Debian and RedHat
+Enterprise Linux for getting the timeout count is to peek in /proc/.
+But according to
+&lt;ahref=&quot;http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-4555/netmonitor-12/index.html&quot;&gt;Solaris
+10 System Administration Guide: Network Services&lt;/a&gt;, the &#39;nfsstat -c&#39;
+command can be used to get these timeout values.  But this do not work
+on Linux, as far as I can tell.  I
+&lt;ahref=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/857043&quot;&gt;asked Debian about this&lt;/a&gt;,
+but have not seen any replies yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Is there a better way to figure out if a Linux NFS client is
+experiencing NFS hangs?  Is there a way to detect which processes are
+affected?  Is there a way to get the NFS mount going quickly once the
+network problem causing the NFS hang has been cleared?  I would very
+much welcome some clues, as we regularly run into NFS hangs.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_Pentagon_deciding_the_Norwegian_negotiating_position_on_Internet_governance_.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2015 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;In Norway, all government offices are required by law to keep a
-list of every document or letter arriving and leaving their offices.
-Internal notes should also be documented.  The document list (called a mail
-journal - &quot;postjournal&quot; in Norwegian) is public information and thanks
-to the Norwegian Freedom of Information Act (Offentleglova) the mail
-journal is available for everyone.  Most offices even publish the mail
-journal on their web pages, as PDFs or tables in web pages.  The state-level offices even have a shared web based search service (called
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oep.no/&quot;&gt;Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal -
-OEP&lt;/a&gt;) to make it possible to search the entries in the list.  Not
-all journal entries show up on OEP, and the search service is hard to
-use, but OEP does make it easier to find at least some interesting
-journal entries .&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In 2012 I came across a document in the mail journal for the
-Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications on OEP that
-piqued my interest.  The title of the document was
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.oep.no/search/resultSingle.html?journalPostId=4192362&quot;&gt;Internet
-Governance and how it affects national security&lt;/a&gt;&quot; (Norwegian:
-&quot;Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet&quot;).  The
-document date was 2012-05-22, and it was said to be sent from the
-&quot;Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations&quot;.  I asked for a
-copy, but my request was rejected with a reference to a legal clause said to authorize them to reject it
-(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/lov/2006-05-19-16/§20&quot;&gt;offentleglova § 20,
-letter c&lt;/a&gt;) and an explanation that the document was exempt because
-of foreign policy interests as it contained information related to the
-Norwegian negotiating position, negotiating strategies or similar.  I
-was told the information in the document related to the ongoing
-negotiation in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).  The
-explanation made sense to me in early January 2013, as a ITU
-conference in Dubay discussing Internet Governance
-(&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union#World_Conference_on_International_Telecommunications_2012_.28WCIT-12.29&quot;&gt;World
-Conference on International Telecommunications - WCIT-12&lt;/a&gt;) had just
-ended,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/kommentarer/2012/12/18/tvil-om-usas-rolle-pa-teletoppmote&quot;&gt;reportedly
-in chaos&lt;/a&gt; when USA walked out of the negotiations and 25 countries
-including Norway refused to sign the new treaty.  It seemed
-reasonable to believe talks were still going on a few weeks later.
-Norway was represented at the ITU meeting by two authorities, the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nkom.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Communications Authority&lt;/a&gt;
-and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dep/sd/&quot;&gt;Ministry of
-Transport and Communications&lt;/a&gt;.  This might be the reason the letter
-was sent to the ministry.  As I was unable to find the document in the
-mail journal of any Norwegian UN mission, I asked the ministry who had
-sent the document to the ministry, and was told that it was the Deputy
-Permanent Representative with the Permanent Mission of Norway in
-Geneva.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Three years later, I was still curious about the content of that
-document, and again asked for a copy, believing the negotiation was
-over now.  This time
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://mimesbronn.no/request/kopi_av_dokumenter_i_sak_2012914&quot;&gt;I
-asked both the Ministry of Transport and Communications as the
-receiver&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://mimesbronn.no/request/brev_om_internet_governance_og_p&quot;&gt;asked
-the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva as the sender&lt;/a&gt; for a
-copy, to see if they both agreed that it should be withheld from the
-public.  The ministry upheld its rejection quoting the same law
-reference as before, while the permanent mission rejected it quoting a
-different clause
-(&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/lov/2006-05-19-16/§20&quot;&gt;offentleglova § 20
-letter b&lt;/a&gt;), claiming that they were required to keep the
-content of the document from the public because it contained
-information given to Norway with the expressed or implied expectation
-that the information should not be made public.  I asked the permanent
-mission for an explanation, and was told that the document contained
-an account from a meeting held in the Pentagon for a limited group of NATO
-nations where the organiser of the meeting did not intend the content
-of the meeting to be publicly known.  They explained that giving me a
-copy might cause Norway to not get access to similar information in
-the future and thus hurt the future foreign interests of Norway.  They
-also explained that the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was not
-the author of the document, they only got a copy of it, and because of
-this had not listed it in their mail journal.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Armed with this
-knowledge I asked the Ministry to reconsider and asked who was the
-author of the document, now realising that it was not same as the
-&quot;sender&quot; according to Ministry of Transport and Communications.  The
-ministry upheld its rejection but told me the name of the author of
-the document.  According to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/unga69_rapport1/id2001204/&quot;&gt;a
-government report&lt;/a&gt; the author was with the Permanent Mission of
-Norway in New York a bit more than a year later (2014-09-22), so I
-guessed that might be the office responsible for writing and sending
-the report initially and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/mote_2012_i_pentagon_om_itu&quot;&gt;asked
-them for a copy&lt;/a&gt; but I was obviously wrong as I was told that the
-document was unknown to them and that the author did not work there
-when the document was written.  Next, I asked the Permanent Mission of
-Norway in Geneva and the Foreign Ministry to reconsider and at least
-tell me who sent the document to Deputy Permanent Representative with
-the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva.  The Foreign Ministry also
-upheld its rejection, but told me that the person sending the document
-to Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva was the defence attaché with
-the Norwegian Embassy in Washington.  I do not know if this is the
-same person as the author of the document.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If I understand the situation correctly, someone capable of
-inviting selected NATO nations to a meeting in Pentagon organised a
-meeting where someone representing the Norwegian defence attaché in
-Washington attended, and the account from this meeting is interpreted
-by the Ministry of Transport and Communications to expose Norways
-negotiating position, negotiating strategies and similar regarding the
-ITU negotiations on Internet Governance.  It is truly amazing what can
-be derived from mere meta-data.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wonder which NATO countries besides Norway attended this meeting?
-And what exactly was said and done at the meeting?  Anyone know?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>How does it feel to be wiretapped, when you should be doing the wiretapping...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_does_it_feel_to_be_wiretapped__when_you_should_be_doing_the_wiretapping___.html</link>
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+                <pubDate>Wed, 8 Mar 2017 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;So the new president in the United States of America claim to be
+surprised to discover that he was wiretapped during the election
+before he was elected president.  He even claim this must be illegal.
+Well, doh, if it is one thing the confirmations from Snowden
+documented, it is that the entire population in USA is wiretapped, one
+way or another.  Of course the president candidates were wiretapped,
+alongside the senators, judges and the rest of the people in USA.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Next, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ask the Department of
+Justice to go public rejecting the claims that Donald Trump was
+wiretapped illegally.  I fail to see the relevance, given that I am
+sure the surveillance industry in USA believe they have all the legal
+backing they need to conduct mass surveillance on the entire
+world.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There is even the director of the FBI stating that he never saw an
+order requesting wiretapping of Donald Trump.  That is not very
+surprising, given how the FISA court work, with all its activity being
+secret.  Perhaps he only heard about it?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What I find most sad in this story is how Norwegian journalists
+present it.  In a news reports the other day in the radio from the
+Norwegian National broadcasting Company (NRK), I heard the journalist
+claim that &#39;the FBI denies any wiretapping&#39;, while the reality is that
+&#39;the FBI denies any illegal wiretapping&#39;.  There is a fundamental and
+important difference, and it make me sad that the journalists are
+unable to grasp it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2017-03-13:&lt;/strong&gt; Look like
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://theintercept.com/2017/03/13/rand-paul-is-right-nsa-routinely-monitors-americans-communications-without-warrants/&quot;&gt;The
+Intercept report that US Senator Rand Paul confirm what I state above&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>New book, &quot;Fri kultur&quot; by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of &quot;Free Culture&quot; from 2004</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_book___Fri_kultur__by__lessig__a_Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of__Free_Culture__from_2004.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 09:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;People keep asking me where to get the various forms of the book I
-published last week, the Norwegian Bokmål edition of Lawrence Lessigs
-book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt;.  It was
-published on paper via lulu.com, and is also available in PDF, ePub
-and MOBI format.  I currently sell the paper edition for self cost
-from lulu.com, but might extend the distribution to book stores like
-Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble later.  This will double the price and force
-me to make a profit from selling the book.  Anyway, here are links to
-get the book in different formats:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;Buy 
-    paper edition from lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf&quot;&gt;Download
-    PDF, size 7.9 MiB&lt;/a&gt; (gratis/free)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub&quot;&gt;Download
-    ePub, size 11 MiB&lt;/a&gt; (gratis/free)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi&quot;&gt;Download
-    MOBI, size 3.8 MiB&lt;/a&gt; (gratis/free)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note that the MOBI version have problems with the table of content,
-at least with the viewers I have been able to test.  And the ePub file
-have several problems according to
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/IDPF/epubcheck&quot;&gt;epubcheck&lt;/a&gt;, but seem
-to display fine in the viewers I have tested.  All the files needed to
-create the book in various forms are available from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;the
-github project page&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The project got press coverage from the Norwegian IT news site
-digi.no.  Check out the article
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/juss_og_samfunn/2015/10/29/vil-apne-politikernes-oyne-for-creative-commons&quot;&gt;Vil
-åpne politikernes øyne for Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture&quot;&gt;blogged
-about the project&lt;/a&gt; as it moved along.  The blogs document the translation
-progress and insights I had along the way.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Norwegian Bokmål translation of The Debian Administrator&#39;s Handbook complete, proofreading in progress</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_Bokm_l_translation_of_The_Debian_Administrator_s_Handbook_complete__proofreading_in_progress.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;For almost a year now, we have been working on making a Norwegian
+Bokmål edition of &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/&quot;&gt;The Debian
+Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt;.  Now, thanks to the tireless effort of
+Ole-Erik, Ingrid and Andreas, the initial translation is complete, and
+we are working on the proof reading to ensure consistent language and
+use of correct computer science terms.  The plan is to make the book
+available on paper, as well as in electronic form.  For that to
+happen, the proof reading must be completed and all the figures need
+to be translated.  If you want to help out, get in touch.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/debian-handbook/debian-handbook-nb-NO.pdf&quot;&gt;A
+
+fresh PDF edition&lt;/a&gt; in A4 format (the final book will have smaller
+pages) of the book created every morning is available for
+proofreading.  If you find any errors, please
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/debian-handbook/&quot;&gt;visit
+Weblate and correct the error&lt;/a&gt;.  The
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://l.github.io/debian-handbook/stat/nb-NO/index.html&quot;&gt;state
+of the translation including figures&lt;/a&gt; is a useful source for those
+provide Norwegian bokmål screen shots and figures.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Gavebok overlevert Stortinget i dag</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gavebok_overlevert_Stortinget_i_dag.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Like før kl. 11 i dag leverte jeg fem esker med gaveinnpakkede
-bøker til Stortinget, for utdeling til alle stortingsrepresentanter.
-Det ble etterfulgt av følgende pressemelding.  Stor takk til NUUG for
-lån av epostliste for å sende ut pressemeldingen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Er opphavsretten for streng, spør ny bok&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I dag kommer boken «&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Fri
-kultur&lt;/a&gt;» av Lawrence Lessig ut på norsk.  Boken handler om
-utviklingen og utvidelsene opphavsretten har hatt de siste 40 årene.
-Boken er i dag gitt i gave til alle stortingsrepresentantene.
-Oversetter og utgiver Petter Reinholdtsen håper Stortinget vil tenke
-seg om to ganger neste gang det er snakk om utvidelse av
-opphavsretten.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken forteller om hvordan store medieaktører ved hjelp av
-opphavsretten bruker teknologi til å begrense kulturen og kontrollere
-kreativiteten.  Den er skrevet av stifteren av
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons&lt;/a&gt;, professor
-Lawrence Lessig, som for tiden er med i kampen om å bli Demokratenes
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lessig2016.us/&quot;&gt;presidentkandidat i USA sitt
-presidentvalg i 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Lessig ble sist omtalt i norske medier da
-NRK i høst viste dokumentaren «Kampen for et demokratisk internett»
-som også er
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
-fra The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken beskriver hvordan opphavsrettens makt i USA har blitt
-betydelig utvidet etter 1974 langs fem kritiske akser: varighet (fra
-32 til 95 år), omfang (fra utgivere til alle), rekkevidde (gjelder nå
-enhver fremvisning via datamaskin), kontroll (avledede verk er
-definert så bredt at i praksis alle nye åndsverk risikerer søksmål fra
-en opphavsrettsinnehaver) og til sist maktkonsentrasjon og integrering
-av mediebransjen.  Den dokumenterer også hvordan medieindustrien har
-lyktes med å bruke rettsvesenet til å begrense konkurranse, og i
-praksis har skaffet seg vetorett over teknologiske nyvinninger.
-Nedlasting av fritt, lovlig og i utgangspunktet gratis materiale
-stoppes med tekniske sperrer og lobbyert lovvern av sperrene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Utvidelsene illustreres i boken med ulike eksempler.  For eksempel
-en demonstrasjon av at Walt Disney ville ha blitt ansett som en
-opphavsrettspirat dersom han gjorde i dag det han gjorde på
-1930-tallet.  Boken beskriver hvordan vern av åndsverk er bra, men at
-mer vern ikke nødvendigvis er bedre.&lt;?p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen, som sammen med flere frivillige har oversatt
-boken på fritiden de siste 3 årene, håper at boken vil gjøre en
-forskjell.  «Når en vet hvordan opphavsrettens varighet i Norge, uten
-opposisjon på Stortinget, ble utvidet nok en gang i mai i fjor, og
-hvordan Norges handelspartner USA gjennom de nye handelsavtalene
-Trans-Pacific Partnership og Transatlantic Trade and Investment
-Partnership
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/final-leaked-tpp-text-all-we-feared&quot;&gt;ønsker
-å utvide opphavsrettens makt også i andre land&lt;/a&gt;, håper jeg at flere
-vil spørre: Er det virkelig fornuftig å gjøre de samme utvidelsene i
-Norge?», spør han.  «Jeg håper boken kan bidra til kunnskap og
-forståelse, og kan gi Stortinget et bedre grunnlag til å ta riktige
-beslutninger som ivaretar befolkningens og samfunnets interesser i
-Norge.»&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Petter Reinholdtsen er en mangeårig fri programvareutvikler som har
-vært med på å lage systemer som operativsystemet Debian, IT-løsningen
-Skolelinux, borgerportalen FiksGataMi og innsynstjenesten Mimes brønn.
-Han forteller han selv har opplevd problemene utvidet varighet,
-omfang, rekkevidde og kontroll i opphavsretten medfører og at boken
-var en oppvekker.  «Jeg håper andre finner boken like interessant som
-jeg gjorde.  Boken kan
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;lastes
-gratis ned fra github&lt;/a&gt; eller
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;kjøpes
-på papir fra lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;,» avslutter Reinholdtsen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Så får vi se om det har noen positiv effekt. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Unlimited randomness with the ChaosKey?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Unlimited_randomness_with_the_ChaosKey_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I ordered a small batch of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/&quot;&gt;the ChaosKey&lt;/a&gt;, a small
+USB dongle for generating entropy created by Bdale Garbee and Keith
+Packard.  Yesterday it arrived, and I am very happy to report that it
+work great!  According to its designers, to get it to work out of the
+box, you need the Linux kernel version 4.1 or later.  I tested on a
+Debian Stretch machine (kernel version 4.9), and there it worked just
+fine, increasing the available entropy very quickly.  I wrote a small
+test oneliner to test.  It first print the current entropy level,
+drain /dev/random, and then print the entropy level for five seconds.
+Here is the situation without the ChaosKey inserted:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
+  dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
+  for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
+     cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
+     sleep 1; \
+  done
+300
+0+1 oppføringer inn
+0+1 oppføringer ut
+28 byte kopiert, 0,000264565 s, 106 kB/s
+4
+8
+12
+17
+21
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The entropy level increases by 3-4 every second.  In such case any
+application requiring random bits (like a HTTPS enabled web server)
+will halt and wait for more entrpy.  And here is the situation with
+the ChaosKey inserted:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
+  dd bs=1M if=/dev/random of=/dev/null count=1; \
+  for n in $(seq 1 5); do \
+     cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail; \
+     sleep 1; \
+  done
+1079
+0+1 oppføringer inn
+0+1 oppføringer ut
+104 byte kopiert, 0,000487647 s, 213 kB/s
+433
+1028
+1031
+1035
+1038
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Quite the difference. :) I bought a few more than I need, in case
+someone want to buy one here in Norway. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Update: The dongle was presented at Debconf last year.  You might
+find &lt;a href=&quot;https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/94/&quot;&gt;the talk
+recording illuminating&lt;/a&gt;.  It explains exactly what the source of
+randomness is, if you are unable to spot it from the schema drawing
+available from the ChaosKey web site linked at the start of this blog
+post.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>&quot;Fri kultur&quot; av @lessig - norsk utgave av &quot;Free Culture&quot; tilgjengelig på papir, PDF og ePub</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Fri_kultur__av__lessig___norsk_utgave_av__Free_Culture__tilgjengelig_p__papir__PDF_og_ePub.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Fri_kultur__av__lessig___norsk_utgave_av__Free_Culture__tilgjengelig_p__papir__PDF_og_ePub.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;Klikk her for å kjøpe boken&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I 2004, mens &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
-Commons-bevegelsen&lt;/a&gt; vokste frem, skrev bevegelsens stifter Lawrence
-Lessig boken
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; for å forklare problemene med økene åndsverksregulering og
-for å foreslå noen løsninger.  Jeg leste boken den gangen, og den både
-inspirerte meg og endret på hvordan jeg så på opphavsrettslovigving.
-Jeg skulle ønske flere folk leste denne boken.  Den gir en god
-gjennomgang av hvordan økende åndsverksregulering skader både
-nyskapning og kulturlivet, og skisserer hvordan både lovgivere og oss
-vanlige borgere kan bidra for å få slutt på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Derfor bestemte jeg meg sommeren 2012 for å oversette den til norsk
-bokmål og gjøre den tilgjengelig for de blant mine venner og familie
-som foretrekker å lese bøker på norsk.  Jeg oversatte boken ved hjelp
-av docbook og en gettext PO-fil, og endte opp med to utgaver, en på
-norsk og en på engelsk.  Den engelske publiserte jeg i forrige uke, og
-den norske utgaven på papir
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;er
-nå klar for salg&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg fikk heldigvis hjelp med oversetting og
-korrekturlesing av den norske utgaven fra en rekke frivillige.  Se
-side 245 for en komplett liste.  Slik ser omslaget ut:
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22406445.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-28-free-culture-norwegian-published-cover.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I tillegg til den norske og engelske utgaven holder vi på med en
-fransk utgave.  Den koordineres av dblatex-utvikleren Benoît Guillon,
-og oversettelsen var komplett denne uka men må korrekturleses før den
-kan gis ut.  Flere frivillige trengs her, så ta kontakt med Benoît
-hvis du vil bidra.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Boken er også tilgjengelig i PDF, ePub og MOBI-format fra
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;min
-github-prosjektside&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at ePub og MOBI-utgavene har noen
-formatteringsproblemer som jeg tror kommer av feil i docbook-verktøyet
-dbtoepub (Debian BTS-rapporter
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
-men jeg har ikke tatt meg tid til å undersøke problemene.  For de som
-vil ha elektronisk kopi anbefaler jeg å bruke PDF- og ePub-utgaven i
-denne omgang, da de ser ut til å hånderes bra av de fremviserne jeg
-har tilgjengelig.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Etter at oversettelsen til bokmål var ferdig klarte jeg å overtale
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; til å
-sponse trykking av boken.  Det er årsaken til at stiftelsens logo er
-på baksiden av omslaget.  Jeg er svært takknemlig for dette, og bruker
-bidraget til å gi en kopi av den norske utgaven til alle
-Stortingsrepresentanter og andre beslutningstakere her i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Detect OOXML files with undefined behaviour?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Detect_OOXML_files_with_undefined_behaviour_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I just noticed
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arkivrad.no/aktuelt/riksarkivarens-forskrift-pa-horing&quot;&gt;the
+new Norwegian proposal for archiving rules in the goverment&lt;/a&gt; list
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm&quot;&gt;ECMA-376&lt;/a&gt;
+/ ISO/IEC 29500 (aka OOXML) as valid formats to put in long term
+storage.  Luckily such files will only be accepted based on
+pre-approval from the National Archive.  Allowing OOXML files to be
+used for long term storage might seem like a good idea as long as we
+forget that there are plenty of ways for a &quot;valid&quot; OOXML document to
+have content with no defined interpretation in the standard, which
+lead to a question and an idea.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Is there any tool to detect if a OOXML document depend on such
+undefined behaviour?  It would be useful for the National Archive (and
+anyone else interested in verifying that a document is well defined)
+to have such tool available when considering to approve the use of
+OOXML.  I&#39;m aware of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/arlm/officeotron/&quot;&gt;officeotron OOXML
+validator&lt;/a&gt;, but do not know how complete it is nor if it will
+report use of undefined behaviour.  Are there other similar tools
+available?  Please send me an email if you know of any such tool.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>&quot;Free Culture&quot; by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;Click
-here to buy the book&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In 2004, as the &lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
-movement&lt;/a&gt; gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
-book &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)&quot;&gt;Free
-Culture&lt;/a&gt; to explain the problems with increasing copyright
-regulation and suggest some solutions.  I read the book back then and
-was very moved by it.  Reading the book inspired me and changed the
-way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
-would read it too.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
-Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
-that prefer to read books in Norwegian.  I translated the book using
-docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
-new edition of the English original.  I&#39;ve been in touch with the
-author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
-published an English version.  So I decided to do so.  Today, I made
-this edition
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;available
-for sale on Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;, for those interested in a paper book.  This
-is the cover:
-
-&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
-few days.  I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
-months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
-join the translation project.  So far there is only one active
-person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
-need some proof reading.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
-github project page&lt;/a&gt;.  Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
-formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
-dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842&quot;&gt;#795842&lt;/a&gt;
-and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871&quot;&gt;#796871&lt;/a&gt;),
-but I have not taken the time to investigate.  I recommend the PDF and
-ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
-have available.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
-to secure some sponsoring from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuugfoundation.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG Foundation&lt;/a&gt; to
-print the book.  This is the reason their logo is located on the back
-cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
-give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
-Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Ruling ignored our objections to the seizure of popcorn-time.no (#domstolkontroll)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ruling_ignored_our_objections_to_the_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no___domstolkontroll_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, we received the ruling from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html&quot;&gt;my
+day in court&lt;/a&gt;.  The case in question is a challenge of the seizure
+of the DNS domain popcorn-time.no.  The ruling simply did not mention
+most of our arguments, and seemed to take everything ØKOKRIM said at
+face value, ignoring our demonstration and explanations.  But it is
+hard to tell for sure, as we still have not seen most of the documents
+in the case and thus were unprepared and unable to contradict several
+of the claims made in court by the opposition.  We are considering an
+appeal, but it is partly a question of funding, as it is costing us
+quite a bit to pay for our lawyer.  If you want to help, please
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to the
+NUUG defense fund&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The details of the case, as far as we know it, is available in
+Norwegian from
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the NUUG
+blog&lt;/a&gt;.  This also include
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/Avslag_etter_rettslig_h_ring_om_DNS_beslaget___vurderer_veien_videre.shtml&quot;&gt;the
+ruling itself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>EU-domstolen konkluderer motsatt av Skatteetaten når det gjelder Bitcoin</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Bitcoin er i litt vinden i Norge for tiden, med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/ytring/en-digital-robin-hood-1.12604681&quot;&gt;kronikk
-om bitcoin-overføringer på tvers av landegrensene&lt;/A&gt; hos NRK Ytring
-for to dager siden og
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID25009815/kapital-bitcoin-en-digital-pengebinge&quot;&gt;dokumentar
-om bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; på NRK 2 i forgårs og i går.  I den sammenhengen er det
-spesielt hyggelig med en gladnyhet fra EU om Bitcoin.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I dag konkluderte EU-domstolen at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&amp;docid=170305&amp;pageIndex=0&amp;doclang=en&amp;mode=req&amp;dir=&amp;occ=first&amp;part=1&amp;cid=604079&quot;&gt;Bitcoin-kjøp
-fra Bitcoin-børser ikke er MVA-pliktig&lt;/a&gt; (sak  C‑264/14).  Fant
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-bitcoin-tax-eu-idUSKCN0SG0X920151022&quot;&gt;nyheten
-først hos Reuters&lt;/a&gt;, etter tips fra innehaveren av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitmynt.no/&quot;&gt;Bitmynt&lt;/a&gt;.  EU-domstolens avgjørelse
-er stikk i strid med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skatteetaten.no/no/Radgiver/Rettskilder/Uttalelser/Prinsipputtalelser/Bruk-av-bitcoins--skatte--og-avgiftsmessige-konsekvenser/&quot;&gt;annonseringen
-fra Skatteetaten i 2013&lt;/a&gt;, der de konkluderte med at bitcoin er et
-«formuesobjekter» som det skulle betales mva på ved kjøp og salg.
-Dermed la Skatteetaten opp til dobbel MVA-betaling hvis en kjøpte noe
-med Bitcoin fra Norge (først mva på kjøp av Bitcoin, deretter mva på
-det en kjøper med Bitcoin).  Jeg lurer på om denne avgjørelsen får
-Skatteetaten til å bytte mening.  Gleder meg til fortsettelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>A day in court challenging seizure of popcorn-time.no for #domstolkontroll</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_day_in_court_challenging_seizure_of_popcorn_time_no_for__domstolkontroll.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 3 Feb 2017 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-02-01-popcorn-time-in-court.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, I spent the entire day in court in Follo Tingrett
+representing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the member association
+NUUG&lt;/a&gt;, alongside &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;the member
+association EFN&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imc.no&quot;&gt;the DNS registrar
+IMC&lt;/a&gt;, challenging the seizure of the DNS name popcorn-time.no.  It
+was interesting to sit in a court of law for the first time in my
+life.  Our team can be seen in the picture above: attorney Ola
+Tellesbø, EFN board member Tom Fredrik Blenning, IMC CEO Morten Emil
+Eriksen and NUUG board member Petter Reinholdtsen.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.domstol.no/no/Enkelt-domstol/follo-tingrett/Nar-gar-rettssaken/Beramming/?cid=AAAA1701301512081262234UJFBVEZZZZZEJBAvtale&quot;&gt;The
+case at hand&lt;/a&gt; is that the Norwegian National Authority for
+Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (aka
+Økokrim) decided on their own, to seize a DNS domain early last
+year, without following
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.norid.no/no/regelverk/navnepolitikk/#link12&quot;&gt;the
+official policy of the Norwegian DNS authority&lt;/a&gt; which require a
+court decision.  The web site in question was a site covering Popcorn
+Time.  And Popcorn Time is the name of a technology with both legal
+and illegal applications.  Popcorn Time is a client combining
+searching a Bittorrent directory available on the Internet with
+downloading/distribute content via Bittorrent and playing the
+downloaded content on screen.  It can be used illegally if it is used
+to distribute content against the will of the right holder, but it can
+also be used legally to play a lot of content, for example the
+millions of movies
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://archive.org/details/movies&quot;&gt;available from the
+Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; or the collection
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://vodo.net/films/&quot;&gt;available from Vodo&lt;/a&gt;.  We created
+&lt;a href=&quot;magnet:?xt=urn:btih:86c1802af5a667ca56d3918aecb7d3c0f7173084&amp;dn=PresentasjonFolloTingrett.mov&amp;tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fpublic.popcorn-tracker.org%3A6969%2Fannounce&quot;&gt;a
+video demonstrating legally use of Popcorn Time&lt;/a&gt; and played it in
+Court.  It can of course be downloaded using Bittorrent.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I did not quite know what to expect from a day in court.  The
+government held on to their version of the story and we held on to
+ours, and I hope the judge is able to make sense of it all.  We will
+know in two weeks time.  Unfortunately I do not have high hopes, as
+the Government have the upper hand here with more knowledge about the
+case, better training in handling criminal law and in general higher
+standing in the courts than fairly unknown DNS registrar and member
+associations.  It is expensive to be right also in Norway.  So far the
+case have cost more than NOK 70 000,-.  To help fund the case, NUUG
+and EFN have asked for donations, and managed to collect around NOK 25
+000,- so far.  Given the presentation from the Government, I expect
+the government to appeal if the case go our way.  And if the case do
+not go our way, I hope we have enough funding to appeal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;From the other side came two people from Økokrim.  On the benches,
+appearing to be part of the group from the government were two people
+from the Simonsen Vogt Wiik lawyer office, and three others I am not
+quite sure who was.  Økokrim had proposed to present two witnesses
+from The Motion Picture Association, but this was rejected because
+they did not speak Norwegian and it was a bit late to bring in a
+translator, but perhaps the two from MPA were present anyway.  All
+seven appeared to know each other.  Good to see the case is take
+seriously.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you, like me, believe the courts should be involved before a DNS
+domain is hijacked by the government, or you believe the Popcorn Time
+technology have a lot of useful and legal applications, I suggest you
+too &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/dns-beslag-donasjon.shtml&quot;&gt;donate to
+the NUUG defense fund&lt;/a&gt;.  Both Bitcoin and bank transfer are
+available. If NUUG get more than we need for the legal action (very
+unlikely), the rest will be spend promoting free software, open
+standards and unix-like operating systems in Norway, so no matter what
+happens the money will be put to good use.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to lean more about the case, I recommend you check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/news/tags/dns-domenebeslag/&quot;&gt;the blog
+posts from NUUG covering the case&lt;/a&gt;.  They cover the legal arguments
+on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden a year ago</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Last year, &lt;a href=&quot;https://lessig2016.us/&quot;&gt;US president candidate
-in the Democratic Party&lt;/a&gt; Lawrence interviewed Edward Snowden.  The
-one hour interview was
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE&quot;&gt;published by
-Harvard Law School 2014-10-23 on Youtube&lt;/a&gt;, and the meeting took
-place 2014-10-20.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The questions are very good, and there is lots of useful
-information to be learned and very interesting issues to think about
-being raised.  Please check it out.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_Sr96TFQQE&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I find it especially interesting to hear again that Snowden did try
-to bring up his reservations through the official channels without any
-luck.  It is in sharp contrast to the answers made 2013-11-06 by the
-Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg to the Norwegian Parliament,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tale.holderdeord.no/speeches/s131106/68&quot;&gt;claiming
-Snowden is no Whistle-Blower&lt;/a&gt; because he should have taken up his
-concerns internally and using official channels.  It make me sad
-that this is the political leadership we have here in Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Nasjonalbiblioteket avslutter sin ulovlige bruk av Google Skjemaer</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_avslutter_sin_ulovlige_bruk_av_Google_Skjemaer.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nasjonalbiblioteket_avslutter_sin_ulovlige_bruk_av_Google_Skjemaer.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2017 09:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag fikk jeg en skikkelig gladmelding.  Bakgrunnen er at før jul
+arrangerte Nasjonalbiblioteket
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nb.no/Bibliotekutvikling/Kunnskapsorganisering/Nasjonalt-verksregister/Seminar-om-verksregister&quot;&gt;et
+seminar om sitt knakende gode tiltak «verksregister»&lt;/a&gt;.  Eneste
+måten å melde seg på dette seminaret var å sende personopplysninger
+til Google via Google Skjemaer.  Dette syntes jeg var tvilsom praksis,
+da det bør være mulig å delta på seminarer arrangert av det offentlige
+uten å måtte dele sine interesser, posisjon og andre
+personopplysninger med Google.  Jeg ba derfor om innsyn via
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbronn.no/&quot;&gt;Mimes brønn&lt;/a&gt; i
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/personopplysninger_til_google_sk&quot;&gt;avtaler
+og vurderinger Nasjonalbiblioteket hadde rundt dette&lt;/a&gt;.
+Personopplysningsloven legger klare rammer for hva som må være på
+plass før en kan be tredjeparter, spesielt i utlandet, behandle
+personopplysninger på sine vegne, så det burde eksistere grundig
+dokumentasjon før noe slikt kan bli lovlig.  To jurister hos
+Nasjonalbiblioteket mente først dette var helt i orden, og at Googles
+standardavtale kunne brukes som databehandlingsavtale.  Det syntes jeg
+var merkelig, men har ikke hatt kapasitet til å følge opp saken før
+for to dager siden.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Gladnyheten i dag, som kom etter at jeg tipset Nasjonalbiblioteket
+om at Datatilsynet underkjente Googles standardavtaler som
+databehandleravtaler i 2011, er at Nasjonalbiblioteket har bestemt seg
+for å avslutte bruken av Googles Skjemaer/Apps og gå i dialog med DIFI
+for å finne bedre måter å håndtere påmeldinger i tråd med
+personopplysningsloven.  Det er fantastisk å se at av og til hjelper
+det å spørre hva i alle dager det offentlige holder på med.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>The Story of Aaron Swartz - Let us all weep!</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2015 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The movie &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy&quot;&gt;The
-Internet&#39;s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is both inspiring
-and depressing at the same time.  The work of Aaron Swartz has
-inspired me in my work, and I am grateful of all the improvements he
-was able to initiate or complete.  I wish I am able to do as much good
-in my life as he did in his.  Every minute of this 1:45 long movie is
-inspiring in documenting how much impact a single person can have on
-improving the society and this world.  And it is depressing in
-documenting how the law enforcement of USA (and other countries) is
-corrupted to a point where they can push a bright kid to his death for
-downloading too many scientific articles.  Aaron is dead.  Let us all
-weep.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The movie is also available on
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-2hwTk58&quot;&gt;Youtube&lt;/a&gt;.  I
-wish there were Norwegian subtitles available, so I could show it to
-my parents.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Bryter NAV sin egen personvernerklæring?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bryter_NAV_sin_egen_personvernerkl_ring_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bryter_NAV_sin_egen_personvernerkl_ring_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2017 06:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg leste med interesse en nyhetssak hos
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/artikler/nav-avslorer-trygdemisbruk-ved-a-spore-ip-adresser/367394&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;
+og
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nrk.no/buskerud/trygdesvindlere-avslores-av-utenlandske-ip-adresser-1.13313461&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt;
+om at det ikke bare er meg, men at også NAV bedriver geolokalisering
+av IP-adresser, og at det gjøres analyse av IP-adressene til de som
+sendes inn meldekort for å se om meldekortet sendes inn fra
+utenlandske IP-adresser.  Politiadvokat i Drammen, Hans Lyder Haare,
+er sitert i NRK på at «De to er jo blant annet avslørt av
+IP-adresser. At man ser at meldekortet kommer fra utlandet.»&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg synes det er fint at det blir bedre kjent at IP-adresser
+knyttes til enkeltpersoner og at innsamlet informasjon brukes til å
+stedsbestemme personer også av aktører her i Norge.  Jeg ser det som
+nok et argument for å bruke
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt; så mye som mulig for å
+gjøre gjøre IP-lokalisering vanskeligere, slik at en kan beskytte sin
+privatsfære og unngå å dele sin fysiske plassering med
+uvedkommede.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;P&gt;Men det er en ting som bekymrer meg rundt denne nyheten.  Jeg ble
+tipset (takk #nuug) om
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nav.no/no/NAV+og+samfunn/Kontakt+NAV/Teknisk+brukerstotte/Snarveier/personvernerkl%C3%A6ring-for-arbeids-og-velferdsetaten&quot;&gt;NAVs
+personvernerklæring&lt;/a&gt;, som under punktet «Personvern og statistikk»
+lyder:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;«Når du besøker nav.no, etterlater du deg elektroniske spor. Sporene
+dannes fordi din nettleser automatisk sender en rekke opplysninger til
+NAVs tjener (server-maskin) hver gang du ber om å få vist en side. Det
+er eksempelvis opplysninger om hvilken nettleser og -versjon du
+bruker, og din internettadresse (ip-adresse). For hver side som vises,
+lagres følgende opplysninger:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;hvilken side du ser på&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;dato og tid&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;hvilken nettleser du bruker&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;din ip-adresse&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Ingen av opplysningene vil bli brukt til å identifisere
+enkeltpersoner. NAV bruker disse opplysningene til å generere en
+samlet statistikk som blant annet viser hvilke sider som er mest
+populære. Statistikken er et redskap til å forbedre våre
+tjenester.»&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg klarer ikke helt å se hvordan analyse av de besøkendes
+IP-adresser for å se hvem som sender inn meldekort via web fra en
+IP-adresse i utlandet kan gjøres uten å komme i strid med påstanden om
+at «ingen av opplysningene vil bli brukt til å identifisere
+enkeltpersoner».  Det virker dermed for meg som at NAV bryter sine
+egen personvernerklæring, hvilket
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_lover_brutt_n_r_personvernpolicy_ikke_stemmer_med_praksis_.html&quot;&gt;Datatilsynet
+fortalte meg i starten av desember antagelig er brudd på
+personopplysningsloven&lt;/a&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;I tillegg er personvernerklæringen ganske misvisende i og med at
+NAVs nettsider ikke bare forsyner NAV med personopplysninger, men i
+tillegg ber brukernes nettleser kontakte fem andre nettjenere
+(script.hotjar.com, static.hotjar.com, vars.hotjar.com,
+www.google-analytics.com og www.googletagmanager.com), slik at
+personopplysninger blir gjort tilgjengelig for selskapene Hotjar og
+Google , og alle som kan lytte på trafikken på veien (som FRA, GCHQ og
+NSA).  Jeg klarer heller ikke se hvordan slikt spredning av
+personopplysninger kan være i tråd med kravene i
+personopplysningloven, eller i tråd med NAVs personvernerklæring.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Kanskje NAV bør ta en nøye titt på sin personvernerklæring?  Eller
+kanskje Datatilsynet bør gjøre det?&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Alle Stortingets mobiltelefoner kontrolleres fra USA...</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Alle_Stortingets_mobiltelefoner_kontrolleres_fra_USA___.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Alle_Stortingets_mobiltelefoner_kontrolleres_fra_USA___.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg lot meg fascinere av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/Stortinget-har-tilgang-til-a-fjernstyre-600-mobiler-8192692.html&quot;&gt;en
-artikkel i Aftenposten&lt;/a&gt; der det fortelles at «over 600 telefoner som
-benyttes av stortingsrepresentanter, rådgivere og ansatte på
-Stortinget, kan «fjernstyres» ved hjelp av
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airwatch.androidagent&quot;&gt;programvaren
-Airwatch&lt;/a&gt;, et såkalte MDM-program (Mobile Device Managment)».  Det
-hele bagatelliseres av Stortingets IT-stab, men det er i hovedsak på
-grunn av at journalisten ikke stiller de relevante spørsmålene.  For
-meg er det relevante spørsmålet hvem som har lovlig tilgang (i henhold
-til lokal lovgiving, dvs. i hvert fall i Norge, Sverige, UK og USA)
-til informasjon om og på telefonene, og hvor enkelt det er å skaffe
-seg tilgang til hvor mobilene befinner seg og informasjon som befinner
-seg på telefonene ved hjelp av utro tjenere, trusler, innbrudd og
-andre ulovlige metoder.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Bruken av AirWatch betyr i realiteten at USAs etteretning og
-politimyndigheter har full tilgang til stortingets mobiltelefoner,
-inkludert posisjon og innhold, takket være
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008&quot;&gt;FISAAA-loven&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter&quot;&gt;National
-Security Letters&lt;/a&gt;&quot; og det enkle faktum at selskapet
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airwatch.com/&quot;&gt;AirWatch&lt;/a&gt; er kontrollert av et
-selskap i USA.  I tillegg er det kjent at flere lands
-etterretningstjenester kan lytte på trafikken når den passerer
-landegrensene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg har bedt om mer informasjon
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/saksnummer_for_saker_anganede_br&quot;&gt;fra
-Stortinget om bruken av AirWatch&lt;/a&gt; via Mimes brønn så får vi se hva
-de har å fortelle om saken.  Fant ingenting om &#39;airwatch&#39; i
-postjournalen til Stortinget, så jeg trenger hjelp før jeg kan be om
-innsyn i konkrete dokumenter.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2015-10-07: Jeg er blitt spurt hvorfor jeg antar at
-AirWatch-agenten rapporterer til USA og ikke direkte til Stortingets
-egen infrastruktur.  Det stemmer at det er teknisk mulig å sette
-opp mobiltelefonene til å rapportere til datamaskiner som eies av
-Stortinget.  Jeg antar det rapporteres til AirWatch sine sentrale
-tjenester basert på det jeg leste fra beskrivelsen av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airwatch.com/solutions/mobile-device-management/&quot;&gt;Mobile
-Device Management&lt;/A&gt; på AirWatch sine egne nettsider, koblet med at
-det brukes en standard app som kan hentes fra &quot;app-butikkene&quot; for å få
-tilgang.  Enten må app-en settes opp individuelt hos Stortinget, eller
-så får den beskjed fra AirWatch i USA om hvor den skal koble seg opp.
-I det første tilfellet vil den ikke rapportere direkte til USA, men
-til programvare utviklet av AirWatch som kjører på en maskin under
-Stortingets kontroll.  Det er litt bedre, men fortsatt vil det være
-umulig for Stortinget å være sikker på hva programvaren som tar imot
-forbindelser gjør.  Jeg ser fra beskrivelsen av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airwatch.com/differentiators/enterprise-integration/&quot;&gt;Enterprice
-Integration&lt;/a&gt; hos AirWatch at det er mulig å ha lokal installasjon,
-og håper innsynsforespørsler mot Stortinget kan fortelle mer om
-hvordan ting konkret fungerer der.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Where did that package go? &amp;mdash; geolocated IP traceroute</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Where_did_that_package_go___mdash__geolocated_IP_traceroute.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Where_did_that_package_go___mdash__geolocated_IP_traceroute.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Did you ever wonder where the web trafic really flow to reach the
+web servers, and who own the network equipment it is flowing through?
+It is possible to get a glimpse of this from using traceroute, but it
+is hard to find all the details.  Many years ago, I wrote a system to
+map the Norwegian Internet (trying to figure out if our plans for a
+network game service would get low enough latency, and who we needed
+to talk to about setting up game servers close to the users.  Back
+then I used traceroute output from many locations (I asked my friends
+to run a script and send me their traceroute output) to create the
+graph and the map.  The output from traceroute typically look like
+this:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+traceroute to www.stortinget.no (85.88.67.10), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
+ 1  uio-gw10.uio.no (129.240.202.1)  0.447 ms  0.486 ms  0.621 ms
+ 2  uio-gw8.uio.no (129.240.24.229)  0.467 ms  0.578 ms  0.675 ms
+ 3  oslo-gw1.uninett.no (128.39.65.17)  0.385 ms  0.373 ms  0.358 ms
+ 4  te3-1-2.br1.fn3.as2116.net (193.156.90.3)  1.174 ms  1.172 ms  1.153 ms
+ 5  he16-1-1.cr1.san110.as2116.net (195.0.244.234)  2.627 ms he16-1-1.cr2.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.244.48)  3.172 ms he16-1-1.cr1.san110.as2116.net (195.0.244.234)  2.857 ms
+ 6  ae1.ar8.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.242.39)  0.662 ms  0.637 ms ae0.ar8.oslosda310.as2116.net (195.0.242.23)  0.622 ms
+ 7  89.191.10.146 (89.191.10.146)  0.931 ms  0.917 ms  0.955 ms
+ 8  * * *
+ 9  * * *
+[...]
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This show the DNS names and IP addresses of (at least some of the)
+network equipment involved in getting the data traffic from me to the
+www.stortinget.no server, and how long it took in milliseconds for a
+package to reach the equipment and return to me.  Three packages are
+sent, and some times the packages do not follow the same path.  This
+is shown for hop 5, where three different IP addresses replied to the
+traceroute request.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There are many ways to measure trace routes.  Other good traceroute
+implementations I use are traceroute (using ICMP packages) mtr (can do
+both ICMP, UDP and TCP) and scapy (python library with ICMP, UDP, TCP
+traceroute and a lot of other capabilities).  All of them are easily
+available in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This time around, I wanted to know the geographic location of
+different route points, to visualize how visiting a web page spread
+information about the visit to a lot of servers around the globe.  The
+background is that a web site today often will ask the browser to get
+from many servers the parts (for example HTML, JSON, fonts,
+JavaScript, CSS, video) required to display the content.  This will
+leak information about the visit to those controlling these servers
+and anyone able to peek at the data traffic passing by (like your ISP,
+the ISPs backbone provider, FRA, GCHQ, NSA and others).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Lets pick an example, the Norwegian parliament web site
+www.stortinget.no.  It is read daily by all members of parliament and
+their staff, as well as political journalists, activits and many other
+citizens of Norway.  A visit to the www.stortinget.no web site will
+ask your browser to contact 8 other servers: ajax.googleapis.com,
+insights.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com, static.hotjar.com,
+stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google-analytics.com,
+www.googletagmanager.com and www.netigate.se.  I extracted this by
+asking &lt;a href=&quot;http://phantomjs.org/&quot;&gt;PhantomJS&lt;/a&gt; to visit the
+Stortinget web page and tell me all the URLs PhantomJS downloaded to
+render the page (in HAR format using
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/blob/master/examples/netsniff.js&quot;&gt;their
+netsniff example&lt;/a&gt;.  I am very grateful to Gorm for showing me how
+to do this).  My goal is to visualize network traces to all IP
+addresses behind these DNS names, do show where visitors personal
+information is spread when visiting the page.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;www.stortinget.no-geoip.kml&quot;&gt;&lt;img
+src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geoip-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;map of combined traces for URLs used by www.stortinget.no using GeoIP&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When I had a look around for options, I could not find any good
+free software tools to do this, and decided I needed my own traceroute
+wrapper outputting KML based on locations looked up using GeoIP.  KML
+is easy to work with and easy to generate, and understood by several
+of the GIS tools I have available.  I got good help from by NUUG
+colleague Anders Einar with this, and the result can be seen in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/kmltraceroute&quot;&gt;my
+kmltraceroute git repository&lt;/a&gt;.  Unfortunately, the quality of the
+free GeoIP databases I could find (and the for-pay databases my
+friends had access to) is not up to the task.  The IP addresses of
+central Internet infrastructure would typically be placed near the
+controlling companies main office, and not where the router is really
+located, as you can see from &lt;a href=&quot;www.stortinget.no-geoip.kml&quot;&gt;the
+KML file I created&lt;/a&gt; using the GeoLite City dataset from MaxMind.
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-scapy.svg&quot;&gt;&lt;img
+src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-scapy-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;scapy traceroute graph for URLs used by www.stortinget.no&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also had a look at the visual traceroute graph created by
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/&quot;&gt;the scrapy project&lt;/a&gt;,
+showing IP network ownership (aka AS owner) for the IP address in
+question.
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-scapy.svg&quot;&gt;The
+graph display a lot of useful information about the traceroute in SVG
+format&lt;/a&gt;, and give a good indication on who control the network
+equipment involved, but it do not include geolocation.  This graph
+make it possible to see the information is made available at least for
+UNINETT, Catchcom, Stortinget, Nordunet, Google, Amazon, Telia, Level
+3 Communications and NetDNA.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://geotraceroute.com/index.php?node=4&amp;host=www.stortinget.no&quot;&gt;&lt;img
+src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geotraceroute-small.png&quot; alt=&quot;example geotraceroute view for www.stortinget.no&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In the process, I came across the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://geotraceroute.com/&quot;&gt;web service GeoTraceroute&lt;/a&gt; by
+Salim Gasmi.  Its methology of combining guesses based on DNS names,
+various location databases and finally use latecy times to rule out
+candidate locations seemed to do a very good job of guessing correct
+geolocation.  But it could only do one trace at the time, did not have
+a sensor in Norway and did not make the geolocations easily available
+for postprocessing.  So I contacted the developer and asked if he
+would be willing to share the code (he refused until he had time to
+clean it up), but he was interested in providing the geolocations in a
+machine readable format, and willing to set up a sensor in Norway.  So
+since yesterday, it is possible to run traces from Norway in this
+service thanks to a sensor node set up by
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the NUUG assosiation&lt;/a&gt;, and get the
+trace in KML format for further processing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geotraceroute-kml-join.kml&quot;&gt;&lt;img
+src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2017-01-09-www.stortinget.no-geotraceroute-kml-join.png&quot; alt=&quot;map of combined traces for URLs used by www.stortinget.no using geotraceroute&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here we can see a lot of trafic passes Sweden on its way to
+Denmark, Germany, Holland and Ireland.  Plenty of places where the
+Snowden confirmations verified the traffic is read by various actors
+without your best interest as their top priority.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Combining KML files is trivial using a text editor, so I could loop
+over all the hosts behind the urls imported by www.stortinget.no and
+ask for the KML file from GeoTraceroute, and create a combined KML
+file with all the traces (unfortunately only one of the IP addresses
+behind the DNS name is traced this time.  To get them all, one would
+have to request traces using IP number instead of DNS names from
+GeoTraceroute).  That might be the next step in this project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Armed with these tools, I find it a lot easier to figure out where
+the IP traffic moves and who control the boxes involved in moving it.
+And every time the link crosses for example the Swedish border, we can
+be sure Swedish Signal Intelligence (FRA) is listening, as GCHQ do in
+Britain and NSA in USA and cables around the globe.  (Hm, what should
+we tell them? :) Keep that in mind if you ever send anything
+unencrypted over the Internet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;PS: KML files are drawn using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://ivanrublev.me/kml/&quot;&gt;the KML viewer from Ivan
+Rublev&lt;a/&gt;, as it was less cluttered than the local Linux application
+Marble.  There are heaps of other options too.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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