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Alle Stortingets mobiltelefoner kontrolleres fra USA...
-
7th October 2015
-

Jeg lot meg fascinere av -en -artikkel i Aftenposten der det fortelles at «over 600 telefoner som -benyttes av stortingsrepresentanter, rådgivere og ansatte på -Stortinget, kan «fjernstyres» ved hjelp av -programvaren -Airwatch, 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.

- -

Bruken av AirWatch betyr i realiteten at USAs etteretning og -politimyndigheter har full tilgang til stortingets mobiltelefoner, -inkludert posisjon og innhold, takket være -FISAAA-loven -og -"National -Security Letters" og det enkle faktum at AirWatch er kontrollert -av et selskap i USA. I tillegg er det kjent at kan flere lands -etterretningstjenester kan lytte på trafikken når den passerer -landegrensene.

- -

Jeg har bedt om mer informasjon -fra -Stortinget om bruken av AirWatch via Mimes brønn så får vi se hva -de har å fortelle om saken. Fant ingenting om 'airwatch' i -postjournalen til Stortinget, så jeg trenger hjelp før jeg kan be om -innsyn i konkrete dokumenter.

+
One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux?
+
7th April 2016
+

Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related +packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use +ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so. +But I might be wrong.

+ +

According to +the popcon +results for spl-linux, there are 1019 Debian installations, or +0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know +the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS +on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS +installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian +the ZFS feature is already available, and there +the popcon +results for zfsutils show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of +the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.

+ +

But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum +announced +in April 2015 that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were +cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in +the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the +debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason +to give up. The current status can be seen on +the +team status page, and +the +source code is available on Alioth.

+ +

As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure +my home server can function in the future using only official Debian +packages, and the current blocker is to get he debian/copyright file +accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try +to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about +creating, +updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically, and I +used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the +copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around +2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it +right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to +find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.

- Tags: norsk, offentlig innsyn, personvern, sikkerhet, stortinget, surveillance. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -67,32 +75,473 @@ innsyn i konkrete dokumenter.

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French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book
-
1st October 2015
-

As I wrap up the Norwegian version of -Free -Culture book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof -reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great -dblatex helper and -developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a -to try to create a French version of the book. He started with the -French translation available from the -Wikilivres wiki -pages, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing -the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use -to create the Norwegian translation from the English edition. We meet -on the #dblatex IRC -channel to discuss the work. If you want to help create a French -edition, check out -his git -repository and join us on IRC. If the French edition look good, -we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com. A French version of -the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.

+
Statlig hemmelighold, «mangler» i OEP og treg journalføring - statistikk for 2015
+
7th April 2016
+

For litt mer enn et år siden laget jeg litt statistikk for 2013 og +2014 basert på Offentlig elektronisk +postjournal (OEP). Tallene finnes i tre bloggposter, en over +hvem +som er mest hemmelighetsfulle, en annen med +hvor +mye som mangler og en om +hvor +stor andel dokumenter som journalføres mer enn 180 dager etter +dokumentdato. Jeg synes det er interessant å se hvordan det +utvikler seg over tid, så her er tallene for 2015 og 2014. 2014-tallene +bør være de samme som sist, men kan ha litt avvik på grunn av +endringer/korreksjoner gjort i OEP. Denne gangen har jeg samlet alle +tallene i samme bloggpost.

+ +

Først kommer statistikken over antall dokumenter som er registrert +unntatt offentligheten i OEP. Merk at klassifiseringen i OEP er +foreløpig, slik at en kan få innsyn i dokumenter merket unntatt +offentlighet når en spør, etter nærmere vurdering. Det er dermed ikke +gitt at prosentsatsen representerer hvor mange dokumenter som ville +blitt holdt tilbake på forespørsel.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
20152014Instans
ProsentAntall u.off.TotaltProsentAntall u.off.Totalt
0.0 0 2 0.0 0 0Valgdirektoratet
0.0 0 30 0.0 0 0Innstillingsrådet for dommere
0.3 11 3303 0.2 8 3589Medietilsynet
0.6 56 8013 0.9 60 6146Utlendingsnemnda
0.9 2 206 0.0 0 0Norsk Romsenter
1.0 182 17238 3.7 764 20353Norsk Filminstitutt
1.6 483 29920 2.7 720 26364Direktoratet for byggkvalitet
1.7 30 1674 2.5 42 1649Fredskorpset
2.42815116570 2.52098 82445Landbruksdirektoratet Oslo
2.5 621 24150 2.5 689 26855Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
2.6 62 234013.3 288 2164Kunst i offentlige rom
3.2 272 8391 4.9 388 7838Statens strålevern
3.7 372 9970 4.4 480 10808Petroleumstilsynet
4.4 456 10318 3.7 408 10782Forbrukerombudet
5.0 14 27811.0 22 200Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling
6.2 467 7486 4.8 385 7973Sysselmannen på Svalbard
6.3 294 4651 7.4 304 4078Språkrådet
6.51241 18817 6.51352 20776Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning
6.85381 79048 7.95981 75393Fiskeridirektoratet
7.24201 57778 2.81542 53911Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
7.42028 2738510.82342 21539Kulturdepartementet
7.713994179777 7.913743171924Arbeidstilsynet
8.63256 37553 8.53203 37675Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
9.87256 73440 8.86541 74189Statens vegvesen Region midt
10.73802 35467 7.52780 36664Forsvarsbygg
11.01157 10448 9.61148 11935Landbruks- og matdepartementet
11.11408912665211.712439105491Statens vegvesen Region vest
11.11756 15726 6.91242 17980Brønnøysundregistrene
11.23417 30277 9.32653 28291Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet
12.22012 1649013.02183 16736Fylkesmannen i Hedmark
12.69751 7714515.311188 72933Sjøfartsdirektoratet
12.811031 8599610.57895 74653Arkivverket
12.82112616490612.619230151541Statens vegvesen Region øst
12.9 941 724722.81687 7393Domstoladministrasjonen
13.01417010828414.015650111147Statens vegvesen Region sør
13.41394 1036417.51484 8440Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard
13.65297 3870711.54366 37961Statens vegvesen Vegdirektoratet
14.43001 2082013.02943 22557Samferdselsdepartementet
14.49453 6564212.77841 61425Statens vegvesen Region nord
14.66998 4767011.25179 46025Statsbygg
15.43984 2576914.63663 25010Kunnskapsdepartementet
15.66769 43139 8.53697 43364Justervesenet
15.8 178 112616.1 184 1140Landinfo
16.2 516 318324.2 919 3790Landbruksdirektoratet Alta
16.21859 1142412.01100 9120Havforskningsinstituttet
16.3 142 869 0.0 0 0Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder (frem til 31.12.15)
16.62081 1252221.12722 12850Statens jernbanetilsyn
17.210669 6202320.911602 55388Utdanningsdirektoratet
18.411189 6057712.96743 51881Miljødirektoratet
18.52719314680349.92549 5108Norsk kulturråd
18.82499 1328120.82888 13853Olje- og energidepartementet
18.87804 4136215.05824 38769Luftfartstilsynet
19.1 479 250521.1 563 2660Norges geologiske undersøkelse
19.213777 7140920.413318 65121Utenriksdepartementet
19.83605 1819422.14177 18833Klima- og miljødepartementet
20.61736 841223.12018 8701Statens lånekasse for utdanning
20.62930 1422018.72459 13138Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
21.03786 1797518.43213 17452Fylkesmannen i Telemark
21.44930 2297122.54565 20202Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal
22.08244 3738517.56420 36587Statens kartverk
23.02212 959323.01797 7799Norsk Akkreditering
23.06622 2877721.46142 28622Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
23.42672 1140525.73039 11812Oljedirektoratet
23.65430 2291820.24847 23968Fylkesmannen i Oppland
23.83657 1533422.63277 14499Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder
23.88182 3432523.77754 32598Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet
24.05806 2410327.45998 21864Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet
24.2 197 81431.6 196 620Statens institutt for rusmiddelforskning
24.43266 1333821.62600 11993Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning
24.64728 1920824.44584 18715Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder
24.83711 14933 6.4 795 12300Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT
24.95002 2003321.63997 18424Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag
25.11246 495427.21305 4781Konkurransetilsynet
25.65674 2212820.44936 24189Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet
26.922947 8529324.321337 87572Helsedirektoratet
27.23648 1340118.51898 10234Vox, nasjonalt fagorgan for kompetansepolitikk
27.623161 8379529.722587 75973Statens legemiddelverk
27.76373 2294128.36449 22738Fylkesmannen i Sør-Trøndelag
27.9 784 2807 0.0 0 0Jernbaneverket
29.61290 435247.01401 2976Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT)
29.86990 2338830.27263 23997Fylkesmannen i Buskerud
29.92932 977832.33439 10643Statsministerens kontor
30.3 147 485 0.0 0 0Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder (frem til 31.12.115)
31.59472 3004728.99498 32839Fylkesmannen i Rogaland
31.81627 511234.22082 6072Datatilsynet
31.91128 352832.91302 3950Statens pensjonskasse
31.913718 4291832.212887 39921Fylkesmannen i Hordaland
32.07510 2346433.07544 22837Fylkesmannen i Vestfold
32.51116 342732.41261 3883Nasjonalbiblioteket
32.81662 505348.22689 5578Direktoratet for økonomistyring
33.16811 2056728.75041 17513Fylkesmannen i Sogn og Fjordane
33.76975 2066629.16110 20994Fylkesmannen i Finnmark
33.87254 2140233.57138 21304Finansdepartementet
34.1 387 1133 0.0 0 0Tilsynsutvalget for dommere
34.510466 3026142.77416 17342Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet
36.616005 4361940.717996 44140Finanstilsynet
36.77170 1952536.67481 20434Fylkesmannen i Østfold
40.216584 4121132.712187 37237Kystverket
40.94942 1208046.35934 12802Forsvarsdepartementet
41.413295 3205041.311805 28568Fylkesmannen i Troms
43.09595 2227543.910288 23422Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet
44.69809 2196748.09627 20021Politidirektoratet
45.225158 5561143.822379 51043Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
49.518312 3697649.613752 27719Fylkesmannen i Nordland
49.827453 5502850.024782 49473Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Akershus
50.332997 6551339.524644 62276Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
54.411213 2060649.47519 15204Utlendingsdirektoratet
54.510338 1894839.75986 15043Statistisk sentralbyrå
54.85075 925656.04781 8528Direktoratet for nødkommunikasjon
55.47765 1399846.76278 13421Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt
57.61690 293170.23401 4840Statens innkrevingssentral
58.07019 1210139.23671 9352Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
66.217293 2609768.118027 26463Skattedirektoratet
69.53949 567660.12576 4284Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
70.816713 2358170.612556 17777Statens helsetilsyn
71.11146 161076.51160 1516Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
79.29343 1179174.78328 11144Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet
83.712231714599482.2112645137034Husbanken
85.684427 9862687.082682 94950Norges forskningsråd
91.1 609 668 0.0 0 0Direktoratet for e-helse
91.410838 1185487.110278 11798Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt
98.917373 17563 0.0 0 0Forbrukerrådet
+ +

Interessant å se hvordan Utenriksdepartementet tilsynelatende er +blitt ekstremt mer hemmelighetsfull på tre år. I 2015 var 99,8% av +71409 dokumenter merket som unntatt offentlighet, mens i 2014 var det +44,3% av 65121 og og i 2013 var det bare 12,1% av 67828. Lurer på hva +som har skjedd. (Oppdatering 13:40: Dette er en teknisk feil +i databasen, da UD har begynt å legge inn '-' der det ikke er unntak, +mens det tidligere var et tomt felt. Skal lage ny statistikk, men det +tar noen timer å lage ny tabell. Oppdatering 15:30: Ny tabell på +plass, mer forklaring nederst i teksten.)

+ +

Dernest kommer statistikken over hvor mange saksnummer og +dokumenter som ikke finnes i OEP (dvs. hull i saksnummer- og +dokumentnummerserien). Se tidligere omtalte bloggpost for å forstå +hvordan slike hull kan oppstå uten at det er noe galt eller +mistenkelig med det.

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SaksnummerDokumentnummerInstans
201520142015
%Upubl. saksnr.Totalt%Upubl. saksnrTotalt%Upubl. dok.nr.Totalt
0.0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 2Valgdirektoratet
0.0 0 85 5.2 6 116 0.0 0 450Statens institutt for rusmiddelforskning
0.5 100 2125842.49849 23215 0.6 475 85333Norsk kulturråd
0.6 80 13924 1.0 154 15663 0.2 75 41603Justervesenet
1.2 20 1622 0.4 7 1568 0.6 90 15028Statistisk sentralbyrå
1.4 67 4623 1.5 74 5066 1.5 237 15762Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet
1.4 166 11932 0.9 84 9863 1.7 510 29452Direktoratet for byggkvalitet
1.4 451 32677 1.0 276 28515 0.4 298 78470Arkivverket
1.9 11 589 3.0 27 891 0.6 14 2211Statens innkrevingssentral
1.9 41 2162 2.2 44 1973 1.1 84 7583Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard
2.5 68 2728 4.0 99 2488 2.1 197 9393Forbrukerombudet
2.7 47 1758 0.6 8 1282 5.1 445 8359Vox, nasjonalt fagorgan for kompetansepolitikk
2.9 157 5351 3.0 129 4326 0.7 95 12763Brønnøysundregistrene
3.2 293 9121 2.0 132 6571 6.41653 24287Statens kartverk
3.5 40 1151 3.8 51 1326 6.0 275 4271Sysselmannen på Svalbard
3.6 53 1458 2.0 30 1470 1.6 155 9331Norsk Filminstitutt
3.7 313 8449 3.2 227 7092 1.3 413 31241Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet
3.8 645 17136 5.5 942 17213 2.91688 57442Statens legemiddelverk
4.7 353 748212.41001 8069 2.6 662 25153Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
4.9 940 19148 5.0 896 17781 1.61031 63978Fiskeridirektoratet
5.1 61 1206 4.4 47 1060 3.0 134 4317Statens strålevern
5.5 95 1721 6.9 126 1813 0.1 8 8231Statsministerens kontor
5.5 720 1298514.22803 19734 1.4 641 46830Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
5.7 252 4425 4.9 228 4638 1.8 298 16197Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet
5.9 207 3534 5.2 207 3997 2.3 230 9930Klima- og miljødepartementet
5.9 731 12360 6.6 976 14712 2.91174 39309Miljødirektoratet
6.2 472 7629 7.5 496 6649 2.21011 44077Utdanningsdirektoratet
6.5 434 6680 3.2 202 6250 1.5 364 23587Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
6.6 19 287 6.9 28 408 6.5 122 1742Landbruksdirektoratet Alta
6.8 400 5867 9.0 707 7835 3.0 761 24952Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet
7.5 496 658713.51324 9785 1.8 509 27790Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
7.6 938 12297 6.6 741 11218 5.63412 57624Norges forskningsråd
8.2 122 148410.2 169 1664 6.8 680 9291Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
8.2 705 8648 9.3 843 9040 3.11269 40179Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
8.6 97 1133 5.8 78 1336 6.7 179 2511Medietilsynet
8.6 425 494113.6 510 375811.42721 21076Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet
8.7 491 5662 6.8 309 4514 7.11712 22269Luftfartstilsynet
9.0 193 2134 7.6 125 1650 9.41442 13937Statens helsetilsyn
9.3 435 4690 7.6 395 5216 1.3 188 13881Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet
9.6 142 1477 5.5 81 1486 2.0 155 7737Petroleumstilsynet
9.6 169 1760 6.9 151 2181 1.2 67 5418Landbruks- og matdepartementet
9.7 473 489011.0 594 5398 2.1 432 19704Kulturdepartementet
10.0 2 2017.4 4 2311.2 14 111Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling
10.1 49 485 6.1 30 49213.2 486 3187Konkurransetilsynet
10.2 133 130011.5 201 1745 5.3 168 3012Språkrådet
10.41471 14109 9.81165 11893 3.41976 55929Helsedirektoratet
10.5 267 2535 7.3 203 2787 4.1 344 8104Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning
10.6 100 941 9.8 95 973 5.7 358 5875Utlendingsnemnda
10.7 58 541 9.4 51 542 1.6 22 1370Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
11.0 144 1314 6.9 102 1478 9.5 466 4435Statens jernbanetilsyn
11.4 487 4281 7.0 189 2700 1.1 253 22570Samferdselsdepartementet
12.5 622 495710.1 497 4902 7.91407 16479Politidirektoratet
12.7 73 57321.1 107 50714.8 327 1877Nasjonalbiblioteket
12.7 738 5829 8.7 519 5949 2.6 414 15481Finansdepartementet
13.0 176 1352 6.7 81 1204 1.6 120 7347Oljedirektoratet
13.9 856 614510.6 679 6383 5.71112 18326Kunnskapsdepartementet
14.1 715 507310.3 609 593339.515199 23238Kystverket
14.3 240 1676 2.2 33 1478 1.9 68 3459Datatilsynet
14.3 319 222313.0 301 2309 1.1 65 5903Olje- og energidepartementet
14.5 24 166 0.0 0 017.4 59 281Norsk Romsenter
14.51945 13404 8.71096 12632 5.01962 37143Finanstilsynet
15.1 87 57821.6 94 435 2.8 66 2292Norges geologiske undersøkelse
15.2 156 102812.5 137 1097 2.7 312 11389Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT
15.9 501 315712.7 379 2996 6.5 550 7966Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt
16.1 58 36013.8 48 348 8.2 653 7294Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning
17.1 692 4040 9.2 285 3085 6.1 484 7439Forsvarsdepartementet
17.8 161 90424.9 255 1023 9.7 616 5752Direktoratet for nødkommunikasjon
17.81278 716218.71359 7269 2.0 458 21904Fylkesmannen i Troms
17.9 68 379 7.6 27 355 1.9 79 3981Norsk Akkreditering
19.3 878 455719.6 930 4737 2.9 378 12737Fylkesmannen i Sogn og Fjordane
19.61645 839421.01821 8659 6.41621 23898Fylkesmannen i Nordland
21.0 72 343 0.0 0 0 1.0 10 950Direktoratet for e-helse
21.01102 523739.62409 607930.48669 19865Forsvarsbygg
23.0 384 167127.4 544 1986 3.6 251 6633Statens lånekasse for utdanning
23.1 216 93723.5 195 829 2.6 110 4116Direktoratet for økonomistyring
23.7 274 115426.0 379 1456 2.5 206 7995Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
24.1 32 13319.8 24 121 4.4 53 1149Kunst i offentlige rom
26.014552 5606763.667940106802 7.612846155665Arbeidstilsynet
28.1 460 163527.2 401 1475 8.3 481 5348Domstoladministrasjonen
31.2 815 260834.91267 3627 4.1 598 14039Statsbygg
32.1 88 27421.6 50 232 5.3 55 974Fredskorpset
32.9 267 81233.0 232 702 8.1 239 2717Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT)
33.01665 504629.01520 5249 5.9 968 15372Fylkesmannen i Finnmark
33.3 506 152127.4 421 1538 5.7 406 6687Havforskningsinstituttet
34.024084 7077553.839567 73495 0.5 515109638Landbruksdirektoratet Oslo
37.96306 1663838.46123 15947 1.3 443 34527Fylkesmannen i Hordaland
38.03267 860039.83060 7698 4.3 738 16551Fylkesmannen i Nord-Trøndelag
40.13359 837035.93135 8744 9.51603 15300Fylkesmannen i Oppland
41.83052 729843.03285 7645 0.8 142 16847Fylkesmannen i Vestfold
42.02260 537739.42115 5365 2.3 296 12662Fylkesmannen i Telemark
42.02677 637342.22826 6700 3.5 425 11560Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder
42.22302 546042.72283 5350 2.1 217 10030Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder
42.33249 768842.53359 7911 3.6 602 15959Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal
43.14750 1101329.01435 4944 4.7 925 18789Utlendingsdirektoratet
45.3 511 112934.1 415 121714.9 784 4468Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt
48.44663 962750.55064 10024 4.9 869 16950Fylkesmannen i Sør-Trøndelag
49.14160 848048.74261 8747 1.0 170 16593Fylkesmannen i Buskerud
49.98296 1661726.03844 14785 1.7 696 41263Utenriksdepartementet
51.47375 1435343.05492 12773 6.01457 22780Fylkesmannen i Rogaland
51.54432 861051.44472 8703 3.8 494 12494Fylkesmannen i Hedmark
54.34718 868952.54648 8852 3.9 567 13903Fylkesmannen i Østfold
60.26147 1021699.88133 8153 4.01010 24464Forbrukerrådet
60.945659 75035 3.5 926 26466 5.75706 94908Husbanken
62.315943 2559559.414766 24867 6.62978 42345Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Akershus
76.56354 830987.213391 1536312.31011 7202Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
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82.578652 9534078.554063 68912 2.41358 55810Sjøfartsdirektoratet
83.18088 973394.67535 796811.3 953 7468Jernbaneverket
85.122126525997280.9127825157956 2.22345102032Statens vegvesen Region vest
86.622504125995678.4123819157956 3.22699 81896Statens vegvesen Region sør
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89.92498 278095.44656 4883 1.8 18 996Landinfo
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91.75198 567199.15201 5247 3.3 25 744Fylkesmannen i Aust-Agder (frem til 31.12.15)
93.424273525993090.7143324157956 3.81949 48772Statens vegvesen Region nord
96.06190 644699.46117 6157 1.9 7 354Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder (frem til 31.12.115)
97.223095 2376696.923911 2466642.01746 2409Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
97.338602 3967998.260831 61922 3.1 83 2626Statens pensjonskasse
97.425308025976896.0151565157870 9.02294 23257Statens vegvesen Vegdirektoratet
97.884989 8686597.210145210433212.2 983 7089Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet
98.01542 157399.1 889 897 5.7 4 66Innstillingsrådet for dommere
99.43934 395799.6 944 94852.9 37 33Barne- og likestillingsdepartementet
99.61199296120439499.4990362995873 3.5 624 17298Skattedirektoratet
+ +

Til sist er statistikken over hvor stor andel av utgående, +inngående, og andre dokumenter som blir journalført mer enn 180 dager +etter dokumentets dato, dvs. hvor stor andel som blir journalført +ekstremt sent for utgående og interne dokumenter, mens det for +innkommende like gjerne kan være at det tok lang tid før de ble +mottatt.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
2015Instans
UtgåendeInnkommendeAnnet
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0.0 0 50 0.0 0 156 0.0 0 0Norsk Romsenter
0.0 0 14410 0.0 0 20625 0.0 0 1941Fylkesmannen i Nordland
0.0 0 19475 0.0 0 33158 0.0 0 2395Fylkesmannen i Oslo og Akershus
0.0 2 6513 0.0 2 8366 0.0 1 2684Forbrukerrådet
0.0 2 14848 0.0 12 13720 0.1 2 1709Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet
0.0 3 3242 0.1 10 6728 0.0 0 0Petroleumstilsynet
0.0 35 39417 1.8 55 3023 4.1 29 699Justervesenet
0.1 1 563 0.1 1 568 0.0 0 2Tilsynsutvalget for dommere
0.1 2 1412 0.1 2 1889 0.0 0 2Medietilsynet
0.1 3 1922 0.2 7 3032 0.0 0 0Konkurransetilsynet
0.1 3 2861 0.2 11 4625 0.0 0 0Sysselmannen på Svalbard
0.1 4 2019 0.3 10 308628.5 2 7Datatilsynet
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0.1 15 7701 0.2 19 7959 3.0 2 66Brønnøysundregistrene
0.1 23 13317 0.1 33 16601 0.0 0 2Direktoratet for byggkvalitet
0.1 207106179 0.3 285 73027 1.0 6 571Arbeidstilsynet
0.2 4 1958 1.9 46 2394 0.0 0 0Nasjonalt organ for kvalitet i utdanningen (NOKUT)
0.2 6 2924 0.1 10 6854 0.0 0 0Statsministerens kontor
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0.3 11 3042 0.1 8 6898 0.2 1 378Forbrukerombudet
0.3 12 3792 0.0 5 636412.0 25 208Direktoratet for mineralforvaltning med Bergmesteren for Svalbard
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0.4 29 6530 2.4 362 14872 0.0 0 0Finansdepartementet
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0.4 64 14367 0.4 128 26712 7.0 20 283Luftfartstilsynet
0.5 6 1090 1.7 25 1415 0.0 0 0Norges geologiske undersøkelse
0.5 30 5810 1.0 71 6812 1.7 14 779Vox, nasjonalt fagorgan for kompetansepolitikk
0.5 38 7595 0.6 93 1508317.4 51 293Fylkesmannen i Møre og Romsdal
0.5 321 63780 0.2 135 51738 2.0 22 1052Landbruksdirektoratet Oslo
0.6 21 3049 0.8 71 8356 0.0 0 0Oljedirektoratet
0.6 58 8800 0.6 123 20412 1.9 163 8341Nærings- og fiskeridepartementet
0.7 56 7339 1.1 90 812525.8 458 1774Norsk Filminstitutt
0.7 191 26033 0.7 307 42834 2.1 215 10181Fiskeridirektoratet
0.7 357 44844 0.5 301 52202 1.9 590 29606Statens vegvesen Region vest
0.8 2 239 0.0 0 246 0.0 0 0Fylkesmannen i Vest-Agder (frem til 31.12.115)
0.8 119 14631 0.3 39 1246512.9 217 1681Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndighet
0.9 36 3886 2.0 94 4505 0.0 0 0Statens strålevern
0.9 41 4128 1.5 141 9101 7.6 4 52Olje- og energidepartementet
0.9 76 7829 0.6 95 14804 4.2 35 831Fylkesmannen i Vestfold
0.9 385 41153 0.5 330 62989 0.9 404 42661Norsk kulturråd
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1.1 753 64926 0.6 433 67975 2.3 747 32005Statens vegvesen Region øst
1.2 33 2558 2.0 97 4643 0.0 0 46Domstoladministrasjonen
1.2 49 3849 0.4 20 4078 6.3 31 485Statens lånekasse for utdanning
1.2 91 7120 0.6 83 13700 0.0 0 0Samferdselsdepartementet
1.2 179 14775 0.5 167 28844 0.0 0 0Finanstilsynet
1.3 86 6175 0.3 39 11738 1.8 82 4362Arbeids- og sosialdepartementet
1.3 101 7741 0.8 115 14226 0.0 0 0Politidirektoratet
1.3 229 16626 0.8 264 31782 3.9 283 7203Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet
1.4 13 873 1.5 23 1467 0.0 0 0Kunst i offentlige rom
1.4 28 2000 1.0 26 2446 7.8 16 205Språkrådet
1.4 146 10001 0.6 132 19008 2.9 31 1038Fylkesmannen i Rogaland
1.4 176 12255 0.3 64 18762 9.1 95 1033Fylkesmannen i Troms
1.5 137 8801 2.2 190 857810.7 169 1569Statistisk sentralbyrå
1.5 298 19717 2.5 833 3231311.0 637 5748Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat
1.5 376 24323 0.4 119 24404 3.5 606 16915Statens vegvesen Region nord
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1.7 79 4582 8.5 431 5070 6.6 142 2139Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet
1.7 469 26133 3.0 923 3019520.51891 9185Direktoratet for samfunnssikkerhet og beredskap
1.8 23 1272 2.9 64 2155 0.0 0 0Nasjonalbiblioteket
1.9 150 7763 1.3 202 14603 4.8 50 1022Fylkesmannen i Buskerud
2.0 25 1217 1.3 21 1556 3.1 13 410Landbruksdirektoratet Alta
2.0 136 6656 1.7 97 5480 9.3 261 2797Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT
2.0 263 12584 0.8 113 13273 3.7 484 12850Statens vegvesen Vegdirektoratet
2.1 184 8700 0.3 68 17957 1.5 117 7668Kommunal- og moderniseringsdepartementet
2.3 65 2777 1.6 71 4405 6.9 58 831Utlendingsnemnda
2.3 118 4986 0.2 30 10584 1.1 11 920Fylkesmannen i Hedmark
2.4 26 1068 1.2 21 1640 1.7 4 223Statens innkrevingssentral
2.5 101 3979 6.7 354 5219 8.6 251 2903Departementenes sikkerhets- og serviceorganisasjon
2.5 119 4698 3.0 134 443426.6 123 461Norsk Akkreditering
2.6 45 1705 0.6 15 2438 0.4 7 1533Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
2.6 140 5260 1.4 165 1149914.7 212 1435Klima- og miljødepartementet
2.6 172 6552 0.6 88 13413 4.0 168 4138Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsdepartementet
2.7 63 2292 9.3 259 2761 0.0 0 0Direktoratet for økonomistyring
2.9 22 741 1.4 13 869 0.0 0 0Statens arbeidsmiljøinstitutt
2.91766 59502 3.72457 66026 3.5 729 20466Husbanken
3.0 198 6525 0.3 36 10925 9.1 48 525Fylkesmannen i Telemark
3.2 92 2824 1.6 126 7663 8.3 114 1367Garantiinstituttet for eksportkreditt
3.2 113 3508 1.2 98 7916 0.0 0 0Havforskningsinstituttet
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3.2 211 6542 2.3 178 7678 0.0 0 0Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
3.2 499 15144 2.2 562 24560 2.4 767 31705Utenriksdepartementet
3.3 266 7831 0.3 44 1171712.5 128 1019Fylkesmannen i Sogn og Fjordane
3.3 275 8151 2.7 323 1162916.61052 6317Skattedirektoratet
3.4 887 25797 1.6 569 34780 0.0 0 0Miljødirektoratet
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3.6 277 7638 0.3 26 847311.8 888 7470Statens helsetilsyn
3.6 291 8056 1.1 110 967713.7 394 2873Utlendingsdirektoratet
3.7 305 8158 2.9 366 1230012.8 475 3692Direktoratet for utviklingssamarbeid
3.7 730 19384 1.1 242 20898 5.5 52 929Kystverket
4.2 271 6327 1.3 174 12490 0.0 0 0Riksantikvaren - Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning
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4.4 458 10325 3.4 623 1814114.31003 7001Forsvarsbygg
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5.1 339 6602 5.1 381 7396 0.0 0 0Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt
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5.7 376 6526 0.3 59 15602 0.0 0 0Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet
6.11645 26666 0.7 220 3101715.3 665 4340Utdanningsdirektoratet
6.2 470 7517 0.2 51 19868 0.0 0 0Kulturdepartementet
6.7 48 706 7.6 74 968 0.0 0 0Fredskorpset
6.8 19 279 4.6 20 429 4.7 5 106Statens institutt for rusmiddelforskning
6.92173 31077 3.11342 4302532.93691 11191Helsedirektoratet
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8.1 322 3961 7.3 271 3675 8.7 141 1620Direktoratet for nødkommunikasjon
8.6 51 590 6.8 12 17423.7 86 362Landinfo
10.81034 9557 1.4 238 16191 9.5 2 21Kunnskapsdepartementet
13.0 764 5873 5.5 417 745142.8 6 14Senter for internasjonalisering av utdanning
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24.35085 20862 9.51486 1554538.74368 11263Statsbygg
28.01859 6637 3.2 488 1521921.6 230 1062Fylkesmannen i Oppland
32.5 41 12641.7 172 41260.0 78 130Direktoratet for e-helse
+ +

Jeg lurer virkelig på hvordan så mange i det offentlige klarer å +ikke journalføre utgående dokumenter med en gang de gjøres ferdig. Er +det manglende opplæring, vanskelige systemer, vond vilje eller noe +helt annet som er årsaken? Det hadde vært interessant å finne ut om +det var noen fellestrekk for dokumenter som ikke blir journalført før +det er gått et halvt år.

+ +

Oppdatering 2016-04-07: En nærmere undersøkelse av +OEP-oppføringene til Utenriksdepartementet viste at det var en teknisk +feil måten jeg laget statistikken, der alle oppføringer med '-' i +unntakgsgrunnlagsfeltet ble talt opp som unntatt offentlighet. Det +var UD ikke alene om. Det viste seg å gjelde Barne-, likestillings- +og inkluderingsdepartementet (4), Helse- og omsorgsdepartementet +(3525), Landbruks- og matdepartementet (1753), Nærings- og +fiskeridepartementet (11780), Nærings- og handelsdepartementet (7), +Nærings- og handelsdepartementet (frem til 31.12.13) (10417) og +Utenriksdepartementet (78798) også. Antall påvirkede oppføringer står +i parentes. Jeg har fikset problemet og oppdatert tabellen for +hemmelighold over. Oppføringene for Nærings- og handelsdepartementet, +Landbruks- og matdepartementet, Utenriksdepartementet og Helse- og +omsorgsdepartementet fikk ny plassering i lista.

- Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + Tags: norsk, nuug, offentlig innsyn.
@@ -100,144 +549,120 @@ the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.

-
The life and death of a laptop battery
-
24th September 2015
-

When I get a new laptop, the battery life time at the start is OK. -But this do not last. The last few laptops gave me a feeling that -within a year, the life time is just a fraction of what it used to be, -and it slowly become painful to use the laptop without power connected -all the time. Because of this, when I got a new Thinkpad X230 laptop -about two years ago, I decided to monitor its battery state to have -more hard facts when the battery started to fail.

- - - -

First I tried to find a sensible Debian package to record the -battery status, assuming that this must be a problem already handled -by someone else. I found -battery-stats, -which collects statistics from the battery, but it was completely -broken. I sent a few suggestions to the maintainer, but decided to -write my own collector as a shell script while I waited for feedback -from him. Via -a -blog post about the battery development on a MacBook Air I also -discovered -batlog, not -available in Debian.

- -

I started my collector 2013-07-15, and it has been collecting -battery stats ever since. Now my -/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log file contain around 115,000 -measurements, from the time the battery was working great until now, -when it is unable to charge above 7% of original capacity. My -collector shell script is quite simple and look like this:

- -
-#!/bin/sh
-# Inspired by
-# http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html
-# See also
-# http://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2013/01/02/debian-how-to-monitor-battery-capacity/
-logfile=/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log
-
-files="manufacturer model_name technology serial_number \
-    energy_full energy_full_design energy_now cycle_count status"
-
-if [ ! -e "$logfile" ] ; then
-    (
-	printf "timestamp,"
-	for f in $files; do
-	    printf "%s," $f
-	done
-	echo
-    ) > "$logfile"
-fi
-
-log_battery() {
-    # Print complete message in one echo call, to avoid race condition
-    # when several log processes run in parallel.
-    msg=$(printf "%s," $(date +%s); \
-	for f in $files; do \
-	    printf "%s," $(cat $f); \
-	done)
-    echo "$msg"
-}
-
-cd /sys/class/power_supply
-
-for bat in BAT*; do
-    (cd $bat && log_battery >> "$logfile")
-done
-
- -

The script is called when the power management system detect a -change in the power status (power plug in or out), and when going into -and out of hibernation and suspend. In addition, it collect a value -every 10 minutes. This make it possible for me know when the battery -is discharging, charging and how the maximum charge change over time. -The code for the Debian package -is now -available on github.

- -

The collected log file look like this:

- -
-timestamp,manufacturer,model_name,technology,serial_number,energy_full,energy_full_design,energy_now,cycle_count,status,
-1376591133,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,62800000,62160000,39050000,0,Discharging,
-[...]
-1443090528,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,4900000,62160000,4900000,0,Full,
-1443090601,LGC,45N1025,Li-ion,974,4900000,62160000,4900000,0,Full,
-
- -

I wrote a small script to create a graph of the charge development -over time. This graph depicted above show the slow death of my laptop -battery.

- -

But why is this happening? Why are my laptop batteries always -dying in a year or two, while the batteries of space probes and -satellites keep working year after year. If we are to believe -Battery -University, the cause is me charging the battery whenever I have a -chance, and the fix is to not charge the Lithium-ion batteries to 100% -all the time, but to stay below 90% of full charge most of the time. -I've been told that the Tesla electric cars -limit -the charge of their batteries to 80%, with the option to charge to -100% when preparing for a longer trip (not that I would want a car -like Tesla where rights to privacy is abandoned, but that is another -story), which I guess is the option we should have for laptops on -Linux too.

- -

Is there a good and generic way with Linux to tell the battery to -stop charging at 80%, unless requested to charge to 100% once in -preparation for a longer trip? I found -one -recipe on askubuntu for Ubuntu to limit charging on Thinkpad to -80%, but could not get it to work (kernel module refused to -load).

- -

I wonder why the battery capacity was reported to be more than 100% -at the start. I also wonder why the "full capacity" increases some -times, and if it is possible to repeat the process to get the battery -back to design capacity. And I wonder if the discharge and charge -speed change over time, or if this stay the same. I did not yet try -to write a tool to calculate the derivative values of the battery -level, but suspect some interesting insights might be learned from -those.

- -

Update 2015-09-24: I got a tip to install the packages -acpi-call-dkms and tlp (unfortunately missing in Debian stable) -packages instead of the tp-smapi-dkms package I had tried to use -initially, and use 'tlp setcharge 40 80' to change when charging start -and stop. I've done so now, but expect my existing battery is toast -and need to be replaced. The proposal is unfortunately Thinkpad -specific.

+
syslog-trusted-timestamp - chain of trusted timestamps for your syslog
+
2nd April 2016
+

Two years ago, I had +a +look at trusted timestamping options available, and among +other things noted a still open +bug in the tsget script +included in openssl that made it harder than necessary to use openssl +as a trusted timestamping client. A few days ago I was told +the Norwegian government office DIFI is +close to releasing their own trusted timestamp service, and in the +process I was happy to learn about a replacement for the tsget script +using only curl:

+ +

+openssl ts -query -data "/etc/shells" -cert -sha256 -no_nonce \
+  | curl -s -H "Content-Type: application/timestamp-query" \
+         --data-binary "@-" http://zeitstempel.dfn.de > etc-shells.tsr
+openssl ts -reply -text -in etc-shells.tsr
+

+ +

This produces a binary timestamp file (etc-shells.tsr) which can be +used to verify that the content of the file /etc/shell with the +calculated sha256 hash existed at the point in time when the request +was made. The last command extract the content of the etc-shells.tsr +in human readable form. The idea behind such timestamp is to be able +to prove using cryptography that the content of a file have not +changed since the file was stamped.

+ +

To verify that the file on disk match the public key signature in +the timestamp file, run the following commands. It make sure you have +the required certificate for the trusted timestamp service available +and use it to compare the file content with the timestamp. In +production, one should of course use a better method to verify the +service certificate.

+ +

+wget -O ca-cert.txt https://pki.pca.dfn.de/global-services-ca/pub/cacert/chain.txt
+openssl ts -verify -data /etc/shells -in etc-shells.tsr -CAfile ca-cert.txt -text
+

+ +

Wikipedia have a lot more information about +trusted +Timestamping and +linked +timestamping, and there are several trusted timestamping services +around, both as commercial services and as free and public services. +Among the latter is +the +zeitstempel.dfn.de service mentioned above and +freetsa.org service linked to from the +wikipedia web site. I believe the DIFI service should show up on +https://tsa.difi.no, but it is not available to the public at the +moment. I hope this will change when it is into production. The +RFC 3161 trusted +timestamping protocol standard is even implemented in LibreOffice, +Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat, making it possible to verify when +a document was created.

+ +

I would find it useful to be able to use such trusted timestamp +service to make it possible to verify that my stored syslog files have +not been tampered with. This is not a new idea. I found one example +implemented on the Endian network appliances where +the +configuration of such feature was described in 2012.

+ +

But I could not find any free implementation of such feature when I +searched, so I decided to try to +build +a prototype named syslog-trusted-timestamp. My idea is to +generate a timestamp of the old log files after they are rotated, and +store the timestamp in the new log file just after rotation. This +will form a chain that would make it possible to see if any old log +files are tampered with. But syslog is bad at handling kilobytes of +binary data, so I decided to base64 encode the timestamp and add an ID +and line sequence numbers to the base64 data to make it possible to +reassemble the timestamp file again. To use it, simply run it like +this: + +

+syslog-trusted-timestamp /path/to/list-of-log-files
+

+ +

This will send a timestamp from one or more timestamp services (not +yet decided nor implemented) for each listed file to the syslog using +logger(1). To verify the timestamp, the same program is used with the +--verify option:

+ +

+syslog-trusted-timestamp --verify /path/to/log-file /path/to/log-with-timestamp
+

+ +

The verification step is not yet well designed. The current +implementation depend on the file path being unique and unchanging, +and this is not a solid assumption. It also uses process number as +timestamp ID, and this is bound to create ID collisions. I hope to +have time to come up with a better way to handle timestamp IDs and +verification later.

+ +

Please check out +the +prototype for syslog-trusted-timestamp on github and send +suggestions and improvement, or let me know if there already exist a +similar system for timestamping logs already to allow me to join +forces with others with the same interest.

+ +

As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: english, sikkerhet.
@@ -245,56 +670,61 @@ specific.

-
Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done
-
3rd September 2015
-

Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected. -I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of -the -Free -Culture book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in -vector format for high resolution printing. But my inkscape knowledge -were not nearly good enough to pull that off. - -

But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up -the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the -#inkscape IRC channel -on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered -to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML -version. Not only did he create a -SVG document with -the original and his vector version side by side, he even provided -an instruction -video explaining how he did it. But the instruction video is -not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a -recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as -the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did -use some keyboard shortcuts that can't be seen on the video, but it -give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the -stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.

- -

I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit -on the cover I was drawing. I am happy with the end result, and the -current english version look like this:

- - - -

I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will -do. I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and -hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers. The -Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code -replaced with the Norwegian version.

- -

The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect -to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a -final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should -before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in -English or Norwegian Bokmål. I'm waiting to give the the productive -proof readers a chance to complete their work.

+
Full battery stats collector is now available in Debian
+
23rd March 2016
+

Since this morning, the battery-stats package in Debian include an +extended collector that will collect the complete battery history for +later processing and graphing. The original collector store the +battery level as percentage of last full level, while the new +collector also record battery vendor, model, serial number, design +full level, last full level and current battery level. This make it +possible to predict the lifetime of the battery as well as visualise +the energy flow when the battery is charging or discharging.

+ +

The new tools are available in /usr/share/battery-stats/ +in the version 0.5.1 package in unstable. Get the new battery level graph +and lifetime prediction by running: + +

+/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph /var/log/battery-stats.csv
+

+ +

Or select the 'Battery Level Graph' from your application menu.

+ +

The flow in/out of the battery can be seen by running (no menu +entry yet):

+ +

+/usr/share/battery-stats/battery-stats-graph-flow
+

+ +

I'm not quite happy with the way the data is visualised, at least +when there are few data points. The graphs look a bit better with a +few years of data.

+ +

A while back one important feature I use in the battery stats +collector broke in Debian. The scripts in +/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/ were no longer executed. I +suspect it happened when Jessie started using systemd, but I do not +know. The issue is reported as +bug #818649 against +pm-utils. I managed to work around it by adding an udev rule to call +the collector script every time the power connector is connected and +disconnected. With this fix in place it was finally time to make a +new release of the package, and get it into Debian.

+ +

If you are interested in how your laptop battery is doing, please +check out the +battery-stats +in Debian unstable, or rebuild it on Jessie to get it working on +Debian stable. :) The upstream source is available from +github. +As always, patches are very welcome.

- Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -302,37 +732,109 @@ proof readers a chance to complete their work.

-
In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!
-
19th August 2015
-

Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian -translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few -years arrived in the mail. I had to fake a cover to get the interior -printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is -irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket book version -to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how -good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the -pocket book version would look like. After receiving the 500 page -pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too -small for this book. I believe the book is too thick, and several -tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that -small page sizes. I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size -instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the -URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon page. -The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need to -change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a -printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)

- -

Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the -store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof -readers before the book is ready for proper printing. Cover artists -willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector -file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as -a graphics designer are mostly missing.

+
UsingQR - "Electronic" paper invoices using JSON and QR codes
+
19th March 2016
+

Back in 2013 I proposed +a +way to make paper and PDF invoices easier to process electronically by +adding a QR code with the key information about the invoice. I +suggested using vCard field definition, to get some standard format +for name and address, but any format would work. I did not do +anything about the proposal, but hoped someone one day would make +something like it. It would make it possible to efficiently send +machine readable invoices directly between seller and buyer.

+ +

This was the background when I came across a proposal and +specification from the web based accounting and invoicing supplier +Visma in Sweden called +UsingQR. Their PDF invoices contain +a QR code with the key information of the invoice in JSON format. +This is the typical content of a QR code following the UsingQR +specification (based on a real world example, some numbers replaced to +get a more bogus entry). I've reformatted the JSON to make it easier +to read. Normally this is all on one long line:

+ +

+{
+ "vh":500.00,
+ "vm":0,
+ "vl":0,
+ "uqr":1,
+ "tp":1,
+ "nme":"Din Leverandør",
+ "cc":"NO",
+ "cid":"997912345 MVA",
+ "iref":"12300001",
+ "idt":"20151022",
+ "ddt":"20151105",
+ "due":2500.0000,
+ "cur":"NOK",
+ "pt":"BBAN",
+ "acc":"17202612345",
+ "bc":"BIENNOK1",
+ "adr":"0313 OSLO"
+}
+

+ +

The interpretation of the fields can be found in the +format +specification (revision 2 from june 2014). The format seem to +have most of the information needed to handle accounting and payment +of invoices, at least the fields I have needed so far here in +Norway.

+ +

Unfortunately, the site and document do not mention anything about +the patent, trademark and copyright status of the format and the +specification. Because of this, I asked the people behind it back in +November to clarify. Ann-Christine Savlid (ann-christine.savlid (at) +visma.com) replied that Visma had not applied for patent or trademark +protection for this format, and that there were no copyright based +usage limitations for the format. I urged her to make sure this was +explicitly written on the web pages and in the specification, but +unfortunately this has not happened yet. So I guess if there is +submarine patents, hidden trademarks or a will to sue for copyright +infringements, those starting to use the UsingQR format might be at +risk, but if this happen there is some legal defense in the fact that +the people behind the format claimed it was safe to do so. At least +with patents, there is always +a +chance of getting sued...

+ +

I also asked if they planned to maintain the format in an +independent standard organization to give others more confidence that +they would participate in the standardization process on equal terms +with Visma, but they had no immediate plans for this. Their plan was +to work with banks to try to get more users of the format, and +evaluate the way forward if the format proved to be popular. I hope +they conclude that using an open standard organisation like +IETF is the correct place to +maintain such specification.

+ +

Update 2016-03-20: Via Twitter I became aware of +some comments +about this blog post that had several useful links and references to +similar systems. In the Czech republic, the Czech Banking Association +standard #26, with short name SPAYD, uses QR codes with payment +information. More information is available from the Wikipedia page on +Short +Payment Descriptor. And in Germany, there is a system named +BezahlCode, +(specification +v1.8 2013-12-05 available as PDF), which uses QR codes with +URL-like formatting using "bank:" as the URI schema/protocol to +provide the payment information. There is also the +ZUGFeRD +file format that perhaps could be transfered using QR codes, but I am +not sure if it is done already. Last, in Bolivia there are reports +that tax information since november 2014 need to be printed in QR +format on invoices. I have not been able to track down a +specification for this format, because of my limited language skill +sets.

- Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + Tags: english, standard.
@@ -340,68 +842,57 @@ a graphics designer are mostly missing.

-
First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way
-
9th August 2015
-

Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped. As the translation is -mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text -on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated -docbook based version of the -Free Culture book by Lawrence -Lessig. I've been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to -give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because -its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very -helpful in solving my formatting challenges.

- -

Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made -Lulu.com complain after uploading, -and I ordered a text version of the book on paper. It is lacking a -proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but -should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.

- -

Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using -CreateSpace, but ended up -using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem -to lack pocket book with extended distribution). I looked for a -similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far. Please -let me know if I am missing out on something here.

- -

But I still struggle to decide the book size. Should I go for -pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest -(5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches / -15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages? Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a -smaller book is easier to carry around. The test book I ordered was -pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand, -but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to -bring the prize down further.

- -

My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art. My -inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original -cover in SVG format. I also need to figure out what to write about -the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the -description on web based book stores). I would love help with this, -if you are willing to license the art source and final version using -the same CC license as the book. My artistic skills are not really up -to the task.

- -

I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on -paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format. The current -status can as usual be found on -github -in the archive/ directory. So far I have spent all time on making the -PDF version look good. Someone should probably do the same with the -dbtoepub generated e-book. Help is definitely needed here, as I -expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub -formatting.

- -

Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or -discover translations that should be improved. The final proof -reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished -result in a few months.

+
Making battery measurements a little easier in Debian
+
15th March 2016
+

Back in September, I blogged about +the +system I wrote to collect statistics about my laptop battery, and +how it showed the decay and death of this battery (now replaced). I +created a simple deb package to handle the collection and graphing, +but did not want to upload it to Debian as there were already +a battery-stats +package in Debian that should do the same thing, and I did not see +a point of uploading a competing package when battery-stats could be +fixed instead. I reported a few bugs about its non-function, and +hoped someone would step in and fix it. But no-one did.

+ +

I got tired of waiting a few days ago, and took matters in my own +hands. The end result is that I am now the new upstream developer of +battery stats (available from github) and part of the team maintaining +battery-stats in Debian, and the package in Debian unstable is finally +able to collect battery status using the /sys/class/power_supply/ +information provided by the Linux kernel. If you install the +battery-stats package from unstable now, you will be able to get a +graph of the current battery fill level, to get some idea about the +status of the battery. The source package build and work just fine in +Debian testing and stable (and probably oldstable too, but I have not +tested). The default graph you get for that system look like this:

+ +

+ +

My plans for the future is to merge my old scripts into the +battery-stats package, as my old scripts collected a lot more details +about the battery. The scripts are merged into the upstream +battery-stats git repository already, but I am not convinced they work +yet, as I changed a lot of paths along the way. Will have to test a +bit more before I make a new release.

+ +

I will also consider changing the file format slightly, as I +suspect the way I combine several values into one field might make it +impossible to know the type of the value when using it for processing +and graphing.

+ +

If you would like I would like to keep an close eye on your laptop +battery, check out the battery-stats package in +Debian and +on +github. +I would love some help to improve the system further.

- Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -409,63 +900,105 @@ result in a few months.

-
Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex
-
16th July 2015
-

I'm still working on the Norwegian version of the -Free Culture book by Lawrence -Lessig, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout. -One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the -original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes -chapter. Based on the -feedback from the Debian -maintainer and the dblatex developer, I came up with this recipe I -would like to share with you. The proposal was to create a new LaTeX -class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always -practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make -file variable. So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL -parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in -the generated LaTeX File.

- -

First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes, -and add this text there:

- -
-<?latex \theendnotes ?>
-
- -

Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the -code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the -generated LaTeX document, with content like this:

- -
-<?xml version='1.0'?>
-<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'>
-  <xsl:param name="latex.begindocument">
-    <xsl:text>
-\usepackage{endnotes}
-\let\footnote=\endnote
-\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
-\begin{document}
-    </xsl:text>
-  </xsl:param>
-</xsl:stylesheet>
-
- -

Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like -this:

- -
-dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
-
- -

The end result can be seen on github, where -my -book project is located.

+
Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically
+
19th February 2016
+

Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to +details. And one of the details is the content of the +debian/copyright file, which should list all relevant licenses used by +the code in the package in question, preferably in +machine +readable DEP5 format.

+ +

For large packages with lots of contributors it is hard to write +and update this file manually, and if you get some detail wrong, the +package is normally rejected by the ftpmasters. So getting it right +the first time around get the package into Debian faster, and save +both you and the ftpmasters some work.. Today, while trying to figure +out what was wrong with +the +zfsonlinux copyright file, I decided to spend some time on +figuring out the options for doing this job automatically, or at least +semi-automatically.

+ +

Lucikly, there are at least two tools available for generating the +file based on the code in the source package, +debmake +and cme. I'm +not sure which one of them came first, but both seem to be able to +create a sensible draft file. As far as I can tell, none of them can +be trusted to get the result just right, so the content need to be +polished a bit before the file is OK to upload. I found the debmake +option in +a +blog posts from 2014. + +

To generate using debmake, use the -cc option: + +

+debmake -cc > debian/copyright
+

+ +

Note there are some problems with python and non-ASCII names, so +this might not be the best option.

+ +

The cme option is based on a config parsing library, and I found +this approach in +a +blog post from 2015. To generate using cme, use the 'update +dpkg-copyright' option: + +

+cme update dpkg-copyright
+

+ +

This will create or update debian/copyright. The cme tool seem to +handle UTF-8 names better than debmake.

+ +

When the copyright file is created, I would also like some help to +check if the file is correct. For this I found two good options, +debmake -k and license-reconcile. The former seem +to focus on license types and file matching, and is able to detect +ineffective blocks in the copyright file. The latter reports missing +copyright holders and years, but was confused by inconsistent license +names (like CDDL vs. CDDL-1.0). I suspect it is good to use both and +fix all issues reported by them before uploading. But I do not know +if the tools and the ftpmasters agree on what is important to fix in a +copyright file, so the package might still be rejected.

+ +

The devscripts tool licensecheck deserve mentioning. It +will read through the source and try to find all copyright statements. +It is not comparing the result to the content of debian/copyright, but +can be useful when verifying the content of the copyright file.

+ +

Are you aware of better tools in Debian to create and update +debian/copyright file. Please let me know, or blog about it on +planet.debian.org.

+ +

As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b.

+ +

Update 2016-02-20: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel +on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file + +

+licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \
+  /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright.auto
+

+ +

He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the +version control system to make it easier to discover license and +copyright changes in the upstream source. I will try to do the same +with my packages in the future.

+ +

Update 2016-02-21: The cme author recommended +against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed +command line.

- Tags: docbook, english, freeculture. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -473,38 +1006,81 @@ book project is located.

-
Mimes brønn, norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow, endelig lansert
-
9th July 2015
-

I går fikk vi endelig lansert en norsk version av mySocietys -WhatDoTheyKnow. -Tjenesten heter Mimes brønn, og ble -annonsert -av NUUG via blogg, epost og twitter til NUUG-assosierte personer. -Det har tatt noen år, men de siste dagene fikk vi endelig tid til å få -på plass de siste bitene. Vi er to, Gorm og meg selv, som har vært -primus motor for det hele, men vi har fått hjelp med oversettelser og -oppsett fra mange flere. Jeg vil si tusen takk til hver og en av dem, -og er veldig fornøyd med at vi klarte å få tjenesten opp å kjøre før -ferietiden slo inn for fullt.

- -

Vi er usikker på hvor mye belastning den virtuelle maskinen der -tjenesten kjører klarer, så vi har lansert litt i det stille og ikke -til for mange folk for å se hvordan maskinen klarer seg over sommeren, -før vi går mer aktivt ut og annonserer til høsten. Ta en titt, og se -om du kanskje har et spørsmål til det offentlige som er egnet å sende -inn via Mimes brønn.

- -

Hvis du lurer på hva i alle dager en slik tjenestes kan brukes til, -anbefaler jeg deg å se -TED-foredraget til -Heather Brook om hvordan hun brukte WhatDoTheyKnow til å lære -hvordan offentlige midler ble misbrukt. Det er en inspirerende -historie.

+
Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support
+
4th February 2016
+

The appstream system +is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very +convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given +firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it. This can +be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog +about. :)

+ +

Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware +file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly +picked from the set of firmware announced using appstream in Debian +unstable. In general you would be looking for the firmware requested +by the kernel during kernel module loading. To find the package +providing the example file, do like this:

+ +
+% apt install appstream
+[...]
+% apt update
+[...]
+% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
+  awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
+firmware-qlogic
+%
+
+ +

See the +appstream wiki page to learn how to embed the package metadata in +a way appstream can use.

+ +

This same approach can be used to find any package supporting a +given MIME type. This is very useful when you get a file you do not +know how to handle. First find the mime type using file +--mime-type, and next look up the package providing support for +it. Lets say you got an SVG file. Its MIME type is image/svg+xml, +and you can find all packages handling this type like this:

+ +
+% apt install appstream
+[...]
+% apt update
+[...]
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
+  awk '/Package:/ {print $2}'
+bkchem
+phototonic
+inkscape
+shutter
+tetzle
+geeqie
+xia
+pinta
+gthumb
+karbon
+comix
+mirage
+viewnior
+postr
+ristretto
+kolourpaint4
+eog
+eom
+gimagereader
+midori
+%
+
+ +

I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for +packages providing appstream metadata.

- Tags: norsk, nuug, offentlig innsyn. + Tags: debian, english.
@@ -512,268 +1088,91 @@ historie.

-
MPEG LA on "Internet Broadcast AVC Video" licensing and non-private use
-
7th July 2015
-

After asking the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK) -why -they can broadcast and stream H.264 video without an agreement with -the MPEG LA, I was wiser, but still confused. So I asked MPEG LA -if their understanding matched that of NRK. As far as I can tell, it -does not.

- -

I started by asking for more information about the various -licensing classes and what exactly is covered by the "Internet -Broadcast AVC Video" class that NRK pointed me at to explain why NRK -did not need a license for streaming H.264 video: - -

- -

According to -a -MPEG LA press release dated 2010-02-02, there is no charge when -using MPEG AVC/H.264 according to the terms of "Internet Broadcast AVC -Video". I am trying to understand exactly what the terms of "Internet -Broadcast AVC Video" is, and wondered if you could help me. What -exactly is covered by these terms, and what is not?

- -

The only source of more information I have been able to find is a -PDF named -AVC -Patent Portfolio License Briefing, which states this about the -fees:

- -
    -
  • Where End User pays for AVC Video -
      -
    • Subscription (not limited by title) – 100,000 or fewer - subscribers/yr = no royalty; > 100,000 to 250,000 subscribers/yr = - $25,000; >250,000 to 500,000 subscribers/yr = $50,000; >500,000 to - 1M subscribers/yr = $75,000; >1M subscribers/yr = $100,000
      • - -
    • Title-by-Title - 12 minutes or less = no royalty; >12 minutes in - length = lower of (a) 2% or (b) $0.02 per title
      • -
    • - -
  • Where remuneration is from other sources -
      -
    • Free Television - (a) one-time $2,500 per transmission encoder or - (b) annual fee starting at $2,500 for > 100,000 HH rising to - maximum $10,000 for >1,000,000 HH
      • - -
    • Internet Broadcast AVC Video (not title-by-title, not subscription) - – no royalty for life of the AVC Patent Portfolio License
      • -
    • -
- -

Am I correct in assuming that the four categories listed is the -categories used when selecting licensing terms, and that "Internet -Broadcast AVC Video" is the category for things that do not fall into -one of the other three categories? Can you point me to a good source -explaining what is ment by "title-by-title" and "Free Television" in -the license terms for AVC/H.264?

- -

Will a web service providing H.264 encoded video content in a -"video on demand" fashing similar to Youtube and Vimeo, where no -subscription is required and no payment is required from end users to -get access to the videos, fall under the terms of the "Internet -Broadcast AVC Video", ie no royalty for life of the AVC Patent -Portfolio license? Does it matter if some users are subscribed to get -access to personalized services?

- -

Note, this request and all answers will be published on the -Internet.

-

- -

The answer came quickly from Benjamin J. Myers, Licensing Associate -with the MPEG LA:

- -

-

Thank you for your message and for your interest in MPEG LA. We -appreciate hearing from you and I will be happy to assist you.

- -

As you are aware, MPEG LA offers our AVC Patent Portfolio License -which provides coverage under patents that are essential for use of -the AVC/H.264 Standard (MPEG-4 Part 10). Specifically, coverage is -provided for end products and video content that make use of AVC/H.264 -technology. Accordingly, the party offering such end products and -video to End Users concludes the AVC License and is responsible for -paying the applicable royalties.

- -

Regarding Internet Broadcast AVC Video, the AVC License generally -defines such content to be video that is distributed to End Users over -the Internet free-of-charge. Therefore, if a party offers a service -which allows users to upload AVC/H.264 video to its website, and such -AVC Video is delivered to End Users for free, then such video would -receive coverage under the sublicense for Internet Broadcast AVC -Video, which is not subject to any royalties for the life of the AVC -License. This would also apply in the scenario where a user creates a -free online account in order to receive a customized offering of free -AVC Video content. In other words, as long as the End User is given -access to or views AVC Video content at no cost to the End User, then -no royalties would be payable under our AVC License.

- -

On the other hand, if End Users pay for access to AVC Video for a -specific period of time (e.g., one month, one year, etc.), then such -video would constitute Subscription AVC Video. In cases where AVC -Video is delivered to End Users on a pay-per-view basis, then such -content would constitute Title-by-Title AVC Video. If a party offers -Subscription or Title-by-Title AVC Video to End Users, then they would -be responsible for paying the applicable royalties you noted below.

- -

Finally, in the case where AVC Video is distributed for free -through an "over-the-air, satellite and/or cable transmission", then -such content would constitute Free Television AVC Video and would be -subject to the applicable royalties.

- -

For your reference, I have attached -a -.pdf copy of the AVC License. You will find the relevant -sublicense information regarding AVC Video in Sections 2.2 through -2.5, and the corresponding royalties in Section 3.1.2 through 3.1.4. -You will also find the definitions of Title-by-Title AVC Video, -Subscription AVC Video, Free Television AVC Video, and Internet -Broadcast AVC Video in Section 1 of the License. Please note that the -electronic copy is provided for informational purposes only and cannot -be used for execution.

- -

I hope the above information is helpful. If you have additional -questions or need further assistance with the AVC License, please feel -free to contact me directly.

-

- -

Having a fresh copy of the license text was useful, and knowing -that the definition of Title-by-Title required payment per title made -me aware that my earlier understanding of that phrase had been wrong. -But I still had a few questions:

- -

-

I have a small followup question. Would it be possible for me to get -a license with MPEG LA even if there are no royalties to be paid? The -reason I ask, is that some video related products have a copyright -clause limiting their use without a license with MPEG LA. The clauses -typically look similar to this: - -

- This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for - the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer to (a) encode - video in compliance with the AVC standard ("AVC video") and/or (b) - decode AVC video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a - personal and non-commercial activity and/or AVC video that was - obtained from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No - license is granted or shall be implied for any other use. additional - information may be obtained from MPEG LA L.L.C. -

- -

It is unclear to me if this clause mean that I need to enter into -an agreement with MPEG LA to use the product in question, even if -there are no royalties to be paid to MPEG LA. I suspect it will -differ depending on the jurisdiction, and mine is Norway. What is -MPEG LAs view on this?

-

- -

According to the answer, MPEG LA believe those using such tools for -non-personal or commercial use need a license with them:

- -

- -

With regard to the Notice to Customers, I would like to begin by -clarifying that the Notice from Section 7.1 of the AVC License -reads:

- -

THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR -THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT -RECEIVE REMUNERATION TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC -STANDARD ("AVC VIDEO") AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED -BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM -A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED -OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE -OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM

- -

The Notice to Customers is intended to inform End Users of the -personal usage rights (for example, to watch video content) included -with the product they purchased, and to encourage any party using the -product for commercial purposes to contact MPEG LA in order to become -licensed for such use (for example, when they use an AVC Product to -deliver Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free Television or Internet -Broadcast AVC Video to End Users, or to re-Sell a third party's AVC -Product as their own branded AVC Product).

- -

Therefore, if a party is to be licensed for its use of an AVC -Product to Sell AVC Video on a Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free -Television or Internet Broadcast basis, that party would need to -conclude the AVC License, even in the case where no royalties were -payable under the License. On the other hand, if that party (either a -Consumer or business customer) simply uses an AVC Product for their -own internal purposes and not for the commercial purposes referenced -above, then such use would be included in the royalty paid for the AVC -Products by the licensed supplier.

- -

Finally, I note that our AVC License provides worldwide coverage in -countries that have AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, including -Norway.

- -

I hope this clarification is helpful. If I may be of any further -assistance, just let me know.

-

- -

The mentioning of Norwegian patents made me a bit confused, so I -asked for more information:

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- -

But one minor question at the end. If I understand you correctly, -you state in the quote above that there are patents in the AVC Patent -Portfolio that are valid in Norway. This make me believe I read the -list available from <URL: -http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx -> incorrectly, as I believed the "NO" prefix in front of patents -were Norwegian patents, and the only one I could find under Mitsubishi -Electric Corporation expired in 2012. Which patents are you referring -to that are relevant for Norway?

- -

- -

Again, the quick answer explained how to read the list of patents -in that list:

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- -

Your understanding is correct that the last AVC Patent Portfolio -Patent in Norway expired on 21 October 2012. Therefore, where AVC -Video is both made and Sold in Norway after that date, then no -royalties would be payable for such AVC Video under the AVC License. -With that said, our AVC License provides historic coverage for AVC -Products and AVC Video that may have been manufactured or Sold before -the last Norwegian AVC patent expired. I would also like to clarify -that coverage is provided for the country of manufacture and the -country of Sale that has active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents.

- -

Therefore, if a party offers AVC Products or AVC Video for Sale in -a country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents (for example, -Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.), then that party would still need -coverage under the AVC License even if such products or video are -initially made in a country without active AVC Patent Portfolio -Patents (for example, Norway). Similarly, a party would need to -conclude the AVC License if they make AVC Products or AVC Video in a -country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, but eventually Sell -such AVC Products or AVC Video in a country without active AVC Patent -Portfolio Patents.

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- -

As far as I understand it, MPEG LA believe anyone using Adobe -Premiere and other video related software with a H.264 distribution -license need a license agreement with MPEG LA to use such tools for -anything non-private or commercial, while it is OK to set up a -Youtube-like service as long as no-one pays to get access to the -content. I still have no clear idea how this applies to Norway, where -none of the patents MPEG LA is licensing are valid. Will the -copyright terms take precedence or can those terms be ignored because -the patents are not valid in Norway?

+
Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software
+
24th January 2016
+

Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around +with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their +position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long +time (like every time a SMS is received or sent). And if their +computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called +mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often +also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access +during installation). And when these programs send out information to +central collection points, the location is often included, unless +extra care is taken to not send the location. The provided +information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is +good and bad, depend on your point of view). What is certain, is that +the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and +perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way, +when they share their whereabouts with private and public +entities.

+ +

+ +

The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out +when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing. It is +unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government +officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from +unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information. But the +public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software +tool to do so is called +Creepy or Cree.py. I +discovered it when I read +an +article about Creepy in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i +November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian. +The python program was in Debian, but +the version in +Debian was completely broken and practically unmaintained. I +uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not +have time to fix it then. This Christmas I decided to finally try to +get Creepy operational in Debian. Now a fixed version is available in +Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches +are now included +upstream.

+ +

The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from +Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a +complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a +given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all +these services. Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at +least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these +days it is impossible. This mean that to use Creepy, you need to +configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide +information to them about your search interests. This should be taken +into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information +about yourself with the services.

+ +

The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least +geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital +of Norway. One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at +information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the +information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area. +I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in +twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a +Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time, +making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other +things. A similar technique have been +used +to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine, and it is both a powerful +tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people +understand the value of the private information they provide to the +public.

+ +

The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as +it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at +least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and +python-requests-toolbelt).

+ +

(I have uploaded +the image to +screenshots.debian.net and licensed it under the same terms as the +Creepy program in Debian.)

- Tags: english, h264, multimedia, opphavsrett, standard, video, web. + Tags: debian, english, nice free software.
@@ -781,62 +1180,72 @@ the patents are not valid in Norway?

-
New laptop - some more clues and ideas based on feedback
-
5th July 2015
-

Several people contacted me after my previous blog post about my -need for a new laptop, and provided very useful feedback. I wish to -thank every one of these. Several pointed me to the possibility of -fixing my X230, and I am already in the process of getting Lenovo to -do so thanks to the on site, next day support contract covering the -machine. But the battery is almost useless (I expect to replace it -with a non-official battery) and I do not expect the machine to live -for many more years, so it is time to plan its replacement. If I did -not have a support contract, it was suggested to find replacement parts -using FrancEcrans, but it -might present a language barrier as I do not understand French.

- -

One tip I got was to use the -Skinflint web service to -compare laptop models. It seem to have more models available than -prisjakt.no. Another tip I got from someone I know have similar -keyboard preferences was that the HP EliteBook 840 keyboard is not -very good, and this matches my experience with earlier EliteBook -keyboards I tested. Because of this, I will not consider it any further. - -

When I wrote my blog post, I was not aware of Thinkpad X250, the -newest Thinkpad X model. The keyboard reintroduces mouse buttons -(which is missing from the X240), and is working fairly well with -Debian Sid/Unstable according to -Corsac.net. The reports I -got on the keyboard quality are not consistent. Some say the keyboard -is good, others say it is ok, while others say it is not very good. -Those with experience from X41 and and X60 agree that the X250 -keyboard is not as good as those trusty old laptops, and suggest I -keep and fix my X230 instead of upgrading, or get a used X230 to -replace it. I'm also told that the X250 lack leds for caps lock, disk -activity and battery status, which is very convenient on my X230. I'm -also told that the CPU fan is running very often, making it a bit -noisy. In any case, the X250 do not work out of the box with Debian -Stable/Jessie, one of my requirements.

- -

I have also gotten a few vendor proposals, one was -Pro-Star, another was -Libreboot. -The latter look very attractive to me.

- -

Again, thank you all for the very useful feedback. It help a lot -as I keep looking for a replacement.

- -

Update 2015-07-06: I was recommended to check out the -lapstore.de web shop for used laptops. They got several -different -old -thinkpad X models, and provide one year warranty.

+
Always download Debian packages using Tor - the simple recipe
+
15th January 2016
+

During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum +observed +that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to +believe a computer have a given security hole if it download a +security fix from a Debian mirror. This is a good reason to always +use encrypted connections to the Debian mirror, to make sure those +listening do not know which IP address to attack. In August, Richard +Hartmann observed that encryption was not enough, when it was possible +to interfere download size to security patches or the fact that +download took place shortly after a security fix was released, and +proposed +to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror. He +was not the first to propose this, as the +apt-transport-tor +package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt +to use Tor, but I was not +aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.

+ +

Richard discussed the idea with Peter Palfrader, one of the Debian +sysadmins, and he set up a Tor hidden service on one of the central +Debian mirrors using the address vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion, thus making +it possible to download packages directly between two tor nodes, +making sure the network traffic always were encrypted.

+ +

Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by +installing apt-transport-tor and replacing http and https +urls with tor+http and tor+https, and using the hidden service instead +of the official Debian mirror site. I recommend installing +etckeeper before you start to have a history of the changes +done in /etc/.

+ +
+apt install apt-transport-tor
+sed -i 's% http://ftp.debian.org/% tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%' /etc/apt/sources.list
+sed -i 's% http% tor+http%' /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+ +

If you have more sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, run +the sed commands for these too. The sed command is assuming your are +using the ftp.debian.org Debian mirror. Adjust the command (or just +edit the file manually) to match your mirror.

+ +

This work in Debian Jessie and later. Note that tools like +apt-file only recently started using the apt transport +system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs. For +apt-file you need the version currently in experimental, +which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable. So if you +need a working apt-file, this is not for you.

+ +

Another advantage from this change is that your machine will start +using Tor regularly and at fairly random intervals (every time you +update the package lists or upgrade or install a new package), thus +masking other Tor traffic done from the same machine. Using Tor will +become normal for the machine in question.

+ +

On Freedombox, APT +is set up by default to use apt-transport-tor when Tor is +enabled. It would be great if it was the default on any Debian +system.

- Tags: debian, english. + Tags: debian, english, sikkerhet.
@@ -851,6 +1260,19 @@ thinkpad X models, and provide one year warranty.

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