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Blir det virkelig krav om fingeravtrykk i nasjonale ID-kort?
-
12th May 2015
-

Noen finner det vanskelig å tro at Stortinget faktisk har vedtatt å -kreve at alle norske borgerne må avgi fingeravtrykk til politiet for å -fungere i samfunnet. Jeg er blitt spurt hva som er grunnlaget for -min -påstand i forrige bloggpost om at det nå blir krav om å avgi -fingeravtrykk til politiet for å fungere som borger i Norge. De som -spør klarer ikke lese det ut fra det som er vedtatt. Her er en liten -oppsummering om hva jeg baserer det på. Det sies ikke direkte i -hverken proposisjon, innstilling eller vedtak, men fremgår når en ser -på indirekte formuleringer.

- -

I -stortingsproposisjon -66, avsnitt 6.3.5 (Avgivelse av biometriske personopplysninger) -står det

- -

- -

Departementet foreslår at både ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk skal - kunne opptas og lagres som identifikasjonsdata i de nasjonale - ID-kortene, på samme måte som i passene. Lovforslaget er derfor - utformet i tråd med passloven § 6 annet ledd, som fastslår at det - til bruk for senere verifisering eller kontroll av passinnehaverens - identitet kan innhentes og lagres i passet biometrisk - personinformasjon i form av ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk (to - fingre). Dagens ordning med lagring av ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk - i et kontaktløst smartkort i passet er basert på internasjonale - standarder. Fingeravtrykkene i nasjonalt ID-kort vil bli beskyttet - på samme måte som fingeravtrykkene i passene.

- -

[...]

- -

For norske forhold understreker departementet at innføring av - nasjonale ID-kort sammen med innføring av nye systemer for sikrere - utstedelse og kontroll av pass og relaterte dokumenter gir mulighet - til å utforme ordningen slik at den best mulig møter utfordringene - forbundet med identitetskriminalitet. Det tilsier at fingeravtrykk - opptas og lagres i alle nasjonale ID-kort.

-

- -

Departementet sier altså at sin anbefaling er at fingeravtrykk skal -opptas og lagres i alle nasjonale ID-kort. Det skrives som om det -blir valgfritt, på samme måten som det skrives passloven, der det i -loven sier at det kan -«innhentes -og lagres i passet biometrisk personinformasjon i form av ansiktsfoto -og fingeravtrykk (to fingre)». Men på tross av bruken av «kan» i -passloven er det innført krav om å avgi fingeravtrykk for å få et pass -i Norge. Proposisjonen sier i tillegg i del 1 (Proposisjonens -hovedinnhold) at ID-kortene skal være like pålitelig som pass og ha -samme sikkerhetsnivå som pass. Departementet foreslår altså at -ID-kortene skal gis etter samme regler som for pass.

- -

Formuleringene fra hovedinnholdet i proposisjonen er videreført i -innstillingen -fra stortingskomiteen, der det konkret står «De foreslåtte reglene -vil gi befolkningen tilbud om et offentlig utstedt identitetsbevis som -vil være like pålitelig som passet, og mer praktisk å bruke som -legitimasjon» og «Det nasjonale ID-kortet skal også holde samme -sikkerhetsnivå som passet». Komiteen har altså ingen kommentarer -eller innsigelser til dette forslaget, og gjorde i debatten da saken -ble vedtatt det klart at dette var en god sak og at en enstemmig -komité var glad for resultatet. Stortinget har dermed stilt seg helt -og fullt bak departementets forslag.

- -

For meg er det åpenbart når en leser proposisjonen at «like -pålitelig» og «samme sikkerhetsnivå» vil bli tolket av departementet -som «med samme biometrisk informasjon som i passene», og departementet -forklarer i tillegg i proposisjonen at de har tenkt at -fingeravtrykkene «vil bli beskyttet på samme måte som fingeravtrykkene -i passene». Jeg ser det dermed som åpenbart at den samme -tvangsinnhentingen av fingeravtrykk som gjelder for pass vil bli -viderført til de nasjonale ID-kortene.

- -

Det eneste som kan endre dette er massive protester fra -befolkningen på at folk som ikke er mistenkt for noe kriminelt skal -tvinges til å gi fingeravtrykket til politiet for å f.eks. kunne få -bankkonto eller stemme ved valg. Det kunne få departementet til å -snu. Det tror jeg ikke vil skje.

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Snurpenot-overvåkning av sensitiv personinformasjon
+
9th November 2015
+

Tenk om et norsk sykehus delte informasjon om hva som blir lest og +hvem som leser på sykehusets nettsted, med noen som samarbeider med et +fremmed lands etterretningsvesen, og at flere andre fremmede lands +etterretningstjenester kan snappe opp informasjonen.

+ +

Tenk om flere sykehus, kommuner, helsestasjoner, universitet, +høyskoler, grunnskoler, Stortinget, det meste av offentlig +forvaltning, medier, adopsjonstjenester og krisesenter gjør det +samme?

+ +

Tenk om de som lytter kan holde oversikt over norske borgeres +interesser, sykdommer, rusmisbruk, adopsjon, abort, barnehager, +politiske interesser og sympatier samt hvilke argumenter som har best +effekt på beslutningstagere og måter de kan påvirkes. Ville det gitt +grunn til bekymring?

+ +

Høres det ut som noe tatt ut fra fantasien til George Orwell, +forfatteren av dystopien 1984? Det er virkeligheten i Norge i dag, +takket være bruken av statistikktjenester som Google Analytics.

+ +

Du kan beskytte deg

+ +

Men borgerne har et forsvar mot dette angrepet på privatsfæren. +Dagens nettlesere har utvidelser som støtter å blokkere slik +utlevering av informasjon. Personlig bruker jeg Privacy Badger, +Ghostery, NoScript og AdBlock, og anbefaler alle å gjøre noe +tilsvarende. Merk at noen av verktøyene lekker informasjon, i tillegg +til å gjøre en nyttig jobb, så det er lurt å bruke flere sammen. I +tillegg bør hver og en av oss sende inn protest til organisasjonene +bak nettsteder som bidrar til dette inngrepet i privatsfæren.

+ +

Hvem bidrar til overvåkningen?

+ +

Takket være Ghostery la jeg merke til at flere og flere norske +nettsteder begynte å la Google Analytics overvåke brukerne. Jeg ble +nysgjerrig på hvor mange det gjaldt, og gikk igjennom ca. 2700 norske +nettsteder, hovedsakelig offentlig forvaltning. Jeg laget et system +for å koble seg opp automatisk og sjekke hvor nettstedene spredte +informasjon om besøket. Jeg ble overrasket både over omfanget og hva +slags nettsteder som rapporterer besøksinformasjon ut av landet. +Omtrent 70 prosent av de 2700 sender informasjon til Google Analytics. +Noen tilfeldige eksempler er Akershus Universitetssykehus, Sykehuset +Østfold, Lommelegen, Oslo krisesenter, Stortinget, den norske +regjering, de fleste politiske partier på Stortinget, NAV, Altinn, +NRK, TV2, Helse Førde, Helse Stavanger, Oslo kommune, +Nasjonalbiblioteket, Pasientombudet, Kongehuset, Politiet, +Teknologirådet, Tollvesenet, Norsk romsenter, Forsvarsbygg og +Sivilforsvaret. Og det er mange flere.

+ +

Hvordan kan det offentlige Norge omfavne en slik praksis? Det er +gode hensikter bak. Google har laget en god tjeneste for +nettstedseiere, der de uten å betale med noe annet enn en bit av de +besøkenes privatsfære får tilgang til nyttig og presis statistikk over +nettstedets bruk ved å besøke netttjenesten hos Google. De færreste +merker ulempene angrepet på privatsfæren som nettstedene og Google +utgjør.

+ +

Hvordan foregår det?

+ +

I nettsider kan nettsteder legge inn lenker til programkode som +skal kjøres av brukerens nettleser. De som tar i bruk Google +Analytics legger typisk inn lenke til et javascript-program hos Google +som ber nettleseren ta kontakt med Google og dele IP-adresse, side +besøkt, aktuelle cookies og endel informasjon om nettleseren med +Google Analytics. Programmet trenger ikke være det samme for alle som +henter det fra Google. Det finnes et Google Analytics-tilvalg kalt +«anonymisering» som nettstedeier kan ta i bruk. Dette instruerer det +omtalte programmet om å be Google slette deler av den oversendte +IP-adressen. Full IP-adresse sendes likevel over og er tilgjengelig +for alle som snapper opp informasjonen underveis.

+ +

Takket være varsleren Edward Snowden, som bidro til uvurderlig +dokumentasjon på snurpenot-overvåkningen som nordmenn blir utsatt for, +vet vi at Google samarbeider med USAs etteretning som avlytter trafikk +sendt til Google Analytics.

+ +

Men allerede før Snowden var det bekreftet at både britiske GCHQ og +USAs NSA avlytter og lagrer blant annet Internett-trafikk som er innom +et av landene, i tillegg til at FRA i Sverige avlytter og lagrer +trafikk som passerte grensa til Sverige.

+ +

Og som +Datatilsynet +sa til Dagens Næringsliv i 2013 kunne de vanskelig nekte bruk av +skytjenester som Google Analytics når Norge var bundet av EUs «Safe +Harbour»-avtale med USA. De måtte derfor se bort fra +f.eks. FISAAA-loven (som lar NSA avlytte Internett-trafikk) i sine +vurderinger. Når nå EUs «Safe Harbour»-avtale er underkjent, og det +foreslås å bruke individuell avtalerett mellom selskaper som juridisk +grunnlag for å sende personopplysninger til USA, er det greit å huske +på at FISAA-loven og andre som brukes av USA som grunnlag for +masseovervåkning overstyrer slike avtaler.

+ +

For øvrig burde varsleren Edward Snowden få politisk asyl i +Norge.

@@ -113,67 +129,38 @@ snu. Det tror jeg ikke vil skje.

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Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police
-
10th May 2015
-

5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all -citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something -criminal or not, are -required to -give fingerprints to the police (vote details from Holder de -ord). The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few -years there will be no option any more. The ID will be required to -vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the -post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license -and many other tasks required to function in Norway. The banks plan -to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new -national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to -change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards. -In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will -be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to -the police.

- -

In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which -promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in -time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the -fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of -the face and other information about the person. Some of the -information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same -system as currently used in the passports. The codes to decrypt will -be available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around -the globe, but for those that do not know anyone in those circles it -is good to know that -the -encryption is already broken. And they -can -be read from 70 meters away. This can be mitigated a bit by -keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but -one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose -ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no -business getting access to that information.

- -

The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft, -and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion -of privacy without any objections. So are the Norwegian passports, -but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far. -That option is going away with the passing of the new law. In this, I -envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric -information is stored in their national ID.

- -

And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the -information collected in the national ID card register can be handed -over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, "when -extradition is not considered disproportionate".

- -

Update 2015-05-12: For those unable to believe that the Parliament -really could make such decision, I wrote -a -summary of the sources I have for concluding the way I do -(Norwegian Only, as the sources are all in Norwegian).

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TISA - nok en problematisk og hemmelig handelsavtale
+
5th November 2015
+

Norge er aktiv i Trade in Services Agreement-forhandlingene, og +regjeringen forteller at +«TISA +vil sikre norske tjenesteeksportører forutsigbar og +ikke-diskriminerende adgang til utenlandske tjenestemarkeder». +Det er mulig at det stemmer. Men den gjør mye mer enn det. Avtalen +forhandles i hemmelighet, og kun takket være +Wikileaks er +utkast og biter kjent i offentligheten. Det som er blitt kjent er +for eksempel at TISA kan +blokkere +myndigheter fra å kreve bruk av fri programvare i mange +situasjoner, hvilket vil fjerne muligheten vår til å ha kontroll +over egne datasystemer i slike tilfeller. Den kan også +blokkere +Norges mulighet til å holde kontroll med overføring av +personinformasjon ut av landet, hvilket Snowden-bekreftelsene har +dokumentert er svært problematisk. + +

Jeg ble derfor veldig glad da jeg i dag ble tipset i dag om at det +allerede finnes en aktiv organisasjon, +Folkeaksjonen mot +TISA, 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.

- Tags: english, personvern, surveillance. + Tags: norsk, opphavsrett, personvern.
@@ -181,62 +168,121 @@ summary of the sources I have for concluding the way I do
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What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?
-
1st May 2015
-

Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost -to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the -cost of around 20 million NOK (2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a -year. I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look -like today. To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is -needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in -Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.

- -

The 2005 numbers are from -digi.no, -the 2012 numbers are from -a -NKOM report, and I got the 2013 numbers after asking NKOM via -email. I was told the numbers for 2014 will be presented May 20th, -and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very -different from the numbers from 2013.

- -

The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted -quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that 8 Kbit/s is -enough. See for example a -summary -on voice quality from Cisco for some alternatives. 8 Kbit/s is 60 -Kbytes/min, and this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes -to get the storage requirements.

- -

Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies, -availability requirements etc. But a simple way to calculate can be -to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK / 120 EUR) and double -it to take space, power and redundancy into account. It could be much -higher with high speed and good redundancy requirements.

- -

But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone -calls in Norway? Not much. Here is a small table showing the -estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium -and large organisations:

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YearCall minutesSizePrice in NOK / EUR
200524 000 000 0001.3 PiB3 mill / 358 000
201218 000 000 0001.0 PiB2.2 mill / 262 000
201317 000 000 000950 TiB2.1 mill / 250 000
- -

This is the cost of buying the storage. Maintenance need to be -taken into account too, but calculating that is left as an exercise -for the reader. But it is obvious to me from those numbers that -recording the sound of all phone calls in Norway is not going to be -stopped because it is too expensive. I wonder if someone already is -collecting the data?

+
Is Pentagon deciding the Norwegian negotiating position on Internet governance?
+
3rd November 2015
+

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 - "postjournal" 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 +Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal - +OEP) 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 .

+ +

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 +"Internet +Governance and how it affects national security" (Norwegian: +"Internet Governance og påvirkning på nasjonal sikkerhet"). The +document date was 2012-05-22, and it was said to be sent from the +"Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations". I asked for a +copy, but my request was rejected with a reference to a legal clause said to authorize them to reject it +(offentleglova § 20, +letter c) 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 +(World +Conference on International Telecommunications - WCIT-12) had just +ended, +reportedly +in chaos 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 +Norwegian Communications Authority +and the Ministry of +Transport and Communications. 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.

+ +

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 +I +asked both the Ministry of Transport and Communications as the +receiver and +asked +the Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva as the sender 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 +(offentleglova § 20 +letter b), 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.

+ +

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 +"sender" 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 +a +government report 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 +asked +them for a copy 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.

+ +

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.

+ +

I wonder which NATO countries besides Norway attended this meeting? +And what exactly was said and done at the meeting? Anyone know?

- Tags: english, personvern, surveillance. + Tags: english, offentlig innsyn, opphavsrett, personvern.
@@ -244,194 +290,56 @@ collecting the data?

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First Jessie based Debian Edu beta release
-
26th April 2015
-

I am happy to report that the Debian Edu team sent out -this -announcement today:

- -
-the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is pleased to announce the first
-*beta* release of Debian Edu "Jessie" 8.0+edu0~b1, which for the first
-time is composed entirely of packages from the current Debian stable
-release, Debian 8 "Jessie".
-
-(As most reading this will know, Debian "Jessie" hasn't actually been
-released by now. The release is still in progress but should finish
-later today ;)
-
-We expect to make a final release of Debian Edu "Jessie" in the coming
-weeks, timed with the first point release of Debian Jessie. Upgrades
-from this beta release of Debian Edu Jessie to the final release will
-be possible and encouraged!
-
-Please report feedback to debian-edu@lists.debian.org and/or submit
-bugs: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
-
-Debian Edu - sometimes also known as "Skolelinux" - is a complete
-operating system for schools, universities and other
-organisations. Through its pre- prepared installation profiles
-administrators can install servers, workstations and laptops which
-will work in harmony on the school network.  With Debian Edu, the
-teachers themselves or their technical support staff can roll out a
-complete multi-user, multi-machine study environment within hours or
-days.
-
-Debian Edu is already in use at several hundred schools all over the
-world, particularly in Germany, Spain and Norway. Installations come
-with hundreds of applications pre-installed, plus the whole Debian
-archive of thousands of compatible packages within easy reach.
-
-For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
-installation instructions are available, including detailed
-instructions in the manual explaining the first steps, such as setting
-up a network or adding users.  Please note that the password for the
-user your prompted for during installation must have a length of at
-least 5 characters!
-
-== Where to download ==
-
-A multi-architecture CD / usbstick image (649 MiB) for network booting
-can be downloaded at the following locations:
-
-    http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso
-    rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso . 
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: 54a524d16246cddd8d2cfd6ea52f2dd78c47ee0a
-
-Alternatively an extended DVD / usbstick image (4.9 GiB) is also
-available, with more software included (saving additional download
-time):
-
-    http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso
-    rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso 
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: fb1f1504a490c077a48653898f9d6a461cb3c636
-
-Sources are available from the Debian archive, see
-http://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/source/ for some download
-options.
-
-== Debian Edu Jessie manual in seven languages ==
-
-Please see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/ for
-the English version of the Debian Edu jessie manual.
-
-This manual has been fully translated to German, French, Italian,
-Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Bokmål. A partly translated version exists
-for Spanish.  See http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/ for
-online version of the translated manual.
-
-More information about Debian 8 "Jessie" itself is provided in the
-release notes and the installation manual:
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual
-
-
-== Errata / known problems ==
-
-    It takes up to 15 minutes for a changed hostname to be updated via
-    DHCP (#780461).
-
-    The hostname script fails to update LTSP server hostname (#783087). 
-
-Workaround: run update-hostname-from-ip on the client to update the
-hostname immediately.
-
-Check https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie for a possibly
-more current and complete list.
-
-== Some more details about Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~b1 Codename Jessie released 2015-04-25 ==
-
-=== Software updates ===
-
-Everything which is new in Debian 8 Jessie, e.g.:
-
- * Linux kernel 3.16.7-ctk9; for the i386 architecture, support for
-   i486 processors has been dropped; oldest supported ones: i586 (like
-   Intel Pentium and AMD K5).
-
- * Desktop environments KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11.13, GNOME 3.14,
-   Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.5.6
-   * new optional desktop environment: MATE 1.8
-   * KDE Plasma Workspaces is installed by default; to choose one of
-     the others see the manual.
- * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 41
- * LibreOffice 4.3.3
- * GOsa 2.7.4
- * LTSP 5.5.4
- * CUPS print system 1.7.5
- * new boot framework: systemd
- * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.12
- * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
- * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
- * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.1
- * golearn 0.9
- * tuxpaint 0.9.22
- * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
- * Debian Jessie includes about 43000 packages available for installation.
- * More information about Debian 8 Jessie is provided in its release
-   notes and the installation manual, see the link above.
-
-=== Installation changes ===
-
-    Installations done via PXE now also install firmware automatically
-    for the hardware present.
-
-=== Fixed bugs ===
-
-A number of bugs have been fixed in this release; the most noticeable
-from a user perspective:
-
- * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
-   DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
-   information is corrected (710362)
-
- * shutdown-at-night now shuts the system down if gdm3 is used (775608). 
-
-=== Sugar desktop removed ===
-
-As the Sugar desktop was removed from Debian Jessie, it is also not
-available in Debian Edu jessie.
+      
New book, "Fri kultur" by @lessig, a Norwegian Bokmål translation of "Free Culture" from 2004

+      
31st October 2015

+      
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 Free Culture.  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 & 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:

 
+
    
 
-== About Debian Edu / Skolelinux ==
+  
  • Buy 
+    paper edition from lulu.com
    • 
 
-Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on
-Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Directly after installation a school server
-running all services needed for a school network is set up just
-waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
-Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
-initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
-machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
-provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
-centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
-services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
-packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
-can choose between KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
-environment.
+  
  • Download
+    PDF, size 7.9 MiB (gratis/free)
    • 
 
-== About Debian ==
+  
  • Download
+    ePub, size 11 MiB (gratis/free)
    • 
 
-The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
-free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
-the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
-volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
-maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
-huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
-operating system.
+  
  • Download
+    MOBI, size 3.8 MiB (gratis/free)
    • 
 
-== Thanks ==
+

 
-Thanks to everyone making Debian and Debian Edu / Skolelinux happen!
-You rock.
-
+

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 +epubcheck, 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 +the +github project page.

+ +

The project got press coverage from the Norwegian IT news site +digi.no. Check out the article +"Vil +åpne politikernes øyne for Creative Commons". + +

I've blogged +about the project as it moved along. The blogs document the translation +progress and insights I had along the way.

- Tags: debian edu, english. + Tags: english, freeculture.
@@ -439,193 +347,90 @@ You rock.
-
Debian Edu interview: Shirish Agarwal
-
15th April 2015
-

It was a surprise to me to learn that project to create a complete -computer system for schools I've involved in, -Debian Edu / Skolelinux, was -being used in India. But apparently it is, and I managed to get an -interview with one of the friends of the project there, Shirish -Agarwal.

- -

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

- -

My name is Shirish Agarwal. Based out of the educational and -historical city of Pune, from the western state of Maharashtra, India. -My bread comes from giving training, giving policy tips, -installations on free software to mom and pop shops in different -fields from Desktop publishing to retail shops as well as work with -few software start-ups as well.

- -

How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu -project?

- -

It started innocently enough. I have been using Debian for a few -years and in one local minidebconf / debutsav I was asked if there was -anything for schools or education. I had worked / played with free -educational softwares such as Gcompris and Stellarium for my many -nieces and nephews so researched and found Debian Edu or Skolelinux as -it was known then. Since then I have started using the various -education meta-packages provided by the project.

- -

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian -Edu?

- -

It's closest I have seen where a package full of educational -software are packed, which are free and open (both literally and -figuratively). Even if I take the simplest software which is -gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of -the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even -pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered -#781841 and -#781842.

- -

I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions, -as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the -possibility of a larger life span. Of course with both it's more a -question if it has enough users who make it fun or sustainable or both -for the developer per-se.

- -

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian -Edu?

- -

I do see that the Debian Edu team seems to be short-handed and I -think more efforts should be made to make it popular and ask and take -help from people and the larger community wherever possible.

- -

I don't see any disadvantage to use Skolelinux apart from the fact -that most apps. are generic which is good or bad how you see it. -However, saying that I do acknowledge the fact that the canvas is -pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done -but for reasons not known not done or if done I don't know about them. -Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but -still) I have had for a long time :

- -

1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions -each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how -far would each travel and similar questions like these. - -

The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can -be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in -interactive manner. While sites such as the -Ask -Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem (as an example or point of -inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done. I dunno -if there is a free software which does something like this. The idea -being a blend of objects + animation + interaction which does -this. The whole interaction could be gamified with points or sounds or -colourful celebration whenever the user gets even part of the question -or/and methodology right. That would help reinforce good behaviour. -This understanding could be used to share/showcase everything from how -the first wheel came to be, to evolution to how astronomy started, -psychics and everything in-between.

- -

One specific idea in the train part was having the Linux mascot on -one train and the BSD or GNU mascot on the other train and they -meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could -also be used.

- -

2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have -enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary. I don't think it -should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and -sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&A single word answers -from the existing data-sets. What would make it easy or hard could be -the length of the word + existence of many or few vowels depending on -the user's input.

- -

3. Jigsaw puzzles - We already have a great software called -palapeli with number of slicers making it pretty interesting. What -needs to be done is to download large number of public domain and -copyleft images, tease and use IPTC tags to categorise them into -nature, history etc. and let it loose. This could turn to be really -huge collection of images. One source could be taken from -commons.wikimedia.org, others could be huge collection of royalty-free -stock photos. Potential is immense.

- -

Apart from this, free software suffers in two directions, we lag -both in development (of using new features per-se) and maintenance a -lot. This is more so in educational software as these applications -need to be timely and the opportunity cost of missing deadlines is -immense. If we are able to solve issues of funding for development and -maintenance of such software I don't see any big difficulties. I know -of few start-ups in and around India who would love to develop and -maintain such software if funding issues could be solved.

- -

Which free software do you use daily?

- -

That would be huge list. Some of the softwares are obviously apt, -aptitude, debdelta, leafpad, the shell of course (zsh nowadays), -quassel for IRC. In games I use shisen-sho while card-games are evenly -between kpat and Aiselriot. In desktops it's a tie between -gnome-flashback and mate.

- -

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to -get schools to use free software?

- -

I think it should first start with using specific FOSS apps. in -whatever environment they are. If it's MS-Windows or Mac so be it. -Once they are habitual with the apps. and there is buy-in from the -school management then it could be installed anywhere. Most of the -people now understand the concept of a repository because of the -various online stores so it isn't hard to convince on that front.

- -

What is harder is having enough people with technical skills and -passion to service them. If you get buy-in from one or two teachers -then ideas like above could also be asked to be done as a project as -well.

- -

I think where we fall short more than anything is in marketing. For -instance, Debian has this whole range of fonts in its archive but -there isn't even a page where all those different fonts in the La -Ipsum format could be tried out for newcomers.

- -

One of the issues faced constantly in installations is with updates -and upgrades. People have this myth that each update and upgrade -means the user interface will / has to change. I have seen this -innumerable times. That perhaps is one of the reasons which browsers -like Iceweasel / Firefox change user interfaces so much, not because -it might be needed or be functional but because people believe that -changed user interfaces are better. This, can easily be pointed with -the user interfaces changed with almost every MS-Windows and Mac OS -releases.

- -

The problems with Debian Edu for deployment are many. The biggest -is the huge gap between what is taught in schools and what Debian Edu -is aimed at. - -

Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for -around 2 years, and -gathered -some experience there. Some of the things we learnt/discovered -there was :

- -
    - -
  1. Most of the teachers are very territorial about their subjects - and they do not want you to teach anything out of the - portion/syllabus given.
    2. - -
  2. They want any activity on the system in accordance to whatever - is in the syllabus.
    3. - -
  3. There are huge barriers both with the English language and at - times with objects or whatever. An example, let's say in gcompris - you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let's - say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be - as recognizable as say a - Puneri - Pagdi so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever - possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words - which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in - parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or - something but that is something for upstream to do.
    4. - -
+
Gavebok overlevert Stortinget i dag
+
29th October 2015
+

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.

+ +
+ +

Er opphavsretten for streng, spør ny bok

+ +

I dag kommer boken «Fri +kultur» 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.

+ +

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 +Creative Commons, professor +Lawrence Lessig, som for tiden er med i kampen om å bli Demokratenes +presidentkandidat i USA sitt +presidentvalg i 2016. Lessig ble sist omtalt i norske medier da +NRK i høst viste dokumentaren «Kampen for et demokratisk internett» +som også er +tilgjengelig +fra The Internet Archive.

+ +

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.

+ +

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. + +

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 +ønsker +å utvide opphavsrettens makt også i andre land, 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.»

+ +

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 +lastes +gratis ned fra github eller +kjøpes +på papir fra lulu.com,» avslutter Reinholdtsen.

+ +
+ +

Så får vi se om det har noen positiv effekt. :)

- Tags: debian edu, english, intervju. + Tags: freeculture, norsk.
@@ -633,33 +438,65 @@ there was :

-
I'm going to the Open Source Developers' Conference Nordic 2015!
-
7th April 2015
-

I am happy to let you all know that I'm going to the Open Source Developers' -Conference Nordic 2015!

- -

It take place Friday 8th to Sunday 10th of May in Oslo next to -where I work, and I finally got around to submitting -a talk proposal for -it (dead link for most people until the talk is accepted). As -part of my involvement with the -Norwegian Unix User Group member -association I have been slightly involved in the planning of this -conference for a while now, with a focus on organising a Civic Hacking -Hackathon with our friends -over at mySociety and -Holder de ord. This part is -named the 'My Society' track in the program. There is still space for -more talks and participants. I hope to see you there.

- -

Check out the talks -submitted and accepted so far.

+
"Fri kultur" av @lessig - norsk utgave av "Free Culture" tilgjengelig på papir, PDF og ePub
+
28th October 2015
+

Klikk her for å kjøpe boken.

+ +

I 2004, mens Creative +Commons-bevegelsen vokste frem, skrev bevegelsens stifter Lawrence +Lessig boken +Free +Culture 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.

+ +

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 +er +nå klar for salg. 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: + +

+ +

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.

+ +

Boken er også tilgjengelig i PDF, ePub og MOBI-format fra +min +github-prosjektside. Merk at ePub og MOBI-utgavene har noen +formatteringsproblemer som jeg tror kommer av feil i docbook-verktøyet +dbtoepub (Debian BTS-rapporter +#795842 +og +#796871), +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.

+ +

Etter at oversettelsen til bokmål var ferdig klarte jeg å overtale +NUUG Foundation 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.

- Tags: english, fiksgatami, nuug, offentlig innsyn. + Tags: docbook, freeculture, norsk.
@@ -667,25 +504,60 @@ submitted and accepted so far.

-
Proof reading the Norwegian translation of Free Culture by Lessig
-
4th April 2015
-

During eastern I had some time to continue working on the Norwegian -docbook version of the 2004 book -Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. -At the moment I am proof reading the finished text, looking for typos, -inconsistent wordings and sentences that do not flow as they should. -I'm more than two thirds done with the text, and welcome others to -check the text up to chapter 13. The current status is available on the -github -project pages. You can also check out the -PDF, -EPUB -and HTML version available in the -archive -directory.

- -

Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if -you find any.

+
"Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available
+
23rd October 2015
+

Click +here to buy the book.

+ +

In 2004, as the Creative Commons +movement gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the +book Free +Culture 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.

+ +

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'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 +available +for sale on Lulu.com, for those interested in a paper book. This +is the cover: + +

+ +

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.

+ +

The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from +my +github project page. Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some +formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool +dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues +#795842 +and +#796871), +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.

+ +

After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able +to secure some sponsoring from +the NUUG Foundation 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.

@@ -698,61 +570,35 @@ you find any.

-
Frikanalen, Norwegian TV channel for technical topics
-
9th March 2015
-

The Norwegian Unix User Group, -where I am a member, and where people interested in free software, -open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs -come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video. -The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider -audience. For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel -Frikanalen is a useful venue. -Since a few days ago, when I figured out the -REST API to program the -channel time schedule, -the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and -some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org). I fill -all "leftover bits" on the channel with content from NUUG, which at -the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.

- -

The list of NUUG videos -uploaded so far -include things like a -one hour talk by John -Perry Barlow when he visited Oslo, a presentation of -Haiku, the BeOS -re-implementation, the -history of FiksGataMi, -the Norwegian version of FixMyStreet, the good old -Warriors of the net -video and many others.

- -

We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to -Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to -spread the word there. I also hope to find useful recordings from the -Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the -channel as well. But this require locating the videos and their meta -information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the -recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to -focus on this. Perhaps you want to help. Please join us on IRC, -#nuug on irc.freenode.net -if you want to help make this happen.

- -

But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively -filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new -today, check out the Ogg Theora -web stream or use one of the other ways to get access to the -channel. Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still -do not properly sync the video and sound. It is generated by recoding -a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to -Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that -produces acceptable quality. Help needed, please get in touch if you -know how to fix it using free software.

+
EU-domstolen konkluderer motsatt av Skatteetaten når det gjelder Bitcoin
+
22nd October 2015
+

Bitcoin er i litt vinden i Norge for tiden, med +kronikk +om bitcoin-overføringer på tvers av landegrensene hos NRK Ytring +for to dager siden og +dokumentar +om bitcoin på NRK 2 i forgårs og i går. I den sammenhengen er det +spesielt hyggelig med en gladnyhet fra EU om Bitcoin.

+ +

I dag konkluderte EU-domstolen at +Bitcoin-kjøp +fra Bitcoin-børser ikke er MVA-pliktig (sak C‑264/14). Fant +nyheten +først hos Reuters, etter tips fra innehaveren av +Bitmynt. EU-domstolens avgjørelse +er stikk i strid med +annonseringen +fra Skatteetaten i 2013, 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.

- Tags: english, frikanalen, nuug, video. + Tags: bitcoin, norsk.
@@ -760,36 +606,34 @@ know how to fix it using free software.

-
The Citizenfour documentary on the Snowden confirmations to Norway
-
28th February 2015
-

Today I was happy to learn that the documentary -Citizenfour by -Laura Poitras -finally will show up in Norway. According to the magazine -Montages, a deal has finally been -made for -Cinema -distribution in Norway and the movie will have its premiere soon. -This is great news. As part of my involvement with -the Norwegian Unix User Group, me and -a friend have -tried -to get the movie to Norway ourselves, but obviously -we -were too late and Tor Fosse beat us to it. I am happy he did, as -the movie will make its way to the public and we do not have to make -it happen ourselves. -The trailer -can be seen on youtube, if you are curious what kind of film this -is.

- -

The whistle blower Edward Snowden really deserve political asylum -here in Norway, but I am afraid he would not be safe.

+
Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden a year ago
+
19th October 2015
+

Last year, US president candidate +in the Democratic Party Lawrence interviewed Edward Snowden. The +one hour interview was +published by +Harvard Law School 2014-10-23 on Youtube, and the meeting took +place 2014-10-20.

+ +

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.

+ + + +

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, +claiming +Snowden is no Whistle-Blower 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.

- Tags: english, nuug, personvern, surveillance. + Tags: english, personvern, sikkerhet, surveillance.
@@ -797,59 +641,30 @@ here in Norway, but I am afraid he would not be safe.

-
The Norwegian open channel Frikanalen - 24x7 on the Internet
-
25th February 2015
-

The Norwegian nationwide open channel -Frikanalen is still going -strong. It allow everyone to send the video they want on national -television. It is a TV station administrated completely using a web -browser, running only Free -Software, providing a REST -api for administrators and members, and with distribution on the -national DVB-T distribution network RiksTV. But only between 12:00 -and 17:30 Norwegian time. This has finally changed, after many years -with limited distribution. A few weeks ago, we set up a Ogg Theora -stream via icecast to allow everyone with Internet access to check out -the channel the rest of the day. This is presented on -the Frikanalen web site now. And -since a few days ago, the channel is also available -via multicast on -UNINETT, available for those using IPTV TVs and set-top boxes in -the Norwegian National Research and Education network.

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If you want to see what is on the channel, point your media player -to one of these sources. The first should work with most players and -browsers, while as far as I know, the multicast UDP stream only work -with VLC.

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The Ogg Theora / icecast stream is not working well, as the video -and audio is slightly out of sync. We have not been able to figure -out how to fix it. It is generated by recoding a internal MPEG -transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to Ogg Theora / -Vorbis, and the result is less then stellar. If you have ideas how to -fix it, please let us know on frikanalen (at) nuug.no. We currently -use this with ffmpeg2theora 0.29:

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-./ffmpeg2theora.linux <OBE_gemini_URL.ts> -F 25 -x 720 -y 405 \
- --deinterlace --inputfps 25 -c 1 -H 48000 --keyint 8 --buf-delay 100 \
- --nosync -V 700 -o - | oggfwd video.nuug.no 8000 <pw> /frikanalen.ogv
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If you get the multicast UDP stream working, please let me know, as -I am curious how far the multicast stream reach. It do not make it to -my home network, nor any other commercially available network in -Norway that I am aware of.

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The Story of Aaron Swartz - Let us all weep!
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8th October 2015
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The movie "The +Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" 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.

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The movie is also available on +Youtube. I +wish there were Norwegian subtitles available, so I could show it to +my parents.

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