X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/7741607ecee91d447bbddf0076e531ec3f52f2eb..4daa5666ee754c5a84ae9d3951624f9c0a953d98:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 6b63d95f46..484ef3b3b2 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,332 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Lenker for 2014-02-28 + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2014_02_28.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2014_02_28.html + Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:30:00 +0100 + <p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese de siste +månedene. Det er mye om varsleren Edward Snowden, som burde få all +hjelp, støtte og beskyttelse Norge kan stille opp med for å ha satt +totalitær overvåkning på sakskartet, men også endel annet +tankevekkende og interessant.</p> + +<ul> + +<li>2013-12-21 +<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/nyheter/thomas_drake/nsa/overvakning/snowden/30925886/">- +NSA tenker som Stasi</a> - Dagbladet.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-19 <a href="http://www.dagensit.no/article2732734.ece">- +Staten har ikke rett til å vite alt om deg</a> - DN.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-21 +<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/nyheter/krig_og_konflikter/politikk/utenriks/30961126/">Nye +mål for NSAs spionasje avslørt</a> - Dagbladet.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-19 +<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/19/nyheter/nsa/usa/politikk/barack_obama/30918684/">«NSA +bør fjernes fra sin makt til å samle inn metadata fra amerikanske +telefonsamtaler»</a> - Dagbladet.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-18 +<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/18/kultur/meninger/hovedkronikk/debatt/snowden/30901089/">Etterretning, +overvåking, frihet og sikkerhet</a> - Dagbladet.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-17 +<a href="http://www.nrk.no/verden/snowden-vil-ha-asyl-i-brasil-1.11423444">Snowden +angriper USA i åpent brev</a> - nrk.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-17 +<a href="http://www.digi.no/925820/rettslig-nederlag-for-etterretning">Rettslig +nederlag for etterretning</a> - digi.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-21 +<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/kultur/meninger/hovedkommentar/kommentar/etterretning/30963284/">Truende +nedkjøling</a> - dagbladet.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-20 +<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Matematikk-og-forstaelse-7411849.html">Matematikk +og forståelse</a> - aftenposten.no</li> + +<li>2013-10-20 +<a href="http://www.nrk.no/viten/ny-studie_sovn-reinser-hjernen-var-1.11306106">Vi +søv for å reinse hjernen vår, ifølgje ny studie</a> - nrk.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-11 +<a href="http://www.nrk.no/buskerud/julebaksten-i-vasken-1.11410033">Rotterace +i kloakken</a> - nrk.no</li> + +<li>2013-12-30 +<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Apne-brev-og-frie-tanker-7413734.html">Åpne +brev og frie tanker</a> - aftenposten.no</li> + +<li>2014-01-12 +<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Stopp-kunnskapsapartheidet-7428229.html">Stopp dagens kunnskapsapartheid!</a> - aftenposten.no</li> + +<li>2014-01-09 +<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/EU-rapport-Britisk-og-amerikansk-overvaking-ser-ut-til-a-vare-ulovlig-7428933.html">EU-rapport: +Britisk og amerikansk overvåking ser ut til å være ulovlig</a> - +aftenposten.no</li> + +<li>2013-10-23 Professor Jan Arild Audestad +<a href="http://www.digi.no/924008/advarer-mot-konspirasjonsteori">Advarer +mot konspirasjonsteori</a> i digi.no og sier han ikke tror NSA kan +avlytte mobiltelefoner, mens han noen måneder senere forteller:</li> + +<li>2014-01-09 +<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/--Vi-ble-presset-til-a-svekke-mobilsikkerheten-pa-80-tallet-7410467.html">- +Vi ble presset til å svekke mobilsikkerheten på 80-tallet</a> - +aftenposten.no</li> + +<li>2014-02-12 +<a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden">Et +møte med Edward Snowden</a> - intervju sendt av nrk, tilgjengelig til +2015-01-31</li> + +<li>2014-02-17 +<a href="http://politiken.dk/debat/profiler/jessteinpedersen/ECE2210356/litteraturredaktoeren-helle-thornings-tavshed-om-snowden-er-en-skandale/">Litteraturredaktøren: +Helle Thornings tavshed om Snowden er en skandale</a> - +politiken.dk</li> + +<li>2014-02-21 +<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Bra-a-ha-en-Storebror-7476734.html">Bra å ha en «Storebror»</a> - aftenposten.no</li> + +<li>2014-02-28 +<a href="http://johnchristianelden.blogg.no/1393536806_narkotikasiktet_stort.html">"Narkotikasiktet +Stortingsmann" - Spillet bak kulissene</a> - John Christian Eldens +blogg</li> + +</ul> + + + + + New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils) + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_home_and_release_1_0_for_netgroup_and_innetgr__aka_ng_utils_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_home_and_release_1_0_for_netgroup_and_innetgr__aka_ng_utils_.html + Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:45:00 +0100 + <p>Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and +innetgr tools, because I needed them in +<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>. I called the project +ng-utils, and it has served me well. I placed the project under the +<a href="http://www.hungry.com/">Hungry Programmer</a> umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS +repository. But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost, +not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a +proper home since then.</p> + +<p>Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release +fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in +a proper source control system. I applied for a project on +<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a>, but did not have time +to follow up on it. Until today. :)</p> + +<p>After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project +now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the +history of the project. I published all release tarballs and imported +them into the git repository. As the project is really stable and not +expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new +release and call it 1.0. Visit the new project home on +<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/">https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/</a> +if you want to check it out. The new version is also uploaded into +<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ng-utils.html">Debian Unstable</a>.</p> + + + + + Testing sysvinit from experimental in Debian Hurd + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html + Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:40:00 +0100 + <p>A few days ago I decided to try to help the Hurd people to get +their changes into sysvinit, to allow them to use the normal sysvinit +boot system instead of their old one. This follow up on the +<a href="https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de//categories/gsoc.html">great +Google Summer of Code work</a> done last summer by Justus Winter to +get Debian on Hurd working more like Debian on Linux. To get started, +I downloaded a prebuilt hard disk image from +<a href="http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz">http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz</a>, +and started it using virt-manager.</p> + +<p>The first think I had to do after logging in (root without any +password) was to get the network operational. I followed +<a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">the +instructions on the Debian GNU/Hurd ports page</a> and ran these +commands as root to get the machine to accept a IP address from the +kvm internal DHCP server:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde +kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[p]finet/ { print $2}') +kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[d]evnode/ { print $2}') +dhclient /dev/eth0 +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>After this, the machine had internet connectivity, and I could +upgrade it and install the sysvinit packages from experimental and +enable it as the default boot system in Hurd.</p> + +<p>But before I did that, I set a password on the root user, as ssh is +running on the machine it for ssh login to work a password need to be +set. Also, note that a bug somewhere in openssh on Hurd block +compression from working. Remember to turn that off on the client +side.</p> + +<p>Run these commands as root to upgrade and test the new sysvinit +stuff:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list &lt;&lt;EOF +deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental main +EOF +apt-get update +apt-get dist-upgrade +apt-get install -t experimental initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit \ + sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils +update-alternatives --config runsystem +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>To reboot after switching boot system, you have to use +<tt>reboot-hurd</tt> instead of just <tt>reboot</tt>, as there is not +yet a sysvinit process able to receive the signals from the normal +'reboot' command. After switching to sysvinit as the boot system, +upgrading every package and rebooting, the network come up with DHCP +after boot as it should, and the settrans/pkill hack mentioned at the +start is no longer needed. But for some strange reason, there are no +longer any login prompt in the virtual console, so I logged in using +ssh instead. + +<p>Note that there are some race conditions in Hurd making the boot +fail some times. No idea what the cause is, but hope the Hurd porters +figure it out. At least Justus said on IRC (#debian-hurd on +irc.debian.org) that they are aware of the problem. A way to reduce +the impact is to upgrade to the Hurd packages built by Justus by +adding this repository to the machine:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hurd-ci.list &lt;&lt;EOF +deb http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/hurd-ci/ sid main +EOF +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>At the moment the prebuilt virtual machine get some packages from +http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian, because some of the packages in +unstable do not yet include the required patches that are lingering in +BTS. This is the completely list of "unofficial" packages installed:</p> + +<p><blockquote><pre> +# aptitude search '?narrow(?version(CURRENT),?origin(Debian Ports))' +i emacs - GNU Emacs editor (metapackage) +i gdb - GNU Debugger +i hurd-recommended - Miscellaneous translators +i isc-dhcp-client - ISC DHCP client +i isc-dhcp-common - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages +i libc-bin - Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries +i libc-dev-bin - Embedded GNU C Library: Development binaries +i libc0.3 - Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries +i A libc0.3-dbg - Embedded GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols +i libc0.3-dev - Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea +i multiarch-support - Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibilit +i A x11-common - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure +i xorg - X.Org X Window System +i A xserver-xorg - X.Org X server +i A xserver-xorg-input-all - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage +# +</pre></blockquote></p> + +<p>All in all, testing hurd has been an interesting experience. :) +X.org did not work out of the box and I never took the time to follow +the porters instructions to fix it. This time I was interested in the +command line stuff.<p> + + + + + A fist full of non-anonymous Bitcoins + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html + Wed, 29 Jan 2014 14:10:00 +0100 + <p>Bitcoin is a incredible use of peer to peer communication and +encryption, allowing direct and immediate money transfer without any +central control. It is sometimes claimed to be ideal for illegal +activity, which I believe is quite a long way from the truth. At least +I would not conduct illegal money transfers using a system where the +details of every transaction are kept forever. This point is +investigated in +<a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login">USENIX ;login:</a> +from December 2013, in the article +"<a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/03_meiklejohn-online.pdf">A +Fistful of Bitcoins - Characterizing Payments Among Men with No +Names</a>" by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole,Grant Jordan, Kirill +Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage. They +analyse the transaction log in the Bitcoin system, using it to find +addresses belong to individuals and organisations and follow the flow +of money from both Bitcoin theft and trades on Silk Road to where the +money end up. This is how they wrap up their article:</p> + +<p><blockquote> +<p>"To demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis, we turned +our attention to criminal activity. In the Bitcoin economy, criminal +activity can appear in a number of forms, such as dealing drugs on +Silk Road or simply stealing someone else’s bitcoins. We followed the +flow of bitcoins out of Silk Road (in particular, from one notorious +address) and from a number of highly publicized thefts to see whether +we could track the bitcoins to known services. Although some of the +thieves attempted to use sophisticated mixing techniques (or possibly +mix services) to obscure the flow of bitcoins, for the most part +tracking the bitcoins was quite straightforward, and we ultimately saw +large quantities of bitcoins flow to a variety of exchanges directly +from the point of theft (or the withdrawal from Silk Road).</p> + +<p>As acknowledged above, following stolen bitcoins to the point at +which they are deposited into an exchange does not in itself identify +the thief; however, it does enable further de-anonymization in the +case in which certain agencies can determine (through, for example, +subpoena power) the real-world owner of the account into which the +stolen bitcoins were deposited. Because such exchanges seem to serve +as chokepoints into and out of the Bitcoin economy (i.e., there are +few alternative ways to cash out), we conclude that using Bitcoin for +money laundering or other illicit purposes does not (at least at +present) seem to be particularly attractive."</p> +</blockquote><p> + +<p>These researches are not the first to analyse the Bitcoin +transaction log. The 2011 paper +"<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524">An Analysis of Anonymity in +the Bitcoin System</A>" by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is +summarized like this:</p> + +<p><blockquote> +"Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a +complicated issue. Within the system, users are identified by +public-keys only. An attacker wishing to de-anonymize its users will +attempt to construct the one-to-many mapping between users and +public-keys and associate information external to the system with the +users. Bitcoin tries to prevent this attack by storing the mapping of +a user to his or her public-keys on that user's node only and by +allowing each user to generate as many public-keys as required. In +this chapter we consider the topological structure of two networks +derived from Bitcoin's public transaction history. We show that the +two networks have a non-trivial topological structure, provide +complementary views of the Bitcoin system and have implications for +anonymity. We combine these structures with external information and +techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate +an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a +market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars." +</blockquote></p> + +<p>I hope these references can help kill the urban myth that Bitcoin +is anonymous. It isn't really a good fit for illegal activites. Use +cash if you need to stay anonymous, at least until regular DNA +sampling of notes and coins become the norm. :)</p> + +<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my +activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address +<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> + + + New chrpath release 0.16 http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_16.html @@ -536,187 +862,5 @@ personer som har signert.</p> - - New chrpath release 0.15 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html - Sun, 24 Nov 2013 09:30:00 +0100 - <p>After many years break from the package and a vain hope that -development would be continued by someone else, I finally pulled my -acts together this morning and wrapped up a new release of chrpath, -the command line tool to modify the rpath and runpath of already -compiled ELF programs. The update was triggered by the persistence of -Isha Vishnoi at IBM, which needed a new config.guess file to get -support for the ppc64le architecture (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) he -is working on. I checked the -<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/chrpath">Debian</a>, -<a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrpath">Ubuntu</a> and -<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chrpath">Fedora</a> -packages for interesting patches (failed to find the source from -OpenSUSE and Mandriva packages), and found quite a few nice fixes. -These are the release notes:</p> - -<p>New in 0.15 released 2013-11-24:</p> - -<ul> - - <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project to work - with newer architectures. Thanks to isha vishnoi for the heads - up.</li> - - <li>Updated README with current URLs.</li> - - <li>Added byteswap fix found in Ubuntu, credited Jeremy Kerr and - Matthias Klose.</li> - - <li>Added missing help for -k|--keepgoing option, using patch by - Petr Machata found in Fedora.</li> - - <li>Rewrite removal of RPATH/RUNPATH to make sure the entry in - .dynamic is a NULL terminated string. Based on patch found in - Fedora credited Axel Thimm and Christian Krause.</li> - -</ul> - -<p>You can -<a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the -new version 0.15 from alioth</a>. Please let us know via the Alioth -project if something is wrong with the new release. The test suite -did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also -include a testsuite check.</p> - - - - - RSS-kilde for fritekstsøk i offentlige anbud hos Doffin - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html - Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:40:00 +0100 - <p>I fjor sommer lagde jeg en -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html">offentlig -tilgjengelig SQL-database over offentlig anbud</a> basert på skraping -av HTML-data fra Doffin. Den har stått og gått siden da, og har nå -ca. 28000 oppføringer. Jeg oppdaget da jeg tittet innom at noen -oppføringer var ikke blitt med, antagelig på grunn av at de fikk -tildelt sekvensnummer i Doffin en godt stund før de ble publisert, -slik at min nettsideskraper som fortsatte skrapingen der den slapp -sist ikke fikk dem med seg. Jeg har fikset litt slik at skraperen nå -ser litt tilbake i tid for å se om den har gått glipp av noen -oppføringer, og har skrapet på nytt fra midten av september 2013 og -fremover. Det bør dermed bli en mer komplett database for kommende -måneder. Hvis jeg får tid skal jeg forsøke å skrape "glemte" data fra -før midten av september 2013, men tør ikke garantere at det blir -prioritert med det første. </p> - -<p>Men målet med denne bloggposten er å vise hvordan denne -Doffin-databasen kan brukes og integreres med en RSS-leser, slik at en -kan la datamaskinen holde et øye med Doffin-annonseringer etter -nøkkelord. En kan lage sitt eget søk ved å besøke -<ahref="https://classic.scraperwiki.com/docs/api?name=norwegian-doffin#sqlite">API-et -hos Scraperwiki</a>, velge format rss2 og så legge inn noe ala dette i -"query in SQL":</p> - -<p><pre> -select title, scrapedurl as link, abstract as description, - publishdate as pubDate from 'swdata' - where abstract like '%linux%' or title like '%linux%' - order by seq desc limit 20 -</pre></p> - -<p>Dette vil søke opp alle anbud med ordet linux i oppsummering eller -tittel. En kan lage mer avanserte søk hvis en ønsker det. URL-en som -dukker opp nederst på siden kan en så gi til sin RSS-leser (jeg bruker -akregator selv), og så automatisk få beskjed hvis det dukker opp anbud -med det aktuelle nøkkelordet i teksten. Merk at kapasiteten og -ytelsen hos Scraperwiki er begrenset, så ikke be RSS-leseren hente ned -oftere enn en gang hver dag.</p> - -<p>Du lurer kanskje på hva slags informasjon en kan få ut fra denne -databasen. Her er to RSS-kilder, med søkeordet -"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25linux%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25linux%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">linux</a>", -søkeordet -"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">fri -programvare</a>" -og søkeordet -"<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25odf%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25odf%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">odf</a>". -Det er bare å søke på det en er interessert i. Kopier gjerne -datasettet og sett opp din egen tjeneste hvis du vil gjøre mer -avanserte søk. SQLite-filen med Doffin-oppføringer kan lastes med fra -Scraperwiki for de som vil grave dypere.</p> - - - - - All drones should be radio marked with what they do and who they belong to - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/All_drones_should_be_radio_marked_with_what_they_do_and_who_they_belong_to.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/All_drones_should_be_radio_marked_with_what_they_do_and_who_they_belong_to.html - Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:40:00 +0100 - <p>Drones, flying robots, are getting more and more popular. The most -know ones are the killer drones used by some government to murder -people they do not like without giving them the chance of a fair -trial, but the technology have many good uses too, from mapping and -forest maintenance to photography and search and rescue. I am sure it -is just a question of time before "bad drones" are in the hands of -private enterprises and not only state criminals but petty criminals -too. The drone technology is very useful and very dangerous. To have -some control over the use of drones, I agree with Daniel Suarez in his -TED talk -"<a href="https://archive.org/details/DanielSuarez_2013G">The kill -decision shouldn't belong to a robot</a>", where he suggested this -little gem to keep the good while limiting the bad use of drones:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Each robot and drone should have a cryptographically signed -I.D. burned in at the factory that can be used to track its movement -through public spaces. We have license plates on cars, tail numbers on -aircraft. This is no different. And every citizen should be able to -download an app that shows the population of drones and autonomous -vehicles moving through public spaces around them, both right now and -historically. And civic leaders should deploy sensors and civic drones -to detect rogue drones, and instead of sending killer drones of their -own up to shoot them down, they should notify humans to their -presence. And in certain very high-security areas, perhaps civic -drones would snare them and drag them off to a bomb disposal facility.</p> - -<p>But notice, this is more an immune system than a weapons system. It -would allow us to avail ourselves of the use of autonomous vehicles -and drones while still preserving our open, civil society.</p> - -</blockquote> - -<p>The key is that <em>every citizen</em> should be able to read the -radio beacons sent from the drones in the area, to be able to check -both the government and others use of drones. For such control to be -effective, everyone must be able to do it. What should such beacon -contain? At least formal owner, purpose, contact information and GPS -location. Probably also the origin and target position of the current -flight. And perhaps some registration number to be able to look up -the drone in a central database tracking their movement. Robots -should not have privacy. It is people who need privacy.</p> - - - - - Lets make a wireless community network in Oslo! - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo_.html - Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:00:00 +0100 - <p>Today NUUG and Hackeriet announced -<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Bli_med___bygge_dugnadsnett_for_alle_i_Oslo.shtml">our -plans to join forces and create a wireless community network in -Oslo</a>. The workshop to help people get started will take place -Thursday 2013-11-28, but we already are collecting the geolocation of -people joining forces to make this happen. We have -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/blob/master/oslo-nodes.geojson">9 -locations plotted on the map</a>, but we will need more before we have -a connected mesh spread across Oslo. If this sound interesting to -you, please join us at the workshop. If you are too impatient to wait -15 days, please join us on the IRC channel -<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug on irc.freenode.net</a> -right away. :)</p> - - -