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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from March 2018</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from March 2018</description>
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  10                 <title>Self-appointed leaders of the Free World</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The leaders of the worlds have started to congratulate the
  15 re-elected Russian head of state, and this causes some criticism.  I
  16 am though a little fascinated by a comment from USA senator John McCain,
  17 &lt;a href=&quot;http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people&quot;&gt;sited
  18 by The Hill and others&lt;/a&gt;:
  19
  20 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
  21 &lt;p&gt;&quot;An American president does not lead the Free World by
  22 congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
  23 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  24
  25 &lt;p&gt;While I totally agree with the senator here, the way the quote is
  26 phrased make me suspect that he is unaware of the simple fact that USA
  27 have not lead the Free World since at least before its government
  28 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher_Arar&quot;&gt;kidnapped a
  29 completely innocent Canadian citizen in transit on his way home to
  30 Canada via John F. Kennedy International Airport in September 2002 and
  31 sent him to be tortured in Syria for a year&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;p&gt;USA might be running ahead, but the path they are taking is not the
  34 one taken by any Free World.&lt;/p&gt;
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  39                 <title>Facebooks ability to sell your personal information is the real Cambridge Analytica scandal</title>
  40                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Facebooks_ability_to_sell_your_personal_information_is_the_real_Cambridge_Analytica_scandal.html</link>
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  42                 <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 16:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
  43                 <description>&lt;p&gt;So, Cambridge Analytica is getting some well deserved criticism for
  44 (mis)using information it got from Facebook about 50 million people,
  45 mostly in the USA.  What I find a bit surprising, is how little
  46 criticism Facebook is getting for handing the information over to
  47 Cambridge Analytica and others in the first place.  And what about the
  48 people handing their private and personal information to Facebook?
  49 And last, but not least, what about the government offices who are
  50 handing information about the visitors of their web pages to Facebook?
  51 No-one who looked at the terms of use of Facebook should be surprised
  52 that information about peoples interests, political views, personal
  53 lifes and whereabouts would be sold by Facebook.&lt;/p&gt;
  54
  55 &lt;p&gt;What I find to be the real scandal is the fact that Facebook is
  56 selling your personal information, not that one of the buyers used it
  57 in a way Facebook did not approve when exposed.  It is well known that
  58 Facebook is selling out their users privacy, but a scandal
  59 nevertheless.  Of course the information provided to them by Facebook
  60 would be misused by one of the parties given access to personal
  61 information about the millions of Facebook users.  Collected
  62 information will be misused sooner or later.  The only way to avoid
  63 such misuse, is to not collect the information in the first place.  If
  64 you do not want Facebook to hand out information about yourself for
  65 the use and misuse of its customers, do not give Facebook the
  66 information.&lt;/p&gt;
  67
  68 &lt;p&gt;Personally, I would recommend to completely remove your Facebook
  69 account, and take back some control of your personal information.
  70 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/19/how-to-protect-your-facebook-privacy-or-delete-yourself-completely&quot;&gt;According
  71 to The Guardian&lt;/a&gt;, it is a bit hard to find out how to request
  72 account removal (and not just &#39;disabling&#39;).  You need to
  73 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674?helpref=faq_content&quot;&gt;visit
  74 a specific Facebook page&lt;/a&gt; and click on &#39;let us know&#39; on that page
  75 to get to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account&quot;&gt;the
  76 real account deletion screen&lt;/a&gt;.  Perhaps something to consider?  I
  77 would not trust the information to really be deleted (who knows,
  78 perhaps NSA, GCHQ and FRA already got a copy), but it might reduce the
  79 exposure a bit.&lt;/p&gt;
  80
  81 &lt;p&gt;If you want to learn more about the capabilities of Cambridge
  82 Analytica, I recommend to see the video recording of the one hour talk
  83 Paul-Olivier Dehaye gave to &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; last april about
  84 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20170404-big-data-psychometric/&quot;&gt;
  85 Data collection, psychometric profiling and their impact on
  86 politics&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  87
  88 &lt;p&gt;And if you want to communicate with your friends and loved ones,
  89 use some end-to-end encrypted method like
  90 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.signal.org/&quot;&gt;Signal&lt;/a&gt; or
  91 &lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx/&quot;&gt;Ring&lt;/a&gt;, and stop sharing your private
  92 messages with strangers like Facebook and Google.&lt;/p&gt;
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  97                 <title>H, Ap, Frp og Venstre går for DNA-innsamling av hele befolkningen</title>
  98                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/H__Ap__Frp_og_Venstre_g_r_for_DNA_innsamling_av_hele_befolkningen.html</link>
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 100                 <pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
 101                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I går kom det nok et argument for å holde seg unna det norske
 102 helsevesenet.  Da annonserte et stortingsflertall, bestående av Høyre,
 103 Arbeiderpartiet, Fremskrittspartiet og Venstre, at de går inn for å
 104 samle inn og lagre DNA-prøver fra hele befolkningen i Norge til evig
 105 tid.  Endringen gjelder innsamlede blodprøver fra nyfødte i Norge.
 106 Det vil dermed ta litt tid før en har hele befolkningen, men det er
 107 dit vi havner gitt nok tid.  I dag er det nesten hundre prosent
 108 oppslutning om undersøkelsen som gjøres like etter fødselen, på
 109 bakgrunn av blodprøven det er snakk om å lagre, for å oppdage endel
 110 medfødte sykdommer.  Blodprøven lagres i dag i inntil seks år.
 111 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2017-2018/inns-201718-182l/?all=true&quot;&gt;Stortingets
 112 flertallsinnstilling&lt;/a&gt; er at tidsbegrensingen skal fjernes, og mener
 113 at tidsubegrenset lagring ikke vil påvirke oppslutningen om
 114 undersøkelsen.&lt;/p&gt;
 115
 116 &lt;p&gt;Datatilsynet har ikke akkurat applaudert forslaget:&lt;/p&gt;
 117
 118 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 119
 120   &lt;p&gt;«Datatilsynet mener forslaget ikke i tilstrekkelig grad
 121   synliggjør hvilke etiske og personvernmessige utfordringer som må
 122   diskuteres før en etablerer en nasjonal biobank med blodprøver fra
 123   hele befolkningen.»&lt;/p&gt;
 124
 125 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 126
 127 &lt;p&gt;Det er flere historier om hvordan innsamlet biologisk materiale har
 128 blitt brukt til andre formål enn de ble innsamlet til, og historien om
 129 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/Ql0WR/Na-ma-Folkehelsa-slette-uskyldiges-DNA-info&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
 130 lagring på vegne av politiet (Kripos) av innsamlet biologisk materiale
 131 og DNA-informasjon i strid med loven&lt;/a&gt; viser at en ikke kan være
 132 trygg på at lover og intensjoner beskytter de som blir berørt mot
 133 misbruk av slik privat og personlig informasjon.&lt;/p&gt;
 134
 135 &lt;p&gt;Det er verdt å merke seg at det kan forskes på de innsamlede
 136 blodprøvene uten samtykke fra den det gjelder (eller foreldre når det
 137 gjelder barn), etter en lovendring for en stund tilbake, med mindre
 138 det er sendt inn skjema der en reserverer seg mot forskning uten
 139 samtykke.  Skjemaet er tilgjengelig fra
 140 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fhi.no/arkiv/publikasjoner/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/&quot;&gt;folkehelseinstituttets
 141 websider&lt;/a&gt;, og jeg anbefaler, uavhengig av denne saken, varmt alle å
 142 sende inn skjemaet for å dokumentere hvor mange som ikke synes det er
 143 greit å fjerne krav om samtykke.&lt;/p&gt;
 144
 145 &lt;p&gt;I tillegg bør en kreve destruering av alt biologisk materiale som
 146 er samlet inn om en selv, for å redusere eventuelle negative
 147 konsekvenser i fremtiden når materialet kommer på avveie eller blir
 148 brukt uten samtykke, men det er så vidt jeg vet ikke noe system for
 149 dette i dag.&lt;/p&gt;
 150
 151 &lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
 152 det jeg driver med, setter jeg pris på om du sender Bitcoin-donasjoner
 153 til min adresse
 154 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 155
 156 &lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2023-09-21: FHI har flyttet
 157 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fhi.no/publ/skjema/for-pasienter-skjema-for-reservasjo/&quot;&gt;skjemaet
 158 for å reservere seg mot forskning uten samtykke&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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 163                 <title>First rough draft Norwegian and Spanish edition of the book Made with Creative Commons</title>
 164                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/First_rough_draft_Norwegian_and_Spanish_edition_of_the_book_Made_with_Creative_Commons.html</link>
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 166                 <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
 167                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I am working on publishing yet another book related to Creative
 168 Commons.  This time it is a book filled with interviews and histories
 169 from those around the globe making a living using Creative
 170 Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
 171
 172 &lt;p&gt;Yesterday, after many months of hard work by several volunteer
 173 translators, the first draft of a Norwegian Bokmål edition of the book
 174 &lt;a href=&quot;https://madewith.cc&quot;&gt;Made with Creative Commons from 2017&lt;/a&gt;
 175 was complete.  The Spanish translation is also complete, while the
 176 Dutch, Polish, German and Ukraine edition need a lot of work.  Get in
 177 touch if you want to help make those happen, or would like to
 178 translate into your mother tongue.&lt;/p&gt;
 179
 180 &lt;p&gt;The whole book project started when
 181 &lt;a href=&quot;http://gwolf.org/node/4102&quot;&gt;Gunnar Wolf announced&lt;/a&gt; that he
 182 was going to make a Spanish edition of the book.  I noticed, and
 183 offered some input on how to make a book, based on my experience with
 184 translating the
 185 &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;Free
 186 Culture&lt;/a&gt; and
 187 &lt;a href=&quot;https://debian-handbook.info/get/#norwegian&quot;&gt;The Debian
 188 Administrator&#39;s Handbook&lt;/a&gt; books to Norwegian Bokmål.  To make a
 189 long story short, we ended up working on a Bokmål edition, and now the
 190 first rough translation is complete, thanks to the hard work of
 191 Ole-Erik Yrvin, Ingrid Yrvin, Allan Nordhøy and myself.  The first
 192 proof reading is almost done, and only the second and third proof
 193 reading remains.  We will also need to translate the 14 figures and
 194 create a book cover.  Once it is done we will publish the book on
 195 paper, as well as in PDF, ePub and possibly Mobi formats.&lt;/p&gt;
 196
 197 &lt;p&gt;The book itself originates as a manuscript on Google Docs, is
 198 downloaded as ODT from there and converted to Markdown using pandoc.
 199 The Markdown is modified by a script before is converted to DocBook
 200 using pandoc.  The DocBook is modified again using a script before it
 201 is used to create a Gettext POT file for translators.  The translated
 202 PO file is then combined with the earlier mentioned DocBook file to
 203 create a translated DocBook file, which finally is given to dblatex to
 204 create the final PDF.  The end result is a set of editions of the
 205 manuscript, one English and one for each of the translations.&lt;/p&gt;
 206
 207 &lt;p&gt;The translation is conducted using
 208 &lt;a href=&quot;https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/madewithcc/translation/&quot;&gt;the
 209 Weblate web based translation system&lt;/a&gt;.  Please have a look there
 210 and get in touch if you would like to help out with proof
 211 reading. :)&lt;/p&gt;
 212
 213 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 214 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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 220                 <title>Debian used in the subway info screens in Oslo, Norway</title>
 221                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Debian_used_in_the_subway_info_screens_in_Oslo__Norway.html</link>
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 223                 <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
 224                 <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was pleasantly surprised to discover my operating system of
 225 choice, Debian, was used in the info screens on the subway stations.
 226 While passing Nydalen subway station in Oslo, Norway, I discovered the
 227 info screen booting with some text scrolling.  I was not quick enough
 228 with my camera to be able to record a video of the scrolling boot
 229 screen, but I did get a photo from when the boot got stuck with a
 230 corrupt file system:
 231
 232 &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;center&quot; width=&quot;40%&quot; src=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2018-03-02-ruter-debian-lenny.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;[photo of subway info screen]&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 233
 234 &lt;p&gt;While I am happy to see Debian used more places, some details of the
 235 content on the screen worries me.&lt;/p&gt;
 236
 237 &lt;p&gt;The image show the version booting is &#39;Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid&#39;,
 238 indicating that this is based on code taken from Debian Unstable/Sid
 239 after Debian Etch (version 4) was released 2007-04-08 and before
 240 Debian Lenny (version 5) was released 2009-02-14.  Since Lenny Debian
 241 has released version 6 (Squeeze) 2011-02-06, 7 (Wheezy) 2013-05-04, 8
 242 (Jessie) 2015-04-25 and 9 (Stretch) 2017-06-15, according to
 243 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_version_history&quot;&gt;a Debian
 244 version history on Wikpedia&lt;/a&gt;.  This mean the system is running
 245 around 10 year old code, with no security fixes from the vendor for
 246 many years.&lt;/p&gt;
 247
 248 &lt;p&gt;This is not the first time I discover the Oslo subway company,
 249 Ruter, running outdated software.  In 2012,
 250 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html&quot;&gt;I
 251 discovered the ticket vending machines were running Windows 2000&lt;/a&gt;,
 252 and this was
 253 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fortsatt_ingen_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_for_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_.html&quot;&gt;still
 254 the case in 2016&lt;/a&gt;.  Given the response from the responsible people
 255 in 2016, I would assume the machines are still running unpatched
 256 Windows 2000.  Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.&lt;/p&gt;
 257
 258 &lt;p&gt;The photo is made available under the license terms
 259 &lt;a href=&quot;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons
 260 4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 261
 262 &lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 263 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 264 &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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