[Air-L] IT support for Occupy Seattle during AoIR? --- AND --- CCC hacks German government trojan

[Daniel Oppermann]

In Germany it is not kept out of the news. Actually it is very present.

Something else: the German Hacker organisation Chaos Computer Club (CCC)
just happened to analyse a software that seems to be a government trojan
for surveillance. I said "seems to be" because officials did not confirm
that it is their software.

Read here:

http://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner




Dan




Am Montag, den 10.10.2011, 04:13 -0400 schrieb Peter Timusk:
> The Occupy Wall Street group is doing non-violent protest. The reason is
> because 1 % of the people control most of the wealth in the world and that's
> wrong. I hear it is being kept out of the news.
> 
> Peter Timusk
> at571 at ncf.ca
> ptimusk at sympatico.ca
> web: www.crystalcomputing.net
> blogs www.cyborgcitizen.org
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of live
> Sent: October-10-11 2:42 AM
> To: AoIR-L Aoir
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] IT support for Occupy Seattle during AoIR?
> 
> What are they doing and why?
> 
> 
> On Oct 9, 2011, at 11:11 PM, qCentral wrote:
> 
> > hi folks,
> > 
> > this is a little off-topic (for some) so apologies in advance:
> > 
> > i spent the evening at the "Occupy Seattle" camp in Westlake Park @ 401
> Pine St., just a few blocks from our conference hotel.
> > 
> > their new website is: www.occupyseattle.org and they are also on Facebook
> (but trying to shift traffic to the website as well).
> > 
> > if you are: 
> > 1) interested in helping them with tech support while you're here in 
> > Seattle for AoIR
> > 
> > 2) interested in donating hardware/software to the camp, specifically:
> > 
> > 	. deep cycle batteries
> > 	. solar cells
> > 	. teach-ins: 4:00-6:30pm
> > 	. networking gear: routers//switches/access points
> > 	. load balanced web hosting
> > 	. social media endorsements
> > 	. access to any data on current internet trends
> > 	. projector
> > 	. fast wi-fi everywhere 24/7
> > 	. useful information/reports on how the internet can be used to help
> movements/effective tactics from other protests (eg, Egypt) 
> > 	. information on mesh networking
> > 
> > and/or
> > 
> > 3) a local to the Seattle area and interested in helping with ongoing 
> > IT support
> > 
> > PLEASE contact me OFF-LIST.
> > 
> > i'll coordinate drop-offs of equipment 2x this week (end of the day,
> Tuesday and Thursday) and put people in touch with the working group
> handling IT for "Occupy Seattle" while i'm in town for the conference.
> > 
> > the camp also needs some basic supplies for people who've come from out of
> state for the protest:
> > 
> > Blankets (at least 40)
> > Coats (any rain gear)
> > Storage containers (plastic bins for organizing supplies) Cleaning 
> > supplies (brooms, dustpans, mops, buckets, and disinfectant) Epsom 
> > salts EPI pens (if you're a super allergic to bees, this is a special 
> > shout out to you!)
> > 
> > If you would like to donate cash at the AoIR (you can email me @
> qcentral at indiana.edu and I'll meet you anywhere to pick it up), I would be
> happy to go shopping for the items above and get them to the camp (I'll make
> a run Tuesday and Thursday). My personal goal is to help them get another
> portable toilet out there for overnight campers. They don't have PayPal set
> up on their website yet but they hope to soon so that's another option if
> you'd help out down the road.
> > 
> > : )
> > 
> > Thanks for considering this request for help while we're all citizens of
> this fair city (apologies, again, to those who feel the list is not the
> proper forum for this request).
> > 
> > Best,
> > Mary
> > _______________________
> > On sabbatical until January 9, 2012
> > 
> > Mary L. Gray, Ph.D.
> > Associate Professor
> > Communication and Culture
> > Affiliate Faculty, Gender Studies
> > Adjunct Faculty, American Studies
> > Adjunct Faculty, Anthropology
> > Indiana University
> > 800 E. 3rd Street
> > Bloomington, IN 47405
> > 
> > Email: mLg at indiana.edu
> > URL: www.indiana.edu/~qcentral
> > Phone: 812-855-4379
> > Fax:  812-855-6014
> > 
> > 
> > BLOG for "Out in the Country, Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in 
> > Rural America" (NYU Press 2009) @ 
> > http://queercountry.fromthesquare.org/
> > 
> > 
> 
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