Monitoring {Bypassing}

Panopticon blueprint by Jeremy Bentham, 1791
(see also Athanasius Kircher's Phonurgia nova, 1673)

Law framework

• France
  • HADOPI1&2
  • LOPSI1&2
• ...
• supra-national
  • international law
• office/work law

Actors involved

• IP holders
  • industry guilds
• governments
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)

Means of enforcement

• Wikipedia:Traffic analysis
  • on specific occasion Wikipedia:Quality of service (QoS)
  • Bluebear INRIA
• Wikipedia:Surveillance
• Wikipedia:Cryptoanalysis
• Wikipedia:Miniature UAV and Wikipedia:micro air vehicle (MAV)
• Paid Social Media Monitoring and Measurement Tools: The (almost) Complete Guide by Duane Brown, Creative Traction June 2010
• Identification which is required to enforce the law

Legal and social ways to counter

• Legislative Changes
• eGPL
• avoiding non free/open-source/... content
• producing free/open-source/... content
• sharing free/open-source/... content
• understand the limits of the current law
  • back to the first section Law framework
    • to demonstrate that the enforcement tool breaks another law
• Wikipedia:Sousveillance
• Wikipedia:Plausible deniability and Wikipedia:Deniable encryption

Technical way to counter

• BitTorrent
• Seedfuck
• FreeNet
• HostileWRT
• strong encryption
  • Wikipedia:Computational hardness assumption
• Computational Trust applied computational trust
• artificial noise
• traffic mixing
• understanding the topology and infrastructure of the network
  • not limited to the Internet
• HTTPS Everywhere by The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Firefox extension that encrypts communications with a number of major websites
• VPN
  • knowing that Huge privacy flaw found in VPN systems by Duncan Geere, Wired June 2010
• Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) Project by the EFF

Note that such tools are useless unless properly understood by the user. It is riskier to falsely feel safe that to knowingly be unsafe.

Proposals

• tool to efficiently monitor the law itself
  • WikiLawMonitor based on stet
  • see also Internet#LegislativeUpdates
• path-finding across camera-free streets
  • CameraFreePath.org equivalent to RATP.fr
  • Seedea:Utopiahanalysis/UniNetVerseVisu#GISinCLI

See also

• Censorship which differs from monitoring by blocking the information upstream
• notes on key books
  • The Future Of Ideas
  • Information Feudalism
  • ScanningNotes#LegalStrategies
  • TheCodeBook
• Seedea:Seedea/Licenses
• key concepts
  • Wikipedia:Governmentality
• eventually Wikipedia:Differential privacy (very doubtful)
• vision software
  • video monitoring
    • http://vitamindinc.com
  • software used not just monitoring but also for tracking over multiple cameras
    • through CCTV in UK
    • number plates in France
    • human beings (Singapore?)
    • secruity systems
• Wikipedia:Gait analysis
  • Cory Doctorow's Little Brother
• Panopticlick the Electronic Frontier Foundation
• IRIS Online Behaviour Management for Schools
  • "behaviour and rewards monitoring and statistical analysis tool."
  • "a behaviour and achievement monitoring system used in over 60 secondary schools." by Schools Data Services Ltd (SDS)
  • IRIS Parent Login via the YouTube channel of SchoolsDataServices
• We Re-Build decentralized cluster of net activists who have joined forces to collaborate on issues concerning access to a free Internet without intrusive surveillance.
• cryptography oriented communties
  • http://telecomix.org/
  • http://www.autistici.org/
  • http://cryptnet.net/
  • see also The Code Book
• http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/facetrack.html
• "I've Got Nothing to Hide" and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel J. Solove, San Diego Law Review 2007
  • Daniel Solove at George Washington University Law School
• IMSpector Instant Messenger proxy with monitoring, blocking and content-filtering capabilities.
• keyloggers
• Privacy is Dead – Get over it by Steven Rambam 2009
• Wikipedia:We Live in Public by Ondi Timoner, 2009
  • We Live in Public Mr. Roboto, Cyberpunk Review August 2010
• INDECT Intelligent information system supporting observation, searching and detection for security of citizens in urban environment.
• Avoiding the Privacy Apocalypse with Simon Davies and Gus Hosei, Google Tech Talk October 2010
• Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) on Stanford CIS CyberWiki
• http://projects.wsj.com/surveillance-catalog/#/
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_Encryption#Comparison_table
  • to help pick between dm-crypt, encfs, TrueCrypt, etc
• http://ahprojects.com/projects/stealth-wear
  • also author of http://CVDazzle.com discovered while checking OpenCV
• OpenVPN install script https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install
  • makes the setup on a Linux server, e.g affordable VPN, and client, e.g Ubuntu, a matters of minutes
  • used for remote social VR with no data leaking from headsets
    • learned from that process
      • client-to-client so that users can see each other
      • one account, thus .ovpn file per user
      • modifying tun0 to eth0 of the firewall, iptables, disables external access for VPN users but no the machine
• webtop, desktop of the Web container https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop
• WebSSH2 to use ssh despite being unable to install a client https://github.com/billchurch/webssh2