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0:28 We missed a week
- Stephen is back in Mexico after a week in Boston dealing with storage and other errands
- Walton is busy with Union Solidarity International and will be attending the Scottish Trade Union Congress
- Stephen wanted to achieve more when in Boston but was too busy
4:10 Let’s hear the tech Updates
- We’ve been using DuckDuckGo cause it doesn’t track your searches like google does
- Great search abilities to use the bang (!) to do specific searches
- Stephen first learned that ! is called bang when he used CrunchBang (#!) Linux
- Walton doesn’t have that growing sense of paranoia that google knows everything, discovered it in Linuxmint
8:35 Internet Freedom infringed by the FBI
- Mayfirst was approached by the FBI about access to a server in relation to one email that was tracked by IP through a Mayfirst server that is administered by Riseup Network that the European Counter Network (ECN) uses with an Anonymous Remailer
- What is an anonymous remailer
- FBI went to the housing location and took the server from the housing company
- Mayfirst/Riseup/ECN released a statement
16:24 Return of SOPA/PIPA
- The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is the new SOPA/PIPA
- What is CISPA? information provided by EFF
- Allows companies to give personal information from emails to the federal government without a court order
- Governments realize that activism is becoming powerful online and doing what they can to cut it down
- The UK version is similar to CISPA is the Communications Capabilities Development Programme
22:00 We search for a cheery note to end on
- Stephen has nothing, Walton brings us back to the potential of Union Solidarity International
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