Polish Politicians Wearing Guy Fawkes-Masks: Now Anonymous IS A Worldwide Political Movement

This is going to be a part of the history of the Internet.
While the Polish Government signs ACTA, member of the parliament wore Anonymous-masks to protest against it.

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This epic picture is a mark for the movement and influence of Anonymous. The loose group, which doesn't have a structure itself, is a symbol for the fight for freedom in the net. Now, after "Operation Paperstorm", it's once more in real life, with politicians in Poland wearing the symbol of Anonymous, the Guy Fawkes-mask in the parliament.
I see this as an acceptance, even by politicians, that Anonymous is fighting a legal battle for the Internet. For sure, we will see this photo more than once on the net.

A call for other politicians in other countries to do the same and show the resistance against ACTA, which takes the power from judges and gives them to so-called right holders. And if we really must prove legality everything we own, we're all doomed. A witchhunt, that can be executed by big media companies at will.

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Filehosters In Panic And Closing Services

As predicted, the strike against Megaupload has much influence on other File- and Sharehosters. Many of them closing, or crippling services. Millions of legal files are no more accessible, and trustful users are going to experience how it is, when you can't share your own files, while lawyers questioning the Megaupload takedown.

• FileSonic is basically nothing more that a webspace without direct linking: "All sharing functionality on FileSonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally."
• FileServe allows only download the files you uploaded, like FileSonic.
• Uploaded.to disabled the service for visitors from the US.
• FileJungle & Uploadstation stopped his Affiliate-program
• x7.to closed all the services
• Dozens of other Filehosters are not reachable or abandoning their Affiliate-plans

Jobs at some of those services are in danger. Some employees are afraid to go to work. Think property has won? No Freedom has lost. Try to upload your own work for the public freely. At least you can try it at RapidShare.com. For now, they don't changed anything. It's a Switzerland based company. Maybe that's the future of US freedom. Fleeing to Switzerland.

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RMS Political Note About Apple

Interesting link from Richard M. Stallman:

Apple:

Why does Apple do manufacturing
in China rather than the US?
This article criticizes Apple's immediate reason. Looking more
deeply, I can suggest underlying reasons to criticize too.

• Because Apple is greedy and unscrupulous, and has no loyalty

• to any country. (It is a big corporation.)

• Because of "free trade" treaties that enable the unscrupulous and

• greedy

• to use sweatshops in China or elsewhere.

• Because the corporations dominated the US government since before

• 1990.

Wow. that article is harsh, but has some interesting points.
Just wanted to let you know.

Image via Wikipedia

Move Your File To Other Countries Before It's Too Late

It's hard to trust any US cloud space after this #Megaupload incident. It's not the companies fault. But if my data are gone, that doesn't help.

Will move all my file out of the USA. Found AsusWebStorage to be a great alternative for my Ubuntu system and Android phone.

This even makes me think if Google is the right place to put my documents and using of the services. It can happen to any service in the USA. I'm shocked and looking for non-US alternatives in every aspect of the internet. This will be a long and tough switch for me.

Waiting for a statement of Google about how they will protect people property from the RIAA, MPIA and their servants. But I have little hope.

I think this act on Megapuload will cost the USA a lot of money.

https://www.asuswebstorage.com/

Megaupload Shut Down. Freedom Under Attack. Anonymous Fires Back

You probably read it. Megaupload is no more reachable via it's domain. FBI made themselves a servant to the RIAA and shut down the popular filehosting and cloud service site.
Anonymous fired back for freedom, and brought down government sites, FBI and RIAA/Universal.

Image via Wikipedia

While some see this as the World Web War, I think, that it hasn't even started yet.
When the lights go off, and the Wall Street crashes (at last without their own fault), then you know it has begun.
I'm sure the fighters for freedom have not even started to use their full potential. make no mistake, if there will be a cyberwar, the governments will NOT win it. Politicians with no clue what the net is, old tech against high-tech fortresses, cyber forces without a command chain. I'm not complaining. As long as freedom can see a chance to win against the scum that wants to take the internet down, I think personally, it's a good thing. It's the resistance of the 21st century.

And for all that, only one song comes to my mind these days again.
It's in German, but you will get the idea for sure :)

Have fun with this song. It's under a creative commons license by Sid der Liedermacher

Get the lyrics. Download the song legally: http://soundcloud.com/sid
No bloodsuckers involved. Real Art.

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Munzee Scavenger Hunt

Today I made my first Munzee tour.
Munzee is basically a hunt for QR-Code marks. It can be everywhere. It can be just a sticker anywhere, or hidden in a container. It's like Geocaching in the end.

You can deploy or find a Munzee at munzee.com. The word comes from the German word "Münze" and got a little more catchy sound with the additional e at the end. You need to have an Android or iPhone to scan the QR-Codes with the available software.
You really can make this a quick hunt. Find, scan, done.

Overall it all depends on the one that deploy, that means lay out, the Munzees. This quick find mentality can also be a problem. A sticker somewhere is not exactly tempting if you come from Geocaching with many breathtaking ideas, and wonderful hides and containers. But you could also lay out a Munzee with a nice box, or in 20m high trees (don't let your phone drop:) ).


You also can put a Munzee in a Geocache. But stick it to the container, so no one will mistake this as a trackable. But there are some things you need to know if you do this.
The coordinate of a Munzee is public on the web. Everyone can see it. So don't put it in a Multicache-Final or a well hidden Mystery Cache. You can however, stick a Munzee at at Multi-Cache stage for special bonus. In this case, everyone can find it without disturbing the Geocache hunt or Munzee search, even if they are not participating in one or another.

I recorded my conclusion at the end of my little tour on video:

So short good and bad

Good

• quick hides/finds with QR-Codes
• addicting point-system
• self-printing of the QR-Codes possible
• perfect for places where no container can be laid out
• replacement for some Nanocaches

Bad

• you need an iPhone or Android
• tempting to put a Munzee everywhere. Quality please.
• coordinates openly on the web (watch your Geocaches)

I think I will do this while geocaching. Or is it geocaching, too?

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