Twitter took on a Saudi investor and now they are censoring tweets in certain countries. Twitter users plan to stay off Twitter Saturday Feb 28 in protest. But you know, money talks. http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/0127/Twitter-censorship-Posts-now-yanked-country-by-country
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399465,00.asp
Twitter Faces Backlash Over Censorship Plan
http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/27/worried-about-possible-restrictions-on-twitter-heres-how-to-get-around-them/
How to get around Twitter censorship
The US press freedom rating has plummeted this year with the arrest of journalists over Occupy Wall Street protests:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/26/2315249/us-plummets-on-world-press-freedom-ranking
http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html
And, as I blogged earlier, Google has decided it's more profitable to be Evil(TM)
How to manage your Google info a bit:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/what-google-knows-about-you-and-how-to-tweak-it.ars
How to get around country blocking and have a bit of privacy on the web, using proxy servers:
http://whatismyipaddress.com/using-proxies
Some configuration info (a bit old but probably works) with a search for proxies (you have to change them from time to time when yours is blocked).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
Some info about proxies
http://url.sc/
Clickable web proxies. You can start surfing from here. It's a bit busy so if you don't get it right away, try back. The links above probably list more of these. Here's a dump of today's list on url.sc in case it's unavailable:
http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Anonymous_Communications
A bit dated but lots of good education to be had here, from the anarchist community.
This year's guide, from Anonymous:
http://www.sectechno.com/2011/06/30/the-opnewblood-super-secret-security-handbook-by-anonymous/
Read it and download the PDF guide
(Tip: Beware of using the LOIC if you don't know what you're doing. People are in jail today because they didn't know how to hide their location while attacking websites with Anonymous. If you just want to cobble together a better online security setup for yourself, that's not illegal in most countries yet, though.)
Remember: Self incrimination is the worst kind. Be careful what you say on the net, in email, on phones, in texts, because all of that is being collected now and it will be used against you whenever it's convenient to do so. This is not paranoia, this is fact.
The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (hacker camp) took place recently, and you can watch some amazing talks from it here:
http://ondemand.28c3.fem-net.de/
(English and German) I think you'll find these particularly interesting:
4848 (Must see - Cory Doctorow explains. I blogged this before.)
Thes are all on YouTube also, on the 28c3 channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/28c3 which seem to be more available for the moment than that streaming server. You can also download them here: http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/28C3/
