More on Facebook #snitchgate

http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/facebook-snitchgate/

Facebook is asking your friends and family to rat you out

"Facebook wants to know if your friends' names are real. Are you going to be the snitch?" Screenshot: http://twitter.com/chapeaudefee/status/248599349481836544/photo/1

Quitting is safer than staying. Delete your info.

G+ is as bad, and if they catch you using a pseudonym, they might nuke your other Google accounts.

Twitter and Flickr are a bit safer, but don't geolocate yourself and your photos.

If the police want to find you, any of these services will turn in your IP address, which might point to your location.

Enemies of the Internet - Infographic

Cryptoparty 411 worldwide - watch #CryptoParty on Twitter

Find your #CryptoParty on Twitter soon.

more info:
http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty

Surveillance: How Big Brother is watching you - and things to do about it

Watch this Anonymous explainer on Trapwire, the artificial intelligence system peering at you through CC TV cameras, which are installed almost everywhere that Wikileaks uncovered and published info on this week.

It will be most dangerous to young, minority youth, for example graffiti writers, who will be more "suspicious" naturally than others, but it threatens us all. Anonymous will soon publish a how-to guide on taking out the cameras, but you probably already know how. Pro Tip: wear masks.


Anonymous Releases Video On How To Defeat Facial Recognition [these techniques will not last forever, however]

http://www.biometricupdate.com/201208/the-trouble-with-trapwire/
More Trapwire info. Note that the secret system is so heinous that officials deny using it, but it's already been deployed in Seattle and Washington DC. It uses cameras that are already in place, owned by various companies and governments.

http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoParty
CryptoParty, an event taking place worldwide where geeks explain the tools you need to be safer and how to use them. This movement is a response to Australia's (and other countries') new laws that mandate companies retain all your internet data to use against you whenever it's convenient.

http://www.cryptoparty.org/wiki/Berlin
Berlin CryptoParty will soon publish a software guide to help people inform their own CryptoParties, so watch this space.

Tip: iMessage isn't one of the tools you should use.
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/08/dear-apple-please-set-imessage-free.html

http://mathbabe.org/2012/08/25/nsa-mathematicians/
A mathematician who said no to the NSA explains some of the dangers we all face in the totalitarian surveillance state that's forming. Some good links are there too. All the social media are monitored, especially FaceBook.

Please spread this information widely. Preserving liberty will take all of us working together, and the first step is to inform people of the threat. This is science, not science fiction. The second step is to object loudly to your government representatives while those who can work to disable the systems.

More reading:

Giving In to the Surveillance State
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/whos-watching-the-nsa-watchers.html?_r=1

Building a better Anonymous, part 0
http://blog.cognitivedissidents.com/2011/12/20/building-a-better-anonymous-series-part-0/

A Tor of the Dark Web
http://slifty.com/2012/08/a-tor-of-the-dark-web/

The Tor project
https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html

Video: NSA whistleblower explains the mechanisms of totalitarianism - coming to the USA

William.Binney.HOPE.9.KEYNOTE.Part2 by dm_500719a56d9cd

I skipped to the end questions, and if they interest you, you should watch at least the last half of the video.

USA: Act today against CISPA spying bill - your freedom depends on it

Stop Cyber Spying - a week of action against CISPA

https://cyberspying.eff.org/

Please participate. CISPA is worse than SOPA/ACTA and it already passed the House of Representatives in the US. It affects everyone whose internet traffic crosses US servers. Basically everyone. It's a Big Brother move to remove due process and allow spying on anyone's internet traffic anytime, for any alleged reason. 

Related: Find out if your representatives voted for it and complain to them and the corporate sponsors named. They deserve your contempt.

The Senate and those companies need to hear the noise we make about this online and on their phones, in the next few days. We can't depend on the President to veto it, because his track record on civil liberties is very poor so far.

News: Microsoft just withdrew their support. 

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Surveillance Self-Defense

Privacy Alert: Change and delete your Google Search history before the end of February

Got a nickname? Google + wants your driver's license or else.

Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet

ACTA is also a worldwide problem - find out more

How to Record the Cops-A guide to the technology for keeping government accountable

Find street art nearby with your smartphone - and GPS dangers

Turn on GPS on your phone
go to
http://0009.org/streetart/
The phone tells the website where you are, then the website shows photos from Flickr that were taken near you. It's not an app, so it works with any phone that has GPS. I know the guy who made this site.

You can't map the photos this way (which is a good thing for the artwork), but it gives a nice sense of your artistic neighborhood.

When you try this, notice that clicking an image enlarges it and clicking it again brings you back to the grid. If you hit the browser's Back control, you'll end up at some other web page you visited instead.

GPS, geolocation, and EXIF 

Speaking of GPS and phones, it's important to set your phone not to geolocate your photos if you share photos online. Otherwise, you might be blowing up your spot and not even know it.

You can set Flickr not to show location info for your photos, but that doesn't mean it isn't still in the photos. Even if your online photo spot doesn't do photomapping, someone can download your photos and maybe get the location info from them, so keep that in mind. You don't want your camera telling the world where your friends houses are either, so the danger's not just about graffiti spots. It's best to strip the EXIF info to be sure.

I use GraphicConverter on Mac OS instead of Photoshop for editing images. It has a nice tool that erases EXIF data (photo metadata that describes all about your camera, its settings, and possibly the location of the photos). I also told my phone camera not to save that info, and I keep my GPS off unless I need it (saves battery life too).

For Windows, Google has more info about Windows EXIF tools.

More info on GPS and photo tagging on Howstuffworks.

Painting on roofs for Google Earth satellite view

Tips: Managing your privacy on Facebook

Things changed this week and suddenly your bits are in the breeze again. Time to lock down or get out. Now they want to sell you and your friends out to advertisers and watch you wherever you go online, because it's profitable for them. Luckily smarter people are building better networks as we speak, so soon we'll have social networks where we're in control of what we reveal about ourselves, friends, and family.

How to protect your personal information on Facebook

How to permanently delete your Facebook account

By the way, I've heard recently that some idiot is impersonating me and/or Art Crimes on Facebook. I don't have a FB account, so if you see the faker, please give them hell for me. Love to get them tossed if you know how. Clue me at info@graffiti.org

Thank you, 

Susan

Freedom In the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy, and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing

This article is important. It's a bit longer than a typical blog post but if you're involved in social networking,  internet technologies, or publishing stuff on the Web, it's information you need. It explains how we ended up with the spying-riddled, antiprivacy networks of today and what we need to do to make the next, better set of services and networks for ourselves.