La Quadrature du Net dénonce avec force la tentative d'intimidation dont est l'objet le site allemand Netzpolitik, mis en accusation pour trahison par la justice allemande pour avoir diffusé des documents révélant l'extension de la surveillance de l'Internet par les services secrets allemands. La Quadrature apporte son soutien et son appui aux activistes allemands, qui défendent les libertés fondamentales et subissent pour cette raison la pression des autorités.
"pappy" a des pudeurs de jeunes filles. Fin mai, il s'étonnait, sur Twitter, de découvrir que Google avait répertorié 1150 fichiers .pdf à "ne pas diffuser" sur les sites en .gouv.fr, et invitait l'ANSSI (l'agence en charge de la cyberdéfense) et TadaWeb (une plateforme de veille qui permet d'automatiser, très facilement, l'extraction et le filtrage de documents disponibles en ligne) à creuser le filon :
“A society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people,” Graham wrote. In other words, hackers tend to be fierce civil libertarians because they’re sensitive to the problems that occur when their habitual adversaries, the suits, gain too much power.
To help gain some insight into why so many hackers engage in revealing secret information or passionately support those who do, I called Jacob Appelbaum. He’s a developer for the Tor project (though he emphasized he’s speaking only for himself) and a longtime supporter of WikiLeaks.
He didn’t think much of my thesis. “This is about bravery, it’s not about learning how to use Linux,” he told me. “The courage, the moral and ethical components of it, are far more important than the technology.”
There have always been leaks, of course, and there would no doubt continue to be leaks even if WikiLeaks didn’t exist. The legendary Watergate investigation and the release of the famous Pentagon Papers both happened without WikiLeaks, or even the internet. But there’s also no question that having a repository for such documents that is both anonymous (or as close as it is possible to get) and largely stateless would make it easier for such leaks to occur.
Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defence Department official who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971 — and later became part of one of the most ground-breaking First Amendment trials in history — has said that Manning and WikiLeaks are carrying on the same tradition he was a part of: namely, the quest to hold the government accountable for its actions. Since the media seem reluctant to play the role they should in this effort, Ellsberg says, WikiLeaks becomes even more necessary.
Meanwhile, WikiLeaks itself is struggling — in part because of Assange’s legal issues, as well as a lack of funding that was exacerbated when PayPal, Visa and MasterCard cut off the ability to donate to the organization, despite the fact that WikiLeaks hasn’t been accused of a crime. And viable alternatives have not yet emerged (a splinter group headed by a former WikiLeaks lieutenant tried to set up a competitor called OpenLeaks without much success, and the New Yorker recently launched its own effort called StrongBox).
There's much more we don't know, and often what we know is obsolete. We know quite a bit about the NSA's ECHELON program from a 2000 European investigation, and about the DHS's plans for Total Information Awareness from 2002, but much less about how these programs have evolved. We can make inferences about the NSA's Utah facility based on the theoretical amount of data from various sources, the cost of computation, and the power requirements from the facility, but those are rough guesses at best. For a lot of this, we're completely in the dark.
And that's wrong.
The U.S. government is on a secrecy binge. It overclassifies more information than ever. And we learn, again and again, that our government regularly classifies things not because they need to be secret, but because their release would be embarrassing.
Knowing how the government spies on us is important. Not only because so much of it is illegal -- or, to be as charitable as possible, based on novel interpretations of the law -- but because we have a right to know. Democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function properly, and transparency and accountability are essential parts of that. That means knowing what our government is doing to us, in our name. That means knowing that the government is operating within the constraints of the law. Otherwise, we're living in a police state.
We need whistle-blowers.
Leaking information without getting caught is difficult. It's almost impossible to maintain privacy in the Internet Age. The WikiLeaks platform seems to have been secure -- Bradley Manning was caught not because of a technological flaw, but because someone he trusted betrayed him -- but the U.S. government seems to have successfully destroyed it as a platform. None of the spin-offs have risen to become viable yet. The New Yorker recently unveiled its Strongbox platform for leaking material, which is still new but looks good. This link contains the best advice on how to leak information to the press via phone, email, or the post office. The National Whistleblowers Center has a page on national-security whistle-blowers and their rights.
[Là-bas si j'y suis]
Pour toute une génération aujourd'hui dans le monde, Julian Assange est le héros qui invente Wikileaks, qui dévoile les crimes de guerre des États-Unis en Irak, qui diffuse des milliers de pages de documents officiels, qui fait trembler États et services de renseignement. Il prolonge l'esprit des journalistes qui ont révélé l'affaire du Watergate ou des Pentagone Papers.
Évidemment le pouvoir américain le poursuit par tous les moyens. Hilary Clinton veut sa peau, l'éditorialiste de Fox News lance des appels au meurtre contre Assange, partout le pouvoir exerce des pressions sur les médias, la Suède le poursuit pour abus sexuel, un moyen de l'attirer en Suède pour l'extrader aux Etats Unis où il risque la prison à vie, selon ses supporters. Le pays de la transparence et de la liberté d'expression, montre une image moins séduisante. Depuis des mois, le soldat Bradley Maning accusé d'avoir diffusé des secrets d'État par Wikileaks, risque la prison à perpétuité. Mis à l'isolement dans l'attente de son jugement, l'ONU dénonce les "tortures psychologiques" dont il fait l'objet.
Traqué de partout, Assange a trouvé refuge à l'ambassade de l'Équateur à Londres dans quelques mètres carrés, surveillé par des centaines de policiers. S'il met un pied dehors il est immédiatement arrêté. C'est là que nous le rencontrons aujourd'hui, à l'occasion d'un livre qu'il publie avec trois autres "Résistants numériques", MENACES SUR NOS LIBERTES (Robert Laffont).
Big brother aujourd'hui s'appelle GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon) sa dévise : DATA TO VALUE.
Comment Internet nous surveille, comment résister...
Avec Julian Assange et Jérémie Zimmerman de la Quadrature du Net
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«L’association Reporters Sans Frontières vient d’annoncer qu’elle allait mettre en place d’ici octobre un site Internet spécialement dédié à la lutte contre la censure. L’initiative, baptisée « We Fight Censorship » (pour « nous combattons la censure »), conduira à la publication de documents heurtés par la censure ou interdits de publication. Une aide relative aux moyens de contourner la censure sera également présente, notamment sous forme de wiki collaboratif.»