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posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 26 2015, @11:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the privacy-fading-away-like-a-sunset dept.

ICANN is currently considering [pdf] new rules that will affect Privacy & Proxy services. Opponents claim this to be yet another effort by big business to bypass due process, as ICANN is being lobbied to make private registrations unlawful for "commercial" use. As it has been argued effectively in the courts that any website with advertisements is commercial in nature, opponents say this can strip private registrations from any personal website or blog that funds itself by ads. Proponents of new rule complain that P/P services are too often slow to respond, to respond at all, and determining the proper entity for legal action is too difficult. Proponents ask that personally identifiable information be disclosed upon written demand to ICANN, without a court order required, with only ICANN ostensibly determining if the written demand is correct, lawful for all parties, and suitable grounds for bypassing due process in the domain holder's country.

Namecheap.com, the EFF, and Fight For The Future currently have a campaign going to call and write into ICANN before the deadline for public comments, on July 7, 2015. Of course, you can call them directly (busy signal all day) at their LA offices - +1-310-301-5800 to make a comment, or email them directly at comments-ppsai-initial-05may15@icann.org and policy-staff@icann.org

ICANN is currently only seeking comment, and is unable to come to a consensus on this issue yet. Assuming ICANN does eliminate P/P for everyone, we are left with the Distortion part of Avoid-Distort-Block-Break.

How would Soylentils respond to the lack of private registrations?


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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday June 26 2015, @09:49PM

    by edIII (791) on Friday June 26 2015, @09:49PM (#201812)

    Avoid, Distort, Block, Break [huffingtonpost.com]

    Bruce Schneier coined the phrase, and it's advice from him on how we can fight back against surveillance in general. I've personally adopted it as my motto in all things, and I go as far as to categorize my activities now into those 4 categories. Anything I do in public I consider part of a collective activity towards all four.

    Interestingly enough I cannot locate any article from him directly, only this article in the Huffington Post.

    Avoid - Just avoid surveillance, meaning stay away from monitored channels and areas.

    Distort - When accepting surveillance in channels and areas, make every attempt to distort the collected data. This is poisoning the well by making sure meta data collected about you is wildly inaccurate, misleading, and links to unrelated records if possible. In short, it's not possible to yield accurate predictions using Big Data methods when large percentages of the data itself is false. Distortion hides the Actor, but also helps other Actors.

    Block - Tools, Tools, and more Tools. Use the tools to the best of your ability to block surveillance from capturing any data at all. Passive option, and an effective one. The less amount of data Big Data has to work with, the less damaging their activities are towards the public.

    Break - Mostly illegal activities here, and all undesirable to those performing the surveillance. This is active dissent (speech), civil disobedience, "necklacing" speed traps with burning tires, hacking systems for the purposes of data and systems destruction, etc. This is where we break with a passive approach, and just actively start trashing all their toys.

    Government was right when it called it's Come-To-Jesus meeting with technology groups to complain about a new culture of fighting them. We *are* fighting them now, and it will end up just like Sony when they thought they were bigger, more powerful, and smarter than the world community..... The PS4 was hacked right open and they took it away from Sony. With ADBB, the technical people of the world will take it back.

    I'm seriously thinking of getting t-shirts with ADBB all over it.

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