Rickard Falkvinge: Nokia (Microsoft) Wire Tapped All of Its Own Encrypted Cell Phones Including Bank Transfer Information

Death Twitches: Nokia Caught Wiretapping Encrypted Traffic from Its Handsets Nokia, the cellphone manufacturer, has been listening in to all encrypted communications from its handsets. Every connection advertised as secure – banking, social networks, dating, corporate secrets – has been covertly wiretapped by Nokia themselves and decrypted for analysis. Security researcher Gaurang posted an article …

Rickard Falkvinge: Sweidsh Government Loses Its Integrity, Turns Over Two Swedish Citizens of Somali Origin for Rendition to USA, Without Informing Their Lawyers, Without Due Process

Two Swedes Renditioned To The US, Possibly To Death Penalty, In Secrecy And Without Lawyers’ Knowledge Posted: 04 Jan 2013 12:34 AM PST Process of Law – Henrik Alexandersson:  Mid-November, two Swedish citizens with Somali origins were renditioned from Djibouti to a prison in the United States of America. According to the US, they are …

Rickard Falkvinge: Banks and Credit Cards Company Blockade of WikiLeaks Illegal and Now Being Fought

Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade Corruption:  Today, the Swedish Pirate Party filed formal charges against Swedish banks for their discrimination against WikiLeaks, which has been systematically denied donations by payment providers since 2010. Numerous payment service providers, including Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal, have blocked donations to WikiLeaks and other legal operations …

Rickard Falkvinge: Four More Reasons Open File Sharing is a Virtual Public Library

Four More Reasons The Pirate Bay Is Effectively A Public Library – And A Great One Posted: 13 Dec 2012 06:57 AM PST Infopolicy:  File sharing fulfills the exact same need and purpose as public libraries did when they first appeared, and is met with the exact same resistance – even in the same words. …

Rickard Falkvinge: New York Public Library versus Online “Piracy”

  The Pirate Bay is the World’s Most Efficient Public Library The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This supposedly deprives the author or artist of those millions of people’s money. One group has acquired over 50 million media …

Rickard Falkvinge: Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars

Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars Infrastructure:  The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth. This is the …

Rickard Falkvinge: OECD: Telco Overcharging by 100,000 Times While Blocking Internet Alternatives

OECD: Telcos Overcharging By Five Orders Of Magnitude Infopolicy: A little-noticed report by the OECD sheds light on why the telco industry so forcefully prevents more and better internet connectivity to Europe’s entrepreneurs and households: the telcos are currently overcharging by five orders of magnitude by forcing people to use the telco network rather than the …