Most of us still call it “democracy”, while I don’t: today three Google employees have been condemned by an Italian court for what happened in 2006. It’s just the 1st degree of a trial that provides 3 and it usually takes more than four years to come to a decision.
I reduced the amount of posts daily published on this blog because I’m currently working on the backend, but I can’t ignore this: I’ll try to explain the situation in few words, hoping to be able to be clear enough.
A group of idiots students recorded a bullying act against a guy affected by the Down Syndrome and uploaded the video on YouTube: Google removed that immediately after the signaling — but it had appeared on local TV, yet.
If you’re asking yourselves, those baby-criminals (as we use to call them) wasn’t condemned at all: they just got a suspension from school, while the Magistracy processed Google for privacy violation and aggravated defamation.
Today the decision condemned David Drummond, George Reyes and Peter Fleischer — acquitting Arvind Desikan: they weren’t directly responsible of what happened, they didn’t know those guys, nor created and/or uploaded that video. But for Italy they’re still guilty.
As I said on Twitter, I’m really ashamed of being Italian. Google can’t understand why it had been processed, as long as it helped our police to identify those students (removing the indicted video): there will be an appeal soon, but I’m very sorry for that.
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The Italian Magistracy is worse than China’s
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Safer Internet Day 2010: think before you post
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Today in the EU is the Safer Internet Day: to be sincere, I’m not so convinced on the importance of these events… but its purposes are sharable.
This year the slogan is Think B4 U Post
, focusing social network sharing and UGCs: a funny video on YouTube is self-explanatory.
I think that the main goal will be to provide effective filters for children: actually, there’s no real way to protect them against dangerous contents.
One of these methods is the Google’s strict filtering: it’s far from being enough. Another useful resource is a campaign by Kaspersky Lab called Stop Digital Pollution.
That’s all good for prevention, but what about censorship? Most of web filters are no longer maintained and I don’t know open resources.
An interesting article comes from Facebook: I think that privacy settings are very important and I agree with Will Gardner, admin of digizen — and CEO of the Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board too.
YouTube is over IPv6: how to access it from Linux
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Where it stands for IPv6, because YouTube is still accessible from IPv4: the changes made by Google don’t affect users accesses to the platform — but reduced the amount of IPv4 addresses needed (because YouTube is actually one of the largest sites on the web).
Anyway, you should prepare to switch soon: IPv6 will definitively replace IPv4 in 2012. If you didn’t disable it via kernel and/or system configuration – somebody suggests to do so to increase internet speed – you could easily take IP addresses via Freenet6.
The Freenet6 community changed its web site recently and joined the Ning platform: I’ll speak about OpenSocial integration for blogs in a second time.
The best way I found to get IPv6 connectivity is Gateway6: you can choose to login with username and password – registering for a free account – or anonymously.
The next example shows how to do it without any registered account: the main difference is about credentials — if you don’t need routing.
You could find packages for almost any Linux distribution: here’s what to do with Ubuntu.
$ sudo apt-get install gw6c $ sudo apt-get remove --purge radvd
In old releases the gw6c package was called tspc and its configuration files had another path: radvd isn’t really useful for our purposes, so I suggest you to completely remove it.
You may configure the client as you like, but the next settings are taken directly from the official example:
$ sudo gedit /etc/gw6c/gw6c.conf userid= passwd= server=anonymous.freenet6.net auth_method=anonymous host_type=host prefixlen=64 if_prefix=eth0 dns_server= gw6_dir= auto_retry_connect=yes retry_delay=30 retry_delay_max=300 keepalive=yes keepalive_interval=30 tunnel_mode=v6udpv4 if_tunnel_v6v4=sit if_tunnel_v6udpv4=tun if_tunnel_v4v6=sit1 client_v4=auto client_v6=auto template=linux proxy_client=no broker_list=/var/lib/gw6c/tsp-broker-list.txt last_server=/var/lib/gw6c/tsp-last-server.txt always_use_same_server=no log_stderr=0 log_filename=/var/log/gw6c/gw6c.log log_rotation=yes log_rotation_size=32 log_rotation_delete=yes syslog_facility=USER
Warning: prefixlen must equals to 64 if you don’t have an account, otherwise it won’t work — host_type could be router just if you login, with a prefixlen of 48.
The if_prefix option is about your physical interface: it supports bridges too (change it accordingly). The tunnel_mode must be v6udpv4 if you’re behind a NAT. In this case you can’t make use of a proxy client.
I don’t suggest you to change if_tunnel_* options: you need at least to enable the tun interface in your kernel settings — if it’s not yet. Restart your network to finally get an IPv6 address.
$ sudo /etc/init.d/gw6c restart $ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
If you want to configure previous Ubuntu releases, just edit the file /etc/tsp/tsp.conf instead. That’s it: you could test your effective address pinging web sites with ping6 from a shell or connecting to the Google’s IPv6 search engine.
