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Oil field in Amazon occupied

samedi 26 avril 2014 à 14:00

Indigenous people demanding a cleanup of pollution have occupied an oil field in the Peruvian Amazon.

Remote storage disservice

samedi 26 avril 2014 à 14:00

Microsoft's remote storage disservice, OneDrive, has been caught inserting modifications into code in some of the files users store there.

Although this has not been reported about any other remote storage disservice, any of them could start doing this, which means you would be a fool to trust them with anything other than checksummed files.

All of these disservices spy on their users, and that is plenty of reason to reject them, for anything other than encrypted (and checksummed) files. In order for the encryption to be trustworthy, you need to do it on your own computer with free software.

Services provided by network servers can raise several different ethical issues, including nonfree client-side JavaScript (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html), surveillance (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html), and SaaSS (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html). Whether any of these problems applies depends on the facts.

The purpose of the marketing buzzword "cloud" is to encourage you to disregard the facts and not judge. Don't let them "cloud" your mind: reject the term "cloud".

Urgent: Endangered Species Act

samedi 26 avril 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: call on Congress to preserve the Endangered Species Act.

Urgent: Reveal campaign contributions

samedi 26 avril 2014 à 14:00

Everyone: call on Duke Energy to reveal its contributions to the campaigns of its employee/state governor in North Carolina.

Urgent: Don't let CIA censor report

samedi 26 avril 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: tell Obama, don't let CIA censor the report on CIA torture.