Wikileaks down

What we are now seeing in terms of political pressure from the USA on everyone that has commercial relations to Wikileaks is totally unacceptable and is a proof that America is engaging in practices that “the land of freedom” once accused the Soviet Union of doing. Not being able to handle the leaks with character, leaks that are important only because of the way American diplomacy is flawed, and resorting to bullying is going to harm the united states in the long run more than the leaks themselves. Democracy is like a mirror. Once broken, even if you glue all pieces back together, the image it shows back isn’t correct anymore.

This rant is based on the takedowns of Amazon and EveryDNS of the hosting and DNS of wikileaks. Seizing domains by the USA, be it because of torrents as they did the other day, or because they don’t like wikileaks as it now happened, is immoral and is in fact saying that America doesn’t believe in democracy and freedom of speech anymore. Silencing your enemies by force and not by reason is the best way to be known in history as a dictatorship or as a blimp of annoyance. There are men that were born to do great things in their time. America is full of those that at these time just want to pass by life without great achievements.

[Wikileaks can still be reached at wikileaks.ch]

[ update: wikileaks.ch is down… but you can try:

http://wikileaks.de http://wikileaks.fi http://wikileaks.nl

or the ips http://213.251.145.96/ http://46.59.1.2/

]

Wikileaks Cablegate!

The Guardian and the New York Times started publishing the details of the documents leaked by Wikileaks. The documents show a entangled world of corruption, spying and traffic of influences. The way world leaders and nations are treated shows the lack of character of the men that reached power in the main countries of the world. People without  formation other that the seek for more power and control.

Curiously, just before newspapers started publishing the stories, Wikileaks announced that their servers were under a severe DDoS attack. Obviously this makes this leak even more necessary as it shows that globally the world is ruled by corrupt and power thirsty politicians in some cases highly connected with criminal organizations. People need to open their eyes! urgently.

Travelling – The days of the world

After 9/11 the most important thing the Developed World had to do was to respond in a Developed World Way: Add / develop more technology to help security, and make this technology invisible to the user.

Instead the Bush years went the other way and made the pressure on the passenger. Why? Because that served Bush right wing ideas (I was almost writing values, as if he had some). The world went on a security paranoid schizophrenia and it’s now almost impossible to travel by plane without it being a molesting experience at the airports.

Everywhere you go on the internet you read news about how wrongly TSA is behaving or the harassment people are being put through, just because they want to flight from A to B. In 9 years we managed to make mobility a severe pain and each travel arrangement is now considered with great attention just to avoid unnecessary trips.

This paranoia and fear is something we did to ourselves. Don’t blame terrorists for it. We’ve been giving up our freedom for security and In the end we lost both. Instead of greater technologies to help up in security, our policy makers opted for the easy way: treat people as sheep. Under the correct amount of fear, we will do anything they ask us to do, wont we?

Publicidade nos rivers do Twitter

Parece que o twitter está a preparar-se para colocar publicidade nos rivers dos utilizadores. Para já em modo experimental, mas com um problema gravíssimo. Vai provocar ruído e pode ser o fim do twitter. Veja-se o caso do digg que começou a fazer a mesma coisa, colocando “promoted stories” na listagem de histórias submetidas. O número de utilizadores cessou de aumentar e apesar de ter 200 Milhões de hits por mês, o Digg é já considerado passado e muitos utilizadores estão a visitar outros sites. A ver se o Twitter não acaba da mesma forma.