Post-PRISM

Next year, the 25th anniversary of the birth of the world wide web as defined by that first memo he circulated in 1989, is the perfect moment, he suggests, to devise what he calls a charter of rights for the internet.

I ask him how he would he frame such a charter were he to write it himself. He answers the question with a stream of consciousness, firing out bullet points about the fundamentals he would expect as an internet user:

• "I can behave as though I'm not being spied on.

• "If I'm being spied on, I know it's by somebody I trust for reasons that I approved, even if it's done secretly, and I know there's a system in place that ensures it is accountable to the public.

• "I can communicate with everybody and I won't find my packets suddenly delayed because I go to an abortion site and my ISP provider disapproves of abortions.

Lighthouse are pleased to screen this important documentary again after screening it as part of IndieWebCamp 2013

This highly-regarded film looks into the rights we sign away every time we click “I agree”, and wonders how we can protect our civil liberties in a world where anonymity isn’t profitable.

Whether you care about privacy, or feel you have “nothing to hide” this film is an eye-opener.

Terms and Conditions May Apply is a film that’s accessible to non‐geeks and one that everyone should see in the post‐PRISM era.

The 80 minute film will be followed by a half‐hour panel discussion.

Seating is strictly limited to 60 people.

Date: Tuesday 26 November 2013

Time: 6.30pm Doors, 7pm Screening

Venue: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ

"Silk Road 1.0 has demonstrated that it's possible to run an anonymous black market. While technologically it wasn't that bad, there was a critical point of failure — its centralized nature. Capture administrator and everything is doomed.

Here is my proposal of a distributed anonymous marketplace that doesn't have a single point of failure.

The solution I propose will allow to get rid of centralization that SR 1.0 have had and hence there won't be a single point of failure (central authority). The federated distributed marketplace will be much more difficult to shut down. And even in the case of shut down, no one is loosing their money.

Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi

Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show.

Russia's powerful FSB security service plans to ensure that no communication by competitors or spectators goes unmonitored during the event, according to a dossier compiled by a team of Russian investigative journalists looking into preparations for the 2014 Games.

Building Secure, Server-less Messaging With BitTorrent Chat

This year alone, more than 6 million people have been impacted by data breaches. The right to own your own conversations online: it’s not a given. It should be.

So over at Labs, we’re working on something that could solve for conversation security. BitTorrent Chat applies distributed technology to the idea of IM. Our goal is to ensure that your messages stay yours: private, secure, and free.

"Upcoming workshop at WORM, Rotterdam, on the 10th-11th October, from 20.00 until 01.00! The workshop is a collaborative coding session – the aim being to produce a tool that promotes a heightened public awareness of online surveillance and digital rights.

The recent headlines regarding the NSA’s surveillance programmes are yet another reminder that we should no longer expect anonymity online. In fact, the NSA is but one organisation of many that aims to convert crowds into identifiable individuals, often without our full understanding or consent. But do we actually have a right to be unidentifiable in the first place?