Robert Ellis Smith of Privacy Journal lists what he calls the 6 Pillars of Privacy (interestingly enough Senators that I've heard speak drop the last two and you'll see why):
Notice (you need to know information is being collected)
Choice (you need to know if and how you can opt out or in; for government info this you may not have an option and you should be informed of that as well)
Access (you should be able to access any information collected about you; in government records this is covered by FOIA, but business is not so covered in all cases)
Security (you should know if others are allowed access and in cases of no public access that restriction should be made secure)
Accuracy (you should be able to demand that the information kept about you be accurate; interestingly enough this is one that's been dropped)
Restricted Use (no unathorized secondary use of such data. South Carolina cannot sell its Drivers License database says the Supreme Court, but again businesses are not always so restricted)
All that said, the public has a long standing and legally well tested right to know (as we journalists call it). Public figure like the Mayor of New York or Janet Reno give up most claims to privacy that might apply to ordinary folks when they run for office. We need to know about their criminal and inventment histories when we vote (for example).
I've received sircam documents from every contient except antarctica. just yesterday i got them not only from.mx.ca.edu.de.fr.ru and.kr but also from.ga (can you guess that one?) and.cl i usually get a.in about once a week minimum since the virus started. i have so many new friends!
I could tell tales that duplicate all of the notes so far. with each release of new 'system security software' and with each new news story about how vulnerable your wintel host is on a cable modem, we get a flurry of threatening emails, late-night phone calls, and redirects from the UNC legal folks. Some are hilariously silly. Others are earnest, sincere and misguided.
We developed a longish form letter that allows us to keep our cool and to try to inform the complainer that we are not, in fact, scanning his or her machine, but responding to their ftp requests (often requests that they didn't realize that they had made) or actually are the home of one of several vhost or vIP sites they barely recall visiting.
This works pretty well, but in one case (I can't resist) a self-styled "security expert for a major corporation" accused us of violating his/her privacy then enclosed a log that listed visits to sites that revealed too much about his/her medical concerns, bingo habits, and purchasing proclivities.
If/.ers would like our form letter, I can sent it on to you or post it.
ibiblio already works with SourceForge by carrying a complete ftp mirror of their site. and we'll continue to do so. we hope that we compliment the sourceforge project and help the community by doing so.
and we're always glad to host projects that need homes. drop pj@unc.edu if your information sharing project needs a home -- not restricted to software.
BTW often Fuckedcompany has been wrong. let's hope they are this time out too.
I hope all the readers and reporters will recall that 28 states are suing the RIAA members for years of price fixing on CD sales beginning in 1995! John Borland's CNet article from last August covers the ground pretty well. Potentially hundreds of millions of dollars were taken from consumers by this illegal activity.
i can't reply to you (sorry everyone else) since there is no mail link in your message nor is there a url.
but do contact me about the various possibilities. we might be able to help you out is several ways including co-location.
Second, I'd like to meet Paula Jones, too. If anyone can get her to join the webcast, please do what you can. BTW I was Paul Jones before she was Paul Jones.
Lastly, please do send me questions. I am not "a commercial figure" and I have been involved with Linux and several Linux projects since we took over the US mirror of Linus' distro from banjo.concert.net in 1992 (as sunsite.unc.edu).
I say this only slightly tongue in cheek. But seriously, an idea or process becomes "intellectual property" when a European gets hold of it. For the rest of the world, the very idea that an idea can be owned is odd at best. Great cultures in Asia, Africa, Oceanana and the Americas got (and in some cases still get) along fine without copyright or patent.
Look at what happens: shamans in the Amazon are followed around by Swiss drug companies who then patent *their* (the Swiss) discoveries and sell them back to Brazil. American producers *discover* world music and then repackage shared sounds, create *stars* and sell the music back to the people who produce it. And this is only be beginning of the colonialistic spin on 'intellectual property.'
there are three views of intellectul property:
French - in which the works are considered to be by great men who must be protect and held above us all, a piece of their unique soul in each work. (Romantic)
English - in which the government's issuance of rights amounts (or in the beginning amounted to) censorship and control by the King. Libertarians would do well to keep this in mind. (Paternalistic)
American - in which the people grant for *a limited time* an exclusive monopoly to creators in order to "promote science and the useful arts." (Utilitarian)
Yesterday morning, Repugnicans that I know were all saying that the electorial college is subverting democracy and the will of the people.
This morning, it's the Democrats that are championing the popular vote.
How many states bind their electors to the vote in their state? I recall Virginia electors deciding to cast several of Virginia's votes for Sen. Byrd who had not been on any ballot.
just for comparison, ibiblio's traffic leaving unc during the recent red hat 7.0 release was in the 180 mb/s range. of course that's lots of different people getting lots of different files at lots of different places.
you need some more schoolin' there boy. UNC has the top research program in computer science in the area and one of the best in the world -- particularly in virtual reality and in nanomanipulator work. www.cs.unc.edu for more.
the reason that UNC doesn't show in the ranking for *engineering schools* is that UNC's CS department is not in an Engineering school. Founded by Fred "mythical man month" Brooks, the UNC CS department was one of the *first* (if not the first) CS departments in the US. yes it's graduate focused for the main part. and YES I'm a NCSU grad (BS in CS 1972).
err. as the guy who started sunsite^Wmetalab^Wibiblio, I should pipe up. the project which preceded sunsite was an internet bulletin board server called laUNChpad. it was our goal, as it is now, to help make information sharing possible world-wide. Sun was nice enough to help foster that project for a number of years as was Cisco, Real, and others. Red Hat was a sponsor to some extent from early in that company's life. And we will be announcing some other sponsors soon.
UNC has one of the best CS departments in the country, but it is a very research focused department. NCSU, where i went to school in the late 60s, has a different focus for their department of CS which is also a fine program. But the information sharing work is not in CS but at UNC in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the School of Information and Library Science where I hold joint appointments.
The UNC computer support folks, called ATN, run AIX, Solaris, Linux and other OSs as they feel is appropriate.
i challenge you or the reporters to check the crime statistics for wake county, north carolina and come up with the numbers he quotes. you can't because such increases have not happened here.
wise county, texas may be a different story (and according to my texas journalist brother-in-law) might well match the stats
btw i teach journalism at the university of north carolina just beside the research triangle park
"In Wise County, N.C., home to tech hub Research Triangle, the sheriff's office has seen the amount of methamphetamine seized increase by more than 6,000% between 1997 and 1999, while deputies have confiscated 45% more cocaine."
There is no Wise County, NC. There are no such records in the local news in the Research Triangle Area of NC.
What editor let this piece of poorly researched crap see ink?
many staff members of ibiblio.org current and past have been Jews. Many have been or are Christians. Some have been Wiccan, Hindu, atheist and agnostics.
Nowhere on ibiblil.org pages do I find the remarks that you are posting.
If you can back up your claims with a link, I'll be glad to look into it.
I would have replied privately via e-mail, but your address isn't in your profile. Please send to me and let me know about the broken links and we'll fix them ASAP. We were a bit distracted last week maybe.
Remember when sunsite.unc.edu started in 1992, we were funded by Sun for many happy years. Now someone close to open source community contributes (Bob Young and Marc Ewing) and you get all excited! This is a good thing -- not a sell-out or purchase.
Slashdot Mirror
European mail endings accounted for 37% of all contributions!
http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/develpro.html
for more including graphs.
All that said, the public has a long standing and legally well tested right to know (as we journalists call it). Public figure like the Mayor of New York or Janet Reno give up most claims to privacy that might apply to ordinary folks when they run for office. We need to know about their criminal and inventment histories when we vote (for example).
but when will i get a
we'd be happy to host your site and any other not-for-profit information sharing site (.org but not .com) on http://ibiblio.org/
We developed a longish form letter that allows us to keep our cool and to try to inform the complainer that we are not, in fact, scanning his or her machine, but responding to their ftp requests (often requests that they didn't realize that they had made) or actually are the home of one of several vhost or vIP sites they barely recall visiting.
This works pretty well, but in one case (I can't resist) a self-styled "security expert for a major corporation" accused us of violating his/her privacy then enclosed a log that listed visits to sites that revealed too much about his/her medical concerns, bingo habits, and purchasing proclivities.
If
errr. which planet are they from? and where is Egyptio? or is it a new wireless company?
and we're always glad to host projects that need homes. drop pj@unc.edu if your information sharing project needs a home -- not restricted to software.
BTW often Fuckedcompany has been wrong. let's hope they are this time out too.
http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/fa/20010604.fa.ram
not entirely but very heavily so. see http://ibiblio.org/osrt/develpro.html aka A Quantitative Profile of a Community of Open Source Linux Developers. European e-mail endings of LSM identified authors account for 37% of the software we counted. German or .de endings identified the largest number other than .com some of which we know are also Germans.
I hope all the readers and reporters will recall that 28 states are suing the RIAA members for years of price fixing on CD sales beginning in 1995! John Borland's CNet article from last August covers the ground pretty well. Potentially hundreds of millions of dollars were taken from consumers by this illegal activity.
i can't reply to you (sorry everyone else) since there is no mail link in your message nor is there a url.
but do contact me about the various possibilities. we might be able to help you out is several ways including co-location.
This is one of the things that I feel we should be doing.
Second, I'd like to meet Paula Jones, too. If anyone can get her to join the webcast, please do what you can. BTW I was Paul Jones before she was Paul Jones.
Lastly, please do send me questions. I am not "a commercial figure" and I have been involved with Linux and several Linux projects since we took over the US mirror of Linus' distro from banjo.concert.net in 1992 (as sunsite.unc.edu).
Look at what happens: shamans in the Amazon are followed around by Swiss drug companies who then patent *their* (the Swiss) discoveries and sell them back to Brazil. American producers *discover* world music and then repackage shared sounds, create *stars* and sell the music back to the people who produce it. And this is only be beginning of the colonialistic spin on 'intellectual property.'
there are three views of intellectul property:
This morning, it's the Democrats that are championing the popular vote.
How many states bind their electors to the vote in their state? I recall Virginia electors deciding to cast several of Virginia's votes for Sen. Byrd who had not been on any ballot.
you need some more schoolin' there boy. UNC has the top research program in computer science in the area and one of the best in the world -- particularly in virtual reality and in nanomanipulator work. www.cs.unc.edu for more.
the reason that UNC doesn't show in the ranking for *engineering schools* is that UNC's CS department is not in an Engineering school. Founded by Fred "mythical man month" Brooks, the UNC CS department was one of the *first* (if not the first) CS departments in the US. yes it's graduate focused for the main part. and YES I'm a NCSU grad (BS in CS 1972).
err. as the guy who started sunsite^Wmetalab^Wibiblio, I should pipe up. the project which preceded sunsite was an internet bulletin board server called laUNChpad. it was our goal, as it is now, to help make information sharing possible world-wide. Sun was nice enough to help foster that project for a number of years as was Cisco, Real, and others. Red Hat was a sponsor to some extent from early in that company's life. And we will be announcing some other sponsors soon.
UNC has one of the best CS departments in the country, but it is a very research focused department. NCSU, where i went to school in the late 60s, has a different focus for their department of CS which is also a fine program. But the information sharing work is not in CS but at UNC in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and in the School of Information and Library Science where I hold joint appointments.
The UNC computer support folks, called ATN, run AIX, Solaris, Linux and other OSs as they feel is appropriate.
ibiblio is most certainly a part of UNC
wise county, texas may be a different story (and according to my texas journalist brother-in-law) might well match the stats
btw i teach journalism at the university of north carolina just beside the research triangle park
There is no Wise County, NC. There are no such records in the local news in the Research Triangle Area of NC.
What editor let this piece of poorly researched crap see ink?
Nowhere on ibiblil.org pages do I find the remarks that you are posting.
If you can back up your claims with a link, I'll be glad to look into it.
I would have replied privately via e-mail, but your address isn't in your profile. Please send to me and let me know about the broken links and we'll fix them ASAP. We were a bit distracted last week maybe.
sunsite was about 5 years old when we changed to metalab
BUT we are not the LDP and we don't make the LDP's rules or decide about their formats. That's entirely up to the LDP.
We give each contributor as close to total freedom as we can manage.