[Rin on...] ACTA

I digress, my post on SOPA wasn't much of a post at all. It was a spur-of-the-moment attempt to kick this blog back to life. I was inspired by all the internet backlash, of the countless websites protesting SOPA in their own way. Let me hereby apologize by making a real post.

SOPA and PIPA have effectively been shut down.Thank you internet, for waking up. However, a new challenger has approached. Meet: ACTA.

[Rin on...] SOPA

How to Strike

How to Write Your Congressmen

A great article on SOPA / PIPA


And to TL,DR;

[Rin on...] Eben Moglen, Her Latest Hero

     Eben Moglen is probably a name you've never heard of. To be honest, until today, neither had I. Mr. Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the Free Software Foundation. Now, you may be wondering "Why this guy? Why this random professor?" Well, I'll tell you why. I was stumbling across the internet, into various small-time news providers, websites, other blogs, and stumbled across a video titled: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves.

[Rin on...] #AntiSec

     I promised to blog about George Hotz, and promised myself to do a back to the basics of hactivism by blogging about Anonymous. I'll get to those later. Right now though, via my connections to the world of the internetz, I've discovered the latest mission from our friends LulzSec. Now, I normally would have skimmed over it, writing it off as LulzSec's latest shenanigans. However, there was a feeling I got that this was something a little more important--a little more relative. This isn't just LulzSec, this is big shots like Anonymous and WikiLeaks as well as contribution from smaller hactivist groups.

[Rin on...] Facebook's Latest Fuck-You

     This will be a relatively short article, as I haven't been able to garner too much research on the subject. What I mean when I say this is Facebook's latest "Fuck-You," I'm referring of course to their policies that have no inclination towards protecting its users--oftentimes exploiting them. Some of it is harmless, using the information in research towards internet culture and what kind of people like what sort of things. Some, on the other hand, is a bit more malicious, like selling your information to companies from under you. Of course, most people don't take the time to read through the newest privacy statement whenever Facebook redrafts it, but I'm sure if you took the time there would be plenty of little clauses you wouldn't approve of. But what's your choice in the matter? If you say "I disagree" then you can't access your Facebook, right? I'm not entirely sure on this as I'm guilty myself of just clicking "I accept" after a frustrated two seconds of scrolling through the privacy statements.

[Rin on...] Her Introduction to LulzSec

LulzSec Logo

     LulzSec is easily my latest internet obsession. Rather, the latest thing that has gotten my attention. Wikipedia defines them as a "gray hat" hacker organization that did this and that. However, LulzSec themselves despise to be labeled in such a manner, and, I quote: 

"We aren't hacktivists, whitehats, greyhats or blackhats - categorizing deflates the lulz lizard creativity lasers."

     I think perhaps, that quote says more than I possibly could on the matter. LulzSec, short for Lulz Security, first got my attention when they hacked Sony. They then did it five more times. They did this in response to Sony's lawsuit against PS3-hacker, George Hotz, which I'll blog about within the next few days (late as it may be).