Mastering most things humans do requires lifetimes of practice. Woodworking, gardening, and painting are just a few crafts whose histories stretch back thousands of years. But modern telecommunication, the act of communicating nearly instantaneously with someone from afar, is different. Its history is so short that there is relatively little of it: the very first…

Tech Learning Collective. Originale: How we can win back the Internet by creating lowercase internets, 11 novembre 2020. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Ad aprile del 2001, cinque mesi prima dell’undici settembre, Bram Cohen mise a punto un protocollo di condivisione dei file che, di per sé, cambiò l’industria discografica, televisiva e cinematografica del ventennio seguente….

Tech Learning Collective. Original: How we can win back the Internet by creating lowercase internets. Traduzido para o português por Iann Zorkot. Em abril de 2001, cinco meses antes do 11 de setembro, Bram Cohen começou a projetar um novo protocolo de compartilhamento de arquivos que mudaria quase sozinho a face das indústrias de música,…

In April 2001, five months before 9/11, Bram Cohen began designing a new file sharing protocol that would almost single-handedly change the face of the music, TV, and movie industries for the next two decades. The technology was not in itself a completely new idea. After all, similar technologies like the well-known File Transfer Protocol…

Secondo la Reuters, domenica scorsa la Nsa ha chiuso il suo programma invasivo di sorveglianza telefonica. Il programma permetteva alla Nsa di raccogliere i cosiddetti metadati dei chiamanti. Informazioni come chi e quando veniva chiamato venivano immagazzinate in un database governativo. La chiusura del programma è un passo positivo verso il recupero della privacy perduta…

According to Reuters, as of last Sunday, the NSA has shut down their invasive phone surveillance program. Under the program, the NSA collected callers’ so-called metadata.  Under the system, information such as what numbers people called and when they called were gathered and retained in a government database. This program’s closing is a positive step…