Indymedia e Autistici

Il mondo è piccolo e interconnesso. Su Slashdot si discute del sequestro dei server Indymedia ospitati da Rackspace un anno fa: pare su ordine delle autorità italiane.

A bit of context… (Score:2)
by Yeb (7194) < {gro.galbgalbgalb} {ta} {eom}> on Friday August 05, @08:12AM (#13248421)

Indymedia is an open-posting site that allows anyone to submit articles, photos, audio, and video to their site. In many ways it’s similar to slashdot (both in good and bad ways).

Indymedia has political content, typically from an anarchist/feminist/leftist/libertarian/green/anti- war whatever viewpoint. This tends to piss off many governments (Italy, U.S., France, etc.) and corporations (e.g. Diebold, the manufacturers of the U.S.’s electronic voting machines using the DMCA against Indymedia; in the end Diebold was found guilty…).

The Italian government seems to particularily hate Indymedia. One parliamentarian, who happens to be the granddaughter of Mussolini (yes, that Mussolini), has called for Indymedia to be shut down.

In 2001, the Italian government raided an Indymedia center (legally) set up during the G8 meetings/protests there. They sent scores of people to the hospital, including putting people in comas. It was not nice. They beat the hell out of people, smashed cameras and computers. The Italian govt claimed they found molotov cockails and other weapons–the cops later admitted they planted the evidence. Just like fascists of “old”.

Last year, around the time of the server seizure, the Italian government had an ISP shut down a server so they could steal the private key used for https encryption. They could then mount a man-in-the-middle attack reading all “encrypted” content, including webmail. The Italian govt got away with this attack for a year before it was discovered. The server was used by many indymedia and activist folks (the server was run by autistici–”the autistics” in italian).

So when some Indymedia sites disappear off the ‘net and it’s tracked back to the Italian government with FBI cooperation it’s not too big of a surprise. I’m sure they are thrilled that rackspace is getting nailed for the whole thing.

-Jeff, ahimsa* admin (which hosts italy.indymedia.org, the targetted site)

Jeff Moe ha anche pubblicato i documenti originali del sequestro.
Electronic Frontier Foundation ha una pagina dedicata alla vicenda Indymedia.

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