Buy bye privacy - I have joined facebook

So finally I have given in, I have joined facebook. One friend too many mentioned collaborating through a facebook app, and considering my revised view of integrity I have finally decided to give in and join this borg. Because, on today's internet, everyone know's you're a dog and you might as well be somewhat in control of it:

My name is Carl-Johan Sveningsson, I was born in Gnosjö, Sweden on the 25th of January 1981, my email address currently is cj.sveningsson(a)gmail.com, my S/MIME fingerprint is D1:50:3A:C3:76:FD:37:95:58:4D:A4:F1:A9:1E:D4:F9:49:0C:8C:95 and my OpenID is http://cjsveningsson.myopenid.com . This is me

On the other hand, I have a fascination with sousveillance and neoism pseudonyms, have just tried out FiSH IRC encryption (bulky and works so-so), I discuss encryption with #basvrak @ EFnet and have just signed up to FRApedia.se. So I think I'll be fine anyway... I hope.

Dead poets rising against surveillance (brilliant video)

As I've been writing before, finally the Swedish media are being awakened (largely by the "blogosphere" or whatever you wish to call the social internet) about the abyss of surveillance society suddenly appearing right in front of us. It's not every day I am touched to tears by a youtube video, unfortunately it's only understandable in Swedish. Again from Erik at Framtidstanken:

Another notable participant in the debate is Patrik Fältström, our own IETF guru sharing his expert opinion and linking further to other good articles on the topic.

By the way, I am convinced that we're focusing too much on how Big Brother may watch us, and are forgetting about... our other siblings. I've got to write something about sousveillance and the clowd soon.

Stoppa FRA-lagen - Jag har skrivit till en riksdagsledamot, har du?

Subject: Angående FRA-lagen
From: cj.sveningsson@gmail.com
Date: 11 June 2008 10:48:30 GMT+03:00
To: alf.svensson@riksdagen.se

Hejsan Alf,

Jag heter Carl-Johan Sveningsson och skriver angående den föresteående voteringen om den nya FRA-lagen. Du känner nog inte till mig, men jag är son till Lisbeth som du delade hus med i Gränna och byggde även en gång i tiden hemsidan åt Maria Larsson medans hon fortfarande var riksdagsledamot från Gnosjö. Vidare är jag civilingenjör i datateknik från Chalmers med inriktning på datasäkerhet, varför jag tycker mig ha god insikt i problematiken i fråga.

Vad jag har hört om förslaget till FRA-reglering som ligger framme så verkar det så skrattretande svindlande att jag nästan förutsätter att det inte godkänns, men för säkerhets skull vill jag skriva till dig ändå.

I dagsläget jobbar jag i Estland med att hjälpa ester att skydda sig mot liknande illegal övervakning. Vad det har lärt mig är den oerhört viktiga principen att "om man förbjuder integritetsskydd kommer bara brottslingar ha tillgång till det". Jag vill försäkra dig att för någon med den minsta möjlighet att köpa sig kompetens som min så är den mesta FRA-aktivitet i princip tandlös, bara oskyldiga drabbas och avlyssnings- och övervakningsskydd blir dessutom allt mer tillgängligt. Vill du verkligen vara med om att genomföra ett lagförslag som innebär det största bakslaget för individens frihet i svensk historia, utan några vederlagda positiva effekter?

Alf, vi behöver din NEJ-röst, och vädjar till dig att rösta rätt den 17:e juni.

Med vänliga hälsningar
Carl-Johan Sveningsson, Tallinn

www.stoppafralagen.nu

(Update: So, what this is about in Swedish is that there is a suggestion for new regulations for the Swedish national Defence Radio Establishment which essentially would mean an orwellian wet dream.

On June 17th the MPs are voting on the suggestion and the "party whip" is swinging to make MPs from the majority government parties vote according to the government line - approving the suggestion, while we want them to vote NO.

4 MPs deviating from the party line is enough, which is why I wrote a letter to the one I have at least a remote personal connection with, the former leader of the Christian Democrat Party, Alf Svensson. The girlfriend suggested I'd write a local MP I had voted for, but that didn't seem as interesting. Besides, I wouldn't even know who would be considered "my MP".

Estonians who couldn't care less about Swedish civil liberties and surveillance may instead mourn that Estonia today signed the Treaty of Lisbon)


(Update 2: Yep, again with info from Erik Starck, this is starting to take off. News publishers, journalists and party youth organizations are pleading for the parliament to reject the law suggestion. What will Alf Svensson vote?)