#seminaarikannu

Listening to the first half of the GPG smart card workshop by Free Software Foundation Europe.

I've got one of those cards and a USB but haven't used it for anything. Some people use them for email signing, disk encryption etc.

One problem is that the USB reader I have is just too big to carry around. Maybe a SIM card -sized reader like Omnikey Cardman 6121 would be good here.

Could this not be integrated with ubikey? Not that ubikey is the "perfect solution" but it's small enough to be carried around. Actually a ubikey with mini-usb to ensure that I can connect it to the phone...and then connect the phone to anything else.

I'm of course commenting without reading the whole description :) I just hate to carry yet another thing with me...

Pretty good discussions with FSFE and Mozilla Foundation, maybe some ideas are taking hold

Smari McCarthy: "The universe is made of stories, not atoms"

'Representative democracy is a variation of dictatorship, there are only many people to whom their constituence transfers all authority'

Internet has seen many decentralized self-organizing communities grow. Could that model be brought to 'meatspace'? Could we democratize democracy? Money?

Industry 2.0

• post-scarcity
• self-organization
• peer production
• local manufacturing
• decentralization

Internet culture is spilling to meatspace: maker culture, open data, creative commons...

If you don't play by the rules of openness, you'll be marginalized and ignored. News Corp getting delisted from Google as example

Fablab has been helping to build a completely peer-based wireless internet infrastructure out of off-the-shelf wifi routers, plywood and chicken nets in Afghanistan, removing the high capital costs and gate keeping role of telecom companies

Decentralization \ centralization is part of the conflict but the latter apparently tend to win due to natural constrains. Human nature is one of those, environment is the more actual one. Also, ~perfect_order is a vulgar hallucination contending to awareness.

Looking at the questions and nodding at the end of Smari's talk, the anarchist Makers model advocated in the session sits well with Hacker culture. 'This is the politics for engineers'

Ripple decentralized currency and transaction system mentioned. "We need cool hacks, engineer solutions to political problems"

@bergie always 2 sides to every story: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/13/...

Sharing should be encouraged by culture and its benefits, not by legislation. "We shouldn't push freedom down people's throats"

Tangible Bits project aims to document the availability of materials, tools and industrial processes for making real-world things. apt-get install bicycle

@Jemiweb N900 can't deal with being a USB host (in other words, you cannot connect USB sticks). For Android there is Yubidrone, a software implementation of Yubikey. Same could be done for Maemo since the algorithms are open.

"Using GPG in your applications" talk: the infrastructure for making apps use encryption is there, as is the web of trust. They just would need wider deployment.

Cryptonomicon's Ordo mentioned, apps that automatically encrypt everything you write and communicate.

libassuan and GPGME would make it easier for applications to talk with GPG.

Demo: automatical encryption and signing of content written in Mousepad.

Next up there is a talk about another open internet infrastructure project, RONJA, this time using red light spectrum in Czech Republic. Billed as the first commercially successful open hardware project.

An important principle was that users had to understand how and why their RONJA links worked, to be able to easily build their own "even if third world war comes". But later commercial, pre-made links appeared.

Later when EU opened Czech radio spectrum commercial radio links started replacing RONJA as they were less hassle for end users. As the motivation of most of the community had been to have faster Internet, not the politics of open hardware or unregulated internet links, that made the project falter.

For single-purpose communities it is often destructive when that purpose is fulfilled. An Iron Age village project in Helsinki comes to mind as a non-technical example.

Slides from my Midgard talk are up

"Again, smartcard as a commodity to access, secure, buy consumery. Next, and already distributed by some banks, a usb stick to store keys ̶ card reader embedded to buy. Fingerprint? Yes, fingerprint scanner - S((BIP))! Next?"

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