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0:28 We missed a week

Stephen is back in Mexico after a week in Boston dealing with storage and other errands

Walton is busy with Union Solidarity International and will be attending the Scottish Trade Union Congress

Stephen wanted to achieve more when in Boston but was too busy

4:10 Let’s hear the tech Updates

We’ve been using DuckDuckGo cause it doesn’t track your searches like google does

Great search abilities to use the bang (!) to do specific searches

Stephen first learned that ! is called bang when he used CrunchBang (#!) Linux

Walton doesn’t have that growing sense of paranoia that google knows everything, discovered it in Linuxmint

8:35 Internet Freedom infringed by the FBI

Mayfirst was approached by the FBI about access to a server in relation to one email that was tracked by IP through a Mayfirst server that is administered by Riseup Network that the European Counter Network (ECN) uses with an Anonymous Remailer

What is an anonymous remailer

FBI went to the housing location and took the server from the housing company

Mayfirst/Riseup/ECN released a statement

16:24 Return of SOPA/PIPA

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is the new SOPA/PIPA

What is CISPA? information provided by EFF

Allows companies to give personal information from emails to the federal government without a court order

Governments realize that activism is becoming powerful online and doing what they can to cut it down

The UK version is similar to CISPA is the Communications Capabilities Development Programme

22:00 We search for a cheery note to end on