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forward. the new Autistici/Inventati project . -------- Original Message -------- Subject: =09[Info] [Autistici/Inventati] Piano R*: L'altra faccia delle spi= rale! Date: =09Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:45:14 +0200 From: =09Autistici/Inventati <info@autistici.org> Reply-To: =09info@autistici.org +++ R* Plan New forms of expression and organization are arising, disorderly, creating relationships, ways of production and means of imagination. Day after day, without any prearranged plan, but with many shared ideas, we see new ways of living in this chameleon-like world -- ways of living that corporations and billionaire foundations try to exploit to their and their shareholders' advantage. Awkward attempts to fill the "dangerous regulative gap" with laws inspired by the clash of civilization, by international terrorism, by the need to know everything about everyone, by humidity and by locusts, have created a context in which rules andheir enforcement are but "another point of view", adequate for any situation, for any party in the game and for the most popular tabloids. Incapable of telling good from wrong, institutions are trying to close the fence, proceeding in a confused, contradictory and hasty way. They are working hard to give rise to a closed-minded, terroristic mentality, and to construct the dangers needed to prevent an "improper" use of the Web, in an attempt to create the Global Mall, a secure and well-lit place. We go along a path of repression, a not so slow repression against anybody challenging this not so new mentality, and its cunning sponsorship. All this, and much more, has led in the last few years to a more or less evident violation of what is usually called civil rights and freedom of speech: the regular tapping of any communication channel, an increased trend towards websites and mailboxes seizures, more or less successful attempts to censor difficult and independent information, and the criminalization of exchange and sharing. >From its commercial, wonderland-like image, Internet turns, according to the current needs, into a hell of pedophiles, cheaters and terrorists. Unwillingly thrown into this scenery, and basing on our experience, we have tried to make out a different way to arrange our services, to re-assert our will to R*esist. What follows is a not too long description of our plan. +++ ONE NET BEYOND A network of resistant communication In this grim scenery, the undeniable danger of concentrating so many sensitive resources in one spot has led us to consider an alternative structure for the A/I services, a structure that could better resist the growing repressive trend (a trend which we have experienced directly, last but not least in the Trenitalia case [1] and with the copy of our server carried out by the police with the co-operation of Aruba[2]), as well as the apparent lack of respect for fundamental rights and, more generally, the aggression of a society wishing to control and repress any unmarketable instinct. Our aim is to create communication structures that cannot be annihilated but through a rather great effort by those who can't bear our existence. Believing that building an impregnable, isolated fortress does not make any sense, we have opted for a solution that spreads the load of services and users (and therefore their sensitive data) among several servers, which, if needed, can be easily and quickly replaced; we have thus favoured a decentralized structure, with many interchangeable nodes, to a centralized one, which may be easier to bring about, but is certainly less efficient. +++ THE R* PLAN The R* Plan consists in the distribution of several servers, and thus of services, among various providers scattered around the world (we are constantly looking for providers or ISPs willing to host our computers). Every server hosts all fundamental services offered by A/I and some particular services, as well a copy of the information needed to re-create from scratch the whole structure (the most important part being the confi _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann