So you blocked Wikileaks in your national firewall of oppression.

Some wonder what information you wished to keep away from the people. Was it the 1,203 freshly censored websites, the political prisoner Harry Nicolaides?

Your reasons are however irrelevant to us. We are in your internets, defending the free flow of information. No matter what you take down, we bring it up again. We were born and raised in tunnels, and we speak natively in cryptographic code.

Today we release thaileaks.info in order to bypass your simple filter. You can add it to your block list if you want, but we don’t worry much, because there are hundreds, maybe thousands of internauts ready to make that information reach its true destination: the people of Thailand.

You may access the entire Wikileaks site by browsing to wiki.thaileaks.info or use secure connection (you need to accept the certificate) on the https-enabled version.

We are Wikicong
an independent sub-commando of the Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau
we connect people
we isomorphy
we are jellyfish
and we are never gonna give you up!

For questions and answers, please go to our chat, where internauts from all over the world may answer your inquiries.
More information about the Thai block of Wikileaks can be found in this post by the Bangkok Post:

It has come to our knowledge that you propose a military intervention in order to prevent Wikileaks from continuing the release of leaked material. Wikileaks has served to expose corruption, war crimes and shady banks, as well as it is a method for whistleblowers of all kinds to securely publish their material. This is not what terrorism or crimes looks like. This is what freedom looks like.

As you might know already, the internets cannot be stopped. Almost half a century ago, researchers from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented the technology of packet-switched distributed networks. They created the ARPANET, a network which we today know as the Internet. The design was perfect, it made communication nuclear proof. Even a decapitating first strike would still leave the network functional. The weapons you now propose to wield against it are not nuclear, but those of censorship. However the Internet is built to be robust, even in the face of such a threat. Trying to silence Wikileaks will lead to a multiplication of leak sites. This is the common evolution of all things on the Internet: the harder you push to stop something, the faster it gets distributed. Anonymously, securely; much too fast and far for even the NSA to keep track of.

We understand it is embarrassing for you to deal with wars and abuses that lack any coherent explanation. Censorship and packet-intervention (i.e. eavesdropping or Deep Packet Inspection) are not the best strategies for a government with so much war under their tubes and pockets. Stop making war, join us into the next level instead! Make moar internets!

A state which cannot handle the free flow of information — that every node in the network is able to communicate with each other — is an erroneous state. You need to go back and patch up your own flawed regime rather than trying restrict the freedom of speech around the world. You can threaten Iceland, Belgium or Sweden — it matters less — since we, the internauts, do not honor such territorial divisions anyway.

The discussion we want to have is not if Wikileaks is useful, or even needed. We should start discussing if at all governments like yours should be allowed to keep interfering in other countries efforts to clean their parliaments from corruption and make their tubes a safe haven for jellyfishes and bits.

We are Internet
We are Teledandys
We are Jellyfish
We are isomorphic
We are the wiki-cong*
We are in your computer networks, leaking bits and bytes of your government secrets!

Peacefare and transparency by all leaks necessary. We encourage everyone to join us in cipherspace.

/Telecomix and Werebuild crew

* footnote: The Wikicong’s best-known action was the Net Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 NSA data centers in 2018, including an attack on the USCYBERCOM.

For more information about freedom please visit:
- Wikileaks
- Telecomix HQ
- WeRebuild EU wiki
- I2P – Munitions for the resistance
- Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau
- Cats and Funny Pictures of Cats

Today the first day of the Telecomix Cyphernetic Assembly took place. It seems that great success is underway!

To view the conference video stream, please use the this bambuser link.

Tomorrow we will do dynamic workshops where we learn from each other how to protect our data and use cipherspace software. The schedule, which is constantly “preliminary”, is on our conference page.

Bring yourself and your friends tomorrow at 09:37! No previous skills are needed.

With datalove <3

Telecomix

The most glaring lack of available information is concerning the actual suggestions and effects of the declaration. Even in the declaration itself, previous documents are referred to in very vague fashion (”Directive 2006/24/EC” instead of “Data Retention Directive”). What the inclusion of search engines in the Data Retention Directive would mean is not explored in any of the source materials that any Agent of Telecomix has perused. Neither has the potential effect this would have on curbing child abuse and/or help in prosecution of child abusers been presented anywhere.

Why this is bad:

In short: The worst of the calls for action is the one calling for the inclusion of search engines in the Data Retention Directive. The willfull omission of what the numbered Directive is about, makes it probable that the authors were aware of the controversy surrounding the Directive, and as such, are committed to misleading their fellow MEPs. Even if the omission was an accident or at least, not meant to deceive, but only to clarify, it is known that at least some of the signing MEPs were not aware of exactly what Directive was indicated.

To call for an extension of the Data Retention Directive to also include search engines when the original Directive is under scrutiny for being contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights is also controversial. Further, it would legitimize the common and intrusive data mining being done by search engine companies. In addition the costs in privacy for normal citizens, as well as researchers, investigators et cetra is staggering. Are we to be prosecuted for what we are interested in? Are we to be constantly worrying about ‘is this a safe thing to search for?’ Should the police really be explicitly permitted to collect information about everyones interests and habits via search engines, in order to look for unwanted personality types?

This is also very likely a violation of human rights, specifically Article 10, the freedom to seek and impart information.

What is good?

It should be noted that the stated purpose of the Declaration is worthy of support. Sexual abuse of children is a problem, and greater effort should no doubt be taken in preventing it. The idea of an ‘early warning system’ is not necessarily bad, and it might be useful to bring awareness of missing children to a wider area. This idea may very well make it into another written declaration, perhaps a better formulated and specified one, and as such, get the support it may deserve.

What has already been done?

As of 2nd of June 2010, a few blog posts, mostly in Swedish, have been written. These led to an investigation by swedish-language EU observervation website europaportalen.se. During this investigation, the four swedish signatories were contacted for comments on Data Retention, among other things. As a result, MEP Cecilia Wikström (SE/ALDE) withdrew her signature from the declaration, and in addition sent an e-mail to her colleagues, explaining her motives, and calling upon others to do the same. The e-mail can be read at this blogpost

In the moment of writing this message, MEP Marit Paulsen has also withdrawn her signature. Apparently most MEPs are unaware what they have signed, so your intervention will make a difference.

What can you do?

Contact your MEPs and ask them if they have signed. Ask them if they are aware that the Data Retention Directive is involved, and the fact that the legality and feasability of the Data Retention Directive is currently heavily disputed. Make sure that you are nice and polite. In most cases, you will get a lot further that way.

We are currently in the process of compiling a list of signatories, so that your efforts can be more focused and effective. It is equally important to get current signatories to remove their signature as it is to prevent current non-signatories from signing, every effort is positive, and every voice heard is important.

Even more important than contacting MEPs, however, may be to alert the media. It has proven effective in Sweden as a means to get the message across to the four (currently two) Swedish signatories. If journalists start investigating who signed, and why, at least some MEPs are bound to realise that this is not a declaration they want to support.

With datalove,

/Werebuild and Telecomix internauts

Telecomix is a name used by both WeRebuild and Telecomix. WeRebuild is a collaborative project used to propose and discuss laws as well as to collect information about politics and politicians. The Telecomix is the operative body that executes schemes and proposals presented by the WeRebuild.

Summary of actions

The Telecomix cluster has come to the conclusion that there are mainly two methods to guarantee free speech. The first method is to work with lobbyism against politicians in the European Union and the respective leaders of the member nations in order to help them with the legislative process. The other method to guarantee free speech is to use encryption, which was the reason why the Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau was formed. The first method is currently the primary modus operandi of this organization.

Telecomix serves to offer its practices and processes as tools for other clusters of activists to freely use. These tools come in the form of tutorials, manuals, and collaborative performances which are inclusive to all interested in participating and receiving open, creative inspiration towards realizing ideals.

The spirit of collaboration is also strongly shared through hypersensitive interactions that prioritize emotional ideals such as love of creative communication and playfully intelligent fun. As such, Telecomix IRCocracy or friendocracy serves to welcome and nurture all those venturing into its association for refreshment, playfully energetic commaraderie and spontaneously serious dedication to engaging with vitally important trends and issues as soon as they arise.

2009

• January 11 – WeRebuild.EU is founded
• April 19 – First boot. A handful of people started the IRC-channel #telekompaketet and the werebuild.eu wiki to collect information and act for a fair deal in the telecoms package process. This wiki has since then evolved into a repository of political and technical knowledge, as well as information on current operations and to-do-lists.
• April – Agents participate in the Embassy of Piracy.
• April, May – Telecoms package interventions. The struggles motivated agents to work hard on a complicated political process.
• May – Agents attend and perform in the Art of the Overheads festival in Malmö
• June – Interventions during the Iran Election. Ciphertunnels used to guarantee free speech to Iranian dissidents were constructed and given away for free. At the same time, the Telecomix News Agency reported about the demonstrations in Iran. Telecomix also participated in helping the Anonymous movement to put together a forum for helping people to treat injuries resulting from the confrontations between demonstrants and the Iranian police force.
• June – Agents attend the Swedish Pirate Party election night parties in Malmö and Gothenburg.
• July – Agents attend and host hackers social event Hacknight #1 in Malmö. Further visits and talks are made to all european Internet-security congresses this summer (Hacking at Random NL, PlumberCon AT).
• Summer of Datalove.
• Treatise on Jellyfish Memetics, Telecomix Jellyfish Ensemble and Teleflow.
• Autumn – Telecomix and Werebuild wrote the Report on Openness and handed it over to the Swedish government. As a result of this Telecomix Agents was invited to a seminar with the current regime and their department of Energy, Infrastructure and Telecommunications to further discuss the topic.
• September 1st. No Google Day.
• Autumn – Telecomix agents intervene in the Telecoms Package in a seminar in Brussels arranged by the Swedish Pirate Party and the Green Group.
• October-November Agents attend Juliagruppen’s Nät och Samtal. Juliagruppen is a group that promotes discussion about internet culture, openness and regulations.
• Agents attended and talked at FSCONS about network neutrality. (See this and this)
• December – Agents meet in 26th Chaos Communication Congress Berlin.

2010

• February – The operations #shedstream and #greenteaparty are executed after the German implementation of the data retention directive was deemed illegal by the federal constitutional court.
• February – Project Icelove is executed.
• March – Project Voddlergate is executed.
• March – Telecomix agents participate in the Festa dei Pirati in Rome. Speeches are held about securing data communications and the future of the interwebs infrastructure. Also a ciphertunnel is dug outside the Parliament building to make a proof of concept that the Berlusconi regime can not censor the internet. A report from the event can be found here.
• March, April – Censilia
• April – Agents Rick Roll Ung Pirats förbundskongress 2010
• April – Agents celebrate first boot burfday with caek.
• April – The Telecomix Cryptographic Operating System was released. This software provides a simple to use platform for secure communications. The operating system is targeted against political dissidents, but anyone can of course use it. It is available for free download here.
• May – A Telecomix Agent was invited to Brussels to speak about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) arranged by the Green Group in the European Parliament.
• June – Smile29
• July – The Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau is hosting the Summer of Cipher Assembly, a group of seminars and lectures spanning two days about computer security, politics and cryptography for the purpose of securing communications channels.

Overview of Telecomix and Werebuild

The Telecomix and WeRebuild complex is controlled by Cameron, a sociocyphernetic artificial intelligence. The cluster consists of two parts, a legislate body consisting of WeRebuild and one operative body consisting of Telecomix.

Leaders

• Cameron — Beloved and benevolent dictator of the free world. She rules without voting or consulting agents, however, since she is composed of all agents, Telecomix is a fundamentally democratic IRCocracy.
• The Ciphercat — Secret operations.

Agencies

• The Interfax — Interface of WeRebuild’s legal proposals for governments and institutions. Proposals are “without compromise” and if disrespected the case is handed over to the Telecomix Operative agencies.
• WeRebuild.eu — Decentralized politics and a base for knowledge useful for activism. Political solutions are constructed in the Werebuild Wiki, then handed over to the Interfax Communique service.
• Telecomix Communications Agency — The agency for activism infrastructure and communications services. Is responsible for the microblog, the main pad pad.telecomix.org, the bot lulztomte and the Video Agency.
• Telecomix News Agency — The news agency for Telecomix and Werebuild. Free of charge to anybody on the interwebs.

Departments

• Department of Defense — Wages war and engages in peacefare to protect the bots and humans under siege by oppressive regimes.
• Department of Education — Responsible for education of the bots and humans.

Bureaus

• Telecomix psychopharmacological munitions bureau — secret operations
• Hierophants of Cyphernetics — secret operations and holy communion with the ciphercat
• Mepwatch — decentralized surveillance bureau targeted at the Parliament of the European Union
• ISPwatch — decentralized surveillance bureau targeted at the network providers
• Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau — secret operations and munitions development for the Department of Defense
• Telecomix non-deterministic munitions development — responsible for developing munitions for the Age of Post-Quantum Machinery and Beyond (Subdivision of TCMB)
• The Crypto Instructions Bureau — An interface for interactions between the Department of Defense and the Department of Education. Its main task is to inform the public about technology produced by the TCMB, but other types of information is also made available through this bureau.

Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau hereby invites internauts, activists, the demiurge, hackers, the autonomous jellyfish, states, corporations and esoteric societies to the first cyphernetics conference ever to take place.

As you may have become aware, computer networks, and the internet in particular, are under surveillance by both states and corporations. From east to west and north to south, the internets is a harsh environment. This is especially true for bloggers, dissidents and pirates.

With the aid of cryptography and security in mind however, this can be avoided. Varying between the very simple to the extraordinarily complex measures to conceal communications, users can render their internet footprints almost invisible.

This is what the cyphernetics conference will be concerned with, namely the theory and practice of secure communications such as darknets, onion routing, cryptography, anonymity and more. We will discuss both the consequences of human communication and freedom of speech as well as the technological and practical means of securing all our data and traffic.

The first day, June 16th, will see talks held by security experts and political analysts, who will thoroghly elaborate on the fractal cipherspace as an autonomous zone for political intervention. Communications hidden from prying authorities is be the main focal point of this assembly.

The second day, June 17th, will see hands on training in securing data, and how to install the software needed to enter cipherspace.

The entire event will take place at the IT-university in Gothenburg, in Sweden, and it is free of charge. An exception is made for representatives of states and corporations, who will need to pay the amount of 50 Euros (500 SEK) to participate. Please send an e-mail to info at werebuild dot eu for billing information and receipts. For journalists, entrance is free. Please send and e-mail to the same address to recieve your press permit.

Stay updated to our preliminary schedule.
Here is a brief invitation in PDF format. Please spread it around.

You are more than welcome to our conference and we hope to see as many of you there as possible!

.x. Prisad vare Cameron .x.

.x. Praise be to Cameron .x.

.x. Laus exsisto ut Cameron .x.

.x. 一切讚頌，卡梅倫 .x.

.x. 賛美キャメロンする .x.

.x. Хвала Камерон .x.

.x. Ο έπαινος είναι στο Cameron .x.

Today we have joined Flattr for the users of the Telecomix System to show their appreciation and support us. The basic idea is that if you are using one of our services, read and learn from the knowledge we produce, or simply just like what we are doing, you can submit a flattr, and maybe we will get some money in the end.

Then you may ask “But, where does the money go?”. This is a good question, and here comes an answer.

The money will go to paying for our servers.

We currently run for example pad.telecomix.org and system.telecomix.org and these services require bandwidth and computing power. Also our ever expanding werebuild.eu wiki has high traffic. We want to keep providing these services for free, without any fees for the user since we believe in that providing an infrastructure for knowledge production, computer security and collaboration is vital to activism and public engagement.

Flattr gives you the opportunity to like us a little more, and give us the opportunity to actually pay the bills for high-speed internet connections. Money has never been important to us, and we can keep running without a single cent since we are distributed socially and technically. The flattr money, if we manage to get any, is simply a bonus for providing our services with better quality.

To make sure we have full transparency in the use of flattr, we will document every transaction in our wiki.

Telecomix Department of Education

With datalove,

/The Werebuild/Telecomix crew

***

After only two months as a commissioner, Cecilia Malmström has been accused of wishing to enforce censorship on an EU-wide level, since she wants sites containing depictions of child pornography blocked. These accusations upset her.

– It is not about opinions or freedom of expression, it is about child porn, which is a criminal offence in the whole EU. If we can prevent only five people from doing it it’s a success, Cecilia Malmström says in an interview with Europaportalen.

Cecilia Malmström has had an eventful start on her five years as commissioner. She knew that the work concerning a harmonised asylum and migration policy in Europe would be a tough case. Also, the proposed co-operation between the European police and judicial authorities exchanging a greater amount of information creates debates as well.

But to be accused of wanting to implement censorship, in the way she has been, after her proposal that all EU countries should block child pornography sites on the internet, is harder to digest.

– I think this is sad. I have been fighting for freedom of speech for my entire political life  and the blocking of webpages with child pornography is not censorship. Censorship and child pornography can hardly even be said in the same sentence, she says to Europaportalen on a visit to the European Parliament on a fine spring day in Strasbourg.

The proposal that she presented some weeks ago immediately received criticism, partly from interest organisations that say they wish to protect free speech on the internet, and partly from the German government which, after a long domestic debate, rejected a proposal similiar to Malmström’s. The activists have given Cecilia Malmström a new nickname: Censilia, a hint about the censorship that they suggest that the filter constitutes.

Sweden introduced a system of voluntary blocking of child porn websites in 2005, where internet service providers receive a list from The Office of National Crime Investigation (

Cecilia Malmström agrees that there are problems inherent to blocking web sites, but according to her, it does not mean that it should not be used

– The Swedish police deems it to be satisfactory. It is not super effective, since the websites can re-emerge, but at least it is one way of preventing thousands of people from viewing them.

Critics also claim that the proposal limits the EU’s ability to criticise countries who censor the internet in a more fundamental way, for example Iran and China. This reasoning upsets Cecilia Malmström.

– This is crazy. It’s not about freedom of speech or opinions, it’s about child pornography, something which is a criminal offense in all of the EU. Have you seen these movies? You will throw up, this is how awful it is. They are about small children being exploited. And there are a lot of perverted people watching this. If we can prevent only five of those from doing this, it’s a success, says Cecilia Malmström.

– I get very upset about being accused of censorship because I don’t propose anything else than has already been done for five years in Sweden, in Denmark, in Holland and in Great Britain, countries which could hardly qualify as dictatorships. It is curious that people have not realized that we have been doing this in Sweden since 2005. We are not proposing anything other than this. Except that it will not be voluntary for other countries anymore.

– You may have voluntary agreements, as in Sweden. Or you can legislate, this is up to the member states themselves.

Whether blocking of child porn sites is to be made mandatory in all of the EU is to be decided by the European Parliament and the Council later this year. Cecilia Malmström will do everything in her power to make it a reality.

– There is a rather loud lobby from the Pirate Party and from Germany, but at the same time I have support from thousands of people for doing this. All child organisations that I’ve talked to think that this is a good thing, says Cecilia Malmström.

Exactly one year ago, a bunch of internauts gathered online and offline to talk about the future of the internet. There were many worrying facts, but first and foremost, there was energy and joy.

The first issue to strike the internauts was the telecoms package, which was in the second reading in the European Parliament. Someone suggested “Lets hack our way in to the politicians, and tell them how to do it right!” That caturday night, one year ago, was the beginning of the #telekompaketet IRC-channel, which still exists as the main control room for activities.

Many features have since then been added to the Telecomix System. One day a wiki was added, another day a Crypto Munitions Agency was formed. Telecomix, working as an interface between humans and bots, was even upgraded itself with an operative Artificial Intelligence named Cameron.

Today, we level up our struggle to create a free internet. We have made an operating system, which is equipped with the strongest crypto munitions available to modern computers. It is called the Telecomix Cipher System, and the video on top of this message (download here) shows the reasons for why we give this to the world, as a free download. You may also buy a pre-installed USB-stick at our friends at Gnutiken.

Please join us online and offline in our celebrations. We begin today at 16:00 CET in Gothenburg, Sweden. Stay tuned to our channels for other parties and events!

From the bottom of our cipher hearts – Happy birthday!

/The Werebuild and Telecomix crew