ralpress.org

Don’t just moan, do something about it:

“On 11. October 2008 we call for an international action day in as many European capital cities as possible and elsewhere around the world to demonstrate against the total retention of telecommunication data and other instruments of surveillance. We would like to recall the remembrance of the historical achievement of civil rights and liberties as a heritage of the Age of Enlightenment and to support the trust in security in our free society”

Background:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/freedom-not-fear

Planned protests:

http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2008

http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2008/London

And don’t forget the preliminary campaign:

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/09/29/capturing-the-database-state-community-photocall/

Come along next Saturday (October 11th) and be counted, or at least, surveilled :-0

http://riaa.org

Pretty much every link results in the message:

“It appears that the article you requested has been temporarily removed”

A current thread on reddit seems to indicate that some miscreants may have ‘injected’ some mischief.

Couldn’t have happened to nicer people, I say.

It’s interesting to note that RIAA uses an open and free language (PHP) for its web application. This means that chances are, they’re using MySQL as well. Perhaps the cost of paying for all of those proprietary software licenses became bothersome?

EDIT: A quick check of the response headers reveals that they’re running on Apache and RedHat as well. Nice.

EDIT 2: Yep, it’s a hack.

EDIT 3: “Pics or it didn’t happen“.