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Line 1: Below are notes. I'm working on building this activity [https://github.com/openhatch/ethics-and-history here]- once it's done, I'll update the notes below. ==Format of Activity==▼ Students will be presented with a brief summary including links to further sources. They will be asked to read at least the summary (if not the linked sources) and to summarize the incident and answer questions (see below).▼ ~~==Questions to Ask==~~ * Which freedoms were being impinged upon? * Do you agree with the actions the person took? ▲==Format of Activity== ~~We might want to come up with questions tailored to incidents.~~ ▲Students will be presented with a brief summary including links to further sources. They will be asked to read at least the summary (if not the linked sources) and to ~~summarize~~do the ~~incident and answer questions (see below).~~following: * Write a (briefer) summary and add it to a group timeline that is part of a shared repository. * Put issues that the story raises into the issue tracker. If that issue already exists, they should add to the issue instead of making a new one. Issues should be tagged with relevant terms such as the different freedoms, DRM, etc. (Make a more complete list.) * (Potential/optional): read through the other summaries as they are put up and vote somehow whether they support the actions of the free software advocate involved do further research and add primary sources to the repository/wiki ==Incidents to Investigate== Line 18 ⟶ 23: Incidents: * Stallman and the printer * Skype: 2006, discovered to resist analysis [http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf]; 2008, discovered to (in China) have censorship and surveillance on certain keywords [http://www.nartv.org/mirror/breachingtrust.pdf] including insecure survillance database [http://www.nartv.org/2008/10/02/tom-skype-q-a/]; 2013: such censorship + surveillance continues to this day [http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/tom-skype/] * Skype and China * Linus Torvalds? * Blake Ross and Mozilla/Firefox?