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They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. Benjamin Franklin

Latest news - edition 22 of 22 january 2008

The translation of the Winston Smith Project freesite must go on; we need you to volunteer for this job. Write or send a message if you can help us. At this moment, only the homepage is in English; if this goes on blame not only us but also all bilingual visitor that didn't volunteer for translation.

The Winston Smith Project will organize E-privacy 2008 , that will be in Florence during the second half of May . During the convention there will be the << Big Brother Award Italia 2008 >> prizes assignment ceremony.

The Project freesite is on Freenet again; the site was reinserted in Freenet 0.7 at this URI freenet:USK@RU-C2q5kN7K62WO3seMMjSTUY8izF2vCFyVFOnLf~Q0,wxvGO2QMT6IN9c7dNUhHeHnXVVwhq8YLbQL~DlMA7YE,AQACAAE/pws/3

The Project site is avalaible as Tor hidden service. To use it you need Tor and Privoxy installed and active; go to the URI http://5zaspldty2calvcq.onion/

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News from previous editions

You was unable to find the T-shirt or the logo of the Project ? You can try more to find them, or do-it-yourself using the logo and the T-shirt graphic avalaible in vector or raster format.

The Winston Smith Project organized E-privacy 2007 , held in Florence the 18th and 19th May; you can find papers & audio on this << site >> . During the convention there was the << Big Brother Award Italia 2007 >> prizes assignment ceremony.

You are unable to visit some of the external links of the site? Probably you are using a mirror of the Project freesite; in this case external links and messaging cannot work because they are written for Freenet, the anonymous messaging only work there and externali link have a different syntax. For link however, just a bit of initiative and cut&paste will suffice. Links in red will put you outside Freenet; they are verified, but following them make you traceable. You must already know, but the standard warning apply; be careful.

Manifest


Winston Smith is the main character of "1984", the famous George Orwell's novel; at the end of the novel, Winston Smith is defeated by the Big Brother.

Today, in the Third Millennium, Big Brother is between us, materialized from the printed paper of a book to the real world, and become bigger each day; this happens unnoticed or approved by the majority of people, .

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