[liberationtech] mHealth projects in Malawi?

From: "imaniche...@gmail.com" Good morning! My name is Imani Cheers and I'm a multimedia producer with the PBS NewsHour and a 2013 New Media fellow with the International Reporting Project. I'm currently beginning a 10 country tour examining mHealth projects impacting women and girls and my Malaw

Re: [liberationtech] cellebrite report

These alternative passcode systems are really neat. Is there a way, though, to quantify, for the different systems, how plausibly the passcode can be 1) remembered or 2) forgotten or 3) "forgotten"? On 02/27/2013 09:42 AM, R. Jason Cronk wrote: > You could play Guitar Hero to get in your phone...

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

A small but important point people might have overlooked. An opt-out function for Ubuntu's Dash is less helpful if you're running Ubuntu as a liveboot. If you're running it as a liveboot, you or your startup script will have to disable the Dash leaks each and every time you boot up your computer. I

[liberationtech] CfP: Digital Culture & Politics

Call for Papers – Digital Culture: Promises and Discomforts Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA Workshop Bonn, 2-5 October, 2013 The ongoing mediatisation process is subject to social transformations as well as technical innovation processes and creative practices. We endorse digit

[liberationtech] IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy '13

The program for IEEE S&P has been posted. It's being held in San Francisco on May 19-22 this year: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/program.html Some talks that may be of interest to libtech: - A Scanner Darkly: Protecting User Privacy From Perceptual Applications - Zerocoin: Anonymous Distr

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

An update on this Knight News Challenge submission: The software company Wadobo has joined with its Agora Voting platform. We now have two strong service providers for the mirroring network. We also have the Metagovernment project on board as a neutral facilitator. If you're a provider of on-line

[liberationtech] Mechanical Turk is not anonymous

From: Matt Lease m...@ischool.utexas.edu via asis.org This may be of interest to those in community using Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform for research, as well as those more generally interested in how online data can be linked in ways that can be surprising to people in practice and compromise

[liberationtech] Startup Global

http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/2013/February/Startup-Global.aspx Startup Global Posted by: Jonathan Ortmans on February 25, 2013 Source: Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship

[liberationtech] Free Privacy-Friendly (Doku)wiki Hosting

Hi! I have spare resources on one of my servers (hosted at EUserv in Jena, Germany), so one of the things I set up now is free Dokuwiki hosting. I have tried many wikis over time, and I use Dokuwiki (and ikiwiki) for many projects myself. It was quite natural to now open this to the public. What

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography Alt-Folk Band Release a New MixTape!

..on Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:27:23AM +0700, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > (See, I am learning a thing our two about how to get publicity, aren't I?) Yes, and I was awfully disappointed. I've been waiting for a release since their moving debut with 'The Alchemist and the Steganographer'. > Just

Re: [liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

If you want to jump straight to the data, it's here: http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/tom-skype/ On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Graham Webster wrote: > Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of > sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send > mes

[liberationtech] Cryptography Alt-Folk Band Release a New MixTape!

(See, I am learning a thing our two about how to get publicity, aren't I?) Just a quick note to say that Gibberbot, the Guardian Project's free (bot ways), open-source, standards compliant, secure instant messaging app for Android, has been updated. It is rare that you have the opportunity to imp

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2013 01:58 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > Can you give me some examples of what you mean? I have been in touch with a number of ham radio communities that are working on community wireless-type projects which either have solvable proble

[liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send messages to a server and sometimes block transmission. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-08/skypes-been-hijacked-in-china-and-microsoft-is-o-do

Re: [liberationtech] recommendation for WP host

On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:10:30PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 04:13:26PM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote: > > If the problem is limited to DDoS attacks, you might find that Cloudflare > > offers some relief. > > I agree, but: this thread (dating from today) may be of inte

[liberationtech] As Internet Freedom Defender, US Keen on Protecting IP Rights

http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/03/08/us-as-defender-of-internet-freedom-keen-on-protecting-ip-rights/ http://www.ip-watch.org/ US As Defender Of Internet Freedom, Keen On Protecting IP Rights By Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch on 08/03/2013 @ 12:47 am For the third year in a row, the