[liberationtech] WiSee and Wi-Vi: Tracking human motion with wifi

2013-06-05 Thread Steve Weis
I ran across a project using wifi signals to track human gestures called WiSee: http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/06/04/wi-fi-signals-enable-gesture-recognition-throughout-entire-home/ http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/ There's also Wi-Vi, which is a project to see through walls by measuring wifi s

Re: [liberationtech] Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf

2013-06-05 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 06:33:16PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > One more point: operations that are this incompetent and negligent > cannot possibly provide any real assurance of security and privacy > to their users, because their putative operators are no longer in > full control of them. Not r

[liberationtech] Network Surveillance (comment on Andrew L's post)

2013-06-05 Thread Peter B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Libtech, To speak to Andrews' comment about ex-Soviet states, pleased find the link below to the report we are releasing on the presence of Russian surveillance tech in four Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmeni

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Andrew Lewis
Syria uses homegrown forks of squid, bluecoat, brocade, and has at least solicited for Hauwei solutions, all at the carrier level, based on directives passed down from the telecoms/security ministries. I know that the big ISPs have explicit back doors in their firewalls installed so that the monito

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Eric S Johnson
I've heard that a lot (especially "it's the Chinese") but found very little evidence to support such allegations. In Addis last fall, was told by a source with some inside information that the Ethiopian state's cybersurveillance software came from Israel. The pictures which rebels shot of the Li

Re: [liberationtech] Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf

2013-06-05 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:44:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > I wonder if there is any connection between these merchants and botnets? > Botnet owners or spammers would seem like a great source of "valid" IDs. Let me introduce a term you might/might not have heard before in other cont

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread Nathan of Guardian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/05/2013 02:25 PM, Mark Belinsky wrote: > When we initially developed ostel.me it used freeswitch but we've > moved away from it to allow for better federation. Ostel.co is a > new implementation of the open secure telephony network (ostn) > stand

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Richard, Without going into too much details can you explain why they "think" its Chinese or Israeli? Or what country they are talking about? Also why they think there is network surveillance equipment there at all? What type of data re you l

[liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Richard Brooks
Just talked with a lot of people who think network surveillance equipment in their countries are being bought from either Israelis or Chinese. It seems that they are competing for market share. Was not aware of Israeli companies working in this space. Would be interested if anyone had more data.

[liberationtech] Cryptocat Seeking Estonian, Tibetan, Uighur and Latvian Translations

2013-06-05 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Dear LibTech, We're on the verge of releasing a major update to Cryptocat, but we still need four translations finished. All four translations are very much complete but only lack one or two sentences each. You can contribute towards the translations here: Estonian: https://www.transifex.com/pr

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread Mark Belinsky
When we initially developed ostel.me it used freeswitch but we've moved away from it to allow for better federation. Ostel.co is a new implementation of the open secure telephony network (ostn) standard ~Sent from my mobile. Please excuse any typos or terseness. On Jun 5, 2013 2:19 PM, "Pavol Lupt

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread Pavol Luptak
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 07:12:22PM +0200, KheOps wrote: > Hi all, > > Just came accross that: https://ostel.co/ > > Open source software for encrypted calls, with a client that apparently > runs on a lot of platforms. > > Anyone ever used/reviewed it already? I used it with my Android SIP clien

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread Mark Belinsky
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, we're in rapid development right now. It hasn't fully "launched" but it works on any and every platform right now. Check out ostel.co and guardianproject.info for more info ~Sent from my mobile. Please excuse any typos or terseness. On Jun 5, 20

[liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread KheOps
Hi all, Just came accross that: https://ostel.co/ Open source software for encrypted calls, with a client that apparently runs on a lot of platforms. Anyone ever used/reviewed it already? Cheers, KheOps -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderato

Re: [liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".

2013-06-05 Thread Rayna
In Turkey, in order to have an Internet-enabled phone, one must provide citizen ID. So, it's not that complicated to identify people after all... My 2 cents, 2013/6/5 micah > michael gurstein writes: > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 > > > > > > > > Also in Izmir, state-ru

Re: [liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".

2013-06-05 Thread micah
michael gurstein writes: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 > > > > Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had > arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". > > > > An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, > t

[liberationtech] TipWire: another shot at "the holy grail of crypto for the unskilled"

2013-06-05 Thread Uncle Zzzen
Once again I have an idea I believe is worthy of peer review. It's a prototype of a system that [hopefully] offers secure communication between an anonymous unskilled person (called the *source)* and a person or group (called the *desk*) with some skills (can decrypt gpg mail) and resources (runs

Re: [liberationtech] Anonymous Group Moderation?

2013-06-05 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/13 20:37, Bruce Potter at IRF wrote: > I have a friend working in a politically volatile environment > overseas environment who's interested in taking over a public > e-mail group/listserv as a public participation service. The friend > is bas

[liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation".

2013-06-05 Thread michael gurstein
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had arrested 25 people for tweeting "misinformation". An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, told Anatolia they were being held for "callin