Re: [liberationtech] Ethiopia criminalizes Skype?
Seeing as Addis is the seat of the African Union, there are two scenarios here: 1. Business as usual at The African Union will be severely impaired. 2. This will be unevenly implemented, with expatriates and AU officials informally exempt. On 15 Jun 2012 20:18, David Johnson da...@bostonreview.net wrote: http://www.techcentral.co.za/ethiopia-criminalises-skype/32723/ Ethiopia’s state-owned Internet service provider, the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (Ethio-Telcom), has begun performing deep-packet inspection of all Internet traffic in the country. The country’s government recently ushered in new legislation that criminalises the use of services such as Skype, Google Talk and other forms of Internet phone calling. ... -- David V. Johnson Web Editor Boston Review Website: http://www.bostonreview.net Twitter: http://twitter.com/BostonReview Tumblr: http://bostonreview.tumblr.com Mailing Address: San Francisco Writers' Grotto 490 2nd Street, 2nd Fl. San Francisco, CA 94107 Cell: (917)903-3706 ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
[liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a Autonomous Internet ?
Hi all, i wanted to notice that there is a new internet draft in IETF that should make us think on the chinese government respect strategies to internet governance issues. DNS Extension for Autonomous Internet(AIP) https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00 This proposal by China Telecom, China Mobile Guangdong Commercial College propose. Even if we know that root servers are very well distributed across the world / countries trough a collaborative system, chinese see this as a central control. From Introduction on Root DNS: But its central control method is not suitable to autonomy and scalability and can't keep up with the fast development of Internet. To national internet network, owning its independent root DNS server and realize autonomy in Internet is a problem not only for the cost but also for the technical difficulty. It is almost impossible in current DNS architecture. From AIP DNS Architecture: In order to realize the transition from Internet to Autonomous Internet, each partition of current Internet should first realize possible self-government and gradually reduce its dependence on the foreign domain names, such as COM, NET et al. So basically the chinese play is not of being part of a collaborative internet, but driving strategically the direction to become an independent island in the world. -naif ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle? Re: AES-encyrpted telephony in Iran?
On Jun 16, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Frank Corrigan wrote: This seems relevant, building on Phil Zimmerman's Zfone/ZRTP PGP. Some time ago I rand into Jitsi.org - it is an interesting start but I had some issues with stability. Aaron. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
[liberationtech] IPv6 good for anonymity
Hi all, You may have read about the recent outcry by FBI and DEA warning that IPv6 could shield criminals from police as i makes tracing electronic addresses 'more difficult'. See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57453738-83/fbi-dea-warn-ipv6-could-shield-criminals-from-police/ If this is true, isn't this what we want (i.e., more privacy)? On the other hand, I read somewhere that China was among the first nations to fully deployed IPv6 due to its ability to track traffic as IP addresses would be assigned to people just like national ID numbers are assigned to every individual. Are we supposed to be more concerned or glad that we are slowly moving to IPv6 ? Sincerely, Walid - Walid Al-Saqaf Founder Administrator alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship https://alkasir.com walid.al-sa...@oru.se ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click yes (once you click above) next to would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest? You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] IPv6 good for anonymity
Dear Seth, Thank you for this tremendously helpful summary of the the situation potentials associated with IPv6. Your 'blog post' is enlightening, worrying, but also giving hope at the same time. One could conclude is that -like any technology- it is the service providers and users who would decide whether to use it for the good or bad of netizens. In the case of China, static assignment of IP pools to users could indeed be deployed to track users' online actions. But I assume that usage of privacy tools such as Tor could be helpful in limiting surveillance in such situations. It appears that one cannot predict how things will evolve. Let's wait and see but be ready for how ISPs and governments would deal with the ongoing migration to IPv6. All the best. Sincerely, Walid - Walid Al-Saqaf Founder Administrator alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship https://alkasir.com walid.al-sa...@oru.se On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: Walid AL-SAQAF alkasir admin writes: Are we supposed to be more concerned or glad that we are slowly moving to IPv6 ? I think the effect of IPv6 on privacy is complicated; it depends on how addresses are allocated. It depends on what ISPs do and on what users do. There's one debate about whether people will bother to keep such detailed records of which ISPs are using which IP addresses once IP addresses are more plentiful. With IP addresses less scarce, there may be a reduced incentive to keep careful records about delegations of address space, and more willingness to grant delegations casually and easily. In that case, it may be more difficult bureaucratically to figure out who or where some Internet users are. You can see some discussion of this in this current thread on NANOG: http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2012-June/049300.html See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIP Apart from that, there are at least seven potential effects on privacy: - The original addressing scheme for IPv6 suggested using individual devices' MAC addresses as (the basis for) the lower-order 64 bits of the public IP address. This is catastrophic for privacy because then you can recognize and track individual devices all around the world, like an indelible cross-site cookie for each device. (What's more, if you seize the device, you can confirm that it was the actual device that was used to send some particular communications at some point in the past.) However, we don't have to use this scheme for assigning IP addresses. It depends on how our individual operating systems are configured, and it's unlikely that ISPs or anyone could somehow force us to use the privacy-invasive style. - Having plentiful IP addresses means that we don't have to use network address translation (NAT) anymore, at least not for IP address scarcity reasons. This could actually be bad for privacy because there is less ambiguity about which user of a network was responsible for particular communications; NAT can create ambiguity from the outside world's point of view about who at a particular institution actually sent some network traffic, and if we get rid of NAT, we reduce that uncertainty. - Having plentiful IP addresses means that ISPs could choose to give end-users more dynamic IP addresses, without re-use. It's easier to imagine using highly ephemeral IP addresses, like using a new source address for each and every connection (!) or having one's home network address change every day or every hour. In that case, it would be harder to make associations between users or to track users based on their IP addresses. - On the other hand, ISPs could also choose to give end-users more static IP addresses, making it relatively easier to profile or recognize users over time. - With more plentiful public IP addresses, it would be easier and for more people to start to run publicly-useful proxy services like Tor entry nodes. It will also be somewhat harder for censors to enumerate and block secret bridge-style proxy nodes ahead of time because it will be far more difficult to port-scan the larger address space. (It was traditionally thought to be impossible, but there is a paper showing it may not be impossible in practice.) - With reduced use of NAT, we could more easily implement more things as pure peer-to-peer services, with less intermediation. This is good for users' privacy against service providers and potentially bad for users' privacy against each other. For example, if you make an intermediated VoIP call, the service provider learns your approximate location from your IP address, but the other party to the call doesn't. If you make a more disintermediated VoIP call, no service provider learns this information, but the other party can learn it. - Many network monitoring and logging systems aren't yet correctly
