Re: [liberationtech] Pro-democracy activist living under authoritarian regime seeks communication solutions
Here is a good starter guide: https://ssd.eff.org/en VPNs and other activities can sometimes be blocked. To get around being blocked (like by say China), the Tor folks have bridges which they can provide people (https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges). And remember while it might slow things down, these options aren't exclusive, for example using Tor to hide where you on the Internet and then use Signal or OTR to communicate securely w/ friends/allies. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) | i...@itechgeek.com https://keybase.io/itechgeek | https://itg.nu/ Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 2:18 PM Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: > > Yeah I finally started using signal it’s cool > > Regards / Saludos / Grato > > Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes > > On Dec 28, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: > > Hey All, > > A pro-democracy activist living in a country with an authoritarian regime > sends the following questions anonymously to our list: > > Our country's communication system is under constant surveillance. What's the > best way to circumvent this system? > What do you think of Hotspot Shield VPN (and all other VPNs for that matter)? > The activist also asks about the security and privacy of Signal, Wicker, > Riot, Tor, and so on, and whether these solutions can be used in any country > or whether they're country-specific. > > We have discussed these questions extensively over the years, but regimes and > activists are constantly adapting and new solutions are continuously being > developed. So an updated discussion is likely warranted. > > Looking to the future, I'm wondering whether we should set up a wiki (should > it not exist already) with the answers to the aforementioned questions and > update it regularly so that the information is readily available to anyone > without having to go through hoops to ask us. > > In the meantime, please feel free to answer the questions publicly (with the > list as a whole) or privately (with me). > > Thanks, > Yosem > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > liberationtech-ow...@lists.stanford.edu. > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > liberationtech-ow...@lists.stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing liberationtech-ow...@lists.stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?
While we have no consensus, most of these options are using similar stuff at the encrypted layers. Realistically as long as the encryption is good, the Chinese gov't can only block stuff by host/IP/protocol, I think all the VPN providers listed are taking active steps to change IPs and obscure their protocol as needed. My pref of VPN is you aren't limited to just a voice communications services. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: Tim Libert writes: thanks all for the many good suggestions! however, in absence of a clear consensus, I will advise my friend to avoid voice and stick to encrypted email. my understanding is that the new leadership in china isn’t f#cking around, so the risk/reward equation here suggests heightened caution - especially as I cannot make assumptions on technical know-how of parties involved. A countervailing point is that encrypted e-mail with the mainstream technologies used for that purpose never provides forward secrecy, while most voice encryption techniques do. So with the use of encrypted e-mail, there is an ongoing risk into the future (assuming that a recipient's private key still exists somewhere), while with the voice encryption, the risk may be time-limited -- assuming that the implementations were correct enough, and that the key exchange was based on a mathematical problem that will remain hard for an attacker. As a simple analogy, sometimes people prefer to have a phone call about sensitive matters because it doesn't create records, while writing a letters would make a paper trail. The technical reasons behind the analogy don't transfer at all, but there might still be something to the intuition that the encrypted phone call can be more ephemeral than the encrypted mail. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?
It looks nice, but I would wait before using it when the people you're trying to hide from can throw you in jail if found. I will say I like how they're also making it a plugin for existing IM clients Pidgin Adium. I also can't look at their bugs page cause they have HSTS enabled and the SSL cert doesn't validate because it is for *.tenderapp.com and the URL is https://support.libtoxcore.so/ It looks like support.libtoxcore.so is a cname for tox.tenderapp.com and someone probably just forgot to set-up the SNI cert. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:55 AM, hellekin helle...@gnu.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/12/2015 01:45 PM, Tim Libert wrote: to have a secure voice conversation with persons located in mainland china *** Here is something I'm looking at: Tox (https://tox.im/) The project is APLHA software aiming at replacing Skype. It probably has its burden of bugs and certainly lacks proper security at this point. It would certainly benefit from scrutiny. On the crypto side, they chose NaCL, not a bad choice. ;o) It also support going through Tor. The functionality is awesome, especially considering its *alpha* status (I repeat to insist on the fact that it's a potential solution, and probably one that needs to be audited, because as people discover it, they tend to use it). It provides voice, video (including desktop view), file sharing, chat with UTF-8 support. It runs from the terminal with Toxic, or in GUI with qTox and uTox, on GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit, Android, Windows, and MacOSX. The Windows port is more alpha than the *nix ports. == hk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJU32HWXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQ0IyNkIyRTNDNzEyMTc2OUEzNEM4ODU0 ODA2QzM2M0ZDMTg5ODNEAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9wFoQALnxMbnXGJAHOqxFEDDskmeN ziZGGvLA0EOYx6J0+4jhOpgNE3uedFWv3DuBdPd9f+DHjY0BWb5f4ND4/ajZdMnj 20IF2qOJgZRccGQ/1LFifZ6dp6ijo/+iPMHmbj9lQcG5Y4UITUytBrQfjToZyZqc s4XSK1/FkoQ+C4aH/aWgeTBL3/yLPSDPcutUvcfqzgLj661yH5gHcL2F7FCXTt/t YpsRffUcoOsBVLfLNkMQDpEe9d9nKeLufNvhPHnvExEdJ5VW3Rn+D6jFRNFB3ek4 6XgvLQgQsj67a28U2nWTvXVPxpNhT+TD/u+d12amBpzS9nne9M40ye5R1Rup/Dn4 GprGdHi6pj5fTU0rVk3vt6iNTVZtmfpq/h+09rIDnxy9dZwmQ2SsIf9WHFFY+1yC 0YVMAdhAmKIY8nkCLaCsx0KMYA3yg5QNq8FIGROVxIajXdu9SSkbeGMJudrBfGcq pKFlzyqcVpQ9bobvt+Rd90hnEuKIB5T+dE1YSTafw8sitOebyFvG08skbAwW3v4V pmgEk6MLiB7KYhkjWgne36RkooADVYKOTy/ZCdktMdXx6bzzs/h4swotC5B0t/42 s2RZKUvylwXReuE6+L76oYrfx1Np6onXbR105fd2v5dWrHBuy/GVR8a2mmV4zpA8 SSrQcYi4a4qWA6WJaAa/ =H7be -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?
I know a number of VPN providers have a mode for hiding their OpenVPN connections (the VPN provider I have calls it Chameleon and says it's proprietary and you have to use their software). The solution that I personaly think might be better, is using Mumble in half duplex mode over TOR. http://www.hacker10.com/computer-security/encrypted-voice-over-ip-chat-mumble-works-with-tor/ https://guardianproject.info/2013/01/31/anonymous-cb-radio-with-mumble-and-tor/ Also if you don't need a full time server, you can take Andrew's suggestion and use a pay by the hr provider such as Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud Servers (although I think a number of other VPS providers have started doing pay by the hour plans) - That should also give the benefit of being able to change IPs more often and depending on the provider, being able to change datacenters. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Brian Behlendorf br...@behlendorf.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, The Doctor wrote: On 02/12/2015 01:06 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: And this is why even people who care about their privacy still use Skype. Bad actors go to extraordinary, stupid lengths to restrict access and put surveillance measures in place. Hours rivalling that of Silicon Valley startups are spent fine tuning each and every last measure to make sure that almost nothing sneaks past. There is no magick wand that the other side of the game can wave to bypass them like a gentle breeze. Circumvention and counter-net.surveillance are hard, and if the other side doesn't bring its A game to match, it's just not going to happen. We may as well roll over and show our bellies. Exactly. Which is why no one should feel satisfied with the answer that was given. Brian -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/ mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] mail2tor.com hidden service
As Zaki points out, never trust plain text identifying information over tor (well the transport is good and secure, you never know what the exit nodes or in this case hidden service are doing w/ the information transgressing their systems). I only use any tor email service for website accounts where I have no plans to connect to the website over anything other than tor and once in a while I use them for email exchanges w/ individuals, but I generate a GPG key specific to that account. What I consider a workaround for people who can't set-up a good install of GPG is https://www.mailvelope.com/ I would consider that at least semi secure (or at least as secure as your browser). I haven't used it in a while, but when I did it was Chrome only and seemed easy enough (and haven't had too many questions in the past). If you need one way secure, you can try out http://s.hanewin.net/contact/en.htm / http://www.hanewin.net/encrypt/ (I've been meaning to try setting up one of those myself). Uses the same core as mailvelope and likewise I wouldn't consider it fully secure. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 7:06 PM, z...@manian.org z...@manian.org wrote: Plaintext over Tor to email accounts are probably not safe. We've seen a major round of this where the Feds seize a hosted anonymous email account and then email plain texts appear in indictments. Perhaps the most famous is the TorMail Charlie Shrem case. http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/2014/01/31/the-email-service-the-dark-web-is-actually-using/ On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Does anyone have any info about this hidden service? I've been using it to set up temporary accounts to exchange info as a pgp work-around for people having trouble working with pgp keys. I assume the content can be read by whoever runs the site, but they won't know who I am. If the other side uses the hidden service, too. The mails can be read but the service won't know who either side is. Any faults in this logic? -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
Instead of using an Android gateway, I would go w/ a Raspberry Pi, probably a little easier for customized development (and you can use this as a starter): http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-gsm-gateway/ (Note this guy's configuration violates most carriers TOS). Also if you decide to go this route, some of the US carriers including unlimited text to other countries, so you might be able to set-up the system here if not sending in excess of their unlimited definition. http://multimediacapsule.thomsonone.com/t-mobileusa/blog_it-all-started-with-simple-choice?cm_sp=HP_MQ-_-HPT-_-LEARN%20MORE%20ABOUT%20OUR%20SIMPLE%20CHOICE%20PLAN. (Chart at bottom) And if you will be working at a village level and you can get a link into the village (maybe sat?), you can always look into running your own cell system. http://openbts.org/ You can order blank sim cards and a programmer to program your own (I believe there is a place online you can get them preprogrammed as well) and only requires a GSM handset that is unlocked. Hard to run it in the US (You know the whole FCC thing), but every so often groups will get a special event license for operation. A friend set-up it up at HOPE Conference a few yrs back, the largest install of OpenBTS I think was at Burning Man last yr or the yr before, and I've heard of groups trying to use them in villages in Africa Asia where the local cell service is spotty or non-existent. At Burning Man they connected to the rest of the world through voip over a vsat link (And you can do more complicated systems where you can have msgs queued on either end and only bring up the sat link a few times of day for msgs leaving the area). And if you want to get really exotic (like little to no cell coverage), Inmarsat has http://www.inmarsat.com/support/isatphone-pro-support/ which allows free incoming text (from Internet or regular SMS) and Delorme Inreach (I actually have one of these on order) uses the Iridium sat network which has plans that include unlimited text (a more expensive option). Neither of these would be good for sending msgs to large groups of people unless your organization has some SERIOUS dough. Also I haven't looked at either to see how unlimited text messages are defined. There are many options depending on your use case. If you might be willing to provide a use case we might be able to provide you some information specific to that set-up (if it's of a sensitive nature, you can always email me directly and my GPG key is listed in my signature block). And I'm sure other people on this list have GPG keys available. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info wrote: On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: On Thu, Jan 1, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Richard Brooks wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... What about using an Android phone as the gateway device/SMS sender? There are a lot of solutions out there for that, and experience in this community deploying them. http://smssync.ushahidi.com for example Here are a few more examples: https://github.com/anjlab/android-sms-gateway https://github.com/niryariv/KalSMS All in all, if your volume is not crazy high, it is the easiest way to support pretty much any network in the world, as long as you have a place to keep a phone safe and charged in the local area. -- Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
If anyone wants more help setting something up to send msgs through these gateways, you can contact me off line. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:17 PM, ITechGeek i...@itechgeek.com wrote: Almost all carriers have a gateway to the effect of phone number@carriers domain Like to send an email to my phone as an SMS, it would be my cell #@ tmomail.net (T-Mobile USA), Verizon I believe is cell #@vtext.net and ATT I believe is cell #@txt.att.net. There are a number of lists on the Internet listing carriers (some are out of date). Here are a couple of lists: http://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways/ http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ http://sms-gateway-service.com/?page_id=13 http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/List_of_Internet_to_SMS_gateways http://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx I would suggest contacting someone using a carrier you want to send to and do a test to confirm the gateway is active or search the company's website, most company's list it somewhere on their website (although I've seen a few carriers not list it on their website). Likewise most carriers also allow for outgoing msgs to Internet Email. Usually you send the msg to a carrier specific shortcode (I think T-Mobile USA is 550), although some carriers allow you to just enter the to address in place of the number you are sending to. On the Internet side these gateways are free, but remember on the cell side the person pays whatever their standard txt rates are. Since I have an unlimited text plan, I use this mostly for having alerts sent to my phone (things like server outages and alerts from my home automation system). Also any company that sends a text to your cell phone that the from address looks like an email address, they're normally sending through these gateways (and they normally asked you who your cell carrier is). --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Which gateways have you used? Of particular interest is sending to rather exotic destinations. On 1/1/2015 4:15 PM, ITechGeek wrote: My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com mailto:edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 tel:%2B34%20634%20571%20634
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
Almost all carriers have a gateway to the effect of phone number@carriers domain Like to send an email to my phone as an SMS, it would be my cell #@ tmomail.net (T-Mobile USA), Verizon I believe is cell #@vtext.net and ATT I believe is cell #@txt.att.net. There are a number of lists on the Internet listing carriers (some are out of date). Here are a couple of lists: http://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways/ http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ http://sms-gateway-service.com/?page_id=13 http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/List_of_Internet_to_SMS_gateways http://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx I would suggest contacting someone using a carrier you want to send to and do a test to confirm the gateway is active or search the company's website, most company's list it somewhere on their website (although I've seen a few carriers not list it on their website). Likewise most carriers also allow for outgoing msgs to Internet Email. Usually you send the msg to a carrier specific shortcode (I think T-Mobile USA is 550), although some carriers allow you to just enter the to address in place of the number you are sending to. On the Internet side these gateways are free, but remember on the cell side the person pays whatever their standard txt rates are. Since I have an unlimited text plan, I use this mostly for having alerts sent to my phone (things like server outages and alerts from my home automation system). Also any company that sends a text to your cell phone that the from address looks like an email address, they're normally sending through these gateways (and they normally asked you who your cell carrier is). --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Which gateways have you used? Of particular interest is sending to rather exotic destinations. On 1/1/2015 4:15 PM, ITechGeek wrote: My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com mailto:edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 tel:%2B34%20634%20571%20634 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu mailto:r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] confused by the Sony hack
The rumors I've been hearing from some of my IT Security friends are saying disgruntled ex employees from either a division of Sony Pictures or a key partner and Sony Pictures not taking steps to properly store admin passwords. Haven't noticed any news reports verifying these rumors. In my opinion if it was ex employees, it would probably be better for them if the blame was shifted to N Korea. Most of the hackivist groups tend to take some level of credit (although there is a chance this group has learned from people from other groups getting caught). At this point the only people who know for sure have been tight lipped (no good evidence the US or Sony knows yet, N Korea probably loves the attention, and if non nation-state actors are involved, none have taken credit). Depending on how good the hackers were and how well they can keep a secret, we might never know the true identities of who did this. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Noah Shachtman noah.shacht...@gmail.com wrote: One the one hand, I see US officials leaking word that the North Koreans were involved... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-korea-to-sony-hacking.html On the other, I see evidence that points to a hacktivist-type outfit... http://www.wired.com/2014/12/evidence-of-north-korea-hack-is-thin/ Any ideas on which narrative (or combination thereof) is right? Best, nms -- -- Noah Shachtman Executive Editor | The Daily Beast 917-690-0716 noah.shacht...@gmail.com *new* encrypted phone: 646-681-6791 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Hammond Banned from using Cryptography
Depending on your definition, that means no cell/cordless phone use (cordlesss phones, GSM, CDMA are technically encrypted), wifi (other then open wireless access points), ssl, bluetooth, RFID credit/check cards. Does cable TV count since that signal is encrypted between the cable company and your cable box (and in most cases is a two way signal to send back what channel you are watching). How about satellite TV (Sat signal is encrypted) Transit systems are trying to move away from paper farecards and he wouldn't be able to use any non-paper farecards Or how about the remote for your car alarm? --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: From: Privarchy Mee privar...@gmail.com Can any of you, most of whom I do not doubt are far more knowledgeable about cryptography and how it's conceptualised within the legal sphere, offer some insight regarding this? https://twitter.com/CyMadD0x/status/401443518612512769 The claim is that Judge Loretta A. Preska, who sentenced Jeremy Hammond today, said that for the three years (post-release) that he was to spend under supervision, he will not be able to use encryption for communication or storage purposes(!) which is practically a legal edict to go and build a cabin by Walden Pond. How can this be considered anything but cruel and unusual? -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Accesses Skype Chats
Anyone try searching for private links in bing yet? Sent from my iPad On May 14, 2013, at 14:41, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote: Also, it came about two hours after I sent the link to a friend. -tom On 14 May 2013 14:39, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote: Tested it, got the following: HEAD /this_is_a_test2.html HTTP/1.1 from 65.52.100.214 with no User Agent. -tom On 14 May 2013 11:44, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote: Heise Security is reporting that Microsoft accesses links sent over Skype chat.[1] Here is the /. lede: A Microsoft server accesses URLs sent in Skype chat messages, even if they are HTTPS URLs and contain account information. A reader of Heise publications notified Heise Security (link to German website, Google translation[2]). They replicated the observation by sending links via Skype, including one to a private file storage account, and found that these URLs are shortly after accessed from a Microsoft IP address. When confronted, Microsoft claimed that this is part of an effort to detect and filter spam and fishing URLs. [1]: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Vorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-1857620.html [2]: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=autotl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8eotf=1u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FVorsicht-beim-Skypen-Microsoft-liest-mit-1857620.html ~ Pranesh -- Pranesh Prakash Policy Director Centre for Internet and Society T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: @pranesh_prakash -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
Depends on what information you might be transmitting and the specific laws of the local country/countries involved. HAMs have to be licensed through the local countries licensing authority (in the case of the US would be the FCC). Under US you could probably get away with allowing them to coordinate if it is non-profit in nature, but you would not be able to discuss any medical information that would allow a third party to possibly identify the patient. And some countries are very restrictive on who can get HAM licenses due to the potential to get around their propaganda controls. Also rules can change based on frequencies being used cause lower frequencies can transmit further. Can you provide the country or countries involved? --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Dr. Tusharkanti Dey dr.tusharkanti...@gmail.com Dear All, I am proposing to set up a ICT based health project in tribal areas with poor infrastructural facilities with poor cell phone connectivity due to unstable signal strengths. i have learnt that HAM radio software from HamSphere is downloadable on android phones.I would like to know whether these android phones with HAM radio software installed can be used for communication used for voice communication between health workers themselves and with head quarter staff. Will it be legally permissible and what technical requirements will be needed to set up such system. The other alternative of setting up of mobile signal boosters or long distance WiFi hubs are currently not affordable to our limited resource organisation Thanks, Dr.Tusharkanti Dey -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
