[liberationtech] Launch of our free online digital security training courses
Hello! In partnership with Advocacy Assembly, we are delighted to announce the launch of our free online digital security training courses. The topics covered are: -Phishing, Malware and Social Engineering -Secure Communications -Secure Passwords and Encryption of Data -Staying Safe Online and Using Social Media Each course should take about 20 minutes to complete and has lots of videos, quizzes and further resources for further learning. All courses are available in English, Farsi and Arabic. Get them for free here: https://advocacyassembly.org/en/partners/securityfirst/ We hope you and your partners will find them useful! We would love to hear any feedback you might have. Some of our team will be at RightsCon this week, so feel free to say hi. We will also be launching a major update of Umbrella App ( https://www.secfirst.org) in the next few weeks, with lots of new features, content and languages. So stay tuned! Many thanks, The Security First Team -- 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] TinFoil.Press Community and Open Tech Events Calendar
Hey everyone, Just for those who haven't come across them. There are two community related sites that might be of interest to people on here: The first is TinFoil.Press - which is forum created by Martin Shelton and has had some interesting and productive conversations on a number of tech/journo/security etc topics: https://tinfoil.press Also, a public calendar of events in this space - feel free to add more! http://www.opentech.events Both of them are still early days but would welcome more contributions! All the best, SF -- Download Umbrella App on Android from: Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.umbrella Amazon App Store: https://www.amazon.com/Security-First-Umbrella-made-easy/dp/B01AKN9M1Y F-Droid Repo: https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo F-Droid Fingerprint: 39EB57052F8D684514176819D1645F6A0A7BD943DBC31AB101949006AC0BC228 Github Repo: https://github.com/securityfirst -- 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] Umbrella Android App Public Beta Launch – Available Now for Download!
Dear friends, We are pleased today to announce the public beta launch of Umbrella App on Android. I’m sure a lot of you on LibTech already know about it already, but for those who don’t, Umbrella App aims to put digital and physical security advice in your pocket. Lessons give you simple, practical advice on what to do and what tools to do it with – covering everything from sending a secure email to conducting physical counter-surveillance. You can choose your level of ability or type of protection needed and get answers that reflect your needs. Users can mark, customise and share simple checklists for quick reminders. It also has a series of security information feeds from places like the UN and Centers for Disease Control to keep you updated on the move. We particularly hope that it will be a useful tool for those in the community who are trainers and want a simple tool for participants to be able to quickly reference - along with individual activists, journalists and aid workers looking at an element of security for the first time. We just wanted to thank a number of people and groups on LibTech for their work and support, especially: -Tactical Tech/Frontline Defenders for Security in A Box, EFF for Surveillance Self Defence, which was extremely helpful when building our digital security content -Amnesty International, Rory Peck Trust and the European Inter-Agency Security Forum for helping us with testing -iSEC Partners – for code auditing us (which we will be publishing fully by the end of the week) -Open Tech Fund – for being a great donor and letting us get on with making things -All the groups who make all the various open source tools that we have included -The many people in the community who welcomed us, and provided us with fantastic feedback, testing and advice We owe you all a beer J Where can I get Umbrella? The app is available via Google Play here (we will be pushing it onto F-Droid as quickly as we can and if you want a direct download just drop us a mail): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.umbrella Want to help end users get Umbrella? This is our beta version. It will continue to develop and improve - the more users and feedback we get the better. Tell your friends, colleagues and partners, Tweet (@_securityfirst) or Facebook (Facebook.com/secfirst.org) about Umbrella, up-vote our submission on HackerNews :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10295319 Want to know more about Umbrella or give us feedback? Checkout our website at www.secfirst.org or contact us at r...@secfirst.org (PGP: 2C1D3B4D (3354 4E0E 69FB 21A1 1D66 1763 FFB9 B5BE 2C1D 3B4D)) Want to write about Umbrella? Spread the word to end users by writing about us (drop us a mail and we can send a press pack) Want to see our code? https://github.com/securityfirst/Umbrella_android What’s next for Umbrella? We’re only getting started. Want to know more about our future plans or support the next phase? Drop us a mail! Thanks everyone! The Security First Team -- 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] Invitation to be an Alpha Tester for Umbrella Android App!
Hey everyone, As a lot of you know, we have been working on building Umbrella. It's an Android app that pulls together a huge amount of information on physical and digital security. It also incorporates a dashboard that pulls in data feeds from places like the UN and the Centre for Disease Control. (You can find out more at www.secfirst.org) We are starting to open up our closed Alpha testing for Umbrella App. Some of the folks on here are already helping us out on this but we would love to get more community feedback before a more public launch next week. If you have a few minutes to spare and are interested in getting a sneak preview then please drop us a mail direct (i...@secfirst.org) and we can send on the link! Thanks! The Security First Team -- 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] A Field Guide to Physical Surveillance for Journalists and Activists
Hi JM, I think the article is an interesting starting point for people thinking about the issue of physical anti/counter-surveillance for HRDs and journalists, but there are a number of areas and techniques which are missing from it - which are important to be able to do it effectively. For example, team operations, trigger locations, cross contamination, covert vs overt methods, effective surveillance detection routes, foot vs vehicles, public transport etc etc. We will be including a very detailed module on this in Umbrella App but until that's out, drop me a mail and let's talk through some aspects that might give readers some more background to the subject for the article. Especially for activists thinking about doing this sort of thing for the first time. It's great to see other people bringing the physical security side into things! :) All the best, Rory -- 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] Umbrella App
Hi Armin, Thanks for reaching out. We've been beavering away on Umbrella for the past few months before pushing out the first early version into the wider community (in the next few weeks hopefully). I will ping you a mail direct. Thanks, Rory -- 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] Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management
Hi everyone, As you know, we've been working hard over the past year to extend the reach of our community to the humanitarian aid sector. I just wanted to highlight the following report which might be of interest to some on the list. Communications Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management http://commstech-hub.eisf.eu All the best, Rory -- 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] Useful Paper - Security Risk Management and Religion: Faith and secularism in humanitarian assistance
Hi everyone, Thought I would pass this along. While mostly written from the humanitarian aid organisation perspective, I think there are a number of interesting lessons for those of us working on security and training issues. Security Risk Management and Religion: Faith and secularism in humanitarian assistance: http://www.eisf.eu/resources/item/?d=8047 All the best, Rory -- 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] Ntrepid Corp
Hi, I know that they were involved in creating social media persona management software for US Intel. Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/personamanagementcontract.pdf All the best, -Rory -- 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] "Trends in intelligence gathering by governments" - Seeking Peer Reviewers
Hi everyone, As some of you might know, the team at Security First is doing some work to breach the gap with some sectors that could benefit from the knowledge of the LiberationTech community and others. In particular, the humanitarian aid space is only now really starting to increase it's use of technology (in comparison to the human rights world) and by extension, starting to think about the problems of digital security. There is currently a report (Communications technology and humanitarian delivery: challenges and opportunities for security risk management) coming out which deals with this topic (by the European Interagency Security Forum - www.eisf.eu) and it will be read by many people in that sector who have never dealt with this sort of thing. We have been asked to write a relatively short (only 2500 words allowed) paper for the report entitled "Trends in intelligence gathering by governments." Our idea is try and introduce some strategic concepts and mitigation measures then direct the reader towards more detailed sources (all the various organisations and tools in this community etc.). I was wondering if anyone has a spare hour next week to offer some community peer review on what we are writing and generally provide some constructive criticism? We will of course be happy to mention you in the report (only if your happy with that of course). Have a great weekend everyone! Rory -- 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] Covert Surveillance Report
Hi everyone, Thought I might pass this along. It's a report by an Irish judge about electronic and (some) physical surveillance against the Garda (Police) Ombudsman in Ireland. It's been quite a controversial story but for those of us doing training/work with HRD groups who have had similar risks - it's quite interesting. http://www.merrionstreet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GSOC-Report-Final-REDACTED.pdf All the best, Rory -- 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] TrueCrypt Alternatives?
Hi everyone, While the jury is still out on how this TrueCrypt issue plays out. With TC such a big part of the furniture in LibTech community practises, lessons, manuals, advice, etc., the question I'm sure a lot of us are thinking is: What are the best alternatives to TrueCrypt for the people we work with and train? Is there anything that comes close in terms of open source, cross platform etc? (Pity about the TC license issues as it would be great to see people in the community who might want to fork it and carry it on.) All the best, Rory -- 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] The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye
Hi everyone, I thought this might be an interesting article to pass along. It is unfortunately from the point of view of preventing someone like Snowden but clearly it has relevance to those of us working on preventing hostile things occurring to NGOs - esp at the tricky system administrator level. "The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye" http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2612261 Have a great weekend, -Rory -- 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] ISC Next Week and call for Papers: Communications technology and humanitarian delivery: challenges and opportunities for security risk management
Hi everyone, Just two things. Firstly, who is going to be at the ISC Project Workshop in D.C next week? I am going to be there and will be talking a bit about what we are doing at Security First, so it would be great to grab a coffee / beer etc! Secondly, we've been doing some work with humanitarian aid agencies in relation to security and many are just beginning to start thinking about issues of ICT. Some are starting to see many of the problems that the LiberationTech/Human Rights field has been dealing with for a while. They asked me to circulate this: The European Inter Agency Security Forum (EISF) is pleased to announce a new publication presenting discussion papers which will look at how communications technology is creating new security risk management challenges and opportunities for agencies working in humanitarian response. The publication will present information on current technologies and their use in security risk management; explore the impact on security of both humanitarian actors and affected communities; analyse the ways in which technologies are influencing how humanitarians operate and their security; and generate debate on how communications technology can contribute to risk management. EISF is therefore seeking abstracts for short papers to be included in the final publication that explores this field. Case studies and proposals based on current field research or experience are encouraged. All accepted papers will be published collectively in a single report to be publicly launched by EISF in September 2014. Please note the deadline for abstract submission is May 22nd. More information here: http://www.eisf.eu/alerts/item.asp?n=19240 All the best, Rory -- 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] EISF Report - NGO Safety and Security Training Project: How to Create Effective Security Training for NGOs
Meant to say ISC Conference in May, not March obviously! :) Regards, Rory www.secfirst.org -- 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] EISF Report - NGO Safety and Security Training Project: How to Create Effective Security Training for NGOs
Hi everyone, I know it might be a little bit more focused on the aid worker sector in comparison to most of the stuff on here, but I just wanted to point out a very good report which has just been launched by the European Inter-Agency Security Forum (EISF): "NGO Safety and Security Training Project: How to Create Effective Security Training for NGOs" http://www.eisf.eu/alerts/item.asp?n=19190 I think there is a lot which will be relevant to those of us who do physical security training. I know that at Security First we are trying to bridge a few gaps and embrace some positive overlaps with the aid sector as much as possible. Also, I hopefully will be in D.C for the ISC Conference in March - so it will be great to see anyone on the LibTech list who is also there for a coffee or beer. Many regards, Rory www.secfirst.org -- 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] LiberationTech Project UI/UX Lessons?
Hi everyone, With UI/UX being a major part of everyone's Liberation Tech projects in recent times, we are looking for resources so that we can learn from other experiences as we build Umbrella App. I am currently doing a search for as many of these (studies, papers, specific detailed discussion threads, collected feedback) in our community as possible. So far I've found the UI/UX studies for TOR and some of Github stuff for Panic Button but if anyone else has useful resources that you could send/share - that would be great. If we come across enough shareable stuff we will make an effort to put it in one place for others in future. Thanks everyone, Rory www.secfirst.org -- 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] Who is taking part in #Hack4Good 0.5?
Hi everyone, Just wondering who on the list is taking part in #Hack4good this weekend? Some of the Security First team in London are going to be taking part and it would be great to meet anyone on the LiberationTech list who is gonna be there / have a chat on Skype for those online :) If your interested in contributing some code over the weekend, our project team page on Geeklist is here: https://geekli.st/hackathon/52c49d837689332d5f19/project/52ea5534b3b6fb4d00b1c51e All the best! -SF -- 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] RightsCon Satelite Events
Hi everyone, We are looking forward to hopefully seeing a lot of you at RightsCon in March - where we also will be doing a 5 minute glimpse of the alpha version of our Security First App. I was just wondering, does anyone have a list of the satellite events which will be going on around the time of RightsCon? I have already signed up for the UI event on the 1st and 2nd but what other ones are planned? All the best, Rory -- 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] Report accuses BT of supplying backdoors for GCHQ and NSA
http://www.csoonline.com/article/744697/report-accuses-bt-of-supplying-backdoors-for-gchq-and-nsa?page=1 -- 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] London CryptoParty / Survey on the security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists
Big thanks for everyone who participated in our survey on the physical security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists. If you haven't yet then please do at the link below (and share it with people most at risk on the ground) before the end of the weekend as we intend to close it on Sunday. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRATeUm2hmzIBBYAg8LtMxcx6W6X4Fl1iYF-Lqe0FiM/viewform Many thanks and hope to see some of you at the London CryptoParty this Sat! If anyone on the list wants to grab coffee on Sat, let me know. Many thanks, Security First. www.secfirst.org -- Hi LiberationTech, We're a small group of human rights defenders based in the UK (we will give a more formal announcement soon!) doing some work to develop mobile tools for the physical security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists. It would be a great help to us while we are still in the early development phase if we could get some feedback from the group about some of the physical security problems they face - to help us prioritise our development work. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRATeUm2hmzIBBYAg8LtMxcx6W6X4Fl1iYF-Lqe0FiM/viewform Also, if there are people in London interested in grabbing a coffee then please do drop us a mail! Many thanks, Security First. www.secfirst.org -- 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] Survey on the security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists Brian Conley
Hi Brian, Very valid questions. We intend to focus mainly on the physical security aspect of things and thus avoid unnecessary overlap with the tools already available. We will cover this and our background questions etc, in a more formal announcement at a later stage - when we are ready to push out further in the next few months (sorry just trying to focus on getting the the initial product at the moment!). I'm very happy to chat offline though with whomever wants to - I'll drop you a mail directly. Many regards, Security First. --- Hi Security First, I see from your survey your familiar with a variety of mobile tools. How will your work be different? What qualifies you to provide this kind of information? Also I hope your tools will be open source. I'd very much be interested in speaking further, and seeing how we might collaborate, as this is a field I work a lot in. Regards 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] Survey on the security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists
Hi LiberationTech, We're a small group of human rights defenders based in the UK (we will give a more formal announcement soon!) doing some work to develop mobile tools for the physical security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists. It would be a great help to us while we are still in the early development phase if we could get some feedback from the group about some of the physical security problems they face - to help us prioritise our development work. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRATeUm2hmzIBBYAg8LtMxcx6W6X4Fl1iYF-Lqe0FiM/viewform Also, if there are people in London interested in grabbing a coffee then please do drop us a mail! Many thanks, Security First. www.secfirst.org -- 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.
