Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear Andrew, This news certainly do not help. http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/24/the-rise-of-tor-based-botnets/ Grateful for your views Best Camino From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 03 September 2013 18:31 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech; bestb...@lists.bestbits.net; i...@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org; governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; p...@lists.links.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:27:19 + camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://bit.ly/16E6sfG It seems your website is blocking access from the very tools you're trying to fund and create. I just tried access via Tor, ipredator vpn, and hotspot shield. All received the following message: Access Denied Your request has been denied for security reason. Perhaps you need a freedom reason to allow access. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- 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] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:13:30 + camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: Dear Andrew, This news certainly do not help. http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/24/the-rise-of-tor-based-botnets/ Grateful for your views Thanks for asking, rather than just assuming poorly written press is accurate. Our blog post says it all, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients They aren't using exit relays, they are only using hidden services. This means that http://ec.europa.eu wouldn't see bot requests coming through tor. I bet even by blocking tor, http://ec.europa.eu still sees endless botnet requests and other attacks. I'd love to see data relating to what http://ec.europa.eu is seeing specifically from tor versus non-tor IP addresses (both ipv4 and ipv6). Something like quantity of attacks from tor vs. non-tor, breakdown of those requested deemed an attack into their specific type of attack, and other basic metrics. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- 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] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Andrew, As said privately, thanks for the blogpost. As some other people in the list has done, to satisfy you curiosity you may always try to file a request against the competent service (not mine) asking for stats, giving explanations or requesting your tool not to be blocked. It would also be useful to have the views of other tool / VPN providers, et al, experiencing similar problems with europa.eu sites. Cheers C. From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 24 September 2013 05:30 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 03:13:30 + camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: Dear Andrew, This news certainly do not help. http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/07/24/the-rise-of-tor-based-botnets/ Grateful for your views Thanks for asking, rather than just assuming poorly written press is accurate. Our blog post says it all, https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients They aren't using exit relays, they are only using hidden services. This means that http://ec.europa.eu wouldn't see bot requests coming through tor. I bet even by blocking tor, http://ec.europa.eu still sees endless botnet requests and other attacks. I'd love to see data relating to what http://ec.europa.eu is seeing specifically from tor versus non-tor IP addresses (both ipv4 and ipv6). Something like quantity of attacks from tor vs. non-tor, breakdown of those requested deemed an attack into their specific type of attack, and other basic metrics. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- 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] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear Andrew, It is not out department in charge of blocking Tor users from accessing content hosted under Europa,eu. Conversations with the DG In charge (DG DIGIT) as most of you know, have been long and unfruitful so far. I am on leave now but at my return I will retake conversations with the officials in charge of the internal EC security to see the chances to lift the ban. Please do not blame us for needing to find freedom reasons to allow access. We do our utmost, but some times one policy officer can´t challenge on her own and in the glimpse of an eye the entire security policy of the big institution we are. I wish you can find other means to access the content, otherwise, you can find the relevant documents attached. As usual, I remain available for clarifications and for a friendly chat, as I would not like to see this becoming into an EC name shame issue due to the Tor restrictions. We also do good work which should not be shaded by this incident, although it is also not my intention to play it down. All the best and I hope the attachments can help. Best regards Ms Camino Manjon From: Andrew Lewman [and...@torproject.is] Sent: 03 September 2013 18:31 To: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Cc: liberationtech; bestb...@lists.bestbits.net; i...@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org; governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; p...@lists.links.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:27:19 + camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://bit.ly/16E6sfG It seems your website is blocking access from the very tools you're trying to fund and create. I just tried access via Tor, ipredator vpn, and hotspot shield. All received the following message: Access Denied Your request has been denied for security reason. Perhaps you need a freedom reason to allow access. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose 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] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear all, And now the full EC link, for all those ones, like our friends in CN for instance, where bitly is blocked http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/smart-2013n004-—-european-capability-situational-awareness Thanks Erik J. for the warning. Seems we do really have a problem with censorship (jokingly said of course) I hope we can also input that to ECSA! All the best Ms Camino Manjon From: MANJON Camino (CNECT) Sent: 03 September 2013 17:27 To: bestb...@lists.bestbits.net; i...@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org; governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu; p...@lists.links.org Subject: Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring Dear colleagues (and some friends in the lists), The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA). If you are interested in this contract, you should submit your tender no later than 26/09/2013. You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://bit.ly/16E6sfG At the initiative of the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), in close cooperation with other European Commission services (DG Development and Cooperation and DG Enterprise) and the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission has put in place the No-Disconnect Strategy.1 The goal of this policy toolkit is to provide on-going support to counter-censorship and surveillance to facilitate the role of activists, political dissidents, bloggers, journalists and citizens living and/or operating in high-risk environments, or elsewhere. This way we make operational our commitment to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms online and support that the No-Disconnect Strategy embraces the wider EU strategy for Human Rights.2 For those who are not yet familiar with the Strategy, its four main strands of activity are: (1) development of technological tools; (2) training/awareness and capacity building; (3) development of methods to provide a global capability for situational awareness; and (4) cooperation with the ICT/Internet industry, EU Member States and third countries, also involved in the protection of online freedom of expression and privacy. The tender European capability for situational awareness (ECSA) is aimed at providing to the European Commission the framework and information necessary to evaluate the creation of a wider European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring, and the underlying system infrastructure required to that end. To achieve this objective, the ICT-PSP Work Programme 2013 will support the development of the ECSA platform with an allocation of approximately EUR 400,000 for the initial phase (conceptualization of the platform according to the conditions seth forth in the tender specifications that you will find in the link above, and the design of a first prototype of the systems infrastructure and interactive map). The idea departed partially from the “OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy Making”, in particular the following two ones: * “Develop capacities to bring publicly available, reliable data into the policy-making process. Publicly available data can increase the quality of all stakeholders’ participation in Internet policy- making as well as governments’ ultimate policy decisions. The collection, validation and public dissemination of objective data to inform Internet policy decisions should be reinforced and used to augment the combined research capacities of governments, other competent authorities and other stakeholders. International comparable metrics will help to quantify the ongoing economic developments and assess the proportionality and effectiveness of any policy solutions created in multi-stakeholder processes. Data gathering should be undertaken so as to avoid administrative burdens and data analysis should be done carefully to enable sound policymaking.” * “Transparency, fair process, and accountability. In order to build public trust in the Internet environment, policy-making processes and substantive policies that ensure transparency, fair process, and accountability should be encouraged. Transparency ensures that Internet users have timely, accessible, and actionable information that is relevant to their rights and interests”. Is in this context in which we realized that a tool enabling evidence-based policy-making and transparency related, in this case, to censorship and surveillance, could also provide situational awareness not only to EU policy and decision makers but also to those affected directly by the
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear Camino On 09/04/13 08:39, camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: It is not out department in charge of blocking Tor users from accessing content hosted under Europa,eu. Conversations with the DG In charge (DG DIGIT) as most of you know, have been long and unfruitful so far. I am on leave now but at my return I will retake conversations with the officials in charge of the internal EC security to see the chances to lift the ban. (If you are in a position to answer), this seems like something EU civil society should get more focussed on: *) Is there an official channel (web page? email?) for individuals to complain about this policy ? (there's only a general email here http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics/contact/index_en.htm and @stephen_quest https://twitter.com/stephen_quest did not answer me) *) does this fall under DIGIT A/B/C (not obvious)? *) has DG DIGIT made any official public statement so far about Tor blocking (apart from this https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/spyblog/2013/02/08/the-great-firewall-of-europe---european-commission-website-blocks-tor-users-just.html)? many thanks Caspar (Tor Board member but not speaking that capacity or representing Tor) -- Liberationtech is a public list whose 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] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Caspar Bowden (lists) li...@casparbowden.net wrote Wed, 04 Sep 2013 10:13:45 +0100: | *) Is there an official channel (web page? email?) for individuals to | complain about this policy ? (there's only a general email here | http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/informatics/contact/index_en.htm and | @stephen_quest https://twitter.com/stephen_quest did not answer me) FWIW, I have an open case since January with the competent Commission service (case id 0697579 / 3796149) regarding this: https://www.dfri.se/wiki/access-europa-eu-complaint/ -- Liberationtech is a public list whose 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] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear all,
Apologies for bombarding you with so many emails, but again, for those of you
having trouble accessing the content of the links because you receive a
response of this like internal commission content, please access from
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/eu-fighting-cybercensorship/
and
http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/131181.pdf
Regards
Camino Manjon
From: MANJON Camino (CNECT)
Sent: 03 September 2013 17:27
To: bestb...@lists.bestbits.net; i...@lists.internetrightsandprinciples.org;
governa...@lists.igcaucus.org; liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu;
p...@lists.links.org
Subject: Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational
Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights
monitoring
Dear colleagues (and some friends in the lists),
The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the
Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational
Awareness” (ECSA). If you are interested in this contract, you should submit
your tender no later than 26/09/2013.
You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender
specifications and model contract) in the following link:
http://bit.ly/16E6sfG
At the initiative of the Directorate General for Communications Networks,
Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), in close cooperation with other European
Commission services (DG Development and Cooperation and DG Enterprise) and the
European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission has put in
place the No-Disconnect
Strategy.1javascript:DanaDeferEval('parent.onLocalLink(\'sdfootnote1sym\',window.frameElement)')
The goal of this policy toolkit is to provide on-going support to
counter-censorship and surveillance to facilitate the role of activists,
political dissidents, bloggers, journalists and citizens living and/or
operating in high-risk environments, or elsewhere. This way we make operational
our commitment to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms online and
support that the No-Disconnect Strategy embraces the wider EU strategy for
Human
Rights.2javascript:DanaDeferEval('parent.onLocalLink(\'sdfootnote2sym\',window.frameElement)')
For those who are not yet familiar with the Strategy, its four main strands of
activity are: (1) development of technological tools; (2) training/awareness
and capacity building; (3) development of methods to provide a global
capability for situational awareness; and (4) cooperation with the ICT/Internet
industry, EU Member States and third countries, also involved in the protection
of online freedom of expression and privacy.
The tender European capability for situational awareness (ECSA) is aimed at
providing to the European Commission the framework and information necessary to
evaluate the creation of a wider European Federation for cyber-censorship and
human rights monitoring, and the underlying system infrastructure required to
that end.
To achieve this objective, the ICT-PSP Work Programme 2013 will support the
development of the ECSA platform with an allocation of approximately EUR
400,000 for the initial phase (conceptualization of the platform according to
the conditions seth forth in the tender specifications that you will find in
the link above, and the design of a first prototype of the systems
infrastructure and interactive map).
The idea departed partially from the “OECD Communiqué on Principles for
Internet Policy Making”, in particular the following two ones:
* “Develop capacities to bring publicly available, reliable data into the
policy-making process. Publicly available data can increase the quality of all
stakeholders’ participation in Internet policy- making as well as governments’
ultimate policy decisions. The collection, validation and public dissemination
of objective data to inform Internet policy decisions should be reinforced and
used to augment the combined research capacities of governments, other
competent authorities and other stakeholders. International comparable metrics
will help to quantify the ongoing economic developments and assess the
proportionality and effectiveness of any policy solutions created in
multi-stakeholder processes. Data gathering should be undertaken so as to avoid
administrative burdens and data analysis should be done carefully to enable
sound policymaking.”
* “Transparency, fair process, and accountability. In order to build public
trust in the Internet environment, policy-making processes and substantive
policies that ensure transparency, fair process, and accountability should be
encouraged. Transparency ensures that Internet users have timely, accessible,
and actionable information that is relevant to their rights and interests”.
Is in this context in which we realized that a tool enabling evidence-based
policy-making and transparency
[liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
Dear colleagues (and some friends in the lists), The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA). If you are interested in this contract, you should submit your tender no later than 26/09/2013. You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://bit.ly/16E6sfG At the initiative of the Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT), in close cooperation with other European Commission services (DG Development and Cooperation and DG Enterprise) and the European External Action Service (EEAS), the European Commission has put in place the No-Disconnect Strategy.1 The goal of this policy toolkit is to provide on-going support to counter-censorship and surveillance to facilitate the role of activists, political dissidents, bloggers, journalists and citizens living and/or operating in high-risk environments, or elsewhere. This way we make operational our commitment to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms online and support that the No-Disconnect Strategy embraces the wider EU strategy for Human Rights.2 For those who are not yet familiar with the Strategy, its four main strands of activity are: (1) development of technological tools; (2) training/awareness and capacity building; (3) development of methods to provide a global capability for situational awareness; and (4) cooperation with the ICT/Internet industry, EU Member States and third countries, also involved in the protection of online freedom of expression and privacy. The tender European capability for situational awareness (ECSA) is aimed at providing to the European Commission the framework and information necessary to evaluate the creation of a wider European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring, and the underlying system infrastructure required to that end. To achieve this objective, the ICT-PSP Work Programme 2013 will support the development of the ECSA platform with an allocation of approximately EUR 400,000 for the initial phase (conceptualization of the platform according to the conditions seth forth in the tender specifications that you will find in the link above, and the design of a first prototype of the systems infrastructure and interactive map). The idea departed partially from the “OECD Communiqué on Principles for Internet Policy Making”, in particular the following two ones: * “Develop capacities to bring publicly available, reliable data into the policy-making process. Publicly available data can increase the quality of all stakeholders’ participation in Internet policy- making as well as governments’ ultimate policy decisions. The collection, validation and public dissemination of objective data to inform Internet policy decisions should be reinforced and used to augment the combined research capacities of governments, other competent authorities and other stakeholders. International comparable metrics will help to quantify the ongoing economic developments and assess the proportionality and effectiveness of any policy solutions created in multi-stakeholder processes. Data gathering should be undertaken so as to avoid administrative burdens and data analysis should be done carefully to enable sound policymaking.” * “Transparency, fair process, and accountability. In order to build public trust in the Internet environment, policy-making processes and substantive policies that ensure transparency, fair process, and accountability should be encouraged. Transparency ensures that Internet users have timely, accessible, and actionable information that is relevant to their rights and interests”. Is in this context in which we realized that a tool enabling evidence-based policy-making and transparency related, in this case, to censorship and surveillance, could also provide situational awareness not only to EU policy and decision makers but also to those affected directly by the aforementioned restrictions, maximizing their empowerment: political dissidents, activists, human rights defenders, bloggers, journalists and several other essential actors in the fight for online (and offline) freedom. Now, shifting the focus of this email to the tender itself, the tasks outlined in the tender specifications (http://bit.ly/16E6sfG) will address, among several other things, the definition of the governance framework and systems infrastructure that should govern and support the operations of the federation of organizations that tenderers will have to propose, taking into account that all sorts of expertise on Internet-event monitoring will be needed. With the view to translate the Internet reality into a “cartography” of cyber-censorship and cyber-surveillance, the federation will be anchored in a
Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:27:19 + camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://bit.ly/16E6sfG It seems your website is blocking access from the very tools you're trying to fund and create. I just tried access via Tor, ipredator vpn, and hotspot shield. All received the following message: Access Denied Your request has been denied for security reason. Perhaps you need a freedom reason to allow access. -- Andrew http://tpo.is/contact pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose 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.
