[tor-talk] Why the US Government funds circumvention projects (Like Tor)
Hi, I light of the recent discussions regarding governments funding projects like Tor, I thought this article might be of interest. From the article: From: Chris Lindsey To: clind...@garudallc.com Subject:article Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:23:10 -0700 U.S. develops "panic button" for democracy activists (Reuters) - Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their cellphones confiscated by police, they'll be able to hit the "panic button" -- a special app that will both wipe out the phone's address book and emit emergency alerts to other activists. The panic button is one of the new technologies the U.S. State Department is promoting to equip pro-democracy activists in countries ranging from the Middle East to China with the tools to fight back against repressive governments. "We've been trying to keep below the radar on this, because a lot of the people we are working with are operating in very sensitive environments," said Michael Posner, assistant U.S. secretary of state for human rights and labor. Full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/us-rights-usa-technology-idUSTRE7206DH20110325 Take care, Chris -- Christopher A. Lindsey Garuda, LLC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] GSOC Ideas.
> Since it looks like TorStatus is moving to Metrics Sure, torproject should run one as a central looking glass. As well as anyone else who wants to. > become a more lightweight script that can be run on > one's own Tor server(s) to provide information on just > them rather than all servers. That's fine, but the ability to process them all still needs to exist. Also, I could really use a full CSV version with at minimum, fp, country, ip, hostname, bandwidth provisioned, uptime, flags. Selecting those columns does not make it through to the CSV export, and parsing html is a pain. Nor does it allow not showing the (useless) router name. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] Why the US Government funds circumvention projects (Like Tor)
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:32 -0700, "Christopher A. Lindsey" wrote: > Hi, > > I light of the recent discussions regarding governments funding projects > like Tor, I thought this article might be of interest. > > From the article: > From: Chris Lindsey > To: clind...@garudallc.com > Subject:article > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:23:10 -0700 > > > > U.S. develops "panic button" for democracy activists > > (Reuters) - Some day soon, when pro-democracy campaigners have their > cellphones confiscated by police, they'll be able to hit the "panic > button" > -- a special app that will both wipe out the phone's address book and > emit > emergency alerts to other activists. > > The panic button is one of the new technologies the U.S. State > Department is > promoting to equip pro-democracy activists in countries ranging from the > Middle East to China with the tools to fight back against repressive > governments. > > "We've been trying to keep below the radar on this, because a lot of the > people we are working with are operating in very sensitive > environments," > said Michael Posner, assistant U.S. secretary of state for human rights > and > labor. > > Full article: > http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/us-rights-usa-technology-idUSTRE7206DH20110325 > > > Take care, > Chris > > > -- > Christopher A. Lindsey > Garuda, LLC Now at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2527265620110325 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] Why the US Government funds circumvention projects (Like Tor)
wrote: Hi, I light of the recent discussions regarding governments funding projects like Tor, I thought this article might be of interest. U.S. develops "panic button" for democracy activists Full article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/us-rights-usa-technology-idUSTRE7206DH20110325 Now at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2527265620110325 That's great. At the same time many govts allow mobile providers to track users, even by longitude / latitude. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/NY-Times-Realizes-Wireless-Carriers-Track-You-113416 If mobile providers have the technology or are allowed to, so can govts. I sleep better at night just knowing (any) govt has its (& other countries') citizens' best interests at heart. (little sarcasm). A govt's word is as good as gold - they've never lied (from beginning of recorded history), have they? I am a little concerned though, about the US violating the constitution in numerous ways to spy on citizens in numerous ways. (remember the congressional hearings on telephone & internet?) If you want to know what (any) govt's up to, have to go elsewhere & dig deep for news & insight, not depend on info from the govt(s), nightly news or newspapers. Don't ask the fox guarding the hen house how things are. Something is only a conspiracy theory when no facts, evidence (or sometimes even common sense about it) exist. ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] GSOC Ideas.
>> become a more lightweight script that can be run on >> one's own Tor server(s) to provide information on just >> them rather than all servers. > > That's fine, but the ability to process them all still needs to exist. > Also, I could really use a full CSV version with at minimum, > fp, country, ip, hostname, bandwidth provisioned, uptime, flags. > Selecting those columns does not make it through to the CSV export, > and parsing html is a pain. Nor does it allow not showing the (useless) > router name. Exporting to CSV based of of the filters is an easy task. Is there anyone else who would find this useful? If so I'll look into making a PHP script that can do that right now. :) -- Ian Foster www.vorsk.com ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
Re: [tor-talk] GSOC Ideas.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 09:25:02PM -0700, Ian Foster wrote: > >> become a more lightweight script that can be run on > >> one's own Tor server(s) to provide information on just > >> them rather than all servers. > > > > That's fine, but the ability to process them all still needs to exist. > > Also, I could really use a full CSV version with at minimum, > > fp, country, ip, hostname, bandwidth provisioned, uptime, flags. > > Selecting those columns does not make it through to the CSV export, > > and parsing html is a pain. Nor does it allow not showing the (useless) > > router name. > > Exporting to CSV based of of the filters is an easy task. Is there > anyone else who would find this useful? If so I'll look into making a > PHP script that can do that right now. :) The odds of Tor picking a GSoC student to improve TorStatus are non-zero, but low. (To be precise, I wouldn't mentor that project, but I don't know if somebody else would.) The better approach for providing Tor network status information is to extend the metrics website, mostly because the metrics website is maintained whereas the TorStatus website isn't. Kevin Berry, one of our last year's GSoC students who I mentored, started working on a basic network status page here: https://metrics.torproject.org/networkstatus.html The code for the metrics website is here, and yes, it's JSP/servlets: http://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-web.git Please let me know if you have further questions. Best, Karsten ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
