Re: [liberationtech] Images of Blocking in Different Countries?

2012-08-13 Thread Mahdi Yousefi
look at Iranian one. It is very interesting: (you redirect to this page when you try to reach a filtered website: http://peyvandha.ir/ [1]) try to translate the page. It is a kind of user-friendly filtering :) MAHDI YOUSEFI PhD Candidate University of Tehran Department of Communication

[liberationtech] What I've learned while preparing a mobile security curriculum

2012-08-13 Thread Brian Conley
Hi all, As promised, I've written up a post noting some of what I've learned over the last few weeks, as I've been reviewing a variety of digital safety security guides and handouts while producing a new security curriculum for the mobile multimedia reporting app Small World News is developing

Re: [liberationtech] What I've learned from Cryptocat

2012-08-13 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: The average user (a very stupid, dumb user but with very strong political commitment in freedom fighting) will always trust the website / operator. We CANNOT FIX that problem in any technical/cryptographic

Re: [liberationtech] What I've learned from Cryptocat

2012-08-13 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 8/13/12 6:53 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: For example, it wouldn't be hard to educate people to only install software on their secure systems via a downloading tool that verifies (cryptographically) that the software which is being installed has been independently peer reviewed by multiple

Re: [liberationtech] Images of Blocking in Different Countries?

2012-08-13 Thread Philipp Winter
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:14:48PM -0700, Adam Fisk wrote: My understanding is that China just shows a blank page. Is that correct? That depends on the type of filtering. The keyword filtering infrastructure forcefully terminates connections and depending on the browser you will get an error

[liberationtech] Survey response

2012-08-13 Thread David Majlak
Would you like to make the Liberationtech archives *public* or *private? I would say public. A google search here and there from the odd person in the future might find the information useful. If one thinks a mailing list contains any semblance of privacy, a google search of entrapment by police

Re: [liberationtech] Images of Blocking in Different Countries?

2012-08-13 Thread Marietta Le
Now that you mentioned Baidu and someone said 'user-friendly filtering' I remembered that on IE at my workplace (BJ, China) I often end up on a Baidu search page when trying to open google.hu. Of course the first search result is always google.hu which then fails to open... Best, Marietta On 14