Re: [liberationtech] Why Skype (real-time) is losing out to WeChat (async)

2012-12-25 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 12/24/2012 05:10 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > I think that the reason is simple and obvious: society shifts to > preferring more impersonal communication. Same reason that teenagers > prefer texting to talking on phone, and hanging out to dating. >From what I can tell, it is the exact opposite.

Re: [liberationtech] Why Skype (real-time) is losing out to WeChat (async)

2012-12-25 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 12/26/2012 12:34 PM, Eric S Johnson wrote: > Nathan, you've doubtless seen this article. What do your Tibetan friends say > about this? It is a great article, and such a short, fascinating study into the mindset of an activist under clear, demonstrable state surveillance. I think the point abou

Re: [liberationtech] Why Skype (real-time) is losing out to WeChat (async)

2012-12-25 Thread Eric S Johnson
> in India with the Tibetan community there, I have seen Skype, on mobiles > at least, almost thoroughly replaced by WeChat, a WhatsApp/Kakao clone > made by TenCent, the same Chinese company who created QQ. To my personal > horror, we have gone from a somewhat secure Skype with a questionable > ba

[liberationtech] Draft checklist for choosing tools

2012-12-25 Thread bobalice
Getting someone who gets their security advice from Forbes to evaluate and select tools for secure private communications is probably non-trivial, but worthwhile. This is, hopefully, the start of a practical general checklist. Comments and suggestions would be appreciated. Happy holidays! It may

Re: [liberationtech] Mac OS/X to reject RST and DoS

2012-12-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
pacificboy writes: > Does anyone know of any Mac OS/X software programs that would stop RST and > DoS that are injected in the internet in places like China and its GFW? You could make a firewall ignore some RSTs, but assuming the ISP injects resets in both directions, the RST that the ISP sends

[liberationtech] Mac OS/X to reject RST and DoS

2012-12-25 Thread pacificboy
Does anyone know of any Mac OS/X software programs that would stop RST and DoS that are injected in the internet in places like China and its GFW? Sent from my iPhone -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech