Re: [liberationtech] Draft checklist for choosing tools

2013-01-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
With such kind of "checklist" it would be nice to create: - an inventory of existing tools with related capabilities - a wizard (even a purely javascript one) that let the user choose and at the end does provide a report It's not a small task, but it maybe wonderful to have a software to choose a

Re: [liberationtech] Egyptian software procurement

2013-01-05 Thread John Adams
43 million is a bit of a joke. No one in the valley could build a fully functional office-like suite for $43M, and have it available to any government in the required time, which is, yesterday. I'm sure people would like that money but seriously, it's barely 1-2 years of startup burn time he

[liberationtech] Egyptian software procurement

2013-01-05 Thread André Rebentisch
Do you have any insights crn this recent report from Tarek Amr; citizen reactions to a software procurement deal of the Egyptian government? http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/28/egypt-the-people-demand-free-and-open-source-software/ Best, André -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change pass

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-05 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Hi Colin, Just about to rest any doubt about this, I meant "clandestine" as a synonym of "in secret". Likewise, by "debriefs" I simply mean having long in-depth discussions with individual designed to accrue as many data points as possible about past events, or circumstances. None of this is parti

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-05 Thread Collin Anderson
> In the case of SORM-II, it also has a very distinct signature which is visible if you are sitting in line with the system... > Our intention with the testing platform is to contribute to the creation of censorship and surveillance Open Data... That's excellent to hear, does SecDev intend to rele

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-05 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Morgan, Thanks for your note. I use the term "interview" euphemistically. Obviously we used a much more sophisticated set of methods including in depth debriefs with former employees, contractors, suppliers as well as other forms of clandestine collection. The point is that we were able to get a v

Re: [liberationtech] Google Hangout the new, better skype? Was Re: Skype redux

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Conley
Thanks Andrew, On Dec 22, 2012 6:53 AM, wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:03:02AM -0800, bri...@smallworldnews.tv wrote 5.5K bytes in 0 lines about: > : So I guess I'd say, who is going to fund a competitor to skype built on > : jitsi? Without a. Convenient easy to use GUI b. Sexy advocates a

Re: [liberationtech] Google Hangout the new, better skype? Was Re: Skype redux

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Conley
On Dec 21, 2012 10:18 AM, "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" wrote: > > On 12/21/12 6:26 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > > > > > > I hear this a lot — that's a 2014 goal if there ever was one. > > I personally can't wait for Cryptocat A/V edition! Nadim, hurry up > > please. :) > WebRTC technology already set

[liberationtech] Becoming convinced google talk/hangout is an acceptable communication tool for many threat models was: Re: Google Hangout the new, better skype? Was Re: Skype redux

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Conley
Apologies for the much delayed response to this thread. Chris, I'm not convinced, if you're not worried about the US or NSA, that someone who is concerned about skype should also be uncomfortable using Google hangout. Hangout on phones is not useful for transmitting files, so a primary vector of s

Re: [liberationtech] Draft checklist for choosing tools

2013-01-05 Thread Brian Conley
Hi Bob, Thanks for this. Can you clarify whether you intend technical or nontechnical people to use it? There is certainly a need for nontechnical people to have access to such a list. However, I don't believe, in your current text, that this checklist will be accessible to nontechnical users. I

[liberationtech] Accepted Workshops in the CISTI'2013 - 8th Iberian Conference on IST

2013-01-05 Thread Maria Lemos
*** CISTI'2013 Accepted Workshops 8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Lisbon, Portugal, June 19 - 23, 2013 http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic

Re: [liberationtech] North Korea Cracks Down "Knowledge Smugglers"

2013-01-05 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, Andreas Bader wrote: > On 01/04/2013 09:56 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > I would like to share this truly fascinating article: > http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/north_korea_cracks_down_on_knowledge_smugglers/ > > From the article: "We must extend the fight against the enemy's > i

Re: [liberationtech] North Korea Cracks Down "Knowledge Smugglers"

2013-01-05 Thread Adrian Hong
There is more nuance to this than the Salon piece allows for. North Koreans today know they are not the richest country, and know a great deal more about the outside world than before. They do not need comparisons to know they are oppressed. LibTech that permits them to organize and communicate w

Re: [liberationtech] North Korea Cracks Down "Knowledge Smugglers"

2013-01-05 Thread Andreas Bader
On 01/04/2013 09:56 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > I would like to share this truly fascinating article: > http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/north_korea_cracks_down_on_knowledge_smugglers/ > > From the article: “We must extend the fight against the enemy’s > ideological and cultural infiltration,” Kim s