Re: [liberationtech] Syrian-martyrs.com website probably compromised by virus

2013-01-30 Thread hadi
Many thanks for posting. I'll spread this to my Syrian friends just to be aware of this. All the best, Hadi On 01/29/2013 11:05 PM, KheOps wrote: Dear Libtech, We just saw that the website : http://www.syrian-martyrs.com is probably compromised. Every page of the website contains an iFrame

Re: [liberationtech] Fork the Law

2013-01-30 Thread Aaron Greenspan
Hi Nadim, I think Fork the Law looks great and I agree with the concept wholeheartedly. To the extent it overlaps with PlainSite (http://www.plainsite.org/issues/index.html?id=4 for example) I wonder if there's some way to combine efforts? I've admittedly been neglecting the Issues page on

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
x z: This is a great piece Martin! Thanks for the thorough analysis, explanation and documentation. I have two comments: 1. It is a bit sad that the petition People who help internet censorship, builders of Great Firewall in China for example, should be denied entry to the

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Martin Johnson
I agree that the petition itself is controversial. The proposal is unlikely to be realized. Gathering a lot of signatures will help bring attention to the problem though. I would encourage people to sign it for that reason. Martin Johnson Founder https://GreatFire.org - Monitoring Online

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread danimoth
On 30/01/13 at 06:06pm, Martin Johnson wrote: I agree that the petition itself is controversial. The proposal is unlikely to be realized. Gathering a lot of signatures will help bring attention to the problem though. I would encourage people to sign it for that reason. Regarding that,

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread pacificboy
Most netizen knows about the GFW, just most do not care, provided the governments give chinese users a chinese type sofware or webpage like renren a chinese facebook that is used in china or QQ instead of MSN or baidu then Google. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:17 PM, danimoth

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Martin Johnson
I'd say the majority of Chinese Internet users are aware that there is some level of censorship online. Only a small minority are aware of the full extent of censorship though (blocking of websites, search restrictions on Chinese websites, removal of content on Chinese websites, monitoring of

Re: [liberationtech] Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org - From: Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:05:00 -0800 To: NANOG na...@nanog.org Subject: Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth Organization: United Federation of Planets In a message written on Tue, Jan 29,

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Eric S Johnson
He didn't know anything about censorship, nor about the great firewall. I would second Martin. I'd estimate that 50% of China's 500M+ netizens don't know about the GFW half the rest (25%) don't care half the rest care, but aren't sure what they're missing. The remaining

Re: [liberationtech] Syrian-martyrs.com website probably compromised by virus

2013-01-30 Thread KheOps
Hello, I wrote a first summary on the case, I will try to keep it up to date with new data, https://words.ceops.eu/posts/Infected%20Syrian%20opposition%20website%20spreads%20malware%20to%20its%20visitors/ ALl the best, KheOps Le 30/01/2013 00:00, SiNA Rabbani a écrit : Hi! I sent the

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread pacificboy
You may be correct, and if this is so, and we do not account for chinese who lives abroad for many years before coming back to China or those who live in Hong Kong which is not subject to the GFW. Then a problem may occur, a problem how they see the world on issue that would affect globally. I

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
My question: How come the certificate was invalid? Certainly the Chinese government knows how to break into a CA and forge valid certificates? NK On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:58 AM, pacificboy pacific...@gmail.com wrote: You may be correct, and if this is so, and we do not account for chinese

Re: [liberationtech] Syrian-martyrs.com website probably compromised by virus - UPDATE

2013-01-30 Thread SiNA Rabbani
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear List, Here is more details with credit to: Team Cymru: http://www.team-cymru.org/ CC nodes for this version: melaniibaby.no-ip.biz 173.0.10.52 ghostsx.8866.org 192.168.11.1 (so not likely to connect) awrasx10.no-ip.biz 95.170.198.155

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread x z
@Nadim, I think breaking in a CA is a rather serious crime that GFW would refrain from committing; but simply f**king with Chinese users are now partially deemed as acceptable somewhat. @Jacob, for the specific goal of the petition, i.e. denying entry, I have the same opinion as yours, i.e., it's

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 13:15 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 09:55 -0800, x z wrote: @Nadim, I think breaking in a CA is a rather serious crime that GFW would refrain from committing; Unlike, say, breaking into the Tibetan government-in-exile, Google and hundreds of other

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Bert Arroyo
ALCON: Again my email was lost, as I mentioned on my email that was lost, if we do not care about the 22 percent of the world's population freedom and rights and see that they may not know, then we should care about the Chinese government stopping other people's freedom and rights, just because

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 23:30 -0800, x z wrote: 2013/1/30 Matt Mackall m...@selenic.com On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 13:15 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 09:55 -0800, x z wrote: @Nadim, I think breaking in a CA is a rather serious crime that GFW would refrain from