[liberationtech] "Soft launch" of VOA Radiogram this weekend

From: Dewayne Hendricks VOA Radiogram will "soft launch" this weekend. VOA Radiogram is a Voice of America program experimenting with digital text and images via shortwave broadcasting. Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: -- Too many emails? Unsu

[liberationtech] New book: Digital Disconnect

“A major new work by one of the nation's leading analysts of media.… A hard to put down, meticulously researched must-read.” —Juliet Schor, author of True Wealth Purchase Digital Disconnect “Over the past 20 years, the world has experienced a profound communications revolution delivered by the

[liberationtech] Era of the Digital Mercenaries

> > "Today, 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, we are publishing > two lists. One is a list of five “State Enemies of the Internet,” five > countries whose governments are involved in active, intrusive surveillance > of news providers, resulting in grave violations of freedom of informat

[liberationtech] Free university student government election app to increase voter turnout

Hi LibTech, The EveryVote Facebook app is a free (open source) technology to increase voter turnout in university student government elections by helping students learn about, share their opinion on, and interact with all of their candidates on one convenient page. The app is still a prototyp

[liberationtech] CodeX Fellowship 2013/14

From: Roland Vogl CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (http://codex.stanford.edu) is accepting applications for a Resident Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year. CodeX is a cross-disciplinary research center jointly operated by Stanford Law School and the Stanford School of E

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

fl...@pgm.com writes: >Thanks to Ali-Reza for reposting Dr. Dey's reply. > >If you are looking for lowest-cost short to medium range >communications using ham radio, Android phones are not the answer. You >still need VHF or UHF radio hardware. > >There are at least 20 radio manufacturers in China t

[liberationtech] Bay area opensource mesh wireless meetups

From: Rich Bodo Cc: ja...@cozybit.com If any of you are in the San Francisco bay area, I'm interested in starting an open-source mesh wireless meetup group. I am a member of hacker dojo (hackerdojo.com) so we could meet there. Ping me if you are interested. If there is enough interest we'll g

[liberationtech] CryptoParty in Brussels on 23rd March

Hi everyone, It may already have been announced, but since I'm not sure I prefer making a reminder :) There will be a CryptoParty held in Brussels on the 23rd of March. It will happen in the offices of European Digital Rights (EDRi, http://edri.org). https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/Brussels#Crypto

[liberationtech] 2012 ACM Turing Award Recipients Announced

From: DAVID J. FARBER The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers, Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali, are recipients of the 2012 A.M. Turing Award. Their innovations became the gold standard for enabling secure internet tran

[liberationtech] Update on Humanity United & USAID Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

From: Mia Newman I wanted to follow up on my email from last month about the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention, as we are excited to announce that our second round formally launched last week. Hopefully you received our email blast announcement below, but I also wanted to give you an update

Re: [liberationtech] CfP: USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (DC!)

I've been waiting for this CFP with great excitement and will be submitting for sure! Thanks, Collin. :-) NK On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Collin Anderson wrote: > Colleagues, > > Libtech receives a fair number of call for papers on conferences and > journals every month, however, I wante

[liberationtech] CfP: USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (DC!)

Colleagues, Libtech receives a fair number of call for papers on conferences and journals every month, however, I wanted to direct special attention to the Free and Open Communications on the Internet Workshop at USENIX, being held in Washington, D.C. on August 13 this year. Participating in the f

[liberationtech] You Only Click Twice

Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce the Citizen Lab's latest publication, "You Only Click Twice: FinFisher's Global Proliferation," authored by Marquis-Boire, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and John Scott-Railton. https://citizenlab.org/2013/03/you-only-click-twice-finfishers-global-prolife

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

On 03/13/2013 08:33 AM, Petter Ericson wrote: Kyle: A. This doesn't eliminate phishing because users will still enter their credentials at a site that doesn't actually match the one where the cert was previously signed. Otherwise, existing HTTPS controls would already protect them. Not speak

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

Thanks for bringing up these points. On 03/13/2013 01:53 AM, Steve Weis wrote: At its core of this proposal, sites run their own CAs and users install site-specific client-side certificates. Many organizations have been doing this for years. For example, MIT: http://ist.mit.edu/certificates .

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

Thank you for your concerns, I think I have the issues you mention covered in the 'protocol' On 03/13/2013 12:31 AM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: I appreciate the intention, but I see a lot of problems here. Without doing an exhaustive analysis: A. This doesn't eliminate phishing because users will st

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

Well, given that protocol uses essentially now new tech (apart from the message bit, which to me looks a bit superfluous), it should require relatively little time to implement properly. Furthermore, there are various parts of the protocol that are Good Ideas, independently of the other parts - ha