[liberationtech] Fwd: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Looking for examples of technology-enabled dialogue for peacebuilding

2013-11-25 Thread Steven Clift
-- Forwarded message -- From: "Tim Bonnemann" Date: Nov 25, 2013 3:05 AM Subject: [NCDD-DISCUSSION] Looking for examples of technology-enabled dialogue for peacebuilding To: Cc: Hi, Interesting conference I just found out about: http://www.intellitics.com/blog/2013/11/18/build-

[liberationtech] OTF Open Solicitation for Concept Notes: Jan 1st Deadline

2013-11-25 Thread Dan Meredith
Hello all, Submit now: https://www.opentechfund.org/submit We are excited to share the news that the Open Technology Fund’s ongoing solicitation of concept notes is open and receiving proposals for the next round. We seek to fund disruptive technology projects that advance global Internet freedom

[liberationtech] 2 London events - New Voices via Open Gov Dec 2, Neighbours Online Nov 30

2013-11-25 Thread Steven Clift
Thank you for posting my other two events. Here are two more: http://uknewvoices.eventbrite.com http://ukneighbours.eventbrite.com Slides and more along the way: http://bit.ly/clifteu13 Steven Clift >From Estonia P.S. I was told there is an international Internet Freedom conference here next ye

[liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Dan Meredith
Hello LibTech, The Open Technology Fund is surveying projects working on next generation secure email or email-like communication. The purpose of this survey is to identify potential areas of collaboration, better understand the trade-offs made by the different projects, and to help the internet f

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Robert Guerra
Thanks for sharing the projects being funded. Just out of curiosity, can you disclose the donors/ source of funding of the secure email support initiative. Thanks! Robert On 2013-11-25, at 12:01 PM, Dan Meredith wrote: > Hello LibTech, > > The Open Technology Fund is surveying projects wor

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Dan Meredith
Heya Robert, Apologies if the initial email wasn't clear. The purpose is a survey to map the space. The listed projects are merely projects publicly known to be developing secure email technology. As such, they have been invited to volunteer their time to complete the survey. Our commitment is to

[liberationtech] First Case of Selective / Targeted Online Censorship: Pakistani Government Successfully Blocks Specific Links

2013-11-25 Thread Nighat Dad
Dear Libtech, In a new turn of events today users from across Pakistan faced issue while accessing a particular movie title on imdb.com. While IMDb remains open, the page for movie “The Line of Freedom” remains inaccessible. “The Line of Freedom” is a short baloch film. It should be noted here tha

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread carlo von lynX
First of all thank you for picking up this important topic - it's the kind of outcome out of the PGP criticism I had hoped for. Congratulations on the insight and depth of the questions in the form - looks like a better and more comprehensive survey than my tentative comparison page. :-) The reas

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Seth David Schoen
carlo von lynX writes: > Hm, federation is so commonly expected to be the normality that > any distributed system is filed under "p2p" even if, like Tor, it > runs on thousands of servers, thus rather distant from what "p2p" > was supposed to mean. Tor started as P2P, but I think it isn't > anymor

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:06 PM, carlo von lynX wrote: > I would add liberte' cables (http://dee.su/cables) I did fill out the survey, actually — by request, so no idea why Cables does not appear in the list above. The survey was clearly composed by a domain expert, so props for the effort, and

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Email Survey

2013-11-25 Thread StealthMonger
Dan Meredith writes: > OTF is entirely a publicly funded program. Support is given from the US > Congress in an appropriation bill each year. So it's funded by extortion ("taxation"). That's the kiss of death! stealthmail (see .sig below) certainly qualifies for your criteria, but to accept O

[liberationtech] Twitter: Fake followers, manipulate trending topics..WSJ

2013-11-25 Thread Andrea St
Dear LiberationTech, finally, i'm honored and happy to share my findings with the WSJ. Follow an article about Twitter underground economy on the homepage of the WSJ : http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304607104579212122084821400 best, -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread Tamzen Cannoy
On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: > Personally, I'm not at all confident that we can do something > that provides end-to-end security, can be deployed at full > Internet scale and is compatible with today's email protocols. > But if others are more optimistic then I'm all for '

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] [Cryptography] Email is unsecurable

2013-11-25 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 11/25/13, 11:34 PM, Tamzen Cannoy ha scritto: > I think compatibility is the feature that will have to go. Kill SMTP and move > on. You cannot rewrite ancient protocols that were never intended to be > secure to add security. Go total secure and then allow people to back some of > it out if t

[liberationtech] Recommendations for tools that meet these specs / Collaboration Suite

2013-11-25 Thread Robert Guerra
Dear Libtech colleagues, I'm looking for recommendations for a collaboration suite that fits the following criteria for a colleague: The suite ideally would have 2 key (and logically separate) pieces. - First, an XMPP server that is encrypted/OTR (i.e. real-time chat). That’s easy enough to

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography Leak in Enigmail / GnuPG

2013-11-25 Thread coderman
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > ... > Important to note here is that by default, Enigmail adds the sender to > the recipient list -- which is useful if you want to reread sent mail, > but it also means that any encrypted mail contains not only the > recipient key ID (which a

Re: [liberationtech] Recommendations for tools that meet these specs / Collaboration Suite

2013-11-25 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 11/25/2013 06:03 PM, Robert Guerra wrote: > - Second, however, is a collaborative document repository/authoring space. > This space would necessarily include: While your list of requirements is quite deep, I wonder if EtherPad+OpenPGP would be a possible starting point for this. Otherwise, on

Re: [liberationtech] Recommendations for tools that meet these specs / Collaboration Suite

2013-11-25 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 11/25/2013 08:59 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > On 11/25/2013 06:03 PM, Robert Guerra wrote: >> > - Second, however, is a collaborative document repository/authoring space. >> > This space would necessarily include: > While your list of requirements is quite deep, I wonder if > EtherPad+OpenPG