[liberationtech] First public DNSChain server went online yesterday!

From README.md on GitHub: DNSChain (formerly DNSNMC) makes it possible to be certain that you're communicating with who you want to communicate with, and connecting to the sites that you want to connect to, without anyone secretly listening in on your conversations in between. • DNSChai

[liberationtech] Version 3.1 Complete GFW Rulebook for Wikipedia plus Comprehensive List for Websites, IPs, IMDB and AppStore (shortcut: goo.gl/aVgvO6)

To all, I just published Version 3.1 of my GFW research at http://goo.gl/aVgvO6. And as always, all relevant links and the full lists can be found at goo.gl/zKslcu. tweet link . This is a relatively small update. There are mainly two thin

[liberationtech] Suggested Readings on Consumer Surveillance

From: surveilla...@jiscmail.ac.uk Surveillance and Society: http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/Consumption Pridmore, Jason. 2012. “Consumer Surveillance Context , Perspectives and Concerns in the Personal Information Economy.” In Routledge Handbook of

[liberationtech] GIS data for Gender & International Development

From: Hemant Purohit I am wondering if you could help me find some GIS dataset relating to gender and development, relevant to international development policy applications. Please let me know about any pointers to further dig into. I appreciate your help. Thanks very much, Hemant Purohit Rese

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

On 02/07/2014 01:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, wrote: This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy. This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to no backlash

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

What kind of "webmail" are you talking about? Microsoft Exchange? That would be, like, so unprofessional! On Feb 7, 2014 11:52 AM, wrote: > > I awoke this morning to find this awaiting me behind Stanford's > WebAuth to access Zimbra: > > "WebLogin What is this? > > You are being temporarily block

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

> This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to > no backlash against spyware requirements for exams in most > law-schools. There was backlash at Berkeley (my law school), and the school no longer forces students to install exam software. On 2/7/14, 10:12 AM, Gregory Maxwe

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

In response I have created the following Facebook Group to help gather support for showing the administration that their policies have crossed a line: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nospysu/ Of course I have reservations using Facebook for this (i.e., the public/private surveillance partnership)

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, wrote: > This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on > students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy. This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to no backlash against spyware requirements for exams in mos

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

Transfer to Harvard Medical School, or MIT, or Columbia! :D Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM, wrote: > > I awoke this morning to find this awaiting me behind Stanford's > WebAuth to access Zimbra: > > "We

[liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

I awoke this morning to find this awaiting me behind Stanford's WebAuth to access Zimbra: "WebLogin What is this? You are being temporarily blocked from accessing Stanford systems because one or more of your mobile devices is not compliant with the School of Medicine's Data Security Policy. To r

Re: [liberationtech] Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

I believe it's only open to winners of the tech challenge from last year. On Feb 7, 2014 12:54 AM, "Lina Srivastava" wrote: > > This might be of interest to some on this list. > > Lina > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: *NPCC GGIS* > Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 > Subject:

[liberationtech] Canadian olympian's website blocked in Russia

Notable: http://globalnews.ca/news/1134688/canadian-olympic-bobsledder-justin-kripps-blacklisted-in-sochi/ Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 -- Liberationtech is public & archives

[liberationtech] Unmasking the hardliner webosphere in Iran

​Hi folks, Small Media has published a report about the hardliner webosphere in Iran. The report is the first in-depth research about the hardline on the Persian cyberspace with lots of interesting information. You can read the report here: http://unmaskthearzeshi.com I was one of the senior res

Re: [liberationtech] [sunlightlabs] need advice on using hashes for preserving PII's utility for disambiguation while protecting sensitive info

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/02/14 20:56, Margie Roswell wrote: > For all I know, the lack of implementations using this kind of > one-way transformation isn't about government sluggishness but > rather about its feasibility. I'd be very curious to hear folks > ideas on

Re: [liberationtech] "uVirtus Linux, encrypted OS for Syria": a security review

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:25:31AM +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Sahar Massachi wrote: > > The fact that there's a "naked sudo" hole is brutal. > > > > Forgive me if I misunderstand the problem, but how could *anyone*

Re: [liberationtech] Catch-22: When Government Tells Professors What Not to Teach

A cleared friend lamented this recently. (But long enough ago my memory is a tad hazy.) I believe they told me that they're allowed to read reports _about_ the material (e.g. a summarizing article) but not the content themselves. They wished there was some uncleared, but 'blessed' source from the

Re: [liberationtech] need advice on using hashes for preserving PII's utility for disambiguation while protecting sensitive info

In addition to what the others have said, I'll give a name to some of these techniques. The process of assigning an opaque random identifier to an easily reversed string is 'Tokenization'. I don't work in payment processing - but it's big there. Don't want to have a ton of PCI requirements? Pay

Re: [liberationtech] "uVirtus Linux, encrypted OS for Syria": a security review

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Sahar Massachi wrote: > The fact that there's a "naked sudo" hole is brutal. > > Forgive me if I misunderstand the problem, but how could *anyone* ship a > distribution with a passwordless sudo? That seems like it requires > deliberate malice to even set up. Carefu

[liberationtech] Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

This might be of interest to some on this list. Lina -- Forwarded message -- From: *NPCC GGIS* > Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Subject: Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention To: lina.srivast...@gmail.com [image: NPCC logo]