[liberationtech] Estonia President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at Stanford CDDRL - May 23, 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Kathleen Barcos kbar...@stanford.edu Evolving into a Genuinely Digital Society *CDDRL Special Event* *Date and Time* May 23, 2014 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Open to the public RSVP by May 19 to *liisi.eg...@stanford.edu liisi.eg...@stanford.edu* Speaker *President Toomas Hendrik Ilves*

Re: [liberationtech] Auditing of Auto-Update of software commonly used by Human Rights Defenders

2014-05-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 5/18/14, 6:24 PM, Rich Kulawiec ha scritto: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 07:36:07AM +0200, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: i think that would be very important to organize a project to Audit the functionalities of Auto-Update of software commonly used by human rights defenders. Yes, but I'll go

[liberationtech] Information about US tech-related foreign aid?

2014-05-19 Thread Zak Whittington
I am interested in studying what current initiatives the US federal government has regarding technology-related foreign aid. I imagine the US government provided either hardware or technical training to dissidents in some of the recent uprisings in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world, but

[liberationtech] W3C WebCrypto Last Call for Comments *today*

2014-05-19 Thread Harry Halpin
The Web Cryptography Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Web Cryptography API: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-WebCryptoAPI-20140325/ This JavaScript API performs basic cryptographic operations in web applications, such as hashing, signature generation and verification, and

Re: [liberationtech] Information about US tech-related foreign aid?

2014-05-19 Thread Terry Winograd
Zak, the person who is best qualified to talk to you about this here is Larry Diamond. I know there have been USAID programs and others, but don't know the details. --t On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Zak Whittington zakwh...@stanford.eduwrote: I am interested in studying what current

Re: [liberationtech] Auditing of Auto-Update of software commonly used by Human Rights Defenders

2014-05-19 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: But you should not just ask people to switch to a more secure software, but also understand what software do they use, working towards to secure what they are using today . If you really want secure