[liberationtech] BBC: Tor users may have been unmasked going back 5 months

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28573625?ocid=socialflow_twitter 30 July 2014 Last updated at 16:16 ET Share this pagePrint Tor attack may have unmasked dark net users By Leo Kelion Technology desk editor Eye data graphic The ability to unmask Tor's users would undermine the reason people use

[liberationtech] Russia offers cash to identify Tor users

Here's something a little unexpected...Wonder what people here may htink. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28526021 28 July 2014 Last updated at 08:15 ET Share this pagePrint ShareFacebookTwitter Russia offers $110,000 to crack Tor anonymous network Edward Snowden Tor has been used by the

Re: [liberationtech] Contextual security

This is a very important piece. I just introduced into a thread on Twitter. And this graph by you seem right on point: While by no means the only grounded model for digital security, our contextual security approach attempts to address a gap recognized by researchers and practitioners alike: most

[liberationtech] Rebel radio expert

Hi Libtech colleagues,This is not a job per se, at least not yet. But we are looking for someone with experience operating either analog or digital radio or both under siege conditions. Someone with experience with say B92 in the Balkans, or with threatened or challenged analog or digital radio in

[liberationtech] Hancel: A new tool for journalists in Mexico and beyond

This looks like a great tool. Kudos to Sandra and OpenITP, Knight, Ela Stapley and Diego Mendiburu for making it happen. If anyone here has any thoughts about it please share. Thanks, Frank - http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2014/02/how-technology-could-mean-safer-reporting-for-mexican

[liberationtech] CPJ: Solidarity in the face of surveillance

--and those practices do have their place, wrote CPJ's Frank Smyth in a piece about the importance of press solidarity within nations . But security is really a way of thinking, a way of approaching your work. And fostering professional solidarity is crucial to that approach. We need a culture

[liberationtech] CPJ: Knowing How Law Technology Meet at US borders

/laptopborder.aspx http://www.cpj.org/security/2013/10/knowing-how-law-and-technology-meet-at-us-borders.php Knowing how law and technology meet at U.S. borders By Frank Smyth/CPJ Senior Adviser for Journalist Security Border crossings have long posed a risk for journalists. In many nations, reporters

[liberationtech] Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down

code MPIWK for Interop New York today. Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter: @JournoSecurityWebsite: www.journalistsecurity.net. -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google

Re: [liberationtech] Medill online Digital Safety Guide

. Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter: @JournoSecurityWebsite: www.journalistsecurity.net Original Message Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Medill online Digital Safety Guide From: Rich

[liberationtech] Medill online Digital Safety Guide

encrypted emails and files. Disagree on this or any point, please say so. Thank you, everyone! Best, Frank Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter: @JournoSecurityWebsite: www.journalistsecurity.net -- Too many

Re: [liberationtech] Medill online Digital Safety Guide

Thank you, Tom. I'll try to address all your points. On GPG being German government funded, point was not to sow distrust. But to be accurate and also show that Western governments have played a positive role in funding some Internet Freedom tools, besides just the US. Frank SmythExecutive

[liberationtech] Article 19 Digital Security YouTube video

or another about the video and its content would be helpful as other groups including my organization begin moving in the same direction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4Ior64IEAfeature=youtu.be Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244

Re: [liberationtech] Article 19 Digital Security YouTube video

or another we need to find ways like you and Article 19 are doing to make digital security more accessible. So thank you for beginning the effort. See you in San Jose for the UNESCO conference around WPFD, if you will be there, as I hope you are. Frank Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal

[liberationtech] Cloud encryption

incentive to do so, but they're arguably in a better position in many cases than legislatures or the courts to protect privacy and Fourth Amendment rights. Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter

[liberationtech] CPJ: Attacks on Knight Center sites reflect digital dangers

Appreciate the help on this one from Masashi and others at Citizen Lab and from Eva at EFF. FShttps://www.cpj.org/security/2013/04/attacks-on-knight-center-sites-reflect-digital-dan.phpAttacks on Knight Center sites reflect digital dangersByFrank Smyth/Senior Adviser for Journalist SecurityThe two

[liberationtech] Bloomberg: Spies Fail to Escape Spyware...

Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar for Cyber Arms - Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/spies-fail-to-escape-spyware-in-5-billion-bazaar-for-cyber-arms.html The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala

[liberationtech] Online journalist fatalities, deaths in combat both hit record highs

behind both trends, as Syrian citizen journalists filing to online outlets like Shaam News Network dominated this year's fatalities. http://www.cpj.org/security/2012/12/combat-deaths-high-journalist-risk.php Combat deaths at a high, risks shift for journalists By Frank Smyth/Senior Adviser

[liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

If anyone here has any thoughts about the tools recommended in this Forbes piece, please speak up. The piece gets specific with recommendations form Ashkan Soltani, a technologist who I do not think is on this list, about half way down. Again, any thoughts would be welcome. Thank you! Frank http

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

Appreciate the feedback, guys.We'll check out, MAT.boum.org, Oli. And we'll look at turning off geo-tagging and ObsuraCam app, too, Nathan. Brian and Michael, appreciate your input, too.And Danny, apart from your suggestions on full disk encryption and other points which are well taken, we also

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

their own instincts, as I have heard you say. Thanks! Frank Frank Smyth Executive Director Global Journalist Security fr...@journalistsecurity.net Tel. + 1 202 244 0717 Cell + 1 202 352 1736 Twitter: @JournoSecurity Website: www.journalistsecurity.net PGP Public Key

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

But if you're getting information security advice from a Forbes blog, that will be the least of your worries. Where would you suggest we get information security advice from? Many here are quick to point out what people should not rely upon. But relatively few seem to want to assume the

[liberationtech] NSA security configuration guide for iOS 5 Devices

recommendations also seems very thorough. I would welcome any thoughts at all including whether people think the recommendations are sound. Thanks! Frank http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/applemac/Apple_iOS_5_Guide.pdf Frank Smyth Executive Director Global Journalist Security fr

Re: [liberationtech] NSA security configuration guide for iOS 5 Devices

Document is also on the NSA.gov website and was publicly posted there on May 11, 2012. http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/whats_new/index.shtml Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter: @JournoSecurityWebsite

[liberationtech] NYT: For Syria’s Rebel Movement, Skype Is a Useful and Increasingly Dangerous Tool

This piece from NYT over the weekend should be of interest here, and, unless I missed it, I don't think it's been yet posted. Excerpt: If the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt were Twitter Revolutions, then Syria is becoming the Skype Rebellion. To get around a near-nationwide Internet shutdown,

[liberationtech] Yale Law School Protecting Journalism: Anonymous and Secure Communications

Some here may be interested in this event tomorrow at Yale Law School, which will be live streamed. Line-up is an eclectic mix of technologists and journalists including Ella Saitta, Quinn Norton, John Scott-Railton, Meredith Patterson, Brian Krebs, Nabiha Syed and myself. (A number of whom were

[liberationtech] NPC digital security event video

-club-special-event#.UIrQ63ssKDY.twitter Much of the discussion of tools during the presentations will be familiar to people on this list, of course. The value for you may be in hearing, especially during the Q A, the dialogue involving both technologists and journalists. Frank SmythExecutive

[liberationtech] Cole speaking tomorrow at NPC

:00 p.m. in the Murrow Room. This event is free and open to the public. Working and student journalists are particularly encouraged to come. Panelists are: Website: http://www.press.org/events/journalist... Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfrank@journalistsecurity.netTel

Re: [liberationtech] Online Journalists on the Frontlines

of this information is strictly prohibited. Original Message Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Online Journalists on the Frontlines From: Asher Wolf asherw...@cryptoparty.org Date: Fri, October 12, 2012 8:47 pm To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Hi Frank, Just a thought - would your group

Re: [liberationtech] My CPJ blog: Lessons from the Cryptocat debate

liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu I can't even- Frank sent me this article about 15 minutes ago and I answered with the notion that Cryptocat has been a browser-plugin only app for more than a month, and that his article is just incredibly ignorant and frustrating as a result of it ignoring that. Relevant

Re: [liberationtech] My CPJ blog: Lessons from the Cryptocat debate

Cryptocat, in fact, as a model. Frank Frank Smyth Executive Director Global Journalist Security fr...@journalistsecurity.net mailto:fr...@journalistsecurity.net Tel. + 1 202 244 0717 Cell + 1 202 352 1736 Twitter: @JournoSecurity Website: www.journalistsecurity.net http://www.journalistse

[liberationtech] American Journalism Review on digital security

stro, 39, worked for Primera Hora in Nuevo Laredo and posted comments on her Web site and on Twitter under the name "La Nena de Laredo" - The Girl from Laredo. How the killers tracked her remains a mystery. Was it traditional shoe-leather stalking or did they use electronic surveillan

Re: [liberationtech] What I've learned from Cryptocat

with such tools? I have a great deal of respect for this community. But to be honest it seems to me that neither the technologists nor the donors have spent much time asking such questions. Hi Frank, I'd just like to make an anecdotal point here. A few months ago I spent an interesting afternoon

[liberationtech] Adium w/ Facebook, or Google Talk

I wonder if people here recommend the open source freeware Chat tool Adium?http://adium.im/about/And whether they would recommend using it with Facebook?Or, if not, Google Talk?Thanks! FSFrank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfr...@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell +

Re: [liberationtech] Adium w/ Facebook, or Google Talk

Check that. I am a MAC user, so Google Talk will apparently not work.I am open to suggestions...Thanks!Frank SmythExecutive DirectorGlobal Journalist Securityfr...@journalistsecurity.netTel. + 1 202 244 0717Cell + 1 202 352 1736Twitter: @JournoSecurityWebsite: www.journalistsecurity.netPGP Public

[liberationtech] Arabic-speaking digital safety trainers

We are looking for a few Arabic-speaking digital safety trainers to help teach basic concepts and some tool usage to citizen journalists operating in critical nations. Training will occur remotely using VPNs to reach select users. (Some training in third-party nations may also be possible.)

[liberationtech] Skype Manager Chinese

I just got the message below from a colleauge at NPR who discovered emails from "Skype Manager" in Chinese. I presume she should delete them. Anyone have any thoughts? Thank you. FSSubject: Skype messages in Chinese?Hi, ITSupport--I'm at home, trying to get over a bad cold, so I checked my emails