Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-12-01 Thread dan jones
You may be aware that a previous event called CryptoParty was organized during the OpenITP Tech Summit on 27th November. However, the organizers required people to give their real ID in order to participate, requirement that was considered as not acceptable by a number of people, including

[liberationtech] Feds Monitor Facebook Likes, Infiltrate Skype Chats To Build Terrorism Case

2012-12-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/29/facebook_likes_skype_used_to_build_fbi_case_against_california_terrorism.html Feds Monitor Facebook Likes, Infiltrate Skype Chats To Build Terrorism Case By Ryan Gallagher Posted Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at 4:33 PM ET A like sign at the

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-12-01 Thread Amin Sabeti
For Iran's case, the government can cut off the Internet at any time but the problem at this stage which they have tried to solve it is the bank/military/etc. communication. If the Iranian government wants to cut the Internet, their communication will cut as well and because of it, they want to

Re: [liberationtech] Iranian flagpoles for jamming?

2012-12-01 Thread Amin Sabeti
I think this report will be useful: http://smallmedia.org.uk/sites/default/files/Satellite%20Jamming.pdf Sent from my iPhone On 30 Nov 2012, at 20:05, Joel Harding joel.k.h...@gmail.com wrote: I have some serious doubts if this is even possible. My thoughts are that an antenna strong enough

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-12-01 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:31:25AM +, dan jones wrote: You may be aware that a previous event called CryptoParty was organized during the OpenITP Tech Summit on 27th November. However, the organizers required people to give their real ID in order to participate, requirement that

[liberationtech] Internet back in Syria

2012-12-01 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Secdev detected BGP announcements from Syria as of 7:30 AM Eastern standard time. For our initial monitoring we look at the updates that are broadcast, because dumps of those are available every 15 minutes. However a more complete status is available every two hours, which will provide better

[liberationtech] Syria Re-connects - Secdev Flashnote (v1) 1.12.2012 12:37EST

2012-12-01 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
On December 1st at approximately 14:30 GMT x-apple-data-detectors://1, SecDev's Syria Operations Group monitoring the Syrian Internet witnessed a substantial amount of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route update announcements related to Syrian Internet Protocol (IP) blocks. The announcements were

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-12-01 Thread Burkov Dmitry
are you sure? https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/IR.html On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Amir Rahmati wrote: Nice article. The information about Iran is inaccurate though. Iran only has 2 ASes which are both controlled by the government. They can easily limit or cut internet access at

[liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
This pic has just been posted on twitter. It was picked up by the Secdev Syria Operation Group. It is allegeldy a picture of internet censorship hardware taken inside a telecom hub (exchange) in Damascus, http://twitter.com/AmaraaBaghdad/status/274919986399703040/photo/1 It looks like the

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Bernard Tyers
And reading that article now, I wonder what ever happened to that internal investigation Blue coat were running. I also wonder what happened with that Dubai distributor? Something tells me they're still doing business. Restrictions make no difference in these cases when you have one company

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-12-01 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From memory (anyone knowing the please correct me if I am wrong) but the London Cryptoparty which was held in the Google Campus also required real names for health and safety reasons. This didn't stop people from signing-up with fake e-mail

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Douglas Lucas
If anyone can get the name of the office or location, or specific names of Syrian authorities involved, I might be able to do something with that. Douglas Email/PGP: d...@riseup.net 880B7171. On 12/01/2012 01:36 PM, Bernard Tyers wrote: About the photo: is there any idea where that photo was

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Jillian C. York
Oh, I'm with you - I just wanted to send it along in case there were folks who hadn't heard about it. On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Bernard Tyers ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: And reading that article now, I wonder what ever happened to that internal investigation Blue coat were running. I

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 True - it would be useful for a journalist to make some enquiries as to the outcome of that investigation. My guess would be nothing. It's also interesting that the article says 14 SG9000s made their way to Syria - and there are 8 being used in

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Jillian C. York
Can anyone pull the exif data from the photo? I'm not having any luck, but I'm an amateur. On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Douglas Lucas d...@riseup.net wrote: If anyone can get the name of the office or location, or specific names of Syrian authorities involved, I might be able to do

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
As I wrote in the initial post, this tweet picture *allegedly* shows equipment in Damascus. That needs to be verified. These are, after all, exciting and excitable times :-) Rafal Sent by PsiPhone mobile. Please excuse typos or other oddities. On 2012-12-01, at 3:34 PM, Jillian C. York

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Ryan Gallagher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/12/2012 19:44, Bernard Tyers wrote: I also wonder what happened with that Dubai distributor? Last I heard was that, about a year ago, the US dept of commerce put restrictions on a man called Waseem Jawad who was operating in the UAE under the

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-12-01 Thread Amin Sabeti
Actually, the whole bandwidth comes from one source and then divides amongst ISPs Sent from my iPhone On 1 Dec 2012, at 18:30, Burkov Dmitry dvb...@gmail.com wrote: are you sure? https://www.ripe.net/membership/indices/IR.html On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Amir Rahmati wrote: Nice

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Jillian C. York
Here's the original posting from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=433109386756486set=a.190671704333590.47245.188677754532985type=1 Worth trying that version for EXIF data? The caption reads, roughly: *Damascus | 12-1 | Pictures of a Damascus comm hubs showing the devices used

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-12-01 Thread Amir Rahmati
All of the smaller ASes have to go through ITC to reach outside networks. This also makes the filtering/DPI much easier as it can all happen at the ITC gateway. -- Amir On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Burkov Dmitry dvb...@gmail.com wrote: are you sure?

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Andrew Lewis
There is another photo that is on a Tarasul/STE Facebook fan page that shows the same rack and some of the rest of the data center, that has been around since this summer. As for the rest of the devices, they are hooked up and functioning, just in a different rack. There is a internal network

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Andrew Lewis
Here is a link to the Hauwei diagrams and internal structure of Tarassul. I'll add other stuff as I dig it up. https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B2zVAXgUsk22Mk9NeHNQLVZ3VFU/edit -Andrew On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Lewis m...@andrewlew.is wrote: There is another photo that is on a

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread KheOps
Hi everyone, Le 01/12/2012 20:36, Bernard Tyers a écrit : About the photo: is there any idea where that photo was taken, and what date? Is it possible to get photos of the back of the rack? A similar picture was seen quite a while ago, on what was said to be the official Tarassul (main ISP in

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Andrew Lewis
Both are dead now apparently. On Dec 2, 2012, at 12:30 PM, KheOps khe...@ceops.eu wrote: Hi everyone, Le 01/12/2012 20:36, Bernard Tyers a écrit : About the photo: is there any idea where that photo was taken, and what date? Is it possible to get photos of the back of the rack? A

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread KheOps
Hey, I'm thinking something that could be a total nonsense, but just in case I would like to share my thougths. Le 01/12/2012 19:39, Rafal Rohozinski a écrit : This pic has just been posted on twitter. It was picked up by the Secdev Syria Operation Group. It is allegeldy a picture of internet

[liberationtech] @BaltoSpectator

2012-12-01 Thread Gregory Foster
As @MTarro stated: http://twitter.com/MTarro/status/275097615727726593 Just bizarre to read the @BaltoSpectator swat situation play out on Twitter. Almost like seeing IDF and Hamas tweet attacks. Lots to sort out here, but certainly a few things to talk about. Here's some loosely vetted

Re: [liberationtech] @BaltoSpectator

2012-12-01 Thread Douglas Lucas
I should add that, gauging from @BaltoSpectator's tweets over the last 24 hours or so, his feelings about the detainment or commitment, and/or the act of revealing them, may have precipitated tonight's event. On 12/01/2012 11:49 PM, Douglas Lucas wrote: In the most recent post on his site, dated

[liberationtech] X.25 in Syria?

2012-12-01 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
Hi, I wonder - has anyone been scanning (for) X.25 pads in Syria? Leased lines such as the one in Alexandria stayed up in Egypt during the killswitch flipping; the same was true for X.25. I guess neither of those will rely on IP networks and thus BGP route withdraw won't impact them very much,