[liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria

2013-05-27 Thread Yosem Companys
From: David Farber d...@farber.net Anyone believe this would actually work? LETTER A Digital ‘Safe Haven’ for Syria Deploying long-distance Wi-Fi technologies along Syria’s borders and in rebel-held areas would enable Syrian citizens and the opposition to communicate freely.

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-27 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Dan, (NB: This information is specific to GSM networks, it is probably 90% valid for CDMA networks, but not WiFi.) The short story is you cannot stop cell phone tracking. Cellular mobile phone networks require location and identity

[liberationtech] Anonymous Group Moderation?

2013-05-27 Thread Bruce Potter at IRF
I have a friend working in a politically volatile environment overseas environment who's interested in taking over a public e-mail group/listserv as a public participation service. The friend is based in the US, but the focus of the listserv is in a country where courts have held group

Re: [liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria

2013-05-27 Thread Eleanor Saitta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2013.05.27 10.57, Yosem Companys wrote: From: *David Farber* d...@farber.net mailto:d...@farber.net Anyone believe this would actually work? LETTER A Digital ?Safe Haven? for Syria Technically? Yes. I and other folks have done the

Re: [liberationtech] Anonymous Group Moderation?

2013-05-27 Thread Steven Clift
Has anyone tried: http://librelist.com I'd also be curious about what settings for custom e-mail list servers have been tried to reducing blocking/risks? (While not being blocked a spammer.) Steve Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter:

Re: [liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria

2013-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewis
Yes technically it's not even that hard, but there are various social and political roadblocks both inside and outside Syria. I still think it can be pulled off, even with the various stumbling blocks. Andrew On May 28, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Eleanor Saitta e...@dymaxion.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria

2013-05-27 Thread leonvanjaarsve...@gmail.com
Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Eleanor Saitta e...@dymaxion.org To: liberationtech liberationt...@mailman.stanford.edu Cc: David Farber d...@farber.net, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 4:09

Re: [liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria

2013-05-27 Thread Gregory Foster
An observation, ymmv. The NYT op-ed is by Chris Finan. He was recently the Director for Cybersecurity Legislation in Obama's White House: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-finan/5/a35/19 http://www.netcaucus.org/biography/christopher-finan.shtml For context, here, Finan analyzes problems

Re: [liberationtech] A Digital Safe Haven for Syria

2013-05-27 Thread Andrew Lewis
Question: is one of the potential unintended consequences of connecting to a Cyber Command network from within Syria the effect of making one's router a part of the battlefield? I think the practical answer is that an unsanctioned, wide scale comm network that is outside their control, will