Re: [liberationtech] Stanford Liberationtech Needs Your Help

On 06/14/2018 03:13 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > Here are LT's major needs: > >- Recruit people to develop a new website, logo, and graphics. Ping me off line to chat about how I can help. >- Identify a legal jurisdiction with strong security and privacy laws >and regulations and a

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Now Anyone Can Create Their Own Personalized Alexa Skill in Just Minutes

(Dropping mailinglists other than LibTech...) On 04/19/2018 09:22 AM, Phil Shapiro wrote: > I do not own an Alexa device and am wary of privacy issues in > general. If /you're/ wary of privacy issues, then why encourage others to use it? > At the same time, I think there are ways of using this

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 10:53 AM, Cristina wrote: > On 28/01/18 12:10, Thomas Delrue wrote: >> On 01/28/2018 08:07 AM, Cristina wrote: >>> I agree on most people is using FB, Telegram, WA, and Google products >>> to interact and search for information. I agree on Thomas' >>

Re: [liberationtech] Tool so people might stop doing crazy things with their bitcoins (and stop being robbed)

On 01/28/2018 06:22 AM, Aymeric Vitte wrote: > People don't estimate the effort to do such tool, which is not > trivial at all given the over complexification of bitcoin stuff, and > are trying to cheat modifying the code to remove the fees (which is a > bit crazy for such a module and could just

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 08:07 AM, Cristina wrote: > I agree on most people is using FB, Telegram, WA, and Google products > to interact and search for information. I agree on Thomas' > observations, but in the middle we have a problem: the vacuum has to > be filled... with education? with what? We do have

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

like Facebook continue to exist. Sure, we need/could use some new technology to help us with this, but that's not what we truly need, we need education first! P.S.: Consider bottom-posting instead of top-posting, you'll leave more friends in your wake that way... :) > On Jan 28, 201

Re: [liberationtech] Revealed: Seven years later, how Facebook shuts down free speech in Egypt | Middle East Eye

On 01/28/2018 01:05 AM, aryt alasti wrote: > I didn't realize to what extent activists in the Middle East are relying on > Facebook. > > http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/how-facebook-bans-free-speech-egypt-activist-social-media-april-6th-mubarak-1685366161 There are many parallels to be drawn

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [ PFIR ] Idiots on Canadian Supreme Court demand right of GLOBAL Google censorship!

Do you wanna know something? They'll get their way as well. All under the guise of "terrorism" or "protect the children" or whatever the acute and current threat is. If they don't get their way by themselves, then they'll band together with some other countries to strong-arm whatever company into

Re: [liberationtech] Setting Up a Honeypot

On May 16, 2017 7:47:45 PM EDT, Rod wrote: >Does anyone know of a "how to guide" or best practices for collecting a >representative sample of spam emails through a honeypot? You create an @yahoo.com e-mail address and just wait a bit. -- Thomas (Sent from my mobile

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook: Building Global Community - What's your response to Mark Zuckerberg?

On 02/19/2017 02:36 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > Maybe we need to build another Diaspora and this time build it right: > open-source, best encryption, Napster-like one-to-one capabilities, > hosting of data in servers in privacy-friendly regimes, ability to > connect to the large social networking

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook: Building Global Community - What's your response to Mark Zuckerberg?

On 02/19/2017 01:46 PM, Al Billings wrote: > Someone remind me again what the alternatives are to Facebook that > are actually easy to use for "normal" users and which they will be > able to quickly sign up and use... Oh, and before I forget, why the need to "sign up"? Why is that a requirement?

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook: Building Global Community - What's your response to Mark Zuckerberg?

thout an intermediary. You wanted to advertise something more >> broadly on Facebook or Twitter? You could do that too. Unfortunately, >> Diaspora never moved away from its pod focus to build a better HootSuite. >> >> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Cristina [efecto99] <efe

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages]

On 01/14/2017 08:17 AM, FL wrote: > I'm not sure that every American company, by law, must implement a backdoor, > as you imply. The last time I checked, iMessage was a very secure platform > with no known vulnerabilities — which in fact has made Apple struggle with US > agencies more than a

Re: [liberationtech] Isaacson: The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here's how I'd fix it.

On 12/15/2016 11:14 AM, Steven Clift wrote: > By Walter Isaacson CEO at Aspen Institute > > My big idea is that we have to fix the internet. After forty years, > it has begun to corrode, both itself and us. It is still a marvelous > and miraculous invention, but now there are bugs in the

Re: [liberationtech] E-Voting

On 12/10/2016 04:39 AM, Zacharia Gichiriri wrote: > Hi All, Hiya, I'll start off with my POV on e-voting: e-voting, whether this is Estonia-type to vote from home (which is what I think this thread is really talking about) or USA-type where you use a computer in the voting booth, is a dumb idea!

Re: [liberationtech] Ethiopia State of Emergency Directive: English Translation

On 10/17/2016 04:09 AM, Mose Karanja wrote: > any writing done in secrecy Don't visit them https sites anymore, folks, it'll get you on The List! After all, if we outlaw maths, only outlaws will have maths...and outlaws aren't people. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on

Re: [liberationtech] Muslims do not feel safe any more

On 07/05/2016 10:45 PM, Cristina [efecto99] wrote: >>> I support the right of the left and right wing to discuss their ideas, but >>> when it comes to bismerching and dehumanizing a group in society - whether >>> it's men "it's the patriachy" or "all Muslims" for evil, allowing it hurts >>> the

Re: [liberationtech] Question about Windows 10

TL;DR: Debian, Arch Linux, Linux Mint, etc are perfectly capable alternatives, and that likely includes your "list of windows applications you need to run". On 06/24/2016 01:31 AM, Peter Chin wrote: > I need some advice about upgrading to Windows 10. My laptop is > running Windows 8 and I need

Re: [liberationtech] Muslims do not feel safe any more

On 06/15/2016 12:44 PM, Maria Al-Masani wrote: > Should genocide propaganda violate terms of use of social media and not be > free-speech. Genocide propaganda is half truths, false, incendiary > emotional information meant to incite murder and violence. I think that's a question for the lawyers

Re: [liberationtech] If iPhones should have strong encryption, then the Web should not include DRM

On 15/23/3127 13:15 PM, Zak Rogoff wrote: > Hey all, I'm trying to link these two issues and wrote this post on > my personal blog. I was wondering what people thought about the > arguments, as I know some of you have considerably more expertise on > encryption than myself. > >

Re: [liberationtech] Securing Email Communications from Facebook offering PGP support

On 06/01/2015 01:46 PM, Steve Weis wrote: Hi Libtech. Facebook added support to put a PGP public key to your profile and optionally use it to encrypt email notifications that are sent to you:

Re: [liberationtech] Securing Email Communications from Facebook offering PGP support

On 06/01/2015 06:09 PM, Parker Higgins wrote: On 06/01/2015 12:35 PM, Thomas Delrue wrote: On 06/01/2015 01:46 PM, Steve Weis wrote: Hi Libtech. Facebook added support to put a PGP public key to your profile and optionally use it to encrypt email notifications that are sent to you: https

Re: [liberationtech] The only way to fight censorship is

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (long time lurker, first time poster) On 01/12/2015 12:04 PM, Richard Brooks wrote: sarcasmWe can only defend freedom by killing it.\sarcasm Next time someone says that liberty or freedom is priceless, please point out that it isn't priceless at