Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-01 Thread x z
2013/7/1 Glassman, Michael glassman...@osu.edu Shorter Morozov We should not try to understand too much what we don't yet understand because it may not actually lead to understanding because not everything you try and understand does actually lead to some new type of understanding, in

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

2013-06-10 Thread x z
I argue that direct access or not is is substantive, not semantic. We have the following two versions of the story: *A: The Guardian story alleges that NSA has direct access to user data from major internet firms, and these firms are willingly cooperating with NSA for the capability of en masse

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

2013-06-08 Thread x z
2013/6/8 Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net Oh man, Glenn Greenwald is my hero and a hero to us all. Do you still believe Glenn's reporting that NSA has direct access to servers of firms including Google, Apple and Facebook? In my view, he misled the world intentionally (the few prism

Re: [liberationtech] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret ppt reveals

2013-06-07 Thread x z
Hi all, I have the same feeling with Raven's. It appears that the PRISM program does exist, and that amateurish Power Point training material is real (so I take back my ploy or prank remark). However, none of this proves Guardian's headline claim NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine

Re: [liberationtech] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret ppt reveals

2013-06-06 Thread x z
wrote: Where did you get the $20m budget number from? I can't find it in any of the stories or attached materials. But I could be missing something. On 6 June 2013 16:14, x z xhzh...@gmail.com wrote: doesn't seem real to me. especially the part *direct access to servers * of firms

Re: [liberationtech] P=NP ?

2013-05-29 Thread x z
I didn't read the paper but I did some research about the author Xinwen Jiang. Jiang is actually a professor in NUDT (National University of Defense Technology, a pretty scary one) in China. I found a blog of his ( http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1423845304, it's in Chinese, one can use Google Translate

Re: [liberationtech] Collateral Freedom in China

2013-05-02 Thread x z
Excellent study! This reminds me a recent libtech thread about GoAgent ( https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-April/008175.html ). 2013/5/2 Harlan Yu harla...@cs.princeton.edu Hi LibTech, OpenITP has just released a new report—Collateral Freedom—that studies the state

Re: [liberationtech] GoAgent proxy

2013-04-16 Thread x z
Hi Wojtek, GoAgent is a GAE (Google AppEngine) based proxy. I don't have first-hand experience with GoAgent, but I know it's used by many of my Google+ friends in China. It has reputation of being reliable and fast. There is a Wikipedia page for GoAgent, but it's in Chinese. See

Re: [liberationtech] Chinas Internet?

2013-02-20 Thread x z
I agree with most of Martin's statements. China's internet is practically separated from the world's internet already. On this front, the Chinese authority has won the battle. 2013/2/20 Martin Johnson greatf...@greatfire.org The majority of Internet users in Mainland China spend 100% of their

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread x z
@Nadim, I think breaking in a CA is a rather serious crime that GFW would refrain from committing; but simply f**king with Chinese users are now partially deemed as acceptable somewhat. @Jacob, for the specific goal of the petition, i.e. denying entry, I have the same opinion as yours, i.e., it's

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open letter translation

2013-01-24 Thread x z
Hi Percy! I actually did a Chinese translation and put it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kqo47jbMIZIcqjA9JuWGgSVzV_M_GQYGIa9Jewwsm68/edit (I posted the text on my Google+ page http://goo.gl/IZLwQ and Sina Weibo.) We can definitely collaborate on improving the translation! Best,

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-16 Thread x z
This is very well written!! One comment - given that the Tom-Skype operations mainly affect just Chinese users, I feel it makes sense to call out China explicitly in that sentence. Best, 2013/1/16 Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc Dear Privacy Advocates and Internet Freedom Activists, I call on