Re: [liberationtech] Viber is secure?

2012-09-20 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 09/20/2012 08:36 PM, Amin Sabeti wrote: At this time, Viber (http://www.viber.com/) is so popular amongst the Iranian people and it is one of the popular communication ways in Iran. I was wondering to know this app is secure or not? The data is encrypted or not? (I have cc'd Viber's

Re: [liberationtech] Viber is secure?

2012-09-20 Thread Katrin Verclas
Cormac, care to chime in? On Sep 20, 2012 1:53 PM, Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com wrote: Hi Amin, BBG and Freedom House's report 'Safety on the Line' included some evaluation of the security of Viber. While I was disappointed in the lack of specific details overall in the

Re: [liberationtech] [ZS] ZS reboot seed

2012-09-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Bryce Lynch virtualad...@gmail.com - From: Bryce Lynch virtualad...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:49:35 -0400 To: doctrinez...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [ZS] ZS reboot seed Reply-To: doctrinez...@googlegroups.com On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Dirk

[liberationtech] Face recognition software prefers unsmiling humans

2012-09-20 Thread Gregory Foster
A little poetry for the watchdogs. PoliceOne.com (Sep 20) - "[New Jersey] driver license face-recognition technology prohibits smiles": http://www.policeone.com/police-technology/articles/5990244-N-J-driver-license-face-recognition-technology-prohibits-smiles/

[liberationtech] Use of Blue Coat filtering at the USPTO

2012-09-20 Thread André Rebentisch
James Love stumbled into Blue Coat filtering of his site at the USPTO. http://keionline.org/node/1549 Best, André -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

[liberationtech] Facebook wants you to snitch?

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I've been following a story on twitter and wondered if anyone knew the background - and in particular, whether it's true! The story suggests that Facebook is experimenting with asking people to confirm whether their friends are who they say they are: here's a tweet about it.

[liberationtech] Arab Spring Class This Fall at Stanford University

2012-09-20 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Emad Mekay eme...@stanford.edu Dear All, Please excuse the group email, but I just wanted to share with you information about my new class this fall at Stanford University. Please feel free to share it with students, faculty, researchers and anyone with interest in the Middle