Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread Ronald Deibert
Hi Just to add to the data and conversation, we (Citizen Lab as part of our contribution to the ONI Project) did a few recent updates to our reports on Ethiopia, Vietnam, and Burma. These reports and the results are presented here:

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread Griffin Boyce
At HOPE this summer I talked a bit about a wireless mesh concept that would allow people to communicate without internet access or phone access. The real problem with a BBS is that it's trivial to take down. In most countries, one call to the phone company can suspend a phone number 'pending

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 09:38:08AM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote: At HOPE this summer I talked a bit about a wireless mesh concept that would allow people to communicate without internet access or phone access. The real problem with a BBS is that it's trivial to take down. In most

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread michael gurstein
Hi, I'm not sure but this might be of some relevance here http://www.n4c.eu/ (you should substitute a helicopter for the motorcycle and reindeer and reindeer herders for rural dwellers in India or Pakistan... (The underlying technology is called DTN-Delay Tolerant Networking. (technical contact

Re: [liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote

2012-12-31 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/30/2012 10:33 PM, André Rebentisch wrote: Am 30.12.2012 22:31, schrieb Gregory Foster: ~6:30 - Jacob asks for a show of hands of those who had seen Frank Rieger and Rop Gonggrijp's talks. I couldn't count myself among those who had, so

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/2012 09:38 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: At HOPE this summer I talked a bit about a wireless mesh concept that would allow people to communicate without internet access or phone access. The real problem with a BBS is that it's trivial to take

Re: [liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote

2012-12-31 Thread André Rebentisch
Am 31.12.2012 22:25, schrieb hellekin: Yes André, and Jake's speech was very inspiring. I felt very confident in the work I've been doing over the last year, trying to enable a critical mass of free software developers in the field of social networking. What do you think about F2F networking

Re: [liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote

2012-12-31 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/31/2012 08:41 PM, André Rebentisch wrote: What do you think about F2F networking models? *** In the GNU/consensus Manifesto[1], I wrote the following: Social Networking Some people conflate social networks, which are the aggregate of