Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-08 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:56:34AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:20:28PM -0800, John Adams wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: I generally agree that the data should be encrypted, though I think it should also be

[liberationtech] Internet Censorship in Italy: 5.495 websites are blocked

2013-01-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, it has been publicly released a website reporting detailed data on Internet Censorship in Italy. It's in Italian, but it report detailed stats about blocked websites http://censura.bofh.it/ . For those who don't know, in Italy several organization can ask ISPs to apply blocks for

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-08 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Jacob: First of all, it's important to recognize that SORM is a system for lawful access to telephone and IP traffic. It is normalized under the laws of the Russian Federation and most of the countries of the former Soviet Union. In other words, it is not a secret system, but rather one

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-08 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Jacob: As you know, I've been involved with ONI for the past decade, and I know you've taken a very keen interest in these issues in the last few years (by you, I also mean the TOR project). Well, I've tried for the better part of ten years to learn about the internal methods of ONI.

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-08 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:29:08AM -0800, John Adams wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Or, you could simply rent a server, and roll your own cloud. It would be trivial to script this outside of Dropbox's scope. It would be even more

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan - back on topic

2013-01-08 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Libtech, Just in case there are people out there still interested in Turkmenistan :-) One of the contributors to our report recently started up a Facebook page which has become quite popular amongst the Turkmenistan opposition. It can be found here: www.facebook.com/salamturkmen and

[liberationtech] Packaging the alternatives to Dropbox C, was: Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 12:21:52 PM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: Server administration is a tremendously empowering skill to have. A self-run server becomes its own commons; a campfire for friends, family and those trusted. More importantly it is regionalised culturally and infrastructurally -

[liberationtech] Sharing children's lives online?

2013-01-08 Thread Brian Conley
Hi all, Perhaps this is not the right forum, but I happen to believe it is. If we care to discuss liberation tech, we ought to discuss the liberation of those who have little or no capacity to choose for themselves, yes? What's concerning me today is a decision by my daughter's preschool. They

Re: [liberationtech] Sharing children's lives online?

2013-01-08 Thread Griffin Boyce
I agree that it's concerning, and it would be worrisome to me if it were my child. Talk to the principal or head administrator about this change. Switching to a really obvious section of the site makes me think that they're doing it for marketing reasons, which is not a good reason to do it.