[liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation.

2013-06-05 Thread michael gurstein
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation. An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali Engin, told Anatolia they were being held for calling

Re: [liberationtech] Anonymous Group Moderation?

2013-06-05 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/13 20:37, Bruce Potter at IRF wrote: I have a friend working in a politically volatile environment overseas environment who's interested in taking over a public e-mail group/listserv as a public participation service. The friend is based

Re: [liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation.

2013-06-05 Thread micah
michael gurstein gurst...@gmail.com writes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946 Also in Izmir, state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police had arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation. An official from the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), Ali

Re: [liberationtech] BBC: Izmir police arrested 25 people for tweeting misinformation.

2013-06-05 Thread Rayna
In Turkey, in order to have an Internet-enabled phone, one must provide citizen ID. So, it's not that complicated to identify people after all... My 2 cents, 2013/6/5 micah mi...@riseup.net michael gurstein gurst...@gmail.com writes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22776946

[liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread KheOps
Hi all, Just came accross that: https://ostel.co/ Open source software for encrypted calls, with a client that apparently runs on a lot of platforms. Anyone ever used/reviewed it already? Cheers, KheOps -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing

Re: [liberationtech] Ostel: encrypted phone calls

2013-06-05 Thread Mark Belinsky
When we initially developed ostel.me it used freeswitch but we've moved away from it to allow for better federation. Ostel.co is a new implementation of the open secure telephony network (ostn) standard ~Sent from my mobile. Please excuse any typos or terseness. On Jun 5, 2013 2:19 PM, Pavol

[liberationtech] Cryptocat Seeking Estonian, Tibetan, Uighur and Latvian Translations

2013-06-05 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Dear LibTech, We're on the verge of releasing a major update to Cryptocat, but we still need four translations finished. All four translations are very much complete but only lack one or two sentences each. You can contribute towards the translations here: Estonian:

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Richard, Without going into too much details can you explain why they think its Chinese or Israeli? Or what country they are talking about? Also why they think there is network surveillance equipment there at all? What type of data re you

Re: [liberationtech] Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf

2013-06-05 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:44:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: I wonder if there is any connection between these merchants and botnets? Botnet owners or spammers would seem like a great source of valid IDs. Let me introduce a term you might/might not have heard before in other

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Eric S Johnson
I've heard that a lot (especially it's the Chinese) but found very little evidence to support such allegations. In Addis last fall, was told by a source with some inside information that the Ethiopian state's cybersurveillance software came from Israel. The pictures which rebels shot of the

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Andrew Lewis
Syria uses homegrown forks of squid, bluecoat, brocade, and has at least solicited for Hauwei solutions, all at the carrier level, based on directives passed down from the telecoms/security ministries. I know that the big ISPs have explicit back doors in their firewalls installed so that the

[liberationtech] Network Surveillance (comment on Andrew L's post)

2013-06-05 Thread Peter B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Libtech, To speak to Andrews' comment about ex-Soviet states, pleased find the link below to the report we are releasing on the presence of Russian surveillance tech in four Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and

Re: [liberationtech] Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf

2013-06-05 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 06:33:16PM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: One more point: operations that are this incompetent and negligent cannot possibly provide any real assurance of security and privacy to their users, because their putative operators are no longer in full control of them. Not