Re: [liberationtech] Public surveillance

2014-02-28 Thread Gregory Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2/28/14 12:49 AM, Marcin de Kaminski wrote: Do any of you know of _any_ country that has some kind of transparency regarding its domestic surveillance? Are there for instance, somewhere, public records if security police or other law

[liberationtech] an Audit on Bing's China Censorship (or, an Independent Transparency Report)

2014-02-28 Thread 夏楚
Dear all (cc greatfire.org, Rebecca MacKinnon and Jason Q. Ng), I just published a thorough research on Bing's censorship for China. See the paper at http://goo.gl/0XmxpFhttps://www.google.com/url?q=http://goo.gl/0XmxpFusd=2usg=ALhdy29bKXUxqk6998VcqQRISp5r2kZNhwand the spreadsheet at

Re: [liberationtech] Public surveillance

2014-02-28 Thread Anne Roth
Hi, the German Federal Office of Justice annually publishes statistics about number of and reasons for wiretapping. This includes content (Telekommunikationsüberwachung) and metadata (Verkehrsdatenüberwachung)

[liberationtech] google ca

2014-02-28 Thread Eric S Johnson
My OpenPGP client (SED) uses user-approved pinning to decide whether to accept a never-before-seen certificate when connecting using TLS/SSL to send/receive e-mail via SMTP/POP3. Recently it’s been asking me to approve new certificates for each of Google’s many mail servers (I see many of

Re: [liberationtech] google ca

2014-02-28 Thread Antonio Tenorio Fornés
We have to be careful, I heard about a French government fraud regarding Google CAs. See http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/533812/french_government_sub-ca_issues_unauthorized_certificates_google_domains/ Best, Antonio. 2014-02-28 11:26 GMT+01:00 Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.org: My

[liberationtech] Italian student researching Iranian censorship.

2014-02-28 Thread Richard Brooks
This journalist is writing a thesis on Iranian Censorship at the University of Bologna: lisaviolaro...@gmail.com She would appreciate information on the topic from people actively working on this problem. If you want to help her, please contact her directly. -- Liberationtech is public

[liberationtech] Privus?

2014-02-28 Thread Hisham
Hello LibTech crowd, Sorry if this has been discussed here before but is anybody here familiar with a software called Privus? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/857935876/175768761?token=bbfb88ac Its developers promote it as an encryption service that offers absolutely unbreakable security. It

Re: [liberationtech] Privus?

2014-02-28 Thread Mrs. Y.
hahahhahahah unbreakableI think I just peed myself. On 2/28/14, 12:27 PM, Hisham wrote: Hello LibTech crowd, Sorry if this has been discussed here before but is anybody here familiar with a software called Privus? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/857935876/175768761?token=bbfb88ac

Re: [liberationtech] Privus?

2014-02-28 Thread Amin Sabeti
absolutely unbreakable security? Are you sure? I don't believe it! 100% security is a myth... Don't even think about it :) A On 28 February 2014 17:31, Mrs. Y. networksecurityprinc...@gmail.comwrote: hahahhahahah unbreakableI think I just peed myself. On 2/28/14, 12:27 PM, Hisham

Re: [liberationtech] Privus?

2014-02-28 Thread Seth David Schoen
Hisham writes: Hello LibTech crowd, Sorry if this has been discussed here before but is anybody here familiar with a software called Privus? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/857935876/175768761?token=bbfb88ac Its developers promote it as an encryption service that offers absolutely

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-28 Thread Rod Hynes
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Sahar Massachi sa...@brandeis.edu wrote: For those of us who aren't hip to the latest developments in Psiphon or circumvention - is there an easy primer as to how Psiphon works, and is different from traditional VPN's? The best I could find was this design