Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Jacob Appelbaum wrote: It would be nice if Twitter was a bit more intelligent about Tor usage. I wrote the BulkExitList feature on check.torproject.org for Wikipedia. They ironically use it to block edits from Tor. Twitter could use that export of data or a similar one to have a list of all

[liberationtech] Request: quantify how use of analog currency contributes to gov actions

2014-06-09 Thread Nathan Andrew Fain
I recently wrote an article discussing the use of a crypto currency as a means to selectively divest from your governments actions [1]. Selective in that you can choose some to use fiat, and sometimes not. Similar to how we selectively care about the environment by sometimes recycling and

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Collin Anderson
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Griffin Boyce grif...@cryptolab.net wrote: I'd recommend reaching out formally (perhaps to privacy@ ?) and proposing a whitelist or other special consideration for Tor users. You've got the name recognition to pull it off and you actually work for Tor. =)

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 10:39:06AM +0100, Nariman Gharib wrote: what solution do you have for solve this problem? Don't use Twitter. Yes, I'm quite serious. Twitter has clearly stated that they're delighted to provide censorship-on-demand for any country that asks nicely:

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Amin Sabeti
Rick, I think you delete the problem instead of solving it! On 9 June 2014 11:30, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 10:39:06AM +0100, Nariman Gharib wrote: what solution do you have for solve this problem? Don't use Twitter. Yes, I'm quite serious. Twitter has

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Well.. NOT using Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. is not an option if you really want to reach the masses. If it were feasible to keep being even a minimally effective activist, and not just Yet Another Nano Protester, it would be too easy. The question, in my opinion, would then be how to use

Re: [liberationtech] Ecuador towards the pos-capitalism: copyleft politics

2014-06-09 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Bernardo, This and other news from Flok Society is inspiring. But I find it useful to force a critical perspective. Thus * What actual policies is the national government of Ecuador taking that adopt Free/Libre Open Knowledge recommendations arising from this (and other, some

[liberationtech] GlobalGiving - 2014 Summit on Social Media Online Giving

2014-06-09 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Robert Rosenthal n...@volunteermatch.org Namaste from Nepal, everyone - Early registration for the July 1-2 conference that I'm working with GlobalGiving to produce is going well. If you have contacts in the NGO community in India or South Asia, please feel free to share. This event will

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Seth David Schoen
Griffin Boyce writes: I'd recommend reaching out formally (perhaps to privacy@ ?) and proposing a whitelist or other special consideration for Tor users. It seems obviously crazy to me for Twitter to prevent people from accessing it over Tor, both in light of widespread censorship of Twitter

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Tom Ritter
On 9 June 2014 12:06, Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: Griffin Boyce writes: I'd recommend reaching out formally (perhaps to privacy@ ?) and proposing a whitelist or other special consideration for Tor users. It seems obviously crazy to me for Twitter to prevent people from

[liberationtech] Use GNU social or similar as static-IP Twitter-proxy (was: when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc)

2014-06-09 Thread Mikael Nordfeldth
2014-06-08 23:58 skrev Jacob Appelbaum: I've had my twiter account locked half a dozen times (web client, using Tails) in the last few weeks. It seems to be some new security heuristic where one is still able to login to change the password but the account is locked from generating new public

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Seth David Schoen wrote: It seems obviously crazy to me for Twitter to prevent people from accessing it over Tor, both in light of widespread censorship of Twitter on different networks and in light of governments' attempts to find out where users of services are connecting from. Yes,

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 11:36:01AM +0100, Amin Sabeti wrote: Rick, I think you delete the problem instead of solving it! I suspect that's because I have a different definition of the problem. ;) Outsourcing your communications to a so-called social network whose interests (a) diverge markedly

[liberationtech] Wicker: Déjà vu all over again

2014-06-09 Thread Yosem Companys
Wickr is back in the news in spectacular form: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201407/ceo-of-wickr-leads-social-media-resistance-movement.html ...despite known security problems we've discussed on the list before: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2012-June/004239.html Seems as

Re: [liberationtech] when you are using Tor, Twitter will blocked your acc

2014-06-09 Thread Seth
I'm in agreement with pretty much all the points made, but how do you feel this approach? 1) ALWAYS publish the original source information via freedom/privacy/dignity respecting services using a name-space (a DNS domain,.onion,.gnu,.i2p,namecoin,whatever) that you control. 2) Syndicate

Re: [liberationtech] Wicker: Déjà vu all over again

2014-06-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Hey Yosem! A good experiment might be to send out releases of factual security info to counteract the dubious press releases that all too often turn into dubious articles. Yosem Companys wrote: Seems as though we need better tactics to share with journalists our impressions about

Re: [liberationtech] Wicker: Déjà vu all over again

2014-06-09 Thread Tony Arcieri
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Griffin Boyce grif...@cryptolab.net wrote: A good experiment might be to send out releases of factual security info to counteract the dubious press releases that all too often turn into dubious articles. I think it'd be pretty interesting for the