Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Yosem Companys
Thanks, Kurtis. That's my sense too. So do we all on the list agree that Signal is the gold standard right now? If so, I'll start recommending Signal (except in those states where it's blocked due to the Google issue):

Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 06:03:28AM -0800, Kurtis Heimerl wrote: > This is interesting. I had a discussion with an activist in the past who > mentioned that telegram offers state actors access to telegram groups if > threatened with in-country blocks of some kind. While this should be taken >

Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 06:03:28AM -0800, Kurtis Heimerl wrote: > This is interesting. I had a discussion with an activist in the past who > mentioned that telegram offers state actors access to telegram groups if > threatened with in-country blocks of some kind. While this should be taken >

[liberationtech] Digital Preservation (with Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf)

2018-12-30 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Joly MacFie Vint did a great job of facilitating at these two. I hope we can do some follow ups in 2019. I'd love to to see him share a stage with Jason Scott of the Internet Archive, perhaps on practicalities.

Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Kurtis Heimerl
This is interesting. I had a discussion with an activist in the past who mentioned that telegram offers state actors access to telegram groups if threatened with in-country blocks of some kind. While this should be taken with a grain of salt, being hearsay and all, it makes sense to me as (afaik)