Hey All, As HOT talks about getting involved in Syria I want to take a moment to talk about security. Email is unencrypted by default and very easy to intercept. The Syrian regime is known to be snooping on all internet traffic in Syria. They have arrested, tortured and killed people and in some cases their families based on emails they have intercepted.
I want to highlight the public-ness of this email list. You don't even have to intercept an email to read it and with the blog post, we likely have brought attention to it. So before you post anything at all to this list about Syria, please think first about the safety of the people on the ground over there. Here is a page with information on basic computer security. I highly recommend that everyone at least glance at it and hopefully learn how to use gpg. http://www.patternsinthevoid.net/security.html A separate email account for encrypted communications is sometimes preferred. I recommend riseup for that (https://riseup.net/en). If you have any questions, thoughts or comments please don't hesitate to ask. --T _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
