Many thanks Brian and Nathan for your detailed replies. I look forward to using StoryMaker and I'll keep up with news about the app.
Good luck with the rest of the project and all the best for now Bill -- Community Media Association http://www.commedia.org.uk/ http://twitter.com/community_media Canstream Internet Radio & Video http://www.canstream.co.uk/ On 25 July 2013 07:10, Brian Conley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill! > > Thanks for your interest, comments below. > > <snip> > > > > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.mrapp > > > > The app is open source (+1) and the developers behind it include Free > Press Unlimited, The Guardian Project and Small World News so its > provenance is indeed sound. > > Thanks Bill! We all know its a huge challenge but we are trying hard to > achieve it. Nathan has already done a fantastic job explaining the > technical details, so I only have a few additional comments, but I'm happy > to speak with you directly, or any other member of the list who would like > to know more. > > Firstly we can say that our partners reach approached the problem from a > slightly different direction. We at Small World News come from a background > working primarily in conflict areas and wanted to find a way to increase > the safety of citizen journalists while also improving the impact their > content can make by increasing their professionalism and capacity to tell > stories. > > I hope Niels from Free Press Unlimited will chime in, but I can say > without their focus on increasing the potential for mobile learning to > improve the skills of journalists, the learning and curriculum side of the > app would not be what it is. > > > > > The StoryMaker literature mentions a number of times that the app is to > be used for "safely reporting and sharing stories" and I wonder how this > has been substantiated - with particular regard to the fact that it is > expected that this app will facilitate free journalism in the (hopefully) > emerging democracies of the Middle East: > > > > > https://www.freepressunlimited.org/en/article/safely-reporting-and-sharing-stories-new-app > > As Nathan mentioned he has been deeply involved in planning the security > functionality, workflow, threat model, etc. > > Additionally, the system for delivering lessons utilizes SSL certificate > pinning to counter MITM attacks and limit the necessity for activists and > journalism trainees to carry hard copies and insecure manuals. Eventually > this content should exist entirely in an encrypted container. > > > It would be interesting/useful to know how StoryMaker can offer to > protect a user's safety or, as no absolute guarantees can ever be made, up > to what degree of security can be expected from this app. So far, I have > found a short reference to users "are able to send data from their > smartphone through the Tor network making it difficult to trace". > > As Nathan has mentioned, there are a number of elements already > functioning as part of StoryMaker and by next month we will have a new > release that integrates obscuracam functionality and hopefully records > content directly in an encrypted fashion. > > We are also pursuing funding to develop the potential for users to publish > to additional platforms over tor via their public API, and including an > option for uploading via tor to a private server. > > > > > StoryMaker looks an excellent app and we are looking at its use by > citizen journalists. > > I hope you like it! So far its being treated and implemented in Iraq, > Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Zimbabwe. We are pursuing some > additional opportunities as well, and clearly need to start blogging more > regularly about the projects progress. > > Don't hesitate to get in touch if you have other questions or know > individuals who might like further information or support deploying > StoryMaker in their projects. > > Thanks do much for the interest!! > > Brian > > > > > Many thanks and best regards > > > > Bill > > -- > > Community Media Association > > http://www.commedia.org.uk/ > > http://twitter.com/community_media > > > > Canstream Internet Radio & Video > > http://www.canstream.co.uk/ >
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