How important is the privacy of people doing the submission? Because the government can always get SMS records from providers. That said, I worked a bit on UReport in Uganda which is an SMS based system that allows (mostly young) Ugandans to respond to surveys on various topics, some of which (schools, water) were sensitive to the government.
I worked a bit with the back end providers and the interface APIs, so I understand some of the issues, what would you like to know? There may be technical things you can do that will raise the difficulty of government surveillance, but at the end of the day they can still go to the provider and have your service turned off. One approach is to make the information just embarrassing enough to get the government to change, but not so embarrassing as to get them to clamp down. That approach obviously doesn't work in all situations. -- Charles On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Richard Brooks <r...@acm.org> wrote: > I have colleagues living in a small country, far, far > away with a history of rigged elections who want to > put in place a system for collecting information > using SMS. The local government keeps shutting > down the systems that they put in place. > > I think I understand their needs and wants. SMS is > really not my strong point. If anyone with an understanding > of SMS, SMS web interfaces, and/or related security issues > would be willing to point me in the right direction > (or discuss potential issues) I (and by extension > they) would be grateful. > > The alternative is for me to dedicate my excess cycles > to researching those issues from scratch, which sounds > time consuming. They kind of need help in the near future. > > -Richard > -- > Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. > Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > compa...@stanford.edu. >
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