El 18/05/14 09:40, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) escribió: > Il 5/15/14, 11:47 PM, Tom Ritter ha scritto: >> On 14 May 2014 23:36, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) <[email protected]> wrote: >>> i think that would be very important to organize a project to Audit the >>> functionalities of Auto-Update of software commonly used by human rights >>> defenders.
I'm afraid I see more and more how the "on-field activist" people use facebook (YES, I saw it), google mailing-list, google accounts without encryption, whatsapp, and the list is more and more terrific... I talk about Sudamerica. But I saw it either in other places. I'm not IT professional, then even when I can talk "their language" (because IT people talk in "other" language, impossible to journalist or activist) they - in 95% of the cases - don't care. I can count on my horror list even lawyers fighting for HR or govs censorship! NGOs, ... They now "all about Snowden and net neutrality" bot they don't know and - as say before, in general - don't care, about OTR, free software, etc. > I think that's plenty of software that are used by activists and > journalists on field in difficult places that have a lot of > insecurities, being graphical software, data collection software, web > editing software, etc, etc > > While our "hackish" communities mostly focus on the "security > softwares", on-fields the people use just general purposes sofware for > doing general purpose works, but that's where the "adversary" able to > MitM a connection, can leverage stupid bugs to inject directly or > indirectly monitoring malware. > The "adversary" has the work so easy...one part because of the lack of interest of the technical people to *really* explain the the tools (not only suggest "links") to the non technical, without expect that a lawyer, an activist or a journalist became hackers; and the other part because of the lack of interest (or a kind of over confidence?) of the non-IT group. It's a real problem we observe and try to solve here, but in general, without mentionable results. I hope we can reverse it. Cristina foike.org -- Esta comunicación puede ser ilegalmente recogida y almacenada por la Agencia Nacional de Seguridad de los EEUU (NSA) en secreto. Las partes de este correo electrónico no consienten la recuperación o almacenamiento de esta comunicación y los metadatos relacionados, así como la impresión, copia, re-transmisión, difusión, u otra forma de usarlo sin el consenso de sus autores. Si usted no es destinatario explícito de este mensaje, por favor bórrelo inmediatamente y considere denunciar la actividad ilegal de su empleador a la justicia de su país o a la prensa. La privacidad es un derecho fundamental, no colabore en ningún crimen contra ella. -- Liberationtech is public & 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 [email protected].
