Congratulations on the continued progress, especially the move to audited open-source code and the adoption of Obfs4proxy. I really look forward to the mobile app, as well!
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, at 01:29 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > After over a year of hard work, we've finally launched our BETA release > of Alkasir 2.0 <https://alkasir.com/>, a website censorship mapping and > circumvention tool. We are still working on the mobile app and hope to > have it launched this year. > > The software went through a major transformation from a Windows-based > closed program to a security-audited cross-platform open-source solution. > It is still a BETA release and we do expect to get bug reports and > feedback from users as well as an interest by developers to contribute to > it via the Github repository at https://github.com/alkasir/ > <https://github.com/alkasir/> . > > Here's a blog post on the launch: > https://23c.se/our-blog/alkasir-20-free-speech-advancing-knowledge/ > <https://23c.se/our-blog/alkasir-20-free-speech-advancing-knowledge/> > > As a software developer and a researcher, I find that understanding > phenomena such as Internet censorship as equally important as helping > citizens overcome such censorship. This is why I am always interested in > publishing research on this topic, the latest being a journal article in > the most recent edition of the Media and Communication Open Access > Journal. The article helps shed light on the use of Alkasir to bypass > censorship in Syria between 2010 and 2012: > http://www.cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/issue/view/37 > > There are many people to thank for making this happen, especially the > developer Thomas Frössman of 23Critters <http://23c.se/> and friends at > Internews. I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my good > friend Eric Johnson who believed in the idea of split-tunneling from the > very beginning and spared no effort to help me take it to the next level. > Thank you Eric for your friendship and support over the years... > > Sincerely, > > Walid Al-Saqaf > > Founder > Alkasir for Website Mapping and Circumvention > https://alkasir.com <https://alkasir.com/> > > -- > 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]. -- Nathan of Guardian [email protected] -- 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].
