Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
If anyone wants more help setting something up to send msgs through these gateways, you can contact me off line. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:17 PM, ITechGeek i...@itechgeek.com wrote: Almost all carriers have a gateway to the effect of phone number@carriers domain Like to send an email to my phone as an SMS, it would be my cell #@ tmomail.net (T-Mobile USA), Verizon I believe is cell #@vtext.net and ATT I believe is cell #@txt.att.net. There are a number of lists on the Internet listing carriers (some are out of date). Here are a couple of lists: http://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways/ http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ http://sms-gateway-service.com/?page_id=13 http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/List_of_Internet_to_SMS_gateways http://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx I would suggest contacting someone using a carrier you want to send to and do a test to confirm the gateway is active or search the company's website, most company's list it somewhere on their website (although I've seen a few carriers not list it on their website). Likewise most carriers also allow for outgoing msgs to Internet Email. Usually you send the msg to a carrier specific shortcode (I think T-Mobile USA is 550), although some carriers allow you to just enter the to address in place of the number you are sending to. On the Internet side these gateways are free, but remember on the cell side the person pays whatever their standard txt rates are. Since I have an unlimited text plan, I use this mostly for having alerts sent to my phone (things like server outages and alerts from my home automation system). Also any company that sends a text to your cell phone that the from address looks like an email address, they're normally sending through these gateways (and they normally asked you who your cell carrier is). --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Which gateways have you used? Of particular interest is sending to rather exotic destinations. On 1/1/2015 4:15 PM, ITechGeek wrote: My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com mailto:edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 tel:%2B34%20634%20571%20634
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
Almost all carriers have a gateway to the effect of phone number@carriers domain Like to send an email to my phone as an SMS, it would be my cell #@ tmomail.net (T-Mobile USA), Verizon I believe is cell #@vtext.net and ATT I believe is cell #@txt.att.net. There are a number of lists on the Internet listing carriers (some are out of date). Here are a couple of lists: http://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways/ http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ http://sms-gateway-service.com/?page_id=13 http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/List_of_Internet_to_SMS_gateways http://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx I would suggest contacting someone using a carrier you want to send to and do a test to confirm the gateway is active or search the company's website, most company's list it somewhere on their website (although I've seen a few carriers not list it on their website). Likewise most carriers also allow for outgoing msgs to Internet Email. Usually you send the msg to a carrier specific shortcode (I think T-Mobile USA is 550), although some carriers allow you to just enter the to address in place of the number you are sending to. On the Internet side these gateways are free, but remember on the cell side the person pays whatever their standard txt rates are. Since I have an unlimited text plan, I use this mostly for having alerts sent to my phone (things like server outages and alerts from my home automation system). Also any company that sends a text to your cell phone that the from address looks like an email address, they're normally sending through these gateways (and they normally asked you who your cell carrier is). --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Which gateways have you used? Of particular interest is sending to rather exotic destinations. On 1/1/2015 4:15 PM, ITechGeek wrote: My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com mailto:edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 tel:%2B34%20634%20571%20634 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu mailto:r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu. --
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
Which gateways have you used? Of particular interest is sending to rather exotic destinations. On 1/1/2015 4:15 PM, ITechGeek wrote: My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com mailto:edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 tel:%2B34%20634%20571%20634 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu mailto:r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu. -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu. -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com wrote: Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu. -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu. -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
Hello: I have used multiple services. I currently use esendex as an SMS sender provider, which is a spanish company (I'm from Spain). We have used other services. Some important facts: * sending SMS to most of the countries costs the same * if you don't care if some messages don't reach their destination or take hours, then go for the cheapest provider. that's good for sending publicity for example. In the other hand, if you do care about the SMS reaching always to the destination, and if you want that to happen fast, then find a quality provider. In my experience esendex is good (they specialized in that, for example in sending sms authentication codes), but there are probably other better providers in other countries. * the providers might be able to send 20-50 sms/second. You could scale to do more by using multiple providers at the same time. There are other services specialised in sending SMS, Amazon for example http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SMSMessages.html those I haven't used yet. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Anyone willing to share experiences on setting up (or using) an Internet to SMS interface... -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu. -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] mail2tor.com hidden service
Plaintext over Tor to email accounts are probably not safe. We've seen a major round of this where the Feds seize a hosted anonymous email account and then email plain texts appear in indictments. Perhaps the most famous is the TorMail Charlie Shrem case. http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/2014/01/31/the-email-service-the-dark-web-is-actually-using/ On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 12:01 AM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Does anyone have any info about this hidden service? I've been using it to set up temporary accounts to exchange info as a pgp work-around for people having trouble working with pgp keys. I assume the content can be read by whoever runs the site, but they won't know who I am. If the other side uses the hidden service, too. The mails can be read but the service won't know who either side is. Any faults in this logic? -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu. -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] OpenNet Eurasia - SecDev Foundation successor to ONI in the Eurasia region
OpenNet Eurasia is a multi year program of research and engagement with governments in the Eurasian region on issues of cyber security, and freedom of access to cyberspace. http://new.secdev-foundation.org/what-we-do/digital-safety-and-the-right-to-communicate/open-net-eurasia/ We are looking for volunteers, associated researchers and others. Fellowships and other positions also available. Contact us! Check out our latest report on Social media censorship in Russia. http://digital.report/vne-zonyi-dostupa-regulirovanie-sotssetey-v-rossii/ If you don't read Russian, look at the site through Google chrome and choose the translator option. Rafal -- 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 compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] bulk sms
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Re: [liberationtech] bulk sms
Richard, can you further define exotic? To whom? Some further information about your application would help, too. In many of the places I've worked there is no email to sms gateway. Many of the telcos use switches that don't have the option built in, and even when they do, when only a few percent of their users are on email regularly it's not a pressing issue. In these cases the first choice is usually to go with local SMS bulk aggregators; in my experience they can get much cheaper prices than what Tropo or Clickatell can give. They (iirc) have their own gateway, and make a deal with the telcos to forward certain numbers, then give you some kind of interface or API for making the bulk. You might want to check the UReport project from UNICEF; their stuff is on github. It was developed in Uganda but they are deploying it now in Burundi and several other countries. They send tens of thousands of survey sms messages, then get pretty high return rates back, and had to build a rabbit/celery queuing system to avoid dropped responses. Lastly, you can also set up your own Kannel instance on a server and negotiate with the telcos directly. This is probably the cheapest route, but it can take a _long_ time so it only works when you have a lot of runway. C. On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:18 PM, ITechGeek i...@itechgeek.com wrote: If anyone wants more help setting something up to send msgs through these gateways, you can contact me off line. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 9:17 PM, ITechGeek i...@itechgeek.com wrote: Almost all carriers have a gateway to the effect of phone number@carriers domain Like to send an email to my phone as an SMS, it would be my cell #@ tmomail.net (T-Mobile USA), Verizon I believe is cell #@vtext.net and ATT I believe is cell #@txt.att.net. There are a number of lists on the Internet listing carriers (some are out of date). Here are a couple of lists: http://martinfitzpatrick.name/list-of-email-to-sms-gateways/ http://www.emailtextmessages.com/ http://sms-gateway-service.com/?page_id=13 http://www.sweetnam.eu/index.php/List_of_Internet_to_SMS_gateways http://www.opentextingonline.com/emailtotext.aspx I would suggest contacting someone using a carrier you want to send to and do a test to confirm the gateway is active or search the company's website, most company's list it somewhere on their website (although I've seen a few carriers not list it on their website). Likewise most carriers also allow for outgoing msgs to Internet Email. Usually you send the msg to a carrier specific shortcode (I think T-Mobile USA is 550), although some carriers allow you to just enter the to address in place of the number you are sending to. On the Internet side these gateways are free, but remember on the cell side the person pays whatever their standard txt rates are. Since I have an unlimited text plan, I use this mostly for having alerts sent to my phone (things like server outages and alerts from my home automation system). Also any company that sends a text to your cell phone that the from address looks like an email address, they're normally sending through these gateways (and they normally asked you who your cell carrier is). --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Which gateways have you used? Of particular interest is sending to rather exotic destinations. On 1/1/2015 4:15 PM, ITechGeek wrote: My preferred method is using email to sms gateways. On your side that becomes free (depending on how you send the emails). Most providers have a disclaimer of no guarantee of delivery via the gateways, but I have yet to lose an email that way. Is mission critical, I would just use a service like Twilio which will charge per msg, but not hard to set-up. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira edu...@agoravoting.com
