Re: [liberationtech] Internet blackouts
My colleagues in Burundi report difficulties with whatsapp and some with facebook, but twitter functioning as expected. On Apr 28, 2015 4:01 PM, Richard Brooks r...@g.clemson.edu wrote: Sources in Togo report an Internet blackout. Probably related to expecting problems after reporting results from the recent election. Sources in Burundi also expecting a blackout as a result of ongoing pro-democracy protests. -- 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] A way to Help to Earthquake Victims in Nepal
From: Yvette Zepeda yvet...@stanford.edu An East Palo Alto community member has a connection to the Nepalese community that endured the recent quake. Below is a list of items they are collecting to send back to Nepal. If you can help or have questions, please contact Richa Sharma at richa...@gmail.com. Best, Yvette [image: Haas Center for Public Service] http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/haas/students/csws *Community Service Work Study Program* *Yvette Zepeda | Program Director* *yvet...@stanford.edu yvet...@stanford.edu *| (650)725-7407 https://www.facebook.com/haascenter *[image: facebook, social, social media icon] https://www.facebook.com/haascenter* *[image: circle, color, twitter icon] https://twitter.com/haascenter* https://twitter.com/haascenter -- *From: *Michael Uhila michael.uh...@gmail.com *Subject: *A way to Help to Earthquake Victims in Nepal My friend Richa Sharma is collecting help for the victims in Nepal. Even if you just think of the intention of helping someone you don't know. That will work too. Here are the items: Gloves Masks Protein Bars Dry Fruits Sanitary towels Health hygiene items Blankets Please pack the items in thick strong cartoon box or in suitcase/s. Jet Airlines and their partner airlines have promised to deliver the supplies for free for 5 days started on April 27th, each packages should be not more than 50lb.and may be several packages (unlimited packages will be delivered if we can manage). Deliver Address: Urban Curry 523 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133 Attn: Richa Sharma/Purna Sherpa -- 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] Internet blackouts
Sources in Togo report an Internet blackout. Probably related to expecting problems after reporting results from the recent election. Sources in Burundi also expecting a blackout as a result of ongoing pro-democracy protests. -- 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] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal
Done! On 28 Apr 2015, at 22:12, Indiver Badal i...@indiver.com wrote: Hi Nick Sure, please add me to the list. I'm ready to assist in any way I can. Thanks Indiver On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 12:12 AM Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro mailto:nash...@consensus.pro wrote: + Indiver Dear Bill, I've certainly experienced that dynamic before. I'm very glad to hear that families are all OK. I only wish it were true for everyone, and it is great that PCH has released staff to help out - very much in the Nepali spirit I might add! In this instance, Im not in Nepal right now, and so I won't be telling anyone what they need or anything of the sort. Nor would I be doing any of that if I were there. I'm helping OCHA get access to a pool of people with a variety of skills - especially at the moment in 'telecom triage' but I'm sure it will rapidly expand beyond that. This is a grassroots thing with the list mostly coming from Nepalis referred by NGOs in digital policy and ISOC chapters. Microsoft's country director is helping in large part due to his connections with universities' tech programmes but in typical Nepali fashion also personally. Indiver, if you would like to be added to the gdoc where the list is kept, directly introduced to the chap at OCHA who is helping the teams on the ground with all this, or both, let me know, I'm happy to do either or both. FWIW, the list currently has two PCH people who have put themselves forward: Dibya Khatiwada and Rustan Shrestha. The more the merrier! On 27 Apr 2015, at 20:12, Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net mailto:wo...@pch.net wrote: On Apr 27, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro mailto:nash...@consensus.pro via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net mailto:bestb...@lists.bestbits.net If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and especially telecom infrastructure experience and is presently in Nepal can you let me know offlist? I'm trying to help emergency teams in country gain access to in-country expertise. One of our larger offices is in Kathmandu. Our staff and their families are all accounted for and okay, so we’ve released and funded them to do relief work. Presumably they’ll principally be doing ICT-related work, and presumably that will be coordinated through the ICT industry association. The current secretary of the industry association is Indiver Badal i...@indiver.com mailto:i...@indiver.com, who was PCH’s peering coordinator for several years. One issue we’ve observed many times when doing relief work, perhaps worst in the 2004 tsunami, the 2003 conflict in the Congo, and 2010 in Haiti, is that areas with modest ICT infrastructure that was adequate to the sustainable needs of their market, are swamped by aid workers with immodest expectations. i.e. a desire to video-chat with their families every day, play WoW, and download video porn. So they all show up, and declare “repairing the Internet infrastructure” (to levels never before seen) to be their first priority. They run rough-shod over the local infrastructure operators, step on carefully-regulated or carefully-negotiated frequency allocations, etc. I very much hope we won’t have to deal with that in this case. Nepal’s ICT environment is mature, its professionals are expert, and its community is well connected. If and when they need help, they’re perfectly capable of indicating what help they need, and anyone from the outside who believes they know better is WRONG. So, if you’re interested in helping, by all means, make your availability known to Indiver or any of the many other ICT professionals in-country, but please don’t assume that you know what’s needed, or worse, that they don’t. -Bill -- 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] ME Tech tools for data collection in Repressive Environments
Hi All, I am conducting some research on ME tech tools that can be used for data collection in repressive environments. Would appreciate hearing about what works and doesn't and know what is being used in the field. I have come across a ton of ME tech based tools, but they are predominantly only useful in open societies. Interested in tools and techniques. Any new ones coming down the pipeline? If anyone has any info they can share, please ping me at lemonieli...@gmail.com or reply to post here... Thanks in advance! -- 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] Why the EU would be wrong to sanction Google - World Economic Forum
Dear LibTech List, I wrote for the WEF about Google and EU antitrust case. Feedback and comments are welcome: https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/why-the-eu-would-be-wrong-to-sanction-google/ best, A -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- 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] Why the EU would be wrong to sanction Google - World Economic Forum
What? Is it wrong to sanction monopolies? Are we in Rockefeller's Paradise, or just nicely settled with Our iPhones in greedy Silicon Valley? On Apr 28, 2015 7:07 PM, Andrea St and...@gmail.com wrote: Dear LibTech List, I Dear LibTech List, I wrote for the WEF about Google and EU antitrust case. Feedback and comments are welcome: https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/why-the-eu-would-be-wrong-to-sanction-google/ best, A -- Andrea Stroppa http://huffingtonpost.com/andrea-stroppa @andst7 -- 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] Looking for: ICT/telecom expertise in country in Nepal
Hi Nick Sure, please add me to the list. I'm ready to assist in any way I can. Thanks Indiver On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, 12:12 AM Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro wrote: + Indiver Dear Bill, I've certainly experienced that dynamic before. I'm very glad to hear that families are all OK. I only wish it were true for everyone, and it is great that PCH has released staff to help out - very much in the Nepali spirit I might add! In this instance, Im not in Nepal right now, and so I won't be telling anyone what they need or anything of the sort. Nor would I be doing any of that if I were there. I'm helping OCHA get access to a pool of people with a variety of skills - especially at the moment in 'telecom triage' but I'm sure it will rapidly expand beyond that. This is a grassroots thing with the list mostly coming from Nepalis referred by NGOs in digital policy and ISOC chapters. Microsoft's country director is helping in large part due to his connections with universities' tech programmes but in typical Nepali fashion also personally. Indiver, if you would like to be added to the gdoc where the list is kept, directly introduced to the chap at OCHA who is helping the teams on the ground with all this, or both, let me know, I'm happy to do either or both. FWIW, the list currently has two PCH people who have put themselves forward: Dibya Khatiwada and Rustan Shrestha. The more the merrier! On 27 Apr 2015, at 20:12, Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net wrote: On Apr 27, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Nick Ashton-Hart nash...@consensus.pro via bestb...@lists.bestbits.net If you, or someone you know, has hands-on ICTs and especially telecom infrastructure experience and is presently in Nepal can you let me know offlist? I'm trying to help emergency teams in country gain access to in-country expertise. One of our larger offices is in Kathmandu. Our staff and their families are all accounted for and okay, so we’ve released and funded them to do relief work. Presumably they’ll principally be doing ICT-related work, and presumably that will be coordinated through the ICT industry association. The current secretary of the industry association is Indiver Badal i...@indiver.com, who was PCH’s peering coordinator for several years. One issue we’ve observed many times when doing relief work, perhaps worst in the 2004 tsunami, the 2003 conflict in the Congo, and 2010 in Haiti, is that areas with modest ICT infrastructure that was adequate to the sustainable needs of their market, are swamped by aid workers with immodest expectations. i.e. a desire to video-chat with their families every day, play WoW, and download video porn. So they all show up, and declare “repairing the Internet infrastructure” (to levels never before seen) to be their first priority. They run rough-shod over the local infrastructure operators, step on carefully-regulated or carefully-negotiated frequency allocations, etc. I very much hope we won’t have to deal with that in this case. Nepal’s ICT environment is mature, its professionals are expert, and its community is well connected. If and when they need help, they’re perfectly capable of indicating what help they need, and anyone from the outside who believes they know better is WRONG. So, if you’re interested in helping, by all means, make your availability known to Indiver or any of the many other ICT professionals in-country, but please don’t assume that you know what’s needed, or worse, that they don’t. -Bill -- 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] The Google cookie that came out of nowhere
Juicy content from Ashkan Soltani further below. On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 01:26:29PM -0700, Al Billings wrote: If you're the kind of person paranoid about safebrowing pings and similar, yeah, you should pull the tinfoil hat tighter and block all things. What I said in the original posting: I was told it even lets Google have the cookie it uses to identify you, so even if you use Tor, the five eyes immediately know it is you. I didn't bother to check however. I wonder if you read that part. Should that part be accurate, then safebrowsing is among the top vectors for mass correlation of IP numbers (or Tor circuits) to specific browsers and human beings. The others being font and jquery includes, search engine utilization and maybe a few +1 buttons here and there. We discussed this topic back in 2014, May 12th to be exact. safebrowsing could be offered in a distributed anonymous way, instead it is being done in a way that it de-anonymizes people to the fie eyes. Some weeks later I accidently met Ashkan Soltani who told me he already dissected the issue in pre-Snowden days. Looks like it hardly got traction - since noone knew the implications: http://ashkansoltani.org/2012/02/25/cookies-from-nowhere/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/28/the-google-cookie-that-seems-to-come-out-of-nowhere/ It is actually quite incredible that Google has been flying under the radar of general interest since Ashkan's story came out, given the immense implication for mass surveillance. P.S. I don't think you have the necessary competence to tell *anyone* about tinfoil hats and would like to ask you to contribute to this mailing list less frequently and more thoughtfully. Thank you. -- 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] Twitter Has Become the Channel of Choice for Quick Government Interaction and Six-Second Soundbites
Twitter Has Become the Channel of Choice for Quick Government Interaction and Six-Second Soundbites Annual Twitter Study Finds Governments Becoming Savvier in the use of the Social Media Channel Geneva, 28 April 2015 - Over the past four years, Twitter has become the social media channel of choice for world leaders to reach large audiences with key messages and soundbites, according to Burson-Marsteller's Twiplomacyhttp://twiplomacy.com/ study, an annual global survey of world leaders on Twitter. Twiplomacy aims to identify the extent to which world leaders use Twitter and how they connect on the social network. Governments are putting more effort into their social media communication and are including more visuals and videos in their tweets. Some, such as the @Elysee Palace, are regularly posting six-second Vine videos to summarize state visits or to cheer their national team, as the German Foreign Ministry did during the World Cup. A handful of leaders, including the Elysée Palace and the Kremlin, are also early adopters of Twitter's new livestreaming application, Periscope. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has recently gone live on Periscope to announce the resumption of air raids against the FARC rebels. Released today, the study analyzed 669 government accounts in 166 countries and revealed that 86 percent of all 193 United Nations (UN) governments have a presence on Twitter. One hundred and seventy-two heads of state and government have personal Twitter accounts and only 27 countries, mainly in Africa and Asia-Pacific, do not have any Twitter presence. The Burson-Marsteller Twiplomacy Study has become an essential gauge of the power and reach of social media, said Donald A. Baer, Worldwide Chair and CEO, Burson-Marsteller. This fourth annual Burson-Marsteller Twiplomacy Study provides critically valuable insights about the communications practices and needs of leaders around the world. As of 24 March 2015, the five most followed world leaders were U.S. President Barack Obama (@BarackObamahttp://twiplomacy.com/info/north-america/united-states/) (57 million followers of the U.S. president's campaign account), Pope Francis (@Pontifexhttp://twiplomacy.com/info/europe/vatican/) with 20 million followers on his nine different language accounts, India's Prime Minister @NarendraModihttp://twiplomacy.com/info/asia/india/, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RT_Erdoganhttp://twiplomacy.com/info/europe/turkey/) and the @WhiteHousehttp://twiplomacy.com/info/north-america/united-states/. However, the most followed world leaders follow few other peers, and they are hardly conversational. @BarackObamahttp://twiplomacy.com/info/north-america/united-states/ and the @WhiteHousehttp://twiplomacy.com/info/north-america/united-states/ only follow four other world leaders, namely Norway's Erna Solberg, Russia's Dmitry Medvedev, the UK government and Estonia's Foreign Minister Keit Pentus. While @BarackObama is the most followed world leader, he is also dwarfed in terms of retweets per tweet by Pope Francis who averages almost 10,000 retweets for each tweet sent on his Spanish account, against 1,210 for each tweet sent by @BarackObama. European foreign ministers also use Twitter to establish mutual connections, creating a virtual diplomatic network. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (@LaurentFabiushttp://twiplomacy.com/info/europe/france/) is the best connected foreign minister, mutually connected to 100 peers. Russia's Foreign Ministry is in second position maintaining mutual Twitter relations with 93 other world leaders. The Foreign Ministry in Paris is in third place with 90 mutual connections. These mutual connections among foreign ministers allow for private conversations via direct messages on Twitter. This study illustrates that governments are becoming savvier and more professional in the use of social media, said Jeremy Galbraith, CEO of Burson-Marsteller Europe, Middle East and Africa and Global Chief Strategy Officer. It is interesting to see how foreign ministries have honed their social strategies and built substantial dedicated teams to manage their online channels. We believe corporations can learn a lot from governments and their leaders on Twitter. More than 4,100 embassies and ambassadors are now active on Twitter. In New York, Washington, London and Brussels, most diplomatic missions use Twitter to have a voice at the digital table. Canada, the EU, France, Israel, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, the UK and the U.S. have put most of their embassies and missions on Twitter. The UK Foreign Office in London also encourages personal engagement by its ambassadors, and it is virtually impossible to become a Foreign Office diplomat without using digital tools. It always amazes me how quickly governments adapt to the ever changing social media landscape, said Matthias Lüfkens,
[liberationtech] Fwd: Swinburne Internet Policy Workshop - Melbourne (Australia) 45 Oct 2015 - Call for Proposals
*Swinburne Internet Policy WorkshopauIGF academic pre-eventSunday 4th Monday 5th October 2015Melbourne, Australia* *Call for proposals* Deadline: Friday 5th June Notification of acceptance: Monday 29th June We are pleased to announce the inaugural Swinburne Internet Policy Workshop, organised by the Swinburne Institute of Social Research’s Digital Society group and generously sponsored by auDA. The workshop is organised in conjunction with auDA’s Australian Governance Forum (to be held in Melbourne on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th October 2015). This is an opportunity for scholars with a research interest in Internet policy to explore research aspects of the auIGF’s agenda and other Internet policy issues. We are currently seeking submissions on the broad theme of Internet policy research and particularly welcome contributions which look at Internet policy topics in Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region. Accordingly, authors are invited to submit abstracts on a broad spectrum of Internet policy topics that include, but are not restricted to: · Intellectual property and the Internet · The Internet economy · Data retention, surveillance and privacy · Internet governance, domain names · Net neutrality · Digital society · Digital inclusion *Emerging Scholars stream* The first day of the workshop will be an opportunity for emerging scholars (PhD candidates and recent doctoral graduates) to present a paper on their current research on Internet policy themes, and receive feedback on their work from a discussant. Emerging scholars will also have the opportunity to engage with senior academics and other emerging scholars in a relaxed and supportive environment. We encourage academic researchers from all relevant disciplines to send proposals of no more than 500 words and a short bio statement to Dr Angela Daly (acd...@swin.edu.au) by Friday 5th June. If applicants wish to be considered for the Emerging Scholars stream, please state this clearly. Please note that papers for the Emerging scholars stream will be due on Friday 18th September. We intend to publish selected papers from both days in a special edition of a highly ranked peer-reviewed journal. -- 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] The Google cookie that came out of nowhere
+1 for the PS and the rest I don't want to bother with this project again, but here [1] is explained part of what the browsers are doing, we can see that they send http/https request outside (example 2), but that's not enough of course, some of them like Chrome do inject by default some scripts in the page (example 3, this is not completely easy to detect, I noticed this with a good old site of ours http://www.viagri.fr which at that time had 0 outside scripts in there, then I was surprised to see some outgoing requests and looking at the source code of the page the predictad script was there, injecting other stuff itself as well, it can be deactivated but you have to know it) Regarding Tor, if think that the Tor Browser is blocking at least safebrowsing. Regarding safebrowsing, it can make mistakes, as shown in [2] which prevented us to renew a SSL certificate, I questioned Google about this and never got a final answer. Coming back to FF, as already asked it would be interesting to know precisely what it is sending outside and if there is an option to tell FF not to send anything (even ocsp queried with http sometimes, we don't care) [1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/450023/ianonym-internet-privacy-everywhere-from-any-devic [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2015-February/036761.html Le 28/04/2015 09:50, carlo von lynX a écrit : Juicy content from Ashkan Soltani further below. On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 01:26:29PM -0700, Al Billings wrote: If you're the kind of person paranoid about safebrowing pings and similar, yeah, you should pull the tinfoil hat tighter and block all things. What I said in the original posting: I was told it even lets Google have the cookie it uses to identify you, so even if you use Tor, the five eyes immediately know it is you. I didn't bother to check however. I wonder if you read that part. Should that part be accurate, then safebrowsing is among the top vectors for mass correlation of IP numbers (or Tor circuits) to specific browsers and human beings. The others being font and jquery includes, search engine utilization and maybe a few +1 buttons here and there. We discussed this topic back in 2014, May 12th to be exact. safebrowsing could be offered in a distributed anonymous way, instead it is being done in a way that it de-anonymizes people to the fie eyes. Some weeks later I accidently met Ashkan Soltani who told me he already dissected the issue in pre-Snowden days. Looks like it hardly got traction - since noone knew the implications: http://ashkansoltani.org/2012/02/25/cookies-from-nowhere/ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/02/28/the-google-cookie-that-seems-to-come-out-of-nowhere/ It is actually quite incredible that Google has been flying under the radar of general interest since Ashkan's story came out, given the immense implication for mass surveillance. P.S. I don't think you have the necessary competence to tell *anyone* about tinfoil hats and would like to ask you to contribute to this mailing list less frequently and more thoughtfully. Thank you. -- Check the 10 M passwords list: http://peersm.com/findmyass Anti-spies and private torrents, dynamic blocklist: http://torrent-live.org Peersm : http://www.peersm.com torrent-live: https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms -- 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.
