[liberationtech] [Data Science] [Girls] "Winter Of Data" Is Coming...

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Winter of Data is coming...  Brace yourselves, girls!  ;)

https://twitter.com/dii_lua/status/1069595303421124609

Join 1 million of women to tech in an epic data science online course,
yay!!!  ;D

Much love and tender kisses!  Take care, be happy and keep coding!  <3

Ceci
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[liberationtech] An IBM computer debates humans, and wins...

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Computers beat humans at chess in 1997, beat humans at Jeopardy in 2011,
and beat the world's best Go players in 2017. This Monday, a computer won a
far more nuanced competition: debate.

https://cnet.co/2K4OyC9

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[liberationtech] Fwd: New Book: The Open Revolution - rewriting the rules of the information age

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, lovely people!  Hope you all are having a great time and feeling
gorgeous, yay!  :D

Really respect Rufus and his work a lot.  I swear you will probably love
his book and references!  :D

And, well, if you eventually hate all of them, it's pretty OK, no
problem...  The best thing about him is knowing he is completely open to
_constructive_ feedbacks and _productive_ discussions about the Open
Culture!  :D

He is cute and patient, millions of times more polite than me, and zillions
of times more intelligent too.  One of the good guys, trust me!  :)

Wish you all kisses, hugs, books, smiles, music, and love!  <3

Ceci, still alive and kicking...  and being kicked, ouch!  :P
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-- Forwarded message -
From: Rufus Pollock 
Date: Thu, Jun 14, 2018, 14:10


*The Open Revolution: rewriting the rules of the information age*


Hi thackday,

*This is one-off email to share with you the release of my book, The Open
Revolution: rewriting the rules of the information age.*


Get the book on OpenRevolution.net »




This book is about something bigger than tech itself. It’s about
information, ownership and control in a digital age. It talks directly to a
number of lives issues, ranging from access to medicines, to the future of
work and privacy, digital monopolies and power in a connected world.




Will the digital revolution give us digital dictatorships or digital
democracies? Forget everything you think you know about the digital age.
It’s not about privacy, surveillance, AI or blockchain—it’s about
*ownership*. Because in a digital age, who owns information controls the
future.

Today’s “Closed” digital economy is the source of problems ranging from the
power of a handful of tech monopolies to control how we think and vote, to
unaffordable medicines, to growing inequality. The solution is not
technological but political: a choice between making information Open,
shared by all, or making it Closed, exclusively owned and controlled.

By choosing Open we can make a more equitable, innovative and profitable
future for all.


Find out more on OpenRevolution.net »




Order directly on Amazon UK

- Amazon US


I also warmly invite you to share this book and its ideas. We will only
realize an Open world when more people are present to its potential. The
book is itself openly licensed so you are free to share and reuse it
however you wish!

Post for sharing on Facebook

- Twitter


Thank you,

Yours,

Rufus Pollock
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Building wise societies and an information age that works for everyone -
https://rufuspollock.com/
Founder and President of Open Knowledge - https://okfn.org/
Co-Founder, Art / Earth / Tech - https://artearthtech.com/manifesto
Shuttleworth and Ashoka Fellow
Previously Mead Fellow in Economics at the University of Cambridge
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[liberationtech] "Data Detox Kit" by Tactical Technology Collective & Mozilla

[Cecilia Tanaka]

#  https://datadetox.myshadow.org/detox


#  https://datadetox.myshadow.org/about

Wish you all a lovely week!  <3

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[liberationtech] Happy New Year, yay!!! :D

[Cecilia Tanaka]

#  https://imgur.com/gallery/pmwt5 

Dear All,

Wish much happiness, wisdom, health, and serenity, not only in 2018 but in
all moments of your lives.  <3

Please, take care of yourselves and your loved ones with much tenderness
and love.  <3

Peace, love, hope, smiles, music, travels, snuggles, hot chocolate, ice
cream...  Oh, there are so many awesome things to wish you all, haha!!  I
will end this list before sending a book instead of a simple message,
hahaha!!  <3

Tender kisses and tight hugs from Brazil, yay!!!  :D

Ceci

PS:  - I know I am very, very late with some important answers and
questions and I sincerely ask your pardon.  Healing is taking much more
time than I expected, sorry!  :P

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[liberationtech] Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Germany Preparing Law for Backdoors in Any Type of Modern Device

#  
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/germany-preparing-law-for-backdoors-in-any-type-of-modern-device

"Hack Back" is becoming so fashion...  :P

#  
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/10/16632724/scam-chatbot-ai-email-rescam-netsafe

#  https://www.rescam.org/

Take care, dear all!  Kisses and hugs!  <3

Ceci
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[liberationtech] Fwd: [tor-talk] New report: How Pakistan blocked news outlets, social media sites, and IM apps amidst protests

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, dear all!  Hope everybody is doing great!  :D

I think it will be very interesting to Arzak and some other members of
the LibTech list.

Take care and have an awesome day!  <3

Ceci

PS to my friends:  -  No jokes, please.  Everybody knows I was banned
from Tor-Talk List, but I always get what I want when I need it...
Life is too short for all that drama!  ;)
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Maria Xynou 
Date: Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:05 AM
Subject: [tor-talk] New report: How Pakistan blocked news outlets,
social media sites, and IM apps amidst protests
To: tor-t...@lists.torproject.org


Hello,

Today, in collaboration with Bytes for All Pakistan, OONI published a
research study titled "How Pakistan blocked news outlets, social media
sites, and IM apps amidst protests".

Our study is available here:
https://ooni.torproject.org/post/how-pakistan-blocked-social-media/ and
http://content.bytesforall.pk/node/224

Last weekend, a number of social media sites and news outlets were
reportedly blocked in Pakistan during Islamist protests.

Through the collection and analysis of OONI network measurements from
Pakistan, we confirmed the DNS-based blocking of:

* 14 news websites

* Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram

* Facebook Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp's web interface (web.whatsapp.com)

All of these censorship events were temporarily implemented last weekend
(25th & 26th November), and no longer seem to be in place (at least not in
the networks where tests were/are run). This highlights the need to
monitor internet censorship on an ongoing basis around the world.

In our previous study with Bytes for All
(https://ooni.torproject.org/post/pakistan-internet-censorship/),
Pakistani ISPs appeared to be applying "smart filters", selectively
blocking the HTTP versions of certain Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter
webpages, rather than blocking access to entire domains.

Last weekend, however, these sites were blocked entirely.

This is also the first time that we have collected technical evidence on
the censorship of news websites in Pakistan.

In addition to network measurement findings, our report also includes
censorship circumvention advice and information on how to reproduce this
study (in Pakistan or elsewhere).

Thanks for reading!

~ The OONI team.

--
Maria Xynou
Research and Partnerships Coordinator
Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI)
https://ooni.torproject.org/
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[liberationtech] Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory!

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hey, Mark Zuckerberg: My Democracy Isn’t Your Laboratory!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/opinion/serbia-facebook-explore-feed.html

Kisses and hugs from Brazil!  Wish you all a great week!  <3

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Introducing Unnon: The Network of the Unknowns

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, Rogerio!  Hope you are doing great!  :D

Hey, congratulations!  It sounds fun!  Let's translate "The Folha de São
Paulo" article, dear?  I will have a busy and messy day, but will try to
make a first draft.  After it, I will ask for your review.  My English is
always a bit disastrous, hahaha!!!  ;D

Wish you all lots of love and an amazing day!  <3

Ceci
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-- Forwarded message --
From: "Geert Lovink" 
Date: Nov 8, 2017 04:26
Subject:  Introducing Unnon: The Network of the Unknowns


Dear nettimers,

I'm contacting you all to say that Unnon, the network of unknowns, is
becoming a reality. Unnon is now available in its first version, for iPhone
users, at Apples's App Store. Android and Web versions should come in
January or February.

A few days ago, we were the subject of a story by Folha de S.Paulo, the
biggest Brazilian newspaper, which meant Unnon became officially launched
in Beta. The response so far has been very good, with many people praising
Unnon for finally creating an environment with no filter bubbles.

We've achieved that by developing the first ever social network with
temporary connections. That means that not only does Unnon connect people,
but it also disconnects them. That is why Unnon is the network of unknowns:
it connects people who do not know each other, for up to 30 days only, and
after that they can never be reconnected. So filter bubbles are never
formed, barriers between people are naturally broken, and users' networks
change all the time. Also: there's no private messaging on Unnon, every
conversation is public, which makes personal attacks, trolling and criminal
activity much less likely; and all content disappears after one month, for
Unnon is about what people think at a particular moment, not what they did
in the past.

This is our revamped website: www.unnon.com

And our page on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.co
m/gb/app/unnon/id1219482455?mt=8

The Folha de S.Paulo article, which is also attached in this email (in
Portuguese): http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2017/11/
1932361-brasileiros-criam-rede-social-que-promete-ser-a-prov
a-de-bolhas.shtml

Over the next few months I will showcase Unnon at universities, and have
conversations and debates in Europe. I would love to take the concept of
the network of unknowns to internet and tech-related communities and hope
that Unnon will be capable of bringing a new perspective to the social
media landscape, with less divisions, less extremism and more dialogue.

If you want to contact us, drop me an email (simoes.roge...@gmail.com)

Best wishes,

Rogerio
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[liberationtech] Public Money, Public Code.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Public Money, Public Code.

#  https://publiccode.eu

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?

We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software
developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a
Free and Open Source Software license. If it is public money, it
should be public code as well.

Code paid by the people should be available to the people!

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Re: [liberationtech] My new article, What Is Anonymous Up To?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Douglas Lucas  wrote:
> Hi Libtech,
>
> Today, Buffalo's alt-weekly, The Public, published my new article, "What
> Is Anonymous Up To?" The piece, occasioned by the annual Million
> Mask March happening tomorrow, focuses on two projects Anonymous allies
> have founded, attempts to upgrade communication and activism. Those are
> Barrett Brown's Pursuance Project and Heather Marsh's Getgee. My article
> also links/mentions Trump's connection to Russia's regime and child
> traffickers (OpDeathEaters), excerpts the Communist Manifesto and
> Binding Chaos, and much more. It's under 2000 words. Check it out, and
> if you like it, please share it with your friends and enemies!
>
> http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/11032017/what-anonymous


My dear Douglas,

Thank you very much for sharing your ideas with us!  <3

I will share your post with my friends, dear.  I always like your
texts enough to avoid sharing them with eventual enemies.  I only wish
my enemies their days are so pleasant and lovely as they are, hahaha!!
 ;D

As you said me once...  Have fun and overthrow governments and
corporations, my dear!  Woohooo!!!  :D

Ceci  :D

PS:  -  I am sharing your post with the Hackerspaces General
Discussion List considering the reference to "The Pursuance Project".
OK, there are Brown's manifesto and background, a lot of important
things, etc, but Steve is doing a good job with Noisebridge support.
They deserve kudos and my respect too.  <3
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[liberationtech] Aaron Swartz Day Live Stream

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --
From: X 

FYI talks streaming from internet archive now at http://tinyurl.com/swartzlive
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[liberationtech] Fwd: NOUVEAU ! Lancement du grand projet "Forbidden Stories"

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Reporters sans frontières 
Date: 2017-11-02 4:27 GMT-02:00
Subject: NOUVEAU ! Lancement du grand projet "Forbidden Stories"
To: cecilia.tan...@gmail.com


À la poursuite d'enquêtes « interdites »
[image: Reporters sans frontières]


Découvrez le nouveau projet : Forbidden Stories !
[image: 100 photos de Thomas Pequet pour la liberté de la presse]

Chers amis,

En cette Journée internationale de la fin de l’impunité des crimes commis
contre les journalistes, nous sommes fiers de vous présenter *Forbidden
Stories*.

Grâce à Forbidden Stories, les journalistes menacés pourront protéger leurs
données. S’il leur arrive quelque chose, leur enquête sera poursuivie et
publiée, permettant au public du monde entier de connaître l’information
“interdite”.

*Forbidden Stories assure la survie des histoires, par-delà les frontières,
par-delà les gouvernements, par-delà la censure, sur des sujets aussi
importants que l’environnement, la santé, les droits de l’homme ou la
corruption.*

Les premières publications de Forbidden Stories dévoileront le travail de 3
journalistes mexicains, tués parce qu’ils enquêtaient sur les cartels de la
drogue : Cecilio Pineda, Miroslava Breach, et Javier Valdez.

*Aidez-nous à poursuivre plus d’enquêtes, faites un don, partagez les
vidéos, abonnez-vous aux réseaux sociaux. C’est grâce à vous que le projet
Forbidden Stories pourra se développer !*

Merci de votre soutien fidèle et de votre action,

*L’équipe de Reporters sans frontières*

FAIRE UN DON


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[liberationtech] Fwd: It’s time to end impunity for attacks on journalists

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --
From: ARTICLE 19 
Date: Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 12:50 PM
Subject: It’s time to end impunity for attacks on journalists
To: cecilia.tan...@gmail.com


It’s time to end impunity for attacks on journalists
[image: ARTICLE 19, 2017]

In 2017, being a journalist anywhere in the world carries major risks. This
year alone at least 55 journalists have been killed

across
25 different countries. In 2016, the number killed was 102. On top of this,
hundreds more are attacked, threatened, arbitrarily arrested and detained,
and are subject to enforced disappearance.

According to UNESCO only 10% of journalists' killings are fully resolved,
and the perpetrators brought to justice. This impunity drives a cycle of
violence. When perpetrators of attacks walk free, others are emboldened to
commit similar crimes without fearing accountability. This cycle must end.

On International Day to End Impunity, ARTICLE 19 calls on governments
around the world
to
make good on their commitments to HRC resolution 33/2 and take urgent steps
to break the cycle of violence inflicted on journalists. Our guide

for
states sets out exactly what governments must do to deliver on their
commitments to safety of journalists. And we call on the media, civil
society and human rights defenders to use our guide

as a checklist to hold governments to their commitments to *prevent*,
*protect* and *prosecute*.


Guide: Prevent, Protect, Prosecute Read our Guide
for
states to act on UN HRC Resolution 33/2 on the Safety of Journalists.

[image: ARTICLE 19, 2017.]

Council of Europe: Impunity for journalist murders must end ARTICLE 19
submits two alerts

to the Council of Europe's Platform for the Protection of Journalism and
Safety of Journalists on impunity in the cases of murdered
journalists: Rafiq Tagi and Gadzhimurad Kamalov.

[image: ARTICLE 19, 2017.]

Blog: It’s time to end impunity for attacks on journalists We must demand
genuine steps from States

to end impunity for these crimes.
[image: ARTICLE 19, 2017.]

Killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia must be investigated Today we pay tribute
to Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia and demand justice for her
killing.

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which works globally to protect and promote the right to freedom of
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[liberationtech] Fwd: Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ian Alan Paul 
Date: Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 7:21 PM
Subject:  Algorithmic / Biometric Governmentality
To: nettim...@mail.kein.org


This very digestible short talk (22:00) on the emerging threat of
algorithmic/biometric governmentality from Zeynep Tufekci may be of
interest to those who research control societies, etc..:
https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads

The transcript is below:

So when people voice fears of artificial intelligence, very often,
they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok. You know? Terminator?
You know, that might be something to consider, but that's a distant
threat. Or, we fret about digital surveillance with metaphors from the
past. "1984," George Orwell's "1984," it's hitting the bestseller
lists again. It's a great book, but it's not the correct dystopia for
the 21st century. What we need to fear most is not what artificial
intelligence will do to us on its own, but how the people in power
will use artificial intelligence to control us and to manipulate us in
novel, sometimes hidden, subtle and unexpected ways. Much of the
technology that threatens our freedom and our dignity in the near-term
future is being developed by companies in the business of capturing
and selling our data and our attention to advertisers and others:
Facebook, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent.

Now, artificial intelligence has started bolstering their business as
well. And it may seem like artificial intelligence is just the next
thing after online ads. It's not. It's a jump in category. It's a
whole different world, and it has great potential. It could accelerate
our understanding of many areas of study and research. But to
paraphrase a famous Hollywood philosopher, "With prodigious potential
comes prodigious risk."

Now let's look at a basic fact of our digital lives, online ads.
Right? We kind of dismiss them. They seem crude, ineffective. We've
all had the experience of being followed on the web by an ad based on
something we searched or read. You know, you look up a pair of boots
and for a week, those boots are following you around everywhere you
go. Even after you succumb and buy them, they're still following you
around. We're kind of inured to that kind of basic, cheap
manipulation. We roll our eyes and we think, "You know what? These
things don't work." Except, online, the digital technologies are not
just ads. Now, to understand that, let's think of a physical world
example. You know how, at the checkout counters at supermarkets, near
the cashier, there's candy and gum at the eye level of kids? That's
designed to make them whine at their parents just as the parents are
about to sort of check out. Now, that's a persuasion architecture.
It's not nice, but it kind of works. That's why you see it in every
supermarket. Now, in the physical world, such persuasion architectures
are kind of limited, because you can only put so many things by the
cashier. Right? And the candy and gum, it's the same for everyone,
even though it mostly works only for people who have whiny little
humans beside them. In the physical world, we live with those
limitations.

In the digital world, though, persuasion architectures can be built at
the scale of billions and they can target, infer, understand and be
deployed at individuals one by one by figuring out your weaknesses,
and they can be sent to everyone's phone private screen, so it's not
visible to us. And that's different. And that's just one of the basic
things that artificial intelligence can do.

Now, let's take an example. Let's say you want to sell plane tickets
to Vegas. Right? So in the old world, you could think of some
demographics to target based on experience and what you can guess. You
might try to advertise to, oh, men between the ages of 25 and 35, or
people who have a high limit on their credit card, or retired couples.
Right? That's what you would do in the past.

With big data and machine learning, that's not how it works anymore.
So to imagine that, think of all the data that Facebook has on you:
every status update you ever typed, every Messenger conversation,
every place you logged in from, all your photographs that you uploaded
there. If you start typing something and change your mind and delete
it, Facebook keeps those and analyzes them, too. Increasingly, it
tries to match you with your offline data. It also purchases a lot of
data from data brokers. It could be everything from your financial
records to a good chunk of your browsing history. Right? In the US,
such data is routinely collected, collated and sold. In Europe, they
have tougher rules.

So what happens then is, by churning through all that data, these
machine-learning algorithms -- that's why they're called learning
algorithms -- they learn to understand the characteristics of people
who purchased tickets to Vegas before. When they learn this from
existing data, they also learn h

[liberationtech] Voting machines: How hackers are rocking the vote

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, lovely people!  Sending this post for curiosity. You can hate the
post, but you can't deny it's a very interesting subject!  :D

-

"Voting machines:  How hackers are rocking the vote"

#  https://qz.com/email/quartz-obsession/1108035/

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Kisses and Hugs!  Take care, dear all.  :*  <3

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[liberationtech] OPEN ARCHIVE

[Cecilia Tanaka]

OPEN ARCHIVE


https://www.aaronswartzday.org/openarchive


OpenArchive is a free, open source application for android, available
on the Google Play Store that enables you to send your mobile media
directly to the Internet Archive over Tor (Orbot), and choose what
metadata and Creative Commons license to include with it.

The primary goal of the app is to empower the user to easily archive
photos, video and audio from their mobile device to a secure,
trustworthy, and remote storage service.

OpenArchive is a free, open source application for android, available
on the Google Play Store that enables you to send your mobile media
directly to the Internet Archive over Tor (Orbot), and choose what
metadata and Creative Commons license to include with it.

The primary goal of the app is to empower the user to easily archive
photos, video and audio from their mobile device to a secure,
trustworthy, and remote storage service.

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[liberationtech] Outreachy - Internerships for Underrrepresented People in Tech

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Much love and good luck!  <3

Ceci, late, always late...  Sorry, I was invited to be the next
Alice's White Rabbit and I am trying...  :P

==

Outreachy internships are open internationally to women (cis and
trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Internships are also open
to residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American
Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. We are
planning to expand the program to more participants from
underrepresented backgrounds in the future.

#  https://www.outreachy.org

Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups
traditionally underrepresented in tech. Interns are paid a stipend of
$5,500 and have a $500 travel stipend available to them. Interns work
remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
communities on projects ranging from programming, user experience,
documentation, illustration and graphical design, to data science.
Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy
sponsors or in jobs that use the FOSS skills they learned during their
internship.

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Re: [liberationtech] Disroot + OpenNIC Project + GoldBug

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sep 8, 2017 2:29 PM, "grarpamp"  wrote:


> #  http://goldbug.sf.net

It's been posted many times that the "goldbug" family of products
are *extremely snakeoil suspect* for a variety of reasons.   

Search, test, analysis, resolution... applies to all tools before use.


Thank you very much for the heads up, my love.  I am pretty busy now to
tell you a long story, but I think you will love to know they hate me,
hahaha!!  ;D

Tsc, tsc...  My charm is not the same, babe...  :((
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Re: [liberationtech] TEXTCOMBINE-REV, A software for combining text files to obtain high-quality pseudo-randomness in practice (replacing an earlier retracted software)

[Cecilia Tanaka]

I know you don't like to be called Professor, but you were being my
teacher, my professor while I was feeling fear and much pain in the
hospital.  I thank you very much for sincerely sharing your software with
us.  Some will hate, some will love, but the point is knowing how many
efforts, how much time you've spent doing something special for sharing
with the world.  Thank you very much for it.  I am very proud!  :D

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On Aug 31, 2017 7:01 PM, "mok-kong shen"  wrote:


An earlier software of mine, TEXTCOMBINE-SP, posted to this group was not
satisfactory due a bug in a function employed in its design and was
retracted.

I am posting now its replacement TEXTCOMBINE-REV which has been carefully
tested and has a fairly good performance IMHO. The following is extracted
from its
Prologue:

# What has been achieved by the present software can be tersely summarized
as
# follows, assuming the general case where the text files are sufficiently
# large:
#
# (1) The generated byte sequences pass, via design specifications of the
# software, Maurer's universal test and the autocorrelation test for all
# d in the range [1, 16] as well as the ENT test with an entropy value
# according to it of at least 7.99 bits per byte. The software is namely
# coded such that it would give up, reporting failure, after a certain
# specified maximum amount of processing has been done without finding
# a solution.
#
# (2) An extensive expermiment of the present author done on all different
# combinations, totalling 3060 in number, of 4 source materials (of size
# 600 KB each) taken from 18 different books of English literature
# downloaded from Project Gutenberg resulted in the following:
#
# (a) No case of failure was ever encountered. On the contrary, the
above
# mentioned processing limit, which is in terms of rounds of certain
# preprocessing of source materials before they are xor-ed together,
# was by far not being approached in the experiment. For details,
see
# Epilogue.
#
# (b) The worst case of entropy according to ENT in the experiment was
# higher than 7.995 bits per byte and the average CPU-time was less
than
# 15 sec on author's PC.

The software is available at http://mok-kong-shen.de

M. K. Shen
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Re: [liberationtech] "How Linux and makerspaces can strengthen our social fabric"

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:34 PM, Phil Shapiro  wrote:
>
> Interesting article posted here --
>
> https://opensource.com/article/17/6/makerspaces-and-linux
>
> The author, Kim Keyes, is a talented friend of mine here in the Washington
> DC-area.

Hi, Phil.  Thanks for sharing.  It's really good when someone breaks
the silence and shares thoughts, posts, references, bibliography...
Matt didn't like the text, but it's his opinion only.  Here, on
LibTech list, you will find more diversity of opinions and, maybe,
receive feedbacks in private.  Or we can discuss it here too.  You can
invite Kim to our list.  I love makerspaces, but I don't have a real
vocation or talent, just curiosity and love.  I am the girl who used a
blowtorch for soldering a refrigeration system and almost burn it too
much, hahaha!!  It was pretty fun and I do love fire!  :D
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Re: [liberationtech] Disroot + OpenNIC Project + GoldBug

[Cecilia Tanaka]

This is cute too!  <3

https://www.privacytools.io

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[liberationtech] Disroot + OpenNIC Project + GoldBug

[Cecilia Tanaka]

I am testing these ones just for fun.  They seem very interesting and
cute.  Don't ask me about the security yet, hihi!  :D

#  https://disroot.org

#  https://www.opennic.org

#  http://goldbug.sf.net

Millions of good night kisses!!!  <3

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Re: [hackerspaces] Invitation (was Fwd: Re: Black Highlighter + Important PS)

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, dear all.  Hope everybody is doing good!  :)

I am forwarding some messages for your knowledge.  I sincerely thank you
all in advance for suggestions and collaborations.

Please, you all are completely free to make questions about the idea
of making some kind of connection among different people, different
projects, different backgrounds and experiences about tech and society.

Tender kisses and cozy hugs!  Good night and sweet dreams, dear all.  I
need my beauty sleep urgently, zzz...  (- _ -) 


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From: "Yosem Companys" 
Date: Jul 12, 2017 1:58 AM
Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Invitation (was Fwd: Re: Black Highlighter +
Important PS)
To: "Hackerspaces General Discussion List" 
Cc:

Hi All,

I'm glad to see that Cecilia shared her request for projects with the
Hackerspaces list.

I'm one of the people involved with Liberationtech. I helped lead
Liberationtech from 2006 until recently, so I'm in a good position to
answer the question posed to Cecilia.

Liberationtech subscribers typically write about any topic at the
intersection of tech and public goods, including but not limited to any of
the following:

   - Censorship, repression, and freedom (e.g., Freedom of Expression -
   FoE, Free Speech, NetFreedom, Right to Information - RTI)
   - Democracy, politics, elections, and voting (e.g., Netroots, Tea Party)
   - Activism, protest, and movements (e.g., Occupy, Anonymous, Hacktivism)
   - Human rights
   - Security (e.g., cybersecurity)
   - Privacy
   - Development (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for
   Development - ICT4D, Tech for Development - Tech4Dev, Global Development -
   GlobalDev)
   - Education (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for
   Education - ICT4E)
   - Governance and accountability (e.g., eGovernance - eGov, Open
   Governance - OpenGov, Governance 2.0 - gov20)
   - Health (e.g., eHealth, mHealth)
   - Drones
   - Environment
   - Entrepreneurship (e.g., Social Entrepreneurship - socent)
   - Social science (e.g., impact of technology on society)
   - Policy / law (e.g., tech law, copyright law)

That said, we're very open minded. If there are other topics that you feel
should be included in Liberationtech, please let us know. We're pretty much
driven by the interest of our subscribers. So if you're passionate about a
given subject excluded above, please join us and tell us about it!

Best,
Yosem

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Cecilia Tanaka 
wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2017 6:03 PM, "Eleftherios Kosmas"  wrote:
>
>
> Would it be useful to define what kind of projects would be of interest
> for the liberation tech discussion list?
>
> Many people participating in this list are doing awesome stuff, libre
> hardware & software but I'm not sure if all would be of interest to this
> group or lib-tech discuss.
>
>
> My dear, sorry, I will give you a better answer a bit later, because I
> still need to define some directives with the LibTech team.
>
> Personally, I love ALL projects about tech and people  (and I love fun
> LEDs, wheee!!),  but I think the group prefers to focus on technology,
> politics and society, in special giving more visibility to projects about
> surveillance, privacy, transparency and freedom of expression and press
> against wrong and/or vile acts of governments and companies.  Obviously,
> these subjects are only a little example of all the interesting
> possibilities.  :)))
>
> Please, feel completely free to ask what you want or contact me in
> private.  Certainly, I am saying it to the whole list, not only to
> Eleftherios.  All of you can contact me.  I can answer with some retard,
> but earlier or later, I will answer.  ;)
>
> Thank you very much for your interest, Eleftherios.  Being sincere, I
> would * S2 LOVE S2 * with my whole heart if all the hackerspaces try to
> share here new interesting projects.  There are very great hackers in the
> whole world and it's amazing, really awesome!!!  :D
>
> Kisses, kisses, kisses...  <3
>
> Cecilia, dreaming about giant robots...  Japanese blood, I can't resist to
> mechas...  :P
>
> ___
> Discuss mailing list
> disc...@lists.hackerspaces.org
> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
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Re: [liberationtech] Scorecard for Mobile Crypto Chat Apps

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Jul 6, 2017 3:23 PM,  wrote:

Hi there,
G. commented on the other list this Url to criteria for Mobile Android
Crypto Chat Application Comparisons, are the criteria complete or some
missing?

https://smokeappope.sourceforge.io/#MobileScoreCard


Hi there!  :D

Thanks for sharing!  Loved it, very interesting, but for now I don't have
technical knowledge enough to say the app is perfect and has all the
important crypto criteria completely analysed, my dear.  But it seems very
nice!  :)
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Re: [liberationtech] Black Highlighter + Important PS

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Oh, the project doesn't need to be written in English only, but please
remember that a little review in English can be very, very useful.

Sorry everybody for the bad format of the original message.  It's ugly, meh
again!  :((


On Jul 11, 2017 8:57 AM, "Cecilia Tanaka"  wrote:

It's one of the projects by Brian Dickens (@hostilefork) and I thought it
would be interesting to share it with LibTech community.

http://blackhighlighter.hostilefork.com/
A little excerpt of it:
"Blackhighlighter combines novel editing with in-browser cryptography to
facilitate new ways of communicating. It was initially designed for a
Sunlight Foundation contest to improve transparency in correspondence with
elected officials.
However, it was later evolved to a widget that helps hybridize redaction
with accountability in many possible scenarios. It has applications to open
government, but also generally raising the bar for fairness in
communications."
==
Important PS:  - I was thinking about posting on Liberation Tech's twitter
account all the new projects presented on this public list, since they are
related to technology and society  (human rights, surveillance, privacy,
freedom of the press and expression, etc).
Sorry, we will *not* make "free merchandising" to companies and, please, no
huge ego trips.  We just want to share new ideas with the world and hack
it, make it much better.  :D
You can mention projects and institutions you really appreciate, your own
projects, interesting posts, news, essays, books, ideas, etc.  Just
remember you and your project (or other thing)  can be criticized, receive
some suggestions or  - who knows? -  good help to become even better,
yayyy!!!  :D
There are hundreds of intelligent and very interesting people on this
list.  Some projects can be discussed here and receive technical
corrections and/or suggestions, support, partnership...  So many lovely
possibilities!  <3
Oh, and if possible, share your favorite project with us mentioning your @
on Twitter, please!  :)
Thank you a lot, dear all!  Much love for you and my best wishes!  <3
Ceci
PS's PS:  -  I survived to hospital, but not my notebook.  You know, lots
of virus there, hahaha!!  ;D
Well, try to ignore the crazy auto-corrections of this bizarre new
cellphone, please.  I bought a "dumbphone" instead of a "smartphone", meh!
 :(
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[liberationtech] Black Highlighter + Important PS

[Cecilia Tanaka]

It's one of the projects by Brian Dickens (@hostilefork) and I thought it would
be interesting to share it with LibTech community.

http://blackhighlighter.hostilefork.com/
A little excerpt of it:
"Blackhighlighter combines novel editing with in-browser cryptography to
facilitate new ways of communicating. It was initially designed for a
Sunlight Foundation contest to improve transparency in correspondence with
elected officials.
However, it was later evolved to a widget that helps hybridize redaction
with accountability in many possible scenarios. It has applications to open
government, but also generally raising the bar for fairness in
communications."
==
Important PS:  - I was thinking about posting on Liberation Tech's twitter
account all the new projects presented on this public list, since they are
related to technology and society  (human rights, surveillance, privacy,
freedom of the press and expression, etc).
Sorry, we will *not* make "free merchandising" to companies and, please, no
huge ego trips.  We just want to share new ideas with the world and hack
it, make it much better.  :D
You can mention projects and institutions you really appreciate, your own
projects, interesting posts, news, essays, books, ideas, etc.  Just
remember you and your project (or other thing)  can be criticized, receive
some suggestions or  - who knows? -  good help to become even better,
yayyy!!!  :D
There are hundreds of intelligent and very interesting people on this
list.  Some projects can be discussed here and receive technical
corrections and/or suggestions, support, partnership...  So many lovely
possibilities!  <3
Oh, and if possible, share your favorite project with us mentioning your @
on Twitter, please!  :)
Thank you a lot, dear all!  Much love for you and my best wishes!  <3
Ceci
PS's PS:  -  I survived to hospital, but not my notebook.  You know, lots
of virus there, hahaha!!  ;D
Well, try to ignore the crazy auto-corrections of this bizarre new
cellphone, please.  I bought a "dumbphone" instead of a "smartphone", meh!
 :(
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[liberationtech] July, 12th - Save Net Neutrality

[Cecilia Tanaka]

July 12th will be a massive, Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save
#NetNeutrality
. Join
us:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12

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Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [ PFIR ] Idiots on Canadian Supreme Court demand right of GLOBAL Google censorship!

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, Thomas!  Hope you are doing good!  :D

I *did not* agree with you, but I loved your message.  It's exactly what I
wanted to see here again:  more life, different opinions, different stories
and perspectives.  :)

A list dies when everybody can say just what someone wants to read.  We can
show our true colors and be polite and rational at same time.  :)

Zak and, in special, Yosem are very busy now, but I know they do love this
list and this community and they will love good and respectful discussions
here.

There are 9 years of good and bad stories here, in our LibTech List.
Broken hopes and dreams, but more beautiful dreams are still borning, new
projects are being created, more people are awakening...

It's life in movement, my dear.  There are hopes, dreams, pain, tears, and
hard fights, but the hope of a better world can change everything.  I want
to build a new world.  At least, living and dying believing it's really
possible.

Tender kisses from hospital, muuaah!  No panic, just a boring migraine.  I
will survive to sing "I will survive".  I love this song!  <3

Ceci, who will write more later...  Sorry, Thomas.  My 4G is joking with me
and I am sure the wifi here is _not_ trustful, ugh!  (>.<)*


On Jun 28, 2017 6:39 PM, "Thomas Delrue"  wrote:

Do you wanna know something? They'll get their way as well. All under
the guise of "terrorism" or "protect the children" or whatever the acute
and current threat is. If they don't get their way by themselves, then
they'll band together with some other countries to strong-arm whatever
company into compliance, because "wouldn't it be a shame if you couldn't
do business in a market of ~740 (EU) or ~35 (CAN) million people and
what we ask in return is such a small thing...".

Now I apologize in advance for this (long) alarmist opinion (and a bit
of a hijack), but here goes:

I don't think many people actually understand the seriousness of the
problems we, as users/inhabitants of the Internet, are actually facing
today.
I think it is done! It's over! The Internet was a cool experiment but it
has failed. We lost that game and need wipe it clean & start over again.
The Internet has not turned out to be this great engine of empowerment
and democratization. It has instead turned out to be a most superb
instrument for repression and control.
The more I think about this, the more I become convinced that there is
very little to be salvaged from it.

To many folks, the Internet, in effect, is facebook, Google, Amazon,
Microsoft and a couple of other large players/feudal lords (who they are
is depending on your locality); everything else is something they get to
*through* their feudal lord, that is if they ever leave the feudal lands
(cf. Google AMP).
Nation-states are seeing this as well and they too want their slice of
the cake of control - after all, the only purpose of any government of
the day, is to still be the government of the day, tomorrow. And what a
gorgeous way to see into the future by tapping into the thoughts and
desires of your populace...
They either become the One Pipe everyone talks through and watch for
anything on that pipe, they co-opt (some of) these large players or they
work on a combination of them.

Instead of a tool for freedom, the Internet has become a tool for
oppression: everything you do online is being monitored, monetized,
processed, quantified and then used against you, never in your favor.
Whether this is as mundane as hiking the price for whatever locked-down
widget you're buying the next day from a shopping website that uses
dynamic pricing or as life-altering as to stick charges against you
based on your online habits.

Back in the day, surveillance was creepy because you could see the guy
in the raincoat with the newspaper following you. It was expensive to do
so it was done sparingly. Nowadays, it is cheaper to monitor everything
and anything, 24/7/365[.25] than it is to target the surveillance so why
not put everyone under surveillance. And you don't ever see the vast
armies of faceless machines that do the monitoring, those are hidden
away in far-away data centers. The epitome of a panopticon!
It's also cheaper to keep the data around than it is to put in place
systems that sunset data after a certain age, so why not store
everything forever? After all, we may want to go back to "T minus 20
years" in case we want to /really/ hurt you. /You/ may not remember what
you did then, but /we/ certainly do!

To come back to the subject of censorship: I believe it was Noam Chomsky
who uttered that "...the smart way to keep people passive and obedient
is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very
lively debate within that spectrum..." I think that this is a very good
description of what the Internet/Panopticon has become and is on the
path of becoming even more.

As to Lauren's point regarding "My view is that Google should
consider cutting off all services to countries that make such demands.
Period.": I thi

[liberationtech] Fwd: [ PFIR ] Idiots on Canadian Supreme Court demand right of GLOBAL Google censorship!

[Cecilia Tanaka]

I didn't delete Lauren's comments because they're the best part of the
message, haha!!  ;D

(I know, it's tragic, not funny.)


-- Forwarded message --
From: "PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List"


Idiots on Canadian Supreme Court demand right of GLOBAL Google censorship!

Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules

http://fortune.com/2017/06/28/canada-supreme-court-google/

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against Google on Wednesday
in a closely-watched intellectual property case over whether
judges can apply their own country's laws to all of the
Internet.  In a 7-2 decision, the court agreed a British
Columbia judge had the power to issue an injunction forcing
Google to scrub search results about pirated products not just
in Canada, but everywhere else in the world too.

 - - -

What a complete batch of power-grabbing idiots on the Canadian Supreme
Court. My God, they demand the right to impose GLOBAL censorship? What
total asses. Beyond stupid. More dangerous than President Chump when
it comes to speech rights. Because the EU wants to do the same thing
with their nightmare "Right To Be Forgotten." And China too. And
Russia. And France. And more. And there are vile, sick politicians
here in the USA who would do this same thing if they could figure out
how to get it past the First Amendment. It's a race to the lowest
common denominator censorship bottom. My view is that Google should
consider cutting off all services to countries that make such demands.
Period. Otherwise, one day Google Search results pages will be nothing
but a big white empty space.

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Barrett Brown: 'new framework for mass online collaboration' Reddit

[Cecilia Tanaka]

More about the Pursuance Project and Barret Brown's participation on it.

Hugs and hope, people!  <3

PS:  - Razer, you know I love you, old bastard!  Thanks a lot!  ;)


-- Forwarded message --
From: "Razer" 

> My name is Barrett Brown; I recently finished a four-year prison
> sentence stemming from my work in support of Wikileaks. I'll soon be
> rolling out a new framework for mass online collaboration,
> crowd-sourced journalism, and robust opposition to criminalized
> institutions. Learn about it here.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiLeaks/comments/6jxv8f/my_
name_is_barrett_brown_i_recently_finished_a/
>

And here: https://pursuanceproject.org/ (DigitalOcean)

'Rr
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[liberationtech] Fwd: The Red Pill Expo: Because Something Is Wrong

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Now, a less tragic message to make you all think and smile.  Or not.  :P

It's hard to know how to feel about the contrast between our ideal
world and this world here, full of illusions and lies.  Oh, sorry, I
wanted to say "alternative facts".  We have a lot of them in my
country too!  :((

Lovely days and nights, dear all!  Take care!  <3

PS for grarpamp:  - Thanks for sharing this post, my cute-cute
honeysuckle!  #love  (* - *)  <3

(Hmm...  I need to learn more cheesy lovey-dovey expressions only to
annoy grarpamp and making him blush, hahaha!!!  ;D)


-- Forwarded message --
From: grarpamp 


https://redpillexpo.org/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+pill+expo

The Red-Pill Expo is a gathering event for truth seekers who undertand
the relevance of the allegorical sci-fi movie, The Matrix.

The film’s message is that most humans are connected to a matrix of
illusion that prevents them from realizing they merely are tools and
energy sources that serve unseen controllers. At a critical point in
the plot, the hero, whose name is Neo, is given a choice. If he wishes
to return to the illusion, he can take a blue pill. If he chooses to
see reality and break free of the controllers, he must take the red
pill – which he does.

That, however, is just the beginning. The controllers must destroy Neo
before he can awaken enough humans to dismantle the matrix and set
everyone free. The parallel to real life is chilling.

In today’s world, there are untold legions of people who have taken
the red pill and now are free of the grand illusion as it relates to
wars, terrorism, politics, education, money and banking, the judicial
system, elections, health care, and everything in between.

The Red-Pill Expo gives them a chance to meet each other, to realize
they are not alone, to develop ways to network and help each other, to
form a freedom coalition, to discover exactly who their controllers
are and, finally, to participate in activities that will dismantle the
matrix.
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[liberationtech] [OT] Fwd: death of Denis McQuail

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Carpentier Nico 

 Forwarded Message 
From:   Peter Golding 

Colleagues will be sad to learn of the death on Sunday of Denis
McQuail.   Denis was one of the giants of our field, the author of
numerous original works, probably the field’s major textbook, and one
of the founders of the European Journal of Communication. Most of all
he was a good friend and incomparable mentor for many in the field,
and he will be badly missed and long remembered.

==

Sorry if sounds too OT to pay tribute to a dead professor, but Prof.
McQuail wrote brilliant works about mass communication, about the
relations between media and society, talking about political, social
and cultural aspects of freedom of expression, censorship, information
of public interest, and so many concepts we study and defend daily...
He deserves this last goodbye.

It's always sad when a teacher, an author dies.  He will live in his
works, but it's always strange to me to know you will never say hello
again to a person.  I never said 'Hello, I love your work!' to Prof.
McQuail and now I will never say...
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[liberationtech] Invitation to LibTech community (was Re: Addressing Imbalances in Communications via Cryptographic Redaction)

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, Brian!  Thanks for sharing your time and efforts with the world!  :D

It's always great to hear about new projects in the whole world, so I
will use your message to invite all the other members of LibTech
community to share news and projects using technology to make better
our world.  And, of course, news and information about how
technological resources can be unfortunately used against the society
too.

A simple example:  - I do love drones.  They are amazing and can help
researchers in several ways, but I always feel miserable, really bad,
when they are used for spying, for brutally violating the privacy of
people.  :(

Zack  - copied in this message - sent in private a brilliant and short
analysis of Kenya's political situation and how it can affect the
development of the country in all aspects, including the technological
one.  I would like to learn more about the tech situation in other
countries in a personal perspective, not necessarily under a technical
or academic point of view.  I was trying to write a little about
Brazil to give him an answer, but...  uh, sorry!  Being sincere, my
post was stinking so much I was afraid my neighbors could think I was
hiding a corpse in my notebook.  I will try to write something less
stinky later, I promise.  :)

Well, the usual pattern of oppressive governments in the whole world
is to cut and/or to censure the Internet, the freedom of the press,
and the communication in general.  There are great projects being
created to avoid this kind of situation and all of them need our help.
If you have an idea or know some good project, please share it with
the community.  And if you need help with your own project, ask for
help.  Do not feel the fear of being judged or criticized.  You can
not receive a public answer, but can have a good surprise in private.
I always receive great feedbacks in private.  Also some offenses, but
it's part of being alive, haha!!  ;)

Tender hugs and millions of little kisses from Brazil!  Take care and
have a great and happy life, dear all!  <3

Ceci

PS:  -  Yep, millions of kisses seem too much, but you can stock them
to the sad or needy moments...  You can get a daily little kiss with
your coffee or tea to make you smile, or put some of them in your
pocket or purse to use when necessary.  Be happy and feel special:
you received millions of Nippo-Brazilian kisses!!!  :D

PS's PS:  -  If you hate me and don't want my kisses, donate them.
Donating love is always a good idea!  <3
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[liberationtech] Fwd: Pursuance: Save the World: What's the catch?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Sorry, dear all!  My manicure is pretty cute and my cuticles are
feeling great, but I didn't talk to Steve yet.  In any case, I am
sharing Douglas' link and a message of mine to tell you all about the
existence of the Pursuance Project.

Kisses and hugs from Brazil!  <3

Ceci

-- Forwarded message --
From: Cecilia Tanaka 

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017, at 3:37 AM, douglas rankine
 wrote:

> see url: https://pursuanceproject.org/



Steve sent this message a few minutes ago.  It would be pretty
interesting to ask him more about the Pursuance Project.  I will
probably do it, but only after to finish my manicure.  ;)

===

Greetings fellow Cypherpunks,

Come one, come all!  Today's hackathon has begun; just got situated in
the back where we always are during these weekly hackathons --
Saturdays from 4pm to 10pm -- in Church (at Noisebridge, which is at
2169 Mission St).

Some of us will be working on LeapChat (secure in-browser chat) and/or
Ensue (secure task management for epic swarms of activists and/or
journalists), which will be combined to create the Pursuance System,
the software behind the Pursuance Project, which is a project I'm
working on with Barrett Brown and others.

In Barrett's words, the ultimate goal of the Pursuance Project is to
create software that enables "a vast and formidable ecosystem of
opposition to institutionalized injustice".  That's what we're
building (among other things).

Want to help?  Speak to me.

And if you've yet to join the CWC chat server, join us at
https://bit.ly/cwc-mminvite or join #cpunkswritecode on Freenode.

Let's continue fulfilling the goal of Cypherpunks Write Code by
writing privacy-enhancing software the world desperately needs!

--Steve
github.com/elimisteve
keybase.io/elimisteve
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[liberationtech] Fwd: IPA / Expose Facts / Whisper: Protecting National Security Whistleblowers

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Wish you all a lovely weekend!  <3

PS:  - Oh, grarpamp...  Thank you so much for sharing it, pumpkin
dear!  #love  (* - *)  <3

(Yep, pumpkin's veggie, but sounds so cheesy that all the vegans here
will protest, hahaha!!  Take care, dear!  ;)

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and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -
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-- Forwarded message --

From: grarpamp 


https://whisper.exposefacts.org/

Protecting National Security Whistleblowers: A New Program

ExposeFacts, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy, is
pleased to announce the launch of a new Whistleblower and Source
Protection Program (WHISPeR). WHISPeR makes ExposeFacts the first
journalistic organization to house a program dedicated entirely to
providing affordable legal representation to whistleblowers and
sources. See video announcement.

To head WHISPeR, ExposeFacts has brought in internationally renowned
whistleblower and human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack as National
Security and Human Rights Director. Ms. Radack represents NSA
whistleblowers Edward Snowden, Thomas Drake and William Binney, CIA
torture whistleblower John Kiriakou and dozens of anonymous national
security and intelligence whistleblowers and sources who have been
fired, criminally investigated and punished for shedding light on
government and corporate illegalities.

Ms. Radack will be joined by National Security and Human Rights Deputy
Director Kathleen McClellan, whose decade-plus of legal experience
advocating for civil liberties and human rights reforms provides
invaluable expertise and support.

Launched by the Institute for Public Accuracy in 2014, ExposeFacts
promotes whistleblowing with a unique blend of independent journalism,
methodical organizing and public outreach. Institute for Public
Accuracy Executive Director Norman Solomon said:

“The government’s unprecedented crackdown on ‘national security’
whistleblowers using the Espionage Act has created a chilling
atmosphere for sources and journalists, giving rise to a larger war on
information that the public has a right to know. At ExposeFacts, our
message from the beginning has been, ‘whistleblowers welcome.’ With
the launch of WHISPeR, headed by the unmatched legal powerhouse
Jesselyn Radack, ExposeFacts can now provide affordable top-notch
legal representation directly to some whistleblowers and sources.”

WHISPeR National Security and Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack
said: “ExposeFacts is a cutting-edge initiative already recognizing
the need for better source protection and making a tremendous positive
impact for whistleblowers and investigative journalism. At WHISPeR, we
provide journalists, sources, whistleblowers, and hacktivists with
critical affordable legal protection, public advocacy, and the latest
in encryption technology. It takes courageous individuals to speak
truth to power. WHISPeR protects and amplifies their voices.”
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Re: [liberationtech] Help needed for Internet access in Africa

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Dear Doc,

I do apologize for answering to your message, but Yosem and Zak are *very
busy* at the moment.

Yes, my dear, you and other members of the Liberation Tech List can share
this important request in other lists and groups.  I am completely sure you
and all the others can help Anelda e her team a lot.

Thank you very much!  Warm regards and my best wishes!  <3

Ceci
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curiosity.  It's your place in the world; it's your life.  Go on and do all
you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -  Mae Jemison

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:23 PM,
​​
Doc Searls  wrote:

> Might I share this on another list?
>
> Doc
>
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:36 AM, Yosem Companys  wrote:
>
> From: Anelda van der Walt 
>
> Dear all,
>
> I realise we have a very diverse group of people subscribed to this list
> and really hope someone on the list can help with ideas or can put us in
> touch with someone who can help.
>
> In July 2017 colleagues from University of New Orleans will be running a
> 5-day bioinformatics workshop in Gabon, Central Africa. The workshop will
> include some modules from the Carpentry repertoire.  The researchers from
> New Orleans have a longstanding relationship with the Gabon university and
> have been involved in a number of capacity building initiatives over the
> years. Amongst other things, participants will learn this year, to use
> cloud computing (thanks Jason!) for genomics data analysis...
>
> The reality is that the university does not have Internet... Although our
> colleagues from the US will be buying data bundles and using the local
> mobile network to get access to Internet for the duration of the course
> (with its limitations and high costs associated), we are trying to help the
> university to get access to Internet at a broader level.
>
> We are working with the country's Education and Research Network service
> provider, but costs are astronomical and as such the Science Faculty, who
> is keen to take a lead on this initiative, will just not be able to cover
> installation costs and monthly costs from an already depleted budget.
>
> So, we have a use case (bioinformatics data analysis in the cloud), we
> have a champion at the Gabon university (Dean of Science Faculty), we have
> the network provider ready with plans to install (GabonREN), we have an
> existing relationship between US/Gabon (so not one of those once off
> helicopter capacity building initiatives).
>
> What we don't have:
>
>- Skills in the IT department to install and maintain internet (The
>Science Dean said they will have to contract these skills in)
>- Funding to afford the initial installation
>- Funding to maintain the installation (staff/contractors)
>- Funding for monthly line rental
>
> Does anybody have an idea about someone we could approach for help?
>
> I look forward to seeing how our collective wisdom and networks may be
> able to help fellow researchers get access to the Internet.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anelda
>
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Re: [liberationtech] The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Cecilia Tanaka 
wrote:

>
> Well...  Two friends are creating the most supercalifragilisticexpialidoc
> ious password in the whole Universe.  So perfect that even "The Hacker
> Man" could break.
>

​Oh, God, still too sleepy, zzz...  I wanted to say "So perfect that even
"The Hacker Man" could NOT break it.
​

> Astonishing precision and absolute security.  Tcharan, tcharan...  Let's
> wait for something more magical than rainbow unicorns dancing with
> dinosaurs!  :D
>

Did I mention that all the dinosaurs will have lasers?  And we will have
cats. Lots of cats, because the Internet will stop without them.  Meow!  <3
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Re: [liberationtech] The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

PS:  -  Just in case, I was already well punished.  I was exhausted, almost
sleeping over the notebook, but received and answered to several jokes
about this message the whole night.

Well...  Two friends are creating the most s
upercalifragilisticexpialidocious password in the whole Universe.  So
perfect that even "The Hacker Man" could break.  Astonishing precision and
absolute security.  Tcharan, tcharan...  Let's wait for something more
magical than rainbow unicorns dancing with dinosaurs!  :D

(Yes, I don't believe them, but the joke will probably be fun.)


​
-- Forwarded message --
From: Cecilia Tanaka 
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:01 AM
Subject: Re: The world's most secure password for websites, games and
private data.
To: jim bell
Cc: CypherPunks


On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:49 PM, jim bell wrote:
>
> Yes, it did look very good!  I think I'll begin using it for all my
websites
> and computers!

 Oh, Jim, I'm so happy you appreciated this amazing site!  It's
an excellent idea to use it for all your sites, computers and bank
accounts, my dear!  I will do exactly the same right now!  :D 
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Re: [liberationtech] The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Jun 23, 2017 5:14 AM, "Christian Pietsch"  wrote:

Hi Cecilia,
hi all,

Please let me explain this in case it is not obvious:

This website is a hoax. I shows the same password to everybody, time
and again. Do not use it!


Hi, Christian!  Thanks for your kind clarification!
S
incerely much appreciated, dear.
:)


It was a

- apparently not so obvious -  joke
 o
f
mine and I thought the
​ ​
fun
reference to the xkcd comic strip was enough to let it even clearer.
 D'oh, I was wrong!  :P

Sorry, I apologize for it.  I thought it was pretty evident that nobody
should believe on that website and similar ones.  Pardon, I was joking, not
presenting the LibTech list a 'wow-amazing-miraculous passwords generator'
.  The xkcd method is securer than using that site, hihi...  ;)

Tender hugs from Brazil, my dear!  Thanks again!  <3

Ceci, which favorite passwords are still "123456" and "password", hahaha!!
 ;D
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[liberationtech] The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.
Researched and developed by leading encryption specialists in Europe:

https://mostsecure.pw

# Bonus For Fun:  xkcd  -  "Password Strength"

https://xkcd.com/936

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Re: [liberationtech] Mail delivery failed : returning message to sender

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017, at 9:40 PM, Zak Whittington  wrote:
>
> I just moderated him. Please let me know if these messages continue.

Yup, dear!  I will be alert and pay more attention!  :D

http://cdn.redalertpolitics.com/files/2014/02/Grumpy-Cat.jpg  =>  It's
my "Serious Alert Face"!  Pretty impressive and scary, uh?  I bet all
the spammers will run away from here, haha!!  ;D

Wish you all a lovely week!  Take care, everybody!  <3

c.
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Re: [liberationtech] Mail delivery failed : returning message to sender

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 7:08 PM, aryt alasti  wrote:
>
> I suppose I'm not the only list registrant who is beginning to get these
> "delivery failed" notifications after messages have been sent out by others.

No, you are not the only privileged, Aryt.  :)

Zak, my dear, sorry for disturbing you in a lovely Sunday, but could
you put the address  under moderation, please?
This e-mail address returned "delivery failed" messages twice, on the
days 7 and 11, June.

Thanks, take care!  :)
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Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 294, Issue 1

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Ian Anderson
 wrote:
>
> Help

May I help you, Ian?  Please, could you be more specific about your
doubts or needs?

If you just want to unsubscribe, change your password, or something
else about the Liberation Tech list, please, send an e-mail to the
moderator at , OK?  :)

Cheers,

c.
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[liberationtech] Fwd: Top German Court on Internet tracking: IP addresses are personal data

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --

From:  


Press release:

+++ Top German Court on Internet tracking: IP addresses are personal
data +++

This week the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) looked
into whether website operators such as Google or Facebook may record
which information Internet users read, post or searched on the web – or
whether citizens have a right to use the Internet anonymously. The
ruling concerns the case of German pirate party politician and privacy
activist Patrick Breyer who is suing the German government over logging
all visits to government websites (Case VI ZR 135/13).

According to the court’s ruling, users‘ IP addresses qualify as personal
data and may be collected only where allowed by data protection law.

Contrary to some reports, the Court did not decide[2] on whether website
operators may retain IP addresses in bulk to guard against online
attacks. Instead the court referred the case back to the Court of Appeal
(Landgericht) of Berlin in order to establish a sufficient factual basis
concerning the necessity and proportionality of such metadata retention.
The court’s press release[3] translates as follows:

„In the present case the Court of Appeal’s findings were insufficient to
balance the interests at stake. The Court of Appeal did not sufficiently
establish whether retaining the applicant’s IP addresses is necessary in
order to ensure the (general) operability of the services used. The
defendent concedes that it does not retain IP addresses regarding many
of its websites due to the low risk of an attack. There are no findings
as to the risk of attack suffered by other federal websites the
applicant wishes to use. After establishing these facts the Court of
Appeal will need to balance, as required by the European Court of
Justice, the defendent’s interest in ensuring the operability of its
online media services against the applicant’s interest or fundamental
rights and freedoms. In this context due regard shall be given to the
issues of general prevention and law enforcement.“

Breyer calls on the Commission to act on the lack of specific EU rules
protecting on-line privacy: „The Commission should amend EU legislation
to specifically prohibit any blanket recording of our Internet use by
website operators. Europe should reject the ruthless NSA method of
‚collecting it all‘ and enforce our right to freedom of information and
expression in the digital age.“

Breyer argues that websites can be safe without tracking every user
across every page: „This Internet stalking is about as useful as
mounting a CCTV camera next to an open warehouse door. We need secure IT
systems, not a general suspicion against Europe’s 400 million Internet
users“.

Website operators often record and track their users online behaviour
for commercial purposes, but also to disclose records to law enforcement
agencies and owners of copyright-protected content upon request. Breyer
is challenging this practise and demands that operators anonymize users‘
IP addresses:

„Banning governments and Internet giants from identifiably recording our
browsing habits is the only way to effectively shield our private life
and interests, to prevent erroneous infringement notices and false
suspicions. IP addresses have turned out to be extremely prone to error
und unreliable when used to identify users. For as long as browsing the
Internet can result in prosecution, there is no real freedom of
information and expression on-line.

Nobody has a right to record everything we do and say on-line.
Generation Internet has a right to access information on-line just as
unmonitored and without inhibition as our parents read the paper,
listened to the radio or browsed books.“

Court’s press release (German)[4]

Report by Technology Law Dispatch (English)[5]

[2]
https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2017/05/in-the-courts/german-federal-supreme-court-confirms-dynamic-ip-addresses-may-constitute-personal-data/

[3]
http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2017&Sort=3&nr=78289

[4]
http://juris.bundesgerichtshof.de/cgi-bin/rechtsprechung/document.py?Gericht=bgh&Art=pm&Datum=2017&Sort=3&nr=78289

[5]
https://www.technologylawdispatch.com/2017/05/in-the-courts/german-federal-supreme-court-confirms-dynamic-ip-addresses-may-constitute-personal-data/
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[liberationtech] Fwd: [Webinar] Decrypting the WannaCry ransomware: Why is it happening and (how) is it going to end?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Forwarding with tenderness and lots of kisses from Brazil !  <3

Ceci

#May 17, International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and
Biphobia - http://dayagainsthomophobia.org  #LoveIsLove  <3
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-- Forwarded message --
From:  
Date: Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:17 PM
Subject: [Webinar] Decrypting the WannaCry ransomware: Why is it
happening and (how) is it going to end?
To: cecilia.tan...@gmail.com


Dear members ,

As a result of last cyber attack that hit many countries worldwide,
our partners from DiploFoundation and the Geneva Internet Platform
have organised an open webinar for the community to provide an
analysis of the main technological, geopolitical, legal, and economic
aspects of the ransomware. Experts from different fields will discuss
why ransomware has become a major issue: Can such attacks be prevented
by technological measures alone? Is there a need for a legal response,
such as Microsoft’s proposal for the Digital Geneva Convention? Is
raising more awareness among users the ultimate solution?

The webinar will discuss whether it is possible to put a stop to
malicious software, or whether they should be considered the price we
have to pay for the many advantages of the Internet. Choices on policy
will have to be made sooner rather than later. The aim of the
discussion is to explore and help make informed policy choices.

How to participate?

Date: Tomorrow - Thursday, 18th May, at 11:00 UTC (13:00 CEST).

The virtual event is open for everyone , just register under this link
: https://www.diplomacy.edu/registrations/wannacry-webinar

Register to book your seat. The webinar link will be e-mailed to
registrants one hour before the start.

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Re: [liberationtech] New hacking book for you to try

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, Sparc Flow!

I didn't read the new book yet, but your first book was pretty good,
my dear.  Thank you a lot for sharing knowledge!  Aww, it's always so
cute...  #love  <3

Just to remember the LibTech list, Yosem sent the message about Sparc
Flow's first book to us in January.  It's free and didactic!  :D

==

From: Sparc Flow 

Hello List,

As a way of giving back to the community, I want to share an ebook
about pentesting and ethical hacking. You can have it for free here :
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTDLGQQ

It illustrates a (fictitious) full hacking scenario: from creating a
malicious file in a phishing campaign, all the way to exfiltrating
data from a Mainframe (while knocking off some windows domains along
the way).
I obviously could not do it without the great tools and authors in
this community. Many thanks to all.
If I missed someone when crediting a tool or technique please feel
free to write me :-)

Tchuss people !

S. Flow

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Kisses, hugs, and my best wishes!  <3

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[liberationtech] Three challenges for the web, according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee #HappyBirthdayWWW

[Cecilia Tanaka]

#  http://webfoundation.org/2017/03/web-turns-28-letter


"Three challenges for the web, according to its inventor."

Web Foundation · March 12, 2017

Today is the world wide web’s 28th birthday. Here’s a message from our
founder and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee on how the web has
evolved, and what we must do to ensure it fulfils his vision of an
equalising platform that benefits all of humanity.

This letter is also available en français, en español, em português
and بالعربية.

—

Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the
world wide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would
allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities
and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries. In many
ways, the web has lived up to this vision, though it has been a
recurring battle to keep it open. But over the past 12 months, I’ve
become increasingly worried about three new trends, which I believe we
must tackle in order for the web to fulfill its true potential as a
tool which serves all of humanity.

1)   We’ve lost control of our personal data

The current business model for many websites offers free content in
exchange for personal data. Many of us agree to this – albeit often by
accepting long and confusing terms and conditions documents – but
fundamentally we do not mind some information being collected in
exchange for free services. But, we’re missing a trick. As our data is
then held in proprietary silos, out of sight to us, we lose out on the
benefits we could realise if we had direct control over this data, and
chose when and with whom to share it. What’s more, we often do not
have any way of feeding back to companies what data we’d rather not
share – especially with third parties – the T&Cs are all or nothing.

This widespread data collection by companies also has other impacts.
Through collaboration with – or coercion of – companies, governments
are also increasingly watching our every move online, and passing
extreme laws that trample on our rights to privacy. In repressive
regimes, it’s easy to see the harm that can be caused – bloggers can
be arrested or killed, and political opponents can be monitored. But
even in countries where we believe governments have citizens’ best
interests at heart, watching everyone, all the time is simply going
too far. It creates a chilling effect on free speech and stops the web
from being used as a space to explore important topics, like sensitive
health issues, sexuality or religion.

2)   It’s too easy for misinformation to spread on the web

Today, most people find news and information on the web through just a
handful of social media sites and search engines. These sites make
more money when we click on the links they show us. And, they choose
what to show us based on algorithms which learn from our personal data
that they are constantly harvesting. The net result is that these
sites show us content they think we’ll click on – meaning that
misinformation, or ‘fake news’, which is surprising, shocking, or
designed to appeal to our biases can spread like wildfire. And through
the use of data science and armies of bots, those with bad intentions
can game the system to spread misinformation for financial or
political gain.

3)   Political advertising online needs transparency and understanding

Political advertising online has rapidly become a sophisticated
industry. The fact that most people get their information from just a
few platforms and the increasing sophistication of algorithms drawing
upon rich pools of personal data, means that political campaigns are
now building individual adverts targeted directly at users. One source
suggests that in the 2016 US election, as many as 50,000 variations of
adverts were being served every single day on Facebook, a
near-impossible situation to monitor. And there are suggestions that
some political adverts – in the US and around the world – are being
used in unethical ways – to point voters to fake news sites, for
instance, or to keep others away from the polls. Targeted advertising
allows a campaign to say completely different, possibly conflicting
things to different groups. Is that democratic?

—

These are complex problems, and the solutions will not be simple. But
a few broad paths to progress are already clear. We must work together
with web companies to strike a balance that puts a fair level of data
control back in the hands of people, including the development of new
technology like personal “data pods” if needed and exploring
alternative revenue models like subscriptions and micropayments. We
must fight against government over-reach in surveillance laws,
including through the courts if necessary. We must push back against
misinformation by encouraging gatekeepers such as Google and Facebook
to continue their efforts to combat the problem, while avoiding the
creation of any central bodies to decide what is “true” or not. We
need more algorithmic transparency 

[liberationtech] Fwd: Open Forum : Help - Southern Cameroons - Internet Shut Dow

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Please, someone here can help Cameroon and/or give Isaac and me some
guidelines to help it?  Please, please, please?  :D

I love mesh networks, but the Brazilian projects I was following
failed miserably because we had no money enough, no technical
knowledge enough, and too much opposition...  Most of the people
thought we wanted to commit crimes, aff...  Bah, we don't need a
meshnet to do it, d'oh!  And I have better things to do in my free
time; being a criminal is absolutely not glamorous or charming in the
real life!  :P

Kisses and hugs!  Thanks in advance!   <3

Ceci
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and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -
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-- Forwarded message --
From: Isaac Zama via Internet Society
Date: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:32 PM
Subject: Open Forum : Help - Southern Cameroons - Internet Shut Dow
To: cecilia.tan...@gmail.com


Open Forum

Help - Southern Cameroons - Internet Shut Dow
Mar 3, 2017 9:33 PM
Isaac Zama

Hello Folks,

As you might be aware, its been 45 days since the government of
Cameroon shut down the internet to the people of Southern Cameroons.
With no where else to turn, I thought,you may be the answer to our
problem of Internet shut down in Southern Cameroons.

I am writing to solicit your help to find an answer to the internet
shut down problem in Cameroon.

I am writing to find out if anyone of has any ideas on how we could
get internet in Southern Cameroons through the meshnets.
Not being a technie, I am unable to really understand how it works.
Could someone with experience help?

Is  there is any technology out there that can provide satellite
internet without equipment on the ground. I have done all kinds of
internet search to find answers, but I am unable to come up with an
answer.
Or, is it possible for any telecommunication company here in the US or
elsewhere to issue SIM cards that can enable the folks in Southern
Cameroons to get internet?

You might notice that my questions  may not make any sense. Yes, I am
very frustrated, so there might not be any logic in my thought
process.

Any help, ideas, contacts you can provide me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,
Isaac

To learn more about the Southern Cameroons issue, please see
#FreeSouthernCameroons, #BringBackOurInternet

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Re: [liberationtech] Who is receiving messages from Shara Cruz?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

It seems a bot and got some addresses here, but maybe in my specific
case, it was mixed with e-mail spoofing, because some of "her"
messages were answers to my comments on this list, my dear Yosem.  I
received 10 messages and the last 6 of them were very disgusting, with
explicit p0rn content, asking me to "trust her" and a lot of things
more.  Ugh!!!  :((

Already blocked "her" and "her sisters"  (told Yosem earlier about
other messages not related to this list, but using the same address
@commander.ovh, the same vocabulary and pics patterns), but it's
probably a personal problem only.  I need to control better my
'awesomeness' to avoid creepy fans, hahaha!!  You know, everybody can
be cool, but awesome takes practice!  ;)

(Nah, my ego trips are more modest, I'm joking!)
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[liberationtech] #JointAddress (was Fwd: Don't forget to watch TONIGHT)

[Cecilia Tanaka]

It will begin in 40 minutes.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/joint-address-issues-survey

It's interesting to follow the hashtag #JointAddress on Twitter.  There are
some hours it's on the Worldwide Trending Topics.

Cross your fingers and wish the best!  :)

c.


-- Forwarded message --
From: The White House 
Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 2:43 PM
Subject: Don't forget to watch TONIGHT
To: cecilia.tan...@gmail.com


President Trump will be giving his first Joint Address to Congress.|
[image: The White House]


TONIGHT President Donald J. Trump will step up to the Speaker’s rostrum and
give his first address to a Joint Session of Congress and to all of
America.

You won’t want to miss this historic event. To see it live, you can go to
https://www.whitehouse.gov.


You can also follow the address on Twitter @WhiteHouse

and @POTUS
,
or by visiting the White House Facebook.


*The address begins at 9 p.m.*

*There is still time to take our Joint Address Issues Survey and let us
know your thoughts on how to Make America Great Again.
*

Be sure to tune in tonight!














Privacy Policy

Contact the White House

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Re: [liberationtech] How likely that a DDoS attacked caused the Amazon outage?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

You're right, not much about it yet, but there are some curious
comments here and there...  Reddit and Twitter are pretty fun in some
moments.  ;)


#  The Amazon S3 Outage Is What Happens When One Site Hosts Too Much
of the Internet.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/happens-one-site-hosts-entire-internet


#  Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/28/amazon-aws-s3-outage-is-breaking-things-for-a-lot-of-websites-and-apps


#  Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud-service-goes-down-sites-scramble/98530914/


Bonus:  - A Murder Case Tests Alexa’s Devotion to Your Privacy.

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/murder-case-tests-alexas-devotion-privacy
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[liberationtech] [OT] Please, LibTech moderation team, put this fake address under moderation.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Sorry for asking it publicly, but it can be a useful warning to other
people here, considering this troll always has the same stupid
patterns.

Shara Cruz 

This fake e-mail address is sending me bizarre messages and nude pics
since I posted on LibTech about hate crimes yesterday night.  Please,
put this stupid troll under moderation in preventive care.

It's a neo-nazi guy, a radical Trump and Putin supporter, pretending
to be a lesbian girl this time, aff...  He should spend all the free
time he has in hands in a more constructive way, studying or getting a
life, for example.

(Tip:  - When I want to see a "hot naked girl", I simply use my
mirror, OK?  Cry, loser.)

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[liberationtech] Fwd: "Documenting Hate" Project

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Sorry, sharing my answer in another list just to let the things a bit
clearer.  Kisses, have a lovely day!  :***

PS:  - Yep, I know my English stinks.  Please, tell me something new
or more interesting.  :)

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-- Forwarded message --
From: Cecilia Tanaka 
Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: "Documenting Hate" Project


>>> On 02/28/2017 12:13 AM, [hate filled fuck with a shriveled little black 
>>> heart] wrote:

This observation made me smile, my love.  Thanks, Mirimir.  Some day,
hope Donald notices I am not searching for hate, but for hope.  I
still dream of a better world.  :)

Nobody knows how many hate crimes and bias incidents take place each
year in the USA.  They asked help to track them.

The 'Documenting Hate' Project wants transparency about relevant data
that is *not* known because most of the times are ignored or receive
more make-up than all Hollywood actresses in Oscar's night.  If you
really think that happened a hate crime against a "straight white
man", OK, report it and justify the reasons of your convincement.  The
same to attacks to all the colors, races, ethnicities, genders,
religions, trans status, disabilities, and sexual orientations.  It
isn't about Trump and politics, it's about peace, about life, about
Justice and a fairer, more transparent world, where this kind of
hateful action is *not* tolerated or ignored.
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[liberationtech] "Documenting Hate" Project

[Cecilia Tanaka]

"Documenting Hate" Project:

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrimes

"Have you been the victim of a hate crime?  Have you seen others
attacked for their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, trans status,
disability, or sexual orientation?  Tell us about it so we can
investigate."  -  Peter Aldhous

https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrimes-form

https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/tell-us-about-hate-crimes

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Re: [liberationtech] Email

[Cecilia Tanaka]

 THE COLORS OF JAPANESE INTERNMENT

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-colors-of-japanese-internment

==

Hi, Carolyn.  Hope you are doing good.

Maybe you and your family would like to see this post.

I am sharing this message with the LibTech list because some people here
contacted me in private to talk about this subject.  Racism, intolerance,
all kinds of prejudice are so wrong, so sad...  :'(

Take care.

c.
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[liberationtech] Your Papers and Social Media Passwords, Please

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Your Papers and Social Media Passwords, Please

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/21/your-papers-and-social-media-passwords-please

==

Uuugh!!!  (>_<)*

​Sorry for being very late with answers, but since yesterday I am having a
mix of bad hair day + bad news day + bad wi-fi day + bad notebook day +
God, I do hate the Brazilian Summer! day.  At least today I am using a cute
ponytail and a ribbon, hihi!  ;)

Sorry for not posting many things about Peru yesterday, but I will avoid
partisan tweets.  Most of the texts I already read about the fight against
corruption in Peru are focused on a partisan vision and, sorry, I detest
all the corrupt politicians in the same way, not only corrupt politicians
of a specific party.  :P

See you all later.  Ah, I will answer to you soon, Andres.  I loved your
message, thank you for the great references!  Sorry for being so late, but
my answer will probably be very very long and I need a bit more of time to
search some old stuff.

I think the machines decided to begin their revolution in my house
yesterday.  I'm completely sure my notebooks, the washing machine, and the
refrigerator are conspiring together against my mental health and, as
always, will pretend to be OK when the technical support arrives here to
fix them again, uff...  :-/

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[liberationtech] Fwd: [Internet Policy] FYI - Joint statement by 50 orgs on proposal to require social media passwords at US border

[Cecilia Tanaka]

FYI.

c.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Dan York 
Date: Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 11:50 AM
Subject: [Internet Policy] FYI - Joint statement by 50 orgs on proposal to
require social media passwords at US border


FYI, today the Internet Society joined with 50 other organizations to issue
a joint statement expressing concerns about a proposal to require
disclosure of social media account passwords as a condition of entry to the
U.S.:

https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/

We published our own companion statement as a post from our President and
CEO Kathy Brown:

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2017/
02/internet-society-speaks-out-against-proposed-password-disclosure

That has been shared on our @InternetSociety social media channels at:

https://twitter.com/internetsociety/status/834044479501959169
https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/photos/a.10150120109253239.254763.
56134108238/10154045837103239/?type=3&theater
https://plus.google.com/+InternetSociety/posts/92XyJvx4yzk

Additionally, we also published a supporting post explaining more about why
social media accounts are of such a great concern:

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/tech-matters/2017/02/
danger-giving-social-media-passwords-so-many-other-services-are-connected

We will be circulating that on our social channels as well.

Any assistance with amplifying these messages on social channels would be
greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Dan

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Re: [liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017, at 1:19 AM, Yosem Companys 
wrote:

We should tweet about Peru. Perhaps that could be our theme for the day?
>

​Yep, good idea!  :)

I'm in love with Peru's fight against corruption!  (* o *)  ow! <3​


​I was compiling some material about ​projects against corruption in
politics because my list needs updates.  Some of the projects are dead now
(RIP) and I am VERY interested in AI being used against corruption in my
country.  Two interesting and very recent examples, but are not in English,
sorry!  :P

(FR)
http://www.lemonde.fr/chronique-des-communs/article/2017/02/11/une-carte-collaborative-de-la-corruption-en-france_5078252_5049504.html

(PT)
http://link.estadao.com.br/noticias/inovacao,brasileiros-criam-robo-para-atacar-corrupcao,70001662349
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Re: [liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017, at 9:31 PM,  wrote:

>
> And hey Ceci! The script I posted also uses Tweepy. Check it out --
> there is of course much more data that could be pulled, but I kept it
> minimal, thinking that this is likely best for a plaintext summary.


​Thanks Rick!  Muuuaaah!  :*  <3

I don't know what's happening today, but my Internet connection is
oscillating a lot and I didn't verify several important things until now.
I am having problems to install some apps and watch videos too.  I've lost
SpaceX live cast and other cool stuff, snif!
:'(
​  ​

https://youtu.be/rUDLxFUMC9c

​Well, Ecuadorean elections were today too.  I confess I am worried about
Assange's future.  :((

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/world/europe/julian-
assange-ecuador-embassy.html​

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/ecuador-votes-crucial-
general-elections-170219141200171.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/02/19/ecuador-
election-amid-conservative-shift-in-latin-america-could-
also-impact-julian-assanges-fate.html

Moreno took the lead, but after the last USA's elections, I don't trust
preliminary results anymore.

I will search for voluntary help to fine tuning the code, dear.  If I try
to code, Assange will probably be kicked from Ecuador and Trump will tweet
the nuclear codes, ouch!  :P

Kisses, take care!  :*

c.

PS:  -  Good travel, Yosem.  God bless you and your ways.  Yep, I have a
very controversial relationship with my own faith and religions, but I
still pray all the days asking protection to my loved ones and the rest of
world.  Hope God exists and protects everyone, but take care, OK?  <3
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Re: [liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi Rick!  Loved your suggestion, thanks!  :*

Yesterday night, I asked some tips, informations and pratical suggestions
in some groups, but had no many feedbacks yet.  I was searching for some
apps and  - wow! -  most of them want complete access to my account,
password included.  I bet there is some hidden clausule saying I am also
donating my soul and all my body organs!  Ugh, ugh, ugh!  :P

One of my friends suggested I should code and create it, and sent me one of
his experiences using tweepy.

http://ocarneiro.github.io/blog/2016_02_01-TwitterReach.html  (My friend,
Otavio, is the lovely guy juggling!  :D)

http://tweepy.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5.0/getting_started.html#introduction

I am still talking with him, but unfortunately my "coding style"  (cof,
cof!)  is so very disastrous, so horrendous that almost became a legend
among some Python groups.  When I try to code apparently I can summon
Godzilla, Cthulhu, all the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, but I can't make
anything good...  There is a joke on another list which says the last time
I tried to code, Trump won the elections, meh!  :((

Some years ago, when I told to a friend I was reading the Python Cookbook,
he said:  -  "Hey, wasn't you a veggie?  Snakes taste good?  Which recipe
you will cook?"  Uff, some North Americans still think we eat snakes and
monkeys on South America and that Amazon Forest is nearby, on my backyard
maybe...  :((

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg

[Cecilia Tanaka]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Cecilia Tanaka
Date: Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg


Still feeding the thread, la la la...  :)

==

Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-17/mark-zuck
erberg-s-manifesto-for-facebook-offers-a-social-dystopia

​==

Sunday's Fun Bonus, yay!  :D

Trump Ethics: A Jobs Program for Washington Lawyers

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-19/trump-
ethics-a-jobs-program-for-washington-lawyers​

No, it's *not* a fun post, but it's involuntarily funny to see the words
"Trump" and "Ethics" side by side, haha!!  It's like to read "honest
politician", hahaha!!  ;D

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg

[Cecilia Tanaka]

​Another one.

​

-- Forwarded message --
From: Cecilia Tanaka
Date: Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg


Lauren posted two interesting links about this subject on PFIR list.
Thanks, dear!  :*

==

The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/the-m
ark-zuckerberg-manifesto-is-a-blueprint-for-destroying-journalism/517113/

​​
A sprawling new manifesto by Zuckerberg, published to Facebook
on Thursday, should set off new alarm bells for journalists,
and heighten news organizations' sense of urgency about how
they--and their industry--can survive in a Facebook-dominated
world.

​==

​Op-ed: Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto is a political trainwreck

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2017/02/op-ed-mark-zuckerbergs
-manifesto-is-a-political-trainwreck/


​F​
acebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has just published a 5,700
word "letter" on his profile, where he asserts that Facebook
represents one of history's "great leaps." Though he covers a
number of topics, what's most interesting is how he positions
Facebook as a force for political change in the coming years.
His goals are lofty, sometimes even grandiose.  That's not the
problem.  The problem is a fundamental contradiction built
into the way he hopes to create what he calls a "global
community" by essentially gerrymandering the Internet.

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[liberationtech] Fwd: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Sharing my past messages to another list.

Wish you all a great Sunday  (and also a great sundae, if you like ice
cream!).  Take care!  <3

c.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Cecilia Tanaka
Date: Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:43 PM
Subject: Building Global Community - Mark Zuckerberg



*Building Global Community  -  Mark Zuckerberg*

https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-community/
10154544292806634

No, I am not giving my support, nor criticizing this post.  Yep, obviously
I loved the message, but I don't trust the sender.  There's something
strange screaming "It's A Trap!" very loud, guys.  :-/

https://youtu.be/4F4qzPbcFiA

There are lots of stories on Internet saying that Zuckerberg wants to be a
presidential candidate in the next elections.  He said is not an Atheist
anymore very recently and, well, everybody knows that the USA will never
elect an Atheist...  :P

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/01/03/mark-
zuckerberg-reveals-no-longer-atheist/

I respect a lot Atheist people, but I also respect a lot who believes in
God, Godesses, Prophets, Deities, etc, etc...  Mirimir is my imaginary
friend and I almost married under the blessings of the Flying Spaghetti
Monster  (it's serious, one of my best friends is a wise Pastafarian
"Minister"!),  so I can't complain about the other persons' imaginary
friends.  I just don't like religions and their eternal judgements...  The
FSM is very tolerant!  :P

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Re: [liberationtech] Would you like to help us tweet?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Yosem Companys 
wrote:

> Yep, thanks for the warning.
>
> We do have a set of guidelines. We've been testing increasing our
> volunteer team for about a year now, and so far the results have been
> mostly positive.
>
> We used to have a paid team, but our money for that initiative ran out a
> while ago.
>

​In this case, it would be a pleasure to help your volunteer team.​  I
swear I will pretend to be very polite and verify my grammar before
tweeting!  :)
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Re: [liberationtech] Would you like to help us tweet?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Yosem Companys 
wrote:

If so, please send me an email, and we will add you to our Stanford Twitter
> team.
>

​Dear Yosem,

Please, be careful.  Sorry for being so nosey, but remember to let *very
clear* the Stanford Twitter Team's guidelines to all the volunteers!  :P

Kisses, take care!  :*

Ceci​
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Re: [liberationtech] I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:29 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <
alps6...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On the other hand, i was talking only about meddling with the private
> information on your phone.
>

​The problem was exactly this:  I had no electronics with me and they were
searching for 'something'.  I had the same kind of problem twice in the
same country.  The last but one travel was less traumatic physically, but
was a similar disaster in psychological aspects.  I had only an old tablet
with me and they examined it without my presence, what made me feel *very*
uncomfortable.  It was taken for few minutes only, but it was time enough
to make me feel insecure about data.  Not mine, but my loved ones' data.
You can think I am a dramatic paranoid, but it was the reason why my last
travel had absolutely no electronics.

​:(​
​


> The experience you mention is about physically roughing up travelers and
> stealing personal belongings from the suitcase, something well documented
> in many Latin American countries. In fact, the latter is why people wrap
> luggage in plastic at the airport, or use locks, etc...
>

​They destroyed my lock and *also* the suitcase.  It was a pretty cute red
suitcase with a pink metal padlock and a big pink satin ribbon.​  They put
the broken padlock inside the suitcase, which was cut as half of the
ribbon.  It was *not* a thief, who did this evil act was the people that
should protect us.  :(
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Re: [liberationtech] I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes <
alps6...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is nuts and let's not generalize!
>
> Nowhere in South America or Western Europe has this been an issue recently.
>
> This is about Místa Trump's fascist tactics via Executive Orders.
>

​Sorry, I disagree.  I can't share some bizarre stories I know because they
are private, but this one is mine.

My last travel to Argentina was a complete disaster.  When I was leaving
the country, the police asked me twice "if I was completely sure that I was
not hiding anything with me".​

​ I was submitted​ to a shameful and very detailed search in my body.  The
police was hurting me, being brutal, and one of them put her hand between
my legs using a lot of strength, doing exactly what Trump likes to do with
"kittens".  So I used my sweetest voice to inform her that my clit was
nearby, but a bit more to the left side and was pretty sensitive, and asked
to avoid being so rough, pleaseee.  It was unexpected enough to make her
blush a lot and finally stopping to treat my body like an object, aff...
Savage!  Well, when I arrived in Sao Paulo and saw my suitcase, I cried a
lot.  It was completely destroyed and they had stolen even the alfajores,
the dulce de leche and other candies that I had bought to my family.

​I bought a chip and a cell in Buenos Aires for some private calls and
destroyed it before going to the airport.​  I had no electronics with me,
only few clothes and some Argentine candies.  No drugs, no animals, no
plants, no alcohol, no anything.
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[liberationtech] I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither should you.

[Cecilia Tanaka]

*#  I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again. Neither
should you.*

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/ill-never-bring-my-phone-on-an-international-flight-again-neither-should-you-e9289cde0e5f#.nqzda7bdl

(via Lu, bcc.  Lulu, I love you.  Pardon, bcc you because trolls and haters
are annoying some of my favorite journalists since the last week.  Sorry, I
need to control better this amazing Oriental charm, hahaha!!  ;D)


=>  Cute Bonus For Cute Newbies, awww...  #love  (* - *)  <3

*​#  ​How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour*

https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-abiding-citizens-guide-to-privacy-1a593f2104c3#.jw1a2rrui

Ceci, crossposting again...  Sorry, I swear I am very busy now!  ;P

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[liberationtech] [OT] [Brazilian Carnival] Trump's Wall Is A Popular Costume here... :)

[Cecilia Tanaka]

http://virgula.uol.com.br/comportamento/esses-folioes-fantasiados-de-muro-do-trump-para-o-carnaval-e-puro-suco-de-brasil/#img=1&galleryId=1162298

https://www.buzzfeed.com/florapaul/a-fantasia-do-muro-do-trump

We are celebrating the Carnival since the beginning of February and the
costumes are great!  Lots of Trump masks, orange make up, ugly wigs, walls,
burritos and cactus dancing!  :D

My favorite color in this kind of occasion is Glittr!!! ヽ(´▽｀)/
 But I am seriously considering to use Orange this year, hahaha!!  ;D
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[liberationtech] VIDEO: The Role of Tech in the Campaign

[Cecilia Tanaka]

*VIDEO: The Role of Tech in the Campaign*

Feb 6, 2017 11:53 PM
Joly MacFie
​


While this session, held at the Knight Foundation and Civic Hall Symposium
on Tech, Politics and the Media at the New York Public Library on Jan 18
2017, is not about Women in Tech per se, it does have 4 female tech experts
reflecting on how tech worked and didn’t work to serve candidates and
voters in 2016.

Speakers::
Becky Bond – Bernie Sanders 2016 Campaign
Mindy Finn – Vice Presidential Candidate with Evan McMullin
Molly Schweickert – Cambridge Analytica / Donald Trump 2016 Campaign
Jess Morales Rocketto – Hillary Clinton 2016 Campaign
Nancy Scola (moderator) – Politico

View on YouTube: youtu.be/y8ypxLXZKq4

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Re: [liberationtech] Email

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, Carolyn!  How are you, my dear?  Sorry, only read your message now!  :P

Please, don't feel upset or annoyed.  I swear that was not a moderation
fault, something proposital.  They are *not* trying to censor you in any
sense, I swear, don't worry or feel rejected, please.  There is no problem,
relax...  <3

Really nice to meet you and your personal history, your feelings and
ideas.  I sincerely thank you for sharing them, my dear.  Domo arigatou
gozaimasu!  <3

Every person is so unique...  This fact always fascinates me.  It's deeply
beautiful.  This is the reason why I really detested so much the Muslim
ban, dear.  Different people, different situations, different backgrounds,
different lives, different beliefs, hopes and dreams...  It's pretty unfair
to judge all the persons the same way.

Every life is important.  I respect all the human lives and I respect your
President's life and legal rights, and I swear I *always* will respect
them, but I do NOT respect his prejudiced beliefs, his disgusting acts and
hateful thoughts and speeches against women, LGBT people, black people,
Mexicans, Muslims, journalists, judges...  Sorry, I can NOT respect him
because he does NOT respect people.

​Sorry if my personal convictions hurt or annoy you.  If you wish to
discuss this subject and my personal convictions in private, *please* feel
completely free to contact me.  You can express your feelings and
impressions with no fear.  Please, another personal observation, you don't
need to be a "passive list member".  If you want more news about technology
here, you can share and/or ask for more interesting news and discuss their
effects in the society, or make questions, and so go on...  The most
beautiful thing about communities is sharing knowledge, always learning,
always teaching.  People are always fascinating, Santo-chan!  ;)

Oh, sorry for mixing your last name and "chan", but "san" would be pretty
formal and you could feel a bit 'rejected'.  :P I mentioned your last name
because I am still trying to discover which kanjis were used to write it.
When I read your last name, I thought it was a variation of a pretty usual
Portuguese/Brazilian last name, 'Santos'.  It means "Saints".  You're
"Santo", so you are only one "Saint", hihi...  ;)

Please, don't feel annoyed or angry about the Lib Tech list.  See, to make
you smile and minimize the stress, I will tell you a silly thought.  Last
week, I wrote to my mom telling her I was considering to move to Japan and
already had chosen my future home!  :D

This cute village:  http://www.boredpanda.com/zao-fox-village-japan/  OR
one of these lovely islands:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/04/05/the-11-cat-islands-of-japan-%E3%80%90photos%E3%80%91/
  <3  <3  <3

I think your President would appreciate the Japanese Cat Islands a lot
because he loves p...  little cats!  He loves kittens like me, hahaha!!
OK, sorry, no more provocations or bad jokes!  I won't tell to this list
what I am doing to prove that "Brazil deserves to be the Second" millions
and millions of times more than all the European countries together,
hahahaha!!!   ;D

http://www.boredpanda.com/europe-countries-troll-donald-trump-america-first-spoof-videos/

After I finish to share some ideas with friends, I will announce the
invitation to all the Latin and South American hackerspaces.  We all
deserve to be the Second too, hahaha!!!  ;D

Tender kisses and warm hugs!  Take care and be well, dear.  <3

Ceci
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:07 PM, l...@writeme.com  wrote:

> Sending a 4th time from a different email address.
>
>
>
>
>
> Trying to send a third time since the first 2 attempts had a glitch.
>
> Happy February!
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Wow
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:32:08 -1000
> From: Carolyn Santo  
> To: liberationtech 
> 
>
> Testing to see if the first email experienced a glitch.
>
> Editing to add that if you moved to help immigrants and refugees, donating
> to organizations who provide direct relief to people in Syria and other
> regions would be a more direct benefit than subscribing to the NY Times or
> donating to the ACLU.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Carolyn
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Price of the #MuslimBan
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 03:29:09 -1000
> From: Carolyn Santo  
> To: liberationtech 
> 
>
> Cecelia and Wayne,
>
> I am Japanese on both sides of my family.  One of my grandfathers in
> Hawaii burned family treasures because he was worried that anti-Japanese
> sentiment would lead to harm for his wife and children.  My other
> grandfather abandoned a farm in Southern California and fled to Colorado
> with his wife and 5 children to avoid being put into an internment camp.  I
> was lucky that both g

[liberationtech] [AI] [researches] Asilomar AI Principles

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, dear all!  :D

Already signed it yesterday, and I'm inviting you to read and consider
signing the Asilomar AI Principles.

https://futureoflife.org/ai-principles/

Take care!  <3

Ceci

==

ASILOMAR AI PRINCIPLES

Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used
every day by people around the world. Its continued development, guided by
the following principles, will offer amazing opportunities to help and
empower people in the decades and centuries ahead.
Research Issues

1) *Research Goal:* The goal of AI research should be to create not
undirected intelligence, but beneficial intelligence.

2) *Research Funding:* Investments in AI should be accompanied by funding
for research on ensuring its beneficial use, including thorny questions in
computer science, economics, law, ethics, and social studies, such as:

   - How can we make future AI systems highly robust, so that they do what
   we want without malfunctioning or getting hacked?
   - How can we grow our prosperity through automation while maintaining
   people’s resources and purpose?
   - How can we update our legal systems to be more fair and efficient, to
   keep pace with AI, and to manage the risks associated with AI?
   - What set of values should AI be aligned with, and what legal and
   ethical status should it have?

3) *Science-Policy Link:* There should be constructive and healthy exchange
between AI researchers and policy-makers.

4) *Research Culture:* A culture of cooperation, trust, and transparency
should be fostered among researchers and developers of AI.

5) *Race Avoidance:* Teams developing AI systems should actively cooperate
to avoid corner-cutting on safety standards.
Ethics and Values

6) *Safety:* AI systems should be safe and secure throughout their
operational lifetime, and verifiably so where applicable and feasible.

7) *Failure Transparency:* If an AI system causes harm, it should be
possible to ascertain why.

8) *Judicial Transparency:* Any involvement by an autonomous system in
judicial decision-making should provide a satisfactory explanation
auditable by a competent human authority.

9) *Responsibility:* Designers and builders of advanced AI systems are
stakeholders in the moral implications of their use, misuse, and actions,
with a responsibility and opportunity to shape those implications.

10) *Value Alignment:* Highly autonomous AI systems should be designed so
that their goals and behaviors can be assured to align with human values
throughout their operation.

11) *Human Values:* AI systems should be designed and operated so as to be
compatible with ideals of human dignity, rights, freedoms, and cultural
diversity.

12) *Personal Privacy:* People should have the right to access, manage and
control the data they generate, given AI systems’ power to analyze and
utilize that data.

13) *Liberty and Privacy:* The application of AI to personal data must not
unreasonably curtail people’s real or perceived liberty.

14) *Shared Benefit:* AI technologies should benefit and empower as many
people as possible.

15) *Shared Prosperity:* The economic prosperity created by AI should be
shared broadly, to benefit all of humanity.

16) *Human Control:* Humans should choose how and whether to delegate
decisions to AI systems, to accomplish human-chosen objectives.

17) *Non-subversion:* The power conferred by control of highly advanced AI
systems should respect and improve, rather than subvert, the social and
civic processes on which the health of society depends.

18) *AI Arms Race:* An arms race in lethal autonomous weapons should be
avoided.
Longer-term Issues

19) *Capability Caution:* There being no consensus, we should avoid strong
assumptions regarding upper limits on future AI capabilities.

20) *Importance:* Advanced AI could represent a profound change in the
history of life on Earth, and should be planned for and managed with
commensurate care and resources.

21) *Risks:* Risks posed by AI systems, especially catastrophic or
existential risks, must be subject to planning and mitigation efforts
commensurate with their expected impact.

22) *Recursive Self-Improvement:* AI systems designed to recursively
self-improve or self-replicate in a manner that could lead to rapidly
increasing quality or quantity must be subject to strict safety and control
measures.

23) *Common Good:* Superintelligence should only be developed in the
service of widely shared ethical ideals, and for the benefit of all
humanity rather than one state or organization.
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Re: [liberationtech] Price of the #MuslimBan

[Cecilia Tanaka]

​
​#  

​"​
The Program on Liberation Technology "Liberationtech" at Stanford
University explores how technology can be used to promote public goods.
​  (...)

​2. We urge you to use the list to ask for (or offer) advice, discuss
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#  

Definition of *public good* in English:

   -

   1Economics
   A commodity or service that is provided without profit to all members of
   a society, either by the government or by a private individual or
   organization.
   -

   2The benefit or well-being of the public:
   *‘the frequent conflict between the public good and private interests’*

​Sorry for posting a so simple and basic definition of "public good", but
if necessary, all of you can search more elaborated concepts and all the
controversy behind them later.​

This list exists to promote and discuss technological advances and
resources, their issues and eventual impacts in the several sectors of
civil society, respecting essential values like Human Rights, which include
Freedom of Speech (Expression), Freedom of Thought, Conscience and
Religion, and Freedom of Movement, among other several important rights.

#  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):  <
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights>

Some of you probably will think, or even say,  "You're NOT a
North-American.  Shut up!".  Please, consider that some of my best friends
are North-Americans and the man that I love more than my own life is a
German living in the USA with a green card.

IMHO, political discussions are *not* polution, considering the fact that
some of the tech resources here discussed are being created and implemented
specifically to protect the civil society and political activism, including
serious investigative journalism.  We have the right of knowing the real
truth, instead fake news and conspiracy theories, several times created by
our own governments.

I understand very well what made Brian Chesky, one of the creators of
Airbnb, post this message, full of compassion and empathy:

https://www.facebook.com/brianchesky/posts/10154644618674930

​(OK, OK...  I don't have a FB account too.  It's an open post, please
avoid complaining with no reason.  Useless noise is real polution.)​

All the people in the whole world are deeply worried.  We are not being
"noisy" or "inconvenient just for fun".  Sorry, I have funnier things to do
in my free time, but it's impossible to be insensitive, completely
indifferent, and ignore what is happening with other human beings in this
moment.

It's a personal traum, but part of my family was killed in a nuclear
explosion some years ago.  The part of my family who survived to war knowed
very intimately hunger, prejudices against race, religion, origins, and
even against our language.  Japanese families had to hide their books to
avoid being arrested.  Japanese books were burned in several countries.
The same happened with German and Italian families, and is still happening
with so many other families around the world...  African families, Syrian
families, Mexican families, Venezuelan families...

Sorry, always hurts a lot to imagine the same happening with other
families.  People moving to another country hoping, searching desperately a
better future for their children and suffering intolerance and all kind of
prejudices.  The History never changes, but it should be different.  Not
with "Alternative Facts", but definitely changing the world.  That's the
reason why *we need to hack the world*.  We can build a better future, a
fairer and more beautiful world using technology.

​Ceci​


​PS:  - More intimate friends know I like to work as ghost writer, helping
some old friends who work with humor  (stand-up comedians, talk shows,
etc).​  It's a fun hobby and makes me laugh.  Since the last year, when
someone ask me to tell the grossest joke that I know, I simply answer:  -
Donald Trump.
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Re: [liberationtech] If Muslims are blocked by the U.S., should we respond?

[Cecilia Tanaka]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Terry Winograd 
wrote:

> There is an academic petition at
> https://sites.google.com/view/notoimmigrationeo/home


​Thank you very much for sharing this petition.  It warmed my heart...  <3​


​Ah, the petition now is in this new address  <
https://notoimmigrationban.com>  and has 3.409 signatures in this exact
moment, wow!  :)​
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Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: UK Jobs And Collaboration: Local Data Lab + Curious Fact About White House Petitions

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, Bram!  :)

I've also received the message "You've successfully signed the petition
below. Your signature has been verified and counted.", but the petition
only shows 1 (one) signature.  Some friends of mine also signed the
petition, received the verification e-mail and  - tcharan! -  the same
wonderful message, but the petition did simply not receive more signatures
until the present moment.  WTF?  :P

Pretty bizarre, isn't it?  :P

Ceci
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"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your
curiosity.  It's your place in the world; it's your life.  Go on and do all
you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -  Mae Jemison

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Bram Wets 
wrote:

> Hi Ceci and all,
>
> Like many, many others (6.829.512 and counting) I saw the video "Let's
> make the Netherlands second" and found it hilarious.
> I also tried to sign the petition.
> Same here... there was only one signature and after signing my signature
> did not get registered.
> I tried a second time, using a US IP address.
> After signing the site clearly stated "You've successfully signed the
> petition below. Your signature has been verified and counted."
> But still I don't see the counter move from '1 signed' to '2 signed'.
>
> Yes, the petition is jocose but it's also a political statement/reaction.
> Let's call all our friends to sign...
>
> As a Belgian it would be great to see the Netherlands be second ;-)
>
>
> *Bram Wets*
> co-founder
> *Privacy Training Center*
>
> [image: Privacy Training Center] <http://www.privacytraining.org/>
>
> www.privacytraining.org
>
> Unencrypted email can be read by anyone! Talk to me in private using
> encryption.
> Here's my PGP public key for encrypted email: http://bit.ly/1O6Gpna
> Check if the PGP fingerprint is the same: CD94 F447 9C77 35E2 85CE EA0D
> 919C 9EBC A043 0B96
> On 27/01/2017 14:39, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
>
> Hi, dear all!  :D
>
> I think it can be interesting for some of us.  In this era of "alternative
> facts"  (Lieees, cof cof!),  the world does need more investigative
> journalism than ever.
>
> A fool real example.  Yesterday, just for fun and to give support to a
> Dutch friend, I signed this jocose petition for the White House using their
> own plataform:
>
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/america-first-make
> -netherlands-second-because-they-requested-it
>
> https://youtu.be/j-xxis7hDOE
>
> I was, theoretically, the second person to sign it and I shared the
> petition with the Brazilian Hackerspaces General List, because it was a fun
> bonus in a public message inviting all the hackerspaces to celebrate
> the International Open Hackerspace Day 2017 together.
>
> My signature is NOT there.  My friends' signatures are NOT there.  I tried
> to sign the petition 4 (four) times since yesterday night, giving some
> hours between a try and another, and my signature is still NOT there.
>
> It's a White House petition and I already signed some of these before.
> Usually, there is no time lapse and the signature is counted immediately.
> Will they need more than 13 hours to process it now?  Will my signature be
> in this petition someday?  :-/
>
> I know, it was a joke among hackerspaces, but first of all, it was a
> public petition and we do have the right of asking to "Netherlands be
> Second" and the White House can NOT censure us this way.  They did NOT
> remove the petition until now, so if the petition is there, what is the
> point about obstructing our support to it?
>
> I do really think Trump is pretty afraid Netherlands becomes First  (watch
> the video to understand the reference),  but I am afraid they try to block
> signatures in more relevant petitions about important subjects, like
> censure, freedom of expression, privacy and human rights in general.
>
> Tender kisses and hugs.  Take care all of you!  <3
>
> Ceci, a Brazilian fan of Netherlands...  You know, their walls are much
> better, hahaha!!  ;D
>
> ---
> "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your
> curiosity.  It's your place in the world; it's your life.  Go on and do all
> you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -  Mae Jemison
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Megan Lucero 
>
> Here's more info on that brand new team/lab I'm building for open, local
> investigative journalism.
>
> https://medium.com/local-data-lab/join-the-local-data-lab-fa
> 865f83f516?source=linkShare-674eec1ed91-1485521058
>

[liberationtech] Fwd: UK Jobs And Collaboration: Local Data Lab + Curious Fact About White House Petitions

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Hi, dear all!  :D

I think it can be interesting for some of us.  In this era of "alternative
facts"  (Lieees, cof cof!),  the world does need more investigative
journalism than ever.

A fool real example.  Yesterday, just for fun and to give support to a
Dutch friend, I signed this jocose petition for the White House using their
own plataform:

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/america-first-make
-netherlands-second-because-they-requested-it

https://youtu.be/j-xxis7hDOE

I was, theoretically, the second person to sign it and I shared the
petition with the Brazilian Hackerspaces General List, because it was a fun
bonus in a public message inviting all the hackerspaces to celebrate
the International Open Hackerspace Day 2017 together.

My signature is NOT there.  My friends' signatures are NOT there.  I tried
to sign the petition 4 (four) times since yesterday night, giving some
hours between a try and another, and my signature is still NOT there.

It's a White House petition and I already signed some of these before.
Usually, there is no time lapse and the signature is counted immediately.
Will they need more than 13 hours to process it now?  Will my signature be
in this petition someday?  :-/

I know, it was a joke among hackerspaces, but first of all, it was a public
petition and we do have the right of asking to "Netherlands be Second" and
the White House can NOT censure us this way.  They did NOT remove the
petition until now, so if the petition is there, what is the point about
obstructing our support to it?

I do really think Trump is pretty afraid Netherlands becomes First  (watch
the video to understand the reference),  but I am afraid they try to block
signatures in more relevant petitions about important subjects, like
censure, freedom of expression, privacy and human rights in general.

Tender kisses and hugs.  Take care all of you!  <3

Ceci, a Brazilian fan of Netherlands...  You know, their walls are much
better, hahaha!!  ;D

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curiosity.  It's your place in the world; it's your life.  Go on and do all
you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."  -  Mae Jemison


-- Forwarded message --
From: Megan Lucero 

Here's more info on that brand new team/lab I'm building for open, local
investigative journalism.

https://medium.com/local-data-lab/join-the-local-data-lab-fa
865f83f516?source=linkShare-674eec1ed91-1485521058

Deadline is Wednesday and only for those who can work in the EU.

Feel free to get in touch with questions or if you'd like to collaborate!
Megan
meganluc...@tbij.com
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[liberationtech] Fwd: Public Dissentiment

[Cecilia Tanaka]

I liked the idea very much!  <3

Kisses, kisses, kisses!  :***

Ceci
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-- Forwarded message ------
From: Cecilia Tanaka 

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:51 PM, No  wrote:

> https://vimeo.com/200927432
>
> Public Dissentiment is an online tool that helps protesters negatively
> impact the price of a publicly traded company’s stock by communicating with
> algorithmic market makers. By using the same algorithmic sentiment analysis
> techniques as financial trading bots, the app generates posts for social
> media that link to news stories that will be viewed negatively by
> algorithmic market makers.
>
> If enough of these posts are generated in the same time frame, uncertainty
> about the targeted company’s stock will be created, temporarily affecting
> the price of the stock, consequently making the company’s shareholders
> aware of the public’s negative sentiment towards them.
>
> Please visit: publicdissentiment.org/
>

​Thank you very much, NoNo!  <3​

I was verifying Derek Curry's projects in his Vimeo channel [1] and wow, I
am purring [2] !  There're interesting things [3] !  :D

[1]  https://vimeo.com/user36629242

[2]  https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/catPurrNoiseGenerator.php  (not a
Derek's project; it's just symbolic purring!)

[3]  Examples:  -  http://www.crowdsourcedintel.org/
 -  https://vimeo.com/154377684
 -  derekcurry.com/projects/emotionalstress.html
<http://www.derekcurry.com/projects/emotionalstress.html>

Kisses!  I'll forward this message, even knowing Ju@n will complain about
the public money being spent in academic researches, etc, etc...  I love to
provoke him, hihi!  :)

Ceci
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Re: [liberationtech] Security Without Borders

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Yup, already done!  :D

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On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Cristina [efecto99] 
wrote:

>
> On 21/01/17 20:51, Yosem Companys wrote:
> > Awesome. Critical and needed initiative. A thank you goes out to
> > Claudio Guarnieri, Collin Anderson, and their colleagues for putting
> > this together. I certainly could have benefited from a project like
> > this during the Arab Spring in my advice to pro-democracy activists.
> >
> > Claudio and Collin, if you need any help getting this project off the
> > ground, please let us know. We'd be happy to put whatever resources we
> > can assemble at Stanford University to help you.
>
> [You are welcome, Cecilia.]
>
> Yosem: I think they will be very happy to read you if you tell them the
> same to their official channel. I asked them about the chat the
> announced on twitter (on twitter) and I didn't receive an answer yet
> because they seem very busy.
> Is just my suggestion, but I really believe they will appreciate your
> offer if you go right there on the communication place they use.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Cristina (99)
> --
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[liberationtech] Security Without Borders

[Cecilia Tanaka]

​"​
Security Without Borders (SWB) is a collective of hackers and security
professionals who provide technical assistance to civil society and
activists that are dedicated to the international, non-violent struggle to
protect fundamental human rights.
​"​


#  ​

#  ​<​
https://medium.com/security-without-borders/transmission-1-7eaae7bc8caf#.eba9fo2tt
​>​


​#  33C3 presentation  -  "Hacking The World - The Struggle For Security
For All." 

​#  SWB Public Mailing List:  ​<
https://lists.securitywithoutborders.org/mailman/listinfo/swb-public>

===

​Hi, dear all!  Please, spread the news!  Thanks in advance!  :D

Tender kisses and warm hugs from Brazil, muuuah!!  <3

Ceci, cross-posting as always, la la la...  Sorry, my laziness is a real
shame, but I swear I am pretty-y-y busy now!  :P

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[liberationtech] Fwd: [ecrea] Call for papers - Special issue 3/2017 “The Remaking of Truth in the Digital Age”

[Cecilia Tanaka]

For your knowledge!  <3

Ceci
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​"The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented."​


-- Forwarded message --


Call  for paper:/CS Journal of Media Performing Arts and Cultural Studies./
Special issue 3/2017 “The Remaking of Truth in the Digital Age” edited by
Chiara Giaccardi and Nathan Jurgenson

The deadline for abstract submission is: January 31st 2017

*The Special Issue *

Many thought Brexit would not come to pass, that Donald Trump could not be
elected, experts, pollsters, and probability models told us so, down to the
decimal point. An entire media apparatus that was increasingly certain came
to produce instead confusion. The manufactured character of news becomes
dramatically exposed, as well as the entertainment-driven nature of
electoral politics that increasingly look like reality shows. The vacuum
left behind is threatened to be filled with the rising tide of hate speech,
hoaxes, and so-called fake news.

We introduce this project amidst this wave of anti-inclusionary and
counter-informative forces. Populist movements around the globe are
rallying against journalists, politicians, and other professionals and
experts who themselves have failed to speak to and about the lives of these
people. We are said to now be in a “post truth” time, one where debate over
truth has been replaced by a chaos of facts, where the work of building
knowledge feels exhausting and impossible, leading to a normalization of
the surreal, the uncritical acceptance of heavily biased information as
intuitive and unproblematic.

This issue is about our moment of epistemic chaos, the decline of old
knowledge gatekeepers, and the political ramifications of fake, misleading,
and propagandistic information. We pay special attention to the role of
new, digital, social technologies of knowledge and their relationship with
politics. We cannot understand how and what people know without
understanding the set of information technologies in which we inhabit.

Those debates around the diminishing of traditional institutions being
disrupted away by the rising tide and quickening flow of digitality are
instructive, too, as institutions of epistemic authority, grapple with
staying useful and relevant today. This issue is a meta-discourse on
discourse in a time many have called “post truth.” What is it to do
theoretical work in a so-called post-truth world without falling in the
equally undesirable opposites of cynical functionalism (truth is merely
what works, comforted in what they already know, and preserving the status
quo) or a new positivism (paternalistic explainerism, where truth is a
matter of numbers, and those in power claim a false objectivity). What
might Foucault’s “parrhesia” mean today?

And, ontologically, the disagreement over the basic shape of thing in the
world might lead to useless possibilities like a radical constructivism
where reality is merely what we do with it or an essentialism where reality
can somehow be perfectly grasped using the right methodologies. If reality
is hard to grasp, its consequences are hard to miss: people suffer
injustice and tourture, strive to survive in impossibly harsh conditions,
and find ways of resilience and resistance. Suffering and death has a
concreteness that escapes any rhetorical strategy, a reminder of the limits
of the defeatism of simply claiming everything is fake or a simulation. Is
there room for a critical realism that recognizes that reality always
exceeds our capacity to grasp it? One that could suggest respect and care
over arrogance and exploitation?

These crucial questions have precedent. A decade ago, conversations about
the internet often centered on how truth and news and information more
generally will flow when people have access to consume so much more
information. And, only a little later, when so many more people can produce
such information. Those debates around the introductions of Wikipedia,
Google News, or Facebook Newsfeed are instructive today as we continue to
struggle with how to incentivize, create, and sort information in ways that
are accurate and just.

We should draw on the literature describing the history of political
performance and propaganda. Global strategies of political misinformation
and shaping information ecosystems to manufacture ideology and behavior
shape and are shaped by the information technologies of their times, and
these are lessons we need to draw from to understand our current moment. Is
the epistemic vertigo being felt a feature or a flaw, a momentary
readjustment or a new normal?

Describing our current situation should also draw on past thinking about
knowledge, politics, and technology. For instance, the debates about
positivism, the myth of the neutrality and objectivity of numbers and
science are instructive. From “big data” science to “data journalism”,
numbers play a large part in our contemporary data flows, from metric-based
incentives like clicks, shares, and followers to th

Re: [liberationtech] Learning how to hack

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Wow!!!  Really awesome compilation, Steve!  Thank you with all my heart and
soul!  <3  <3  <3

I promise I will study more and explode less things!  But I will always
play with lights to enlighten hearts in the dark and make children
smile...  Happiness is a LED blinking!  :D

Love, books, music, soldering and LEDs!

Ceci

On Aug 29, 2016 12:44 PM, "Steve Weis"  wrote:
>
> What is the background of the students? Do they know how to program? Do
they have experience with web apps or operating systems?
>
> If they have some basic coding and web app background, here are some
suggestions:
> Google has a good "Web Application Exploits and Defenses" tutorial
named Gruyere: https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/part1
> There are dozens of Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions of varying
difficulty.
> Here's a list of CTFs: https://ctftime.org/ctfs
> Here's an archive of UCSB's past CTFs:
https://ictf.cs.ucsb.edu/pages/archive.html
> Stripe also has good CTFs that they post the source to:
https://github.com/stripe-ctf/stripe-ctf-2.0/tree/master/levels
> This Square/Matasano CTF is assembly-oriented, but I liked it a lot:
https://microcorruption.com/login
> This is an (outdated) list of vulnerable web apps for learning purposes:
http://blog.taddong.com/2011/10/hacking-vulnerable-web-applications.html
> OWASP has educational and training materials, though they seem to be
spread across several projects that you have to dig through:
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page
> If the students literally want to go after bug bounties, I'd suggest
reading through bug bounty reports by researchers. They will go into detail
and show you the areas that are fruitful to focus on.
> Here's a bounty hunter's guide:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-bug-bounty/a-bounty-hunters-guide-to-facebook/946955115318715/
> Here's an good bug bounty post:
https://whitton.io/articles/uber-turning-self-xss-into-good-xss/
> Here's a more typical bug bounty post:
https://josipfranjkovic.blogspot.com/2014/12/reading-local-files-from-facebooks.html
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 8:33 PM Yosem Companys 
wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Some of our students are interested in learning how to hack and go
>> after bug bounties.
>>
>> Has anyone compiled good resources for getting started? Also, has
>> anyone created course syllabi to teach the subject?
>>
>> I don't want to reinvent the wheel, if the resources are already out
there.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yosem
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Re: [liberationtech] Learning how to hack

[Cecilia Tanaka]

Really sorry if my suggestion seem too fool or stupid, my dear Yosem, but I
learned to hack with my friends, making a lot of crazy things on
hackerspaces.

I love a lot of books like "Make: Electronics  (Learning Through
Discovery)", by Charles Platt, but the best way of learning and having
crazy ideas is DIY.  I almost exploded a lot of things and  - wow! -  it
was really fun!  :D

Creating, playing, watching LEDs and dark hearts blinking in the dark...
God, I am the worst hacker in the whole world, but I know how fun is
brewing my own beer.  And I don't drink alcohol, hahaha!!!  ;D

Create new things, reutilize old things, being a maker because it has own
beauty.  Just it.  No, because it's "fashion" now.  It's simply lovely,
beautiful, wonderful to make something cool with your own hands.

I suggest all the "Make Collection".  I've made children having lots of fun
with really huge bubbles of soap and learned how to constroy a lot of cool
things!  :D

Happy Hacking and Have Fun!!!  Be Happy and Make Other People Happy!!!  <3
<3  <3

Ceci, from Brazil
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[liberationtech] Fwd: Call for input to President's Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity - bridging the trust gap between the IT community and the US government

[Cecilia Tanaka]

- - - Begin forwarded message - - -

Date: July 15, 2016 at 3:21:32 PM EDT
From: Herb Lin 
To: "'David Farber (d...@farber.net)'" , ip 
Subject: Call for input to President's Commission on Enhancing
   Cybersecurity - bridging the trust gap between the IT community
   and the US government

Dear IPers -

You may know that President Obama has established a commission to
consider how to strengthen cybersecurity in both the public and
private sectors while protecting privacy, ensuring public safety and
economic and national security, fostering discovery and development
of new technical solutions, and bolstering partnerships between
Federal, State, and local government and the private sector in the
development, promotion, and use of cybersecurity technologies,
policies, and best practices.  (See
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/09/executive-order-commission-enhancing-national-cybersecurity
.)
I am one of the 12 designated commissioners.

Recognizing that trust is hard to build and easy to destroy (and a
variety of things have happened over the last 20 years have occurred
to do the latter), one issue that has come up is the enormous gap of
trust between the U.S. government and the information technology
(IT) community, from which many IPers are drawn.  This rift is not
helpful to either side, and I'd like to solicit input from the IP
community about what you think the government can do or refrain from
doing to help bridge that gap.

It would be most helpful if you could three things in your response:

1 - Your best examples of things the government (and what part of the
US government) has done to alienate the IT community specifically.
(Or, at the very least, show how the examples you provide connect to
the interests of the IT community.)

2 - Things that the U.S. government could realistically do in the
short and medium term (i.e., 0-10 year time frame) that would help
bridge the trust gap.  If your answer is "Don't do dumb things!", it
would be better and more useful to provide *examples* of what not to
do.

3 - Things that the U.S. government could realistically do in the
longer term to do the same.

Please send your responses to cencinp...@gmail.com.  (I set up this
email address, but I'd like to keep the traffic separate from my
non-Commission work email.)  I promise to read as many as I can
individually and share what I learn with the commission membership.

Also, feel free to circulate this call for input to anyone else you
feel would want to comment.

Thanks much

Herb

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Herb Lin
Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305  USA
herb...@stanford.edu
650-497-8600 office || 202-841-0525 cell || 202-540-9878 fax
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