[liberationtech] BitMate: BitTorrent for development

2012-05-17 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Umar Saif u...@lums.edu.pk Hi - I am not sure if I have sent an email regarding our BitTorrent client designed for low-bandwidth nodes in the developing-world. We released BitMate almost a year ago -- to date, it has been downloaded more than 35,000 times by users from 173 countries. It

Re: [liberationtech] Security Vulnerability in Pidgin-OTR (Please Upgrade)

2012-05-17 Thread Michael Zeltner
Excerpts from Douglas Lucas's message of 2012-05-17 18:21:32 +0200: Ubuntu apt-get update/upgrade showed me a new package for pidgin-otr, but not the vulnerability bugfix 3.2.1 (From terminal: Preparing to replace pidgin-otr 3.2.0-5 (using .../pidgin-otr_3.2.0-5ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb) ...)

Re: [liberationtech] Security Vulnerability in Pidgin-OTR (Please Upgrade)

2012-05-17 Thread Douglas Lucas
Hi everyone, Just got this from Stephen M. Webb on behalf of ubuntudev team: To get pidgin-otr 3.2.1 into 11.10, you need to request a backport [1]. Be prepared to do some testing. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports And the pidgin-otr for Precise in Michael Zeltner's email below

Re: [liberationtech] Security Vulnerability in Pidgin-OTR (Please Upgrade)

2012-05-17 Thread Douglas Lucas
Problem solved. 3.2.0-5 is the backported to Ocelot Precise bugfix for the remote exploit. Version number confusion. See changelogs here https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/pidgin-otr/3.2.0-5ubuntu0.12.4.1and here

Re: [liberationtech] Video cameras coming to an SF bar near you

2012-05-17 Thread Parker Higgins
Hey guys, When I posted about this on Twitter, I had a few people notify me that they complained to some of the bars in question at which they were regulars. At least the Ambassador responded (on Twitter) that they were pulling out of the program, and their name is no longer on this list:

[liberationtech] Chmail Fail

2012-05-17 Thread SiNA Rabbani
http://www.slashgear.com/iran-bans-gmail-and-foreign-e-mail-services-14228042/ https://chmail.ir is Iran's new replacement for Gmail. The domain's ownership is controlled by an email address @gmail.com. Is there something missing in this picture? 0_0 So technically Gmail can password reset the

[liberationtech] IP addresses linked to Syria

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Lewis
Hey, If anyone comes across anything online that links back to Syria Government, in particular the Syrian Electric Army, I'd love to know IP addresses or other relevant info. Things I am looking for range from Malware to redirects on hacks, and anything in between. I am collecting this stuff