Re: [liberationtech] Images of Blocking in Different Countries?

As far as I can tell, China doesn't "keyword-filter" in the sense most people think of that phrase. That is, the Great Firewall isn't inspecting all the text which flows through it, failing to deliver any web pages which have offending words. The filtering is of two main types: 1) any of thou

Re: [liberationtech] Images of Blocking in Different Countries?

As far as I can tell, China doesn't "keyword-filter" in the sense most people think of that phrase. That is, the Great Firewall isn't inspecting all the text which flows through it, failing to deliver any web pages which have offending words. The filtering is of two main types: 1) any of thou

Re: [liberationtech] Images of Blocking in Different Countries?

My understanding from former Google China folks is that they will randomly redirect DNS lookups for google.x domains to baidu, which may be what you're seeing. Thanks for all the links and everything everyone -- very helpful! -Adam On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Marietta Le wrote: > Now that

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech Mailing List Survey

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would you like to make the Liberationtech archives public or private? The archives should be public. If information is being sent to the list that could potentially cause the death of others, that information is being grossly mishandled if present o

Re: [liberationtech] Enlocked, secure email extension?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/14/12 19:39, Brian Conley wrote: > Anyone seen this yet? > > http://www.enlocked.com > > Hi, As I understand it they are some kind of pgp as a service, that makes no sense, they are storing your secret key and you are sending the data to the

Re: [liberationtech] Examples of Communication Blackout in Conflict Zones on Independence Day

Hi Sana, I just want to second Eryn's comments. This type of government-ordered "just-in-time" blocking or throttling takes place constantly, often during crucial periods such as elections. In the past couple of weeks, it has occurred in Syria, before the military attacks cities or towns: ht

[liberationtech] Enlocked, secure email extension?

Anyone seen this yet? http://www.enlocked.com "About Us We created Enlocked to address an important gap in security -- most email today is sent entirely in the open, preventing users from being able to send important confidential information, or if they do send it, putting that data at risk. Whi

[liberationtech] Whistle.is. Secure submissions platform?

Hello, Whistle.is have a submissions platform and I'm particularly interested to see whether any security researchers have done any testing as to the protections for anonymous leakers. http://whistle.is/?page_id=13# Or if could anyone point me to any good background on whistle.is? Any help

Re: [liberationtech] Examples of Communication Blackout in Conflict Zones on Independence Day

Hi Sana, Thank you for this information. The Conflict Risk Network submitted a comment that discusses instances and some of the risks you raise below associated with companies complying with government orders (generally as per their contractual agreements) to shut down networks and commun

[liberationtech] Examples of Communication Blackout in Conflict Zones on Independence Day

Hi, Pakistan's Government blocked access to cellphones in parts of Baluchistan today. We have issues a press release (Baluchistan: Access Should Not Be A Victim To National Security