[liberationtech] Sunlight / NPR / Washington Post Election Hackathon

2012-08-29 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Tom Lee t...@sunlightfoundation.com I wanted to make the people on this list aware of this event as soon as I could: http://www.electionhackathon.com/ We're excited to join NPR and the Post in co-hosting this event. You can click through for all the details, but the short version is:

[liberationtech] The SmartPhone Who Loved Me: FinFisher goes mobile?

2012-08-29 Thread Ronald Deibert
Hi LibTech Below are details of a new Citizen Lab publication this a.m. focusing on more findings relating to the FinFisher spy kit, and building on our prior report and the research of Rapid7 on the location of FinFisher CC servers. This report provides a very exhaustive analysis of several

[liberationtech] How Civil Disobedience Improves Crowdsourced Disaster Response

2012-08-29 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Dear All, This positive feedback loophttp://irevolution.net/2012/08/22/civil-resistance-improve-disaster-response/between civil resistance and crowdsourced disaster response may be of interest to some. It relates to the Pre-Doc I did at Stanford's Program on Liberation Technology last year.