Re: [liberationtech] The Pirate Bay moving to North Korea, really ?

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Lewis
Fake BGP announcements, and/or fake internal ip addressing. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:30 PM, Olivier Tesquet olivier.tesq...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/3/5 Amin Sabeti aminsab...@gmail.com See the update 3:

Re: [liberationtech] The Pirate Bay moving to North Korea, really ?

2013-03-05 Thread Julien Rabier
Le 05 mars - 11:30, Olivier Tesquet a écrit : 2013/3/5 Amin Sabeti aminsab...@gmail.com See the update 3: http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/05/evidence-the-pirate-bay-move-to-north-korea-was-a-prank-in-understandable-terms/ Thanks Amin, I hadn't see it. My question would duplicate

Re: [liberationtech] The Pirate Bay moving to North Korea, really ?

2013-03-05 Thread Alejandro Fernandez
I'm not very clued in to the specifics but IMO moving to catalunya is a bad idea. The sinde law is now up for revision and being hardened. I suspect future wikileaks cables would show proof that the US is still pushing this kind of thing in Spain. Here is some news in spanish about this

Re: [liberationtech] The Pirate Bay moving to North Korea, really ?

2013-03-05 Thread Andrew Lewis
I have no idea where they are physically located, but they seem to be getting inbound transit via AMS-IX, so I suspect that they are in Amsterdam, and most likely the ISP has no idea. On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:53 AM, Alejandro Fernandez sko...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not very clued in to the

Re: [liberationtech] [SPAM:####] Re: [SPAM:####] CfP: Society, Informatics and Cybernetics (March 19)

2013-03-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow, who'd have guessed that spammers and scammers operate in the world of academia too! http://fakeconference.blogspot.co.uk/ On 5 Mar 2013, at 12:24, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:13:42AM +, scarp wrote: I'm kind of

Re: [liberationtech] [SPAM:####] Re: [SPAM:####] CfP: Society, Informatics and Cybernetics (March 19)

2013-03-05 Thread scarp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb: Wow, who'd have guessed that spammers and scammers operate in the world of academia too! http://fakeconference.blogspot.co.uk/ On 5 Mar 2013, at 12:24, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:13:42AM

Re: [liberationtech] The Pirate Bay moving to North Korea, really ?

2013-03-05 Thread Tom Ritter
I've never played with it, but I think you could use fakeroute to do this: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/fakeroute/ I also suspect this may have something to do with it: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/308694012842369025 Although I could be wrong. -tom -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe,

[liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Sandra ordonez
Looking to connect for Spanish-speaking LibTech community members for a community initiative. Please reach out to sandraordonez [@] openitp [dot] org --- Estoy tratando de conectar con hispanohablantes para un una iniciativa comunitaria. Por favor, ponerse en contacto con sandraordonez [@] openitp

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Eduardo Robles Elvira
Hello there! I don't know how many others spanish-speaking people are there, but I'm a spaniard living in Madrid, we can get in touch =) I'm the lead developer of agoravoting.com, an e-democracy voting tool with support for vote delegation. Regards, -- Eduardo Robles Elvira +34 668 824 393

[liberationtech] CfP: ICTD2013, Cape Town, Dec 7-10

2013-03-05 Thread Yosem Companys
This one is real, folks... ;) We are pleased to announce that the submission site is now open for ICTD2013. Held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGCAS, the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2013) will be held in Cape Town,

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread gaby david
Hello all, why not? I mean,  it is a very nice idea and me sumo a la lista !   gaby david PhD candidate Lhivic - EHESS Paris twitter, facebook, instagram = gabydavid http://culturevisuelle.org/corazonada/ De : Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu À :

[liberationtech] Wickr: Can the Snapchat for Grown-Ups Save You From Spies?

2013-03-05 Thread Yosem Companys
http://mashable.com/2013/03/04/wickr/ Wickr: Can the Snapchat for Grown-Ups Save You From Spies? by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Mashable In the online world, our digital footprints hardly ever wash away. The Internet never forgets — and neither does social media. Web users are coming to

Re: [liberationtech] Wickr: Can the Snapchat for Grown-Ups Save You From Spies?

2013-03-05 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
So could Wickr be used by an activist in Syria who is worried about enemy spies and Assad's regime? Sell has no doubts — she answers that question with an unflickering yes. Not good. NK On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote:

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Kyle Maxwell
I would be interested in helping as well as joining LibTech en español --krm On Mar 5, 2013 10:56 AM, Sandra ordonez sandratordo...@gmail.com wrote: Looking to connect for Spanish-speaking LibTech community members for a community initiative. Please reach out to sandraordonez [@] openitp [dot]

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread L. Fernando Baron
I’m also in. Fernando L. Fernando Baron P. Ph.D. Candidate Information Science iSchool University of Washington Seattle, WA From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of gaby david Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:15 AM

Re: [liberationtech] Wickr: Can the Snapchat for Grown-Ups Save You From Spies?

2013-03-05 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On Tue Mar 5 13:18:34 2013, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: So could Wickr be used by an activist in Syria who is worried about enemy spies and Assad's regime? Sell has no doubts — she answers that question with an unflickering yes. Not good. It would be neat to be able to respond to something like

Re: [liberationtech] Wickr: Can the Snapchat for Grown-Ups Save You From Spies?

2013-03-05 Thread liberationtech
On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 10:16:12 -0800 Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: The cautionary tale that many reference is the case of Hushmail, an encrypted mail service that used to claim that not even a Hushmail employee with access to our servers can read your encrypted email, since each

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Jeanine Finn
Yo también. Jeanine Finn Doctoral Candidate/Assistant Instructor School of Information University of Texas at Austin jef...@ischool.utexas.edu On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:36 PM, L. Fernando Baron lfba...@uw.edu wrote: I’m also in. Fernando

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi I also speak Spanish. And this is a good idea. But there are several ways of working it. The primary goals would be, at a guess, providing a forum (list, wiiki, etc.) and a structure so that walled gardens are not created. (This is not a new problem. With OpenOffice.org (now Apache

Re: [liberationtech] Wickr: Can the Snapchat for Grown-Ups Save You From Spies?

2013-03-05 Thread Shava Nerad
What Andrew said. And anyone who glibly says that people's lives can rely on the privacy of their software like that is lying, naive, and/or stupid, to be blunt. We had releases in the wild of Tor we knew people were using (and may still be) that are out of date and we know are security

[liberationtech] Qihoo 360 in China.

2013-03-05 Thread Melissa Chan
Good afternoon, Thought Qihoo's mysterious activities, written up in this piece by Tech in Asia, might be of interest to those on this list. It looks like the team there is continuing the investigation -- apparently there's a weird cookie file that gets sent to a Qihoo server every time a

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-03-05 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 01:35:53PM -0800, Adam Fisk wrote: At the risk of getting swept up in this by consciously saying something unpopular, I want to put my shoulder against the wheel of the open source process produces more secure software machine. [snip] I've been thinking about your

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-03-05 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Rich, That was the best email I have ever read on this mailing list. Congratulations and thank you. Please post this as a blog post somewhere. NK On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 01:35:53PM -0800, Adam Fisk wrote: At the risk of

[liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-05 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Dr. Tusharkanti Dey dr.tusharkanti...@gmail.com Dear All, I am proposing to set up a ICT based health project in tribal areas with poor infrastructural facilities with poor cell phone connectivity due to unstable signal strengths. i have learnt that HAM radio software from HamSphere is

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-05 Thread ITechGeek
Depends on what information you might be transmitting and the specific laws of the local country/countries involved. HAMs have to be licensed through the local countries licensing authority (in the case of the US would be the FCC). Under US you could probably get away with allowing them to

Re: [liberationtech] Qihoo 360 in China.

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Johnson
Thanks for sharing Melissa. Around 27% of Internet users in China use the Qihoo Safe Browser. After the man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China just over a month ago, we made some tests accessing websites with invalid SSL certificates in different browsers. The Qihoo browser shows a green

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-05 Thread Sky (Jim Schuyler)
Since HAM (amateur radio) is real radio, not phone, an Android app wouldn't use it directly. The app might -control- an amateur radio remotely, and there is software available to do this. However, I'm not sure what benefit it would bring to this project. In the US, amateur radio operators must

[liberationtech] CfP: 4S, Surveillance Big Data Mediation (March 15)

2013-03-05 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Torin Monahan torin.mona...@unc.edu, Anders Albrechtslund a...@hum.au.dk Call for Papers (w/ apologies for cross-listing) Surveillance and the Mediation of Big Data 4S session(s) organized by Torin Monahan and Anders Albrechtslund 4S Annual Meeting (http://www.4sonline.org/meeting) San

[liberationtech] F2C

2013-03-05 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
The Freedom to Connect conference ended today.[0] It was held in Silver Spring, MD. I also seemed immensely interesting and relevant to this list. Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! broadcast much of it; she also interviewed several interesting participants.[1] But who on this list was there? And