Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat: Translation Volunteers Needed

2013-05-24 Thread Sjoerd de Vries
About how much is needed to translate. Are you talking about 1.000 words or more about 1.000.000 words. If it isn't to much I'm willing to help you translate to Dutch ~Sjoerd On 23/05/2013 20:09, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Please go ahead! :-) NK On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Jayne Cravens

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat: Translation Volunteers Needed

2013-05-24 Thread Buddhadeb Halder
Hi, I will be doing Bangali language. Thanks, Buddha On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Sjoerd de Vries vriesdesjo...@gmail.comwrote: About how much is needed to translate. Are you talking about 1.000 words or more about 1.000.000 words. If it isn't to much I'm willing to help you translate

Re: [liberationtech] Major Security Flaws in Tor Components

2013-05-24 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, Why did you pick a sensational subject like that? You know that is hardly the case. Most of the stuff described in the paper is already known and described in various other papers at http://freehaven.net/anonbib/ . For a discussion about this paper and the already introduced improvements and

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat: Translation Volunteers Needed

2013-05-24 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 24.05.2013 11:09, Sjoerd de Vries wrote: About how much is needed to translate. Are you talking about 1.000 words or more about 1.000.000 words. If it isn't to much I'm willing to help you translate to Dutch Nadim should have made this more clear: All translations and texts are readily

[liberationtech] New online course: Introduction to Technology for Human Rights

2013-05-24 Thread Christopher Tuckwood
Hi everyone, This is my first submission to the mailing list after reading for a while but I thought this might be of interest to others here. My organization, the Sentinel Project http://www.thesentinelproject.org, has just launched an online course called Introduction to Technology for Human

Re: [liberationtech] New online course: Introduction to Technology for Human Rights

2013-05-24 Thread Enrique Piraces
A small suggestion. You may want to remove the background image where names and emails can be extracted from. Best, Enrique Piracés Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org https://www.twitter.com/epiraces On May 24, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Christopher Tuckwood wrote: Hi everyone, This is my first

Re: [liberationtech] Major Security Flaws in Tor Components

2013-05-24 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Hi Moritz, My subject is hardly sensationalist. The paper purports to de-anonymize hidden services, which is a big deal. Thanks for pointing to areas of discussion — the vulnerabilities published in the paper are still major with regards to Tor Hidden Services. :/ NK On Fri, May 24, 2013 at

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:56:32PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Dan Gillmor d...@gillmor.com Given the vanishingly small likelihood that companies or governments will do anything about cell phone tracking, I'm interested in what countermeasures we can take individually. The obvious one

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-24 Thread Gregory Foster
On 5/24/13 3:04 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:56:32PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Dan Gillmor d...@gillmor.com Given the vanishingly small likelihood that companies or governments will do anything about cell phone tracking, I'm

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-24 Thread Seth David Schoen
Yosem Companys writes: From: Dan Gillmor d...@gillmor.com Given the vanishingly small likelihood that companies or governments will do anything about cell phone tracking, I'm interested in what countermeasures we can take individually. The obvious one is to turn off GPS except on rare

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-24 Thread Steve Weis
Regarding wifi-only phones, Euclid Analytics (http://euclidanalytics.com/product/how/), has developed router add-on software that can track consumers' mobile devices by MAC addresses. The routers send that data back to Euclid for aggregation. There are other companies working on similar ideas. I