[liberationtech] Reporting from Cuba: How Pixels are Bringing Down the Wall of Censorship - Program on Liberation Technology

2013-10-23 Thread Yosem Companys
http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/7964 Reporting from Cuba: How Pixels are Bringing Down the Wall of Censorship CDDRL Special Seminar DATE AND TIME October 28, 2013 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM AVAILABILITY Open to the public RSVP required by 5PM October 25 SPEAKER Yoani Sanchez -

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2013-10-23 Thread Adam Fisk
All really well put, Shava, and I couldn't agree more. I actually met with Jessica this morning after requesting they change the title (almost missed my flight as a result!), and she spoke with her editor about it. They'd apparently have to do it through issuing a correction, which sounds a little

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2013-10-23 Thread Tempest
Shava Nerad: But if you look at the press or boosters or detractors, there is misinformation, disinfo, and just a lot of glitter and FUD out there. Not to jump on TechPresident, but to use them as an example (but because it was posted here...), there's a tendency to pit groups against one

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2013-10-23 Thread Micah Sifry
Hey Shava! Thanks for your feedback. We wanted the headline to suggest that Lantern was the next new, exciting thing in anti-censorship, and the easiest way to signal that was by mentioning Tor. For what it is--scalable blocking resistance--it could very well be better than Tor. We did not mean

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2013-10-23 Thread coderman
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Adam Fisk af...@getlantern.org wrote: ... we really would love to hear any criticisms of Lantern people may have, including anything technical or ... make Latern function as a pluggable transport for Tor!

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2013-10-23 Thread Adam Fisk
Totally agreed. We've been considering integrating Tor nodes in some way with Lantern for awhile, originally inspired by conversations with @ioerror. I think something along those lines could be incredibly effective, and I just added it in the more general idea section of our somewhat sparse

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2013-10-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:44:46PM -0700, Adam Fisk wrote: We do, however, strongly believe in the potential of WebRTC to provide both interesting cover traffic as well as usability improvements that come as a result of reusing technology already built into the browser. I agree! I think the