Re: [liberationtech] The Research Bay #3

2014-02-25 Thread Alberto Cammozzo
Hello Marcin, are you are aware that Italy is censoring thepiratebay.* ? Perhaps it would be useful to have the survey available at some other address, too. bests, Alberto - Alberto Cammozzo http://cammozzo.com http://tagMeNot.info On 02/25/2014 12:35 AM, Marcin de Kaminski wrote: The

Re: [liberationtech] The Research Bay #3

2014-02-25 Thread Marcin de Kaminski
Hi Alberto, Yes, we are aware of that - but as we are researching the community at TPB it would really not help to have the survey on another address. However, last time we did this survey (in 2012) appr 10% of the respondents claimed to have TPB censored by their ISP (by their own will or due

[liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread David Berry
Hi I hope you don’t mind my announcing my new book Critical Theory and the Digital which explores the contemporary landscape related to computational technology and argues for an approach that revitalises critical theory in light of current questions over cryptography, critical technical

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Reed Black
word salad and the digital On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:05 AM, David Berry dmbe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I hope you don't mind my announcing my new book *Critical Theory and the Digital* which explores the contemporary landscape related to computational technology and argues for an approach

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Reed Black
In fairness, it was churlish of me to dismiss digital critical theory as rewarmed word salad that confuses the map for the territory. An epistemology that accepts puns as wisdom, a presentation that muddies the waters that we may think they are deep... these have their value. For example, if one

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/25/2014 09:05 AM, David Berry wrote: Hi I hope you don’t mind my announcing my new book *** I gather the AIR-L[0] would be a better place for this. The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association dedicated to the

[liberationtech] Syrian Web Censorship Techniques Revealed | MIT Technology Review

2014-02-25 Thread Yosem Companys
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525076/syrian-web-censorship-techniques-revealed/ -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread David Berry
I apologise in advance for my use of words. The publishers are very tiresome in requiring not only words, but also sentences, paragraphs and so forth. There is also an argument in the book. Made up of words. That are actually connected together. At least I hope so. One never knows after having

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Daniel H. Cabrera
Congratulation David! Very interesting...   Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri Profesor Titular de Teoría de la Comunicación Coordinador del Grado en Periodismo Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Zaragoza Te. (34) 976761000 ext. 4043 c/ Pedro Cerbuna 12 - Zaragoza- 50009 España

[liberationtech] February 28: Texting for Sexual Health: Effects of Information Provision on Health-Seeking Behavior in Kenya

2014-02-25 Thread Yosem Companys
The Freeman Spogli Institute will host its next Action Fund Friday seminar on Friday, February 28th at 12 noon, CISAC Central, 2nd floor Encina Hall. Lunch will be served to attendees who RSVP. Please share this announcement with colleagues and friends: Texting for Sexual Health: Effects of

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Adam Pritchard
I thought I should chime in with some info about Psiphon's recent blockage in Iran... On February 14, we had about 840K Android + 620K Windows unique users (on that day; the total for the preceding week was about 3m, as Collin said). This is almost the high water mark for us. On February 15, we

[liberationtech] March 6: Pan-Optics: Emerging Perspectives on Visual Privacy Surveillance, UC Berkeley

2014-02-25 Thread Yosem Companys
You are invited to the following event: - Pan-Optics: Emerging Perspectives on Visual Privacy Surveillance Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Thursday, March 6, 2014 from 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM (PST) Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall UC Berkeley Berkeley , CA

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Griffin Boyce
Adam Pritchard wrote: I would advise against getting too comfortable/confident/hubristic... One might not want to suggest that one is unblockable. I like Tor a lot, but obviously nothing is unblockable. Iran's targeting of Tor around the attempted revolution is but one data point -- every

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
David, It is just so ironic that your book on what I gather is a perspective inspired on the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory to the modern digital world is published primarily by print media, and at a cost that makes it prohibitive to the very people that can benefit through its discussion of

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
salad is VERY GOOD FOOD. BETTER THAN BBQ or EMPIRICISM Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes a...@acm.org +1 (817) 271-9619 On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes alps6...@gmail.com wrote: David, It is just so ironic that your

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
And what I mean here, for example, is that I cannot in good faith ask US Dreamers (http://unitedwedream.org, http://drmactioncoalition.org, etc), other advocates for the US undocumented (2Million+ deportations during Obama's supposedly liberal administration - http://ndlon.org and many others),

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Fereidoon Bashar
I would actually argue against that, at least with Iranian users, rely on one particular tool. From what we have seen from our many communications with users, they rely and use any number of tools they can get their hands on and their choice is dependent on which one works better on a given day.

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Sahar Massachi
For those of us who aren't hip to the latest developments in Psiphon or circumvention - is there an easy primer as to how Psiphon works, and is different from traditional VPN's? The best I could find was this design document:

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Collin Anderson
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info wrote: That is the reason I promote Tor. It is 100% free, run by volunteers, doesn't require a credit card or registered account, and has group of Farsi-literate community support staff (like Nima) ready to help.

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:41:09PM -0500, a.pritch...@psiphon.ca wrote 7.6K bytes in 0 lines about: : So, yeah, Iran dropped the hammer on us. Welcome to the club! ;) -- Andrew pgp 0x6B4D6475 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 04:18:17PM -0500, grif...@cryptolab.net wrote 1.3K bytes in 0 lines about: : replacement. This feels like a user education issue. Users need to : know that there are multiple options -- eg when Psiphon works but : Lantern doesn't, or when Tor with a bridge doesn't

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Collin Anderson
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Andrew Lewman liberationt...@lewman.uswrote: Idle curiosity, what percent of Iranian Internet users use a proxy (or don't go naked on the Internet)? 1%? 5%? 50%? I tend to cite the Iranian chief of police's about 20 to 30 percent of (Iranian internet) users

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread David Berry
Hi Andres, I don’t think the print/digital dichotomy matters anymore, it just requires a bit of a creative hack. Books want to be free. They may be costly to make, edit, proofread and copyedit, distribute, etc. but it only takes a visit to the library with a smartphone and an app or

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Linux is free. Firefox is free. Etcétera, etcétera, and momento of them were written overnight or were not costly. It's that simple! As HRPetot would say! Il faut eat our own dog food, as others would say. On Feb 25, 2014 5:32 PM, David Berry dmbe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andres, I don't

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 02/25/2014 04:42 PM, Fereidoon Bashar wrote: Here is one example of an Iranian Android user's list of tools https://twitter.com/2iitter/status/435499775971328001 That's an amazing tweet and image. Many thanks for sharing. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google.

Re: [liberationtech] Many VPNs and Psiphon are currently blocked in Iran right now

2014-02-25 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 02/25/2014 03:41 PM, Adam Pritchard wrote: One might not want to suggest that one is unblockable. One does not simply suggest, that one is unblockable... I was more referring to my own personal experience working within the Tor community, and their human+organizational response to

Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/25/2014 08:31 PM, David Berry wrote: Books want to be free. They may be costly to make, edit, proofread and copyedit, distribute, etc. but it only takes a visit to the library with a smartphone and an app or someone able to hack the DRM