Re: [liberationtech] Inside FinFisher: examining the intrusive toolset

2014-11-11 Thread Marcin de Kaminski
Thank you Nighat, and thanks for sharing. Very interesting indeed! --- Marcin de Kaminski Policy specialist - Freedom of expression/ICT | www.sida.se Twitter: @dekaminski 2014-11-11 05:44 skrev Nighat Dad: Hello all, We have just published the second detailed article, examining the

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrés, I personally work with many angel investors who do not fit the devil with a checkbook mold. These guys are heavily involved in greentech / cleantech, people who are scared of climate change and are investing money in developing next gen solar

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Jens, I did speak of tangents, secants, and lines with even more intersections between profit and common good, didn't I? But there is a huge gap, oceans of bad or just OK between those intersections, few and far between, isn't it? Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If it helps, think of it as a Venn diagram. There is one set, that of profitable scalable innovation. There is another set, that of F/LOSS that give users digital freedom. Is there an intersection between these two sets? What will we find if look? I

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/14 12:37, hellekin wrote: *** Indeed, there's an inherent conflict of interest. But free software, free hardware, and liberation technologies suffer a systematic lack of resources. If the only alternative to capital investment is

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On 10 November 2014 17:49, J.M. Porup j...@porup.com wrote: Is it possible to make money investing in privacy- or security-focused startups? There is certainly an interest in the related technologies, but the obstacles are the ones you would probably expect: 1. Commercial companies don't want

[liberationtech] Citizen Lab New Report

2014-11-11 Thread Ronald Deibert
Hi LibTech I am pleased to announce a new Citizen Lab publication, Communities @ Risk: targeted digital threats against civil society. Communities @ Risk is the culminating report of a multi-year, multi-group study on targeted digital threats. We define targeted digital threats as persistent

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/11/2014 09:00 AM, J.M. Porup wrote: If it helps, think of it as a Venn diagram. There is one set, that of profitable scalable innovation. There is another set, that of F/LOSS that give users digital freedom. Is there an intersection between

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/14 08:48, hellekin wrote: On 11/11/2014 09:00 AM, J.M. Porup wrote: If it helps, think of it as a Venn diagram. There is one set, that of profitable scalable innovation. There is another set, that of F/LOSS that give users digital

Re: [liberationtech] ICT and Information Security Consulting Services for NGOs/Activist/Press?

2014-11-11 Thread Nathan of Guardian
Everything Gunner said +5. The long view is critical here. I am ashamed Aspiration wasn't the first place I pointed to as a successful model, but I know Gunner will forgive me. On Tue, Nov 11, 2014, at 01:59 AM, Allen Gunn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey Jesse,

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/11/2014 10:58 AM, J.M. Porup wrote: It's been said the hardest part of solving any problem is to state the problem clearly. I cannot offer any answers. At least not yet. *** Thank you very much for tackling it though. It's a hard

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Venn Diagrams are so lame that they were deprecated a long time ago as the basis of official Math! ROFL what I'd be interested to know regarding angel investors and Chile, is exactly what is meant by this statement in the website originally referenced in the email starting this thread: We can

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/14 09:36, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: what I'd be interested to know regarding angel investors and Chile, is exactly what is meant by this statement in the website originally referenced in the email starting this thread:

[liberationtech] XMPP object encryption at IETF about to die...

2014-11-11 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm here at IETF 91 hanging with all the protocol nerds. I was talking to someone about OTR and they pointed out that the object-encryption standard for XMPP that has been put forward is about to die due to lack of interest and engagement: