[liberationtech] Join Stanford Crowd Course Initiative: collaborate and spread the ICTD knowledge with people around the world

2016-03-03 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Rajan Vaish Want to demonstrate and share your knowledge while impacting education? Help create a course on ICTD and spread the knowledge with people around the world. Feel free to teach topics in crowd technologies, computer science, data science, HCI or any other

Re: [liberationtech] unmonitored international communication?

2016-03-03 Thread George Kadianakis
Seth David Schoen writes: > Carolyn Santo writes: > >> The recent talk about video games made me wonder about using them as >> a communication channel that might not be monitored by repressive >> governments. > > I've heard this idea is interesting to anti-censorship campaigners

Re: [liberationtech] unmonitored international communication?

2016-03-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
Carolyn Santo writes: > The recent talk about video games made me wonder about using them as > a communication channel that might not be monitored by repressive > governments. I've heard this idea is interesting to anti-censorship campaigners as well as to spy agencies. A disadvantage is that

Re: [liberationtech] unmonitored international communication?

2016-03-03 Thread J.M. Porup
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:46:58PM -1000, Carolyn Santo wrote: > The recent talk about video games made me wonder about using them as a > communication channel that might not be monitored by repressive governments. You mean, like the US and British governments? > Hope this sparks some useful

Re: [liberationtech] Silicon Valley Must Be Redistributed

2016-03-03 Thread Joshua Kopstein
Silicon Valley is a garbage fire, but calling it the "greatest threat to the human race" and describing American authorities as uniquely predisposed to coerce the companies based on its soil is laughable. The answer to companies being coerced by the American govt isn't "more global businesses

[liberationtech] Stingray technology in use around the world?

2016-03-03 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Steve Anderson Hi all -- I'm looking into Stingray/IMSI-capture technology use and wondering if anyone on this list knows of examples of where it is being used around the world. I've started a document to

[liberationtech] Silicon Valley Must Be Redistributed

2016-03-03 Thread J.M. Porup
The continued existence of Silicon Valley in its current form is the single greatest threat to the human race we face today. As the FBI v Apple fiasco makes clear, any Silicon Valley business can be commandeered, coerced to serve the surveillance apparatus. [0] The solution: We must disrupt

Re: [liberationtech] alkasir 2.0: One more anti-censorship tool launched

2016-03-03 Thread Nathan of Guardian
Congratulations on the continued progress, especially the move to audited open-source code and the adoption of Obfs4proxy. I really look forward to the mobile app, as well! On Wed, Mar 2, 2016, at 01:29 PM, Walid AL-SAQAF wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > After over a year of hard work, we've