re:publica is a really fun conference that takes place in berlin in may and
is now accepting proposals for talks:
http://re-publica.de/en/call-papers
--
We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the
seemingly impossible to become a reality - *Vaclav Havel*
--
I have to say: I'm not as uncomfortable with this article as I thought I'd
be. I'm definitely uncomfortable with some of Wickr's promotional text
(military-grade encryption, leave no trace) but I felt that this
particular article addressed the NSA concerns and was fairly realistic
about what
Was there supposed to be an attachment? Can we see the text of the letter?
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote:
From: Bernardo Gutiérrez bernardobra...@riseup.net
I write to this list to communicate the urgency of helping Mexico's
activist and civil
Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I
don't think there's any harm here, but there are at least half a dozen
similar projects, most of which have been done in the past few years. See:
1994:
http://www.pff.org/issues-pubs/futureinsights/fi1.2magnacarta.html
the Internet to corporate
domination (e.g. Toffler...) and others that try to save it from such
control...
Well, there we agree :)
Cheers, CF
On 03/04/2014 19:27, Jillian C. York wrote:
Just out of curiosity, why another Declaration? Don't get me wrong, I
don't think there's any harm
+1
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.comwrote:
..on Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 03:56:36AM -0800, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:31 AM, elijah eli...@riseup.net wrote:
I don't need to beat a dead horse, but nearly every email from carlo
The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually
awards a $10,000 cash grant to one individual who has created or led an
effort to create an open source software product of significant value to
the nonprofit sector and movements for social change.
The Pizzigati Prize
Thanks Adam,
I appreciate your note, and I'm glad to hear what you have to say.
Forgive me, but I don't agree with you that everyone at Google Ideas shares
our goals. Look into some of the other work that Jared Cohen does and it
becomes apparent that for him and his ilk, human rights concerns
:* liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:
liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jillian C. York
*Sent:* Tuesday, October 22, 2013 08.01
*To:* liberationtech
*Subject:* Re: [liberationtech] Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From
Repressive Countries | TIME.com
Since I already have more skepticism of Google Ideas and Jared Cohen than I
need, let me pose this question:
With the understanding that uProxy provides no anonymity protections, *is
it providing anything that other circumvention tools do not already?*
What's unique about it?
On Mon, Oct 21,
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org wrote:
On 10/11/13 9:43 AM, LilBambi wrote:
I hope others may also consider making the hard decision to join EFF
in leaving this group until they can be more effective. It is scary to
think that faith in a group of this
In my opinion, this makes about as much sense as telling people who are
already having sex not to use condoms.
Consider mine a critique of why this post makes almost no sense to and
won't convince any member of the public. I'm sure some of the geeks here
will have a field day with it, but some
+1 - you said it much better than me.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Enrique Piracés enriq...@benetech.orgwrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
Hi there,
I think this is a good topic for debate among those who can or are
currently developing security tools/protocols,
Just replying to this bit of your reply to me; the rest made sense
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org
wrote:
If this is still jargony to you, hmmm... you are unlikely to understand
the risks you are exposed to by using the Internet from day to day.
Ah, I see you probably meant BULLRUN. Guess it just wasn't a well-executed
pun.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.comwrote:
Just replying to this bit of your reply to me; the rest made sense
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, carlo von lynX
l
Individuals on the SDN list can be searched here:
http://sdnsearch.ofac.treas.gov/default.aspx
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Amin Sabeti aminsab...@gmail.com wrote:
Then can we say FB can block the Iran's Supreme Leader page or the Rouhani
one?
Sent from my iPhone
On 3 Sep 2013, at
Is this spam?
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Aaron Brokmeier
aaronbrokme...@yahoo.comwrote:
Hello All!
Some of you may already be using these sites, but if not, I urge you to
check out the following:
Ravetree (www.ravetree.com) - A Social Network Built On Privacy
DuckDuckGo
Avaaz made it clear a year ago on this very mailing list that they have no
interest whatsoever in engaging with our community.
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.netwrote:
Original Message
Subject: Avaaz in grave danger due to GMail spam filters
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Collin Anderson
col...@averysmallbird.comwrote:
Alright so on the one hand we're fighting anonymity on the other hand
we're chucking products out there to protect anonymity on the net.
I've been saying that for years. Except...backwards.
--
*Note: *I am
One (perhaps pedantic) comment:
A zero-tolerance policy implies zero tolerance, but is contradicted in #7,
where you state that *persistent* violations will get you moderated.
Either you have a zero-tolerance policy, or you have a second-, third-, and
fourth-chance policy. Which is it?
On
I think Nadim is referring to this:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/national-security-letters-are-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote:
On 2013-08-09, at 11:59 AM, Julien Rabier tazi...@flexiden.org wrote:
Le 09 août
Dear LibTech,
I would like to express my concern that the CatFacts
functionhttps://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/blob/372920e98bc0ea035f8bf1b020c85d50c9c4c58c/src/core/js/etc/catFacts.jsof
CryptoCat is not operating. This is a Very Important Function to
ensure the physical, mental and spiritual
GRAPPA!
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
li...@infosecurity.ch wrote:
Because that's become a trolling-engagement thread, i cannot resist to
hijack it.
I LOVE NADIM AND JAKE!**
-naif
** Especially when they engage in trolling
Il 8/6/13 12:32 PM, Jacob
Hi friends,
I just wanted to share a new project, The Digital Citizen (or المواطن
الرقمي) - a monthly newsletter dedicated to covering digital rights issues
across the Arab world, in both Arabic and English. Our first edition is due
shortly, and you can sign up here: http://eepurl.com/B7Qyn
(Of
Jill!
On 2013-07-09, at 1:42 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:
Hi friends,
I just wanted to share a new project, The Digital Citizen (or المواطن
الرقمي) - a monthly newsletter dedicated to covering digital rights issues
across the Arab world, in both Arabic and English. Our first edition is due
I was 11 years old.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Jurre andmore drw...@gmail.com wrote:
I wish we all spoke out against the police being present 20 years ago and
not in 2013.
2013/6/25 Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.com
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja
Minor piece of feedback:
Why StartPage as default search engine? They employ safe search by
default.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote:
On 2013-06-24, at 3:43 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
Brian Conley:
Thanks Dragana,
But
cloud -- I don't know of other search
engines that do that: 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
Michael
On 06/24/2013 04:38 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
Jillian C. York:
Minor piece of feedback:
Why StartPage as default search engine? They employ safe search
by default.
That is a good
FA4B 22A0 5068 080B D0EA 7B6F F0AF E2CA
On 06/24/2013 02:26 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:
I prefer DuckDuckGo as well - although the other option is convincing
StartPage to be less censorious...
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Cooper Quintin
coo...@radicaldesigns.org mailto:coo
That's a rather odd position for someone who works for a human rights group
to take.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Peter Micek pe...@accessnow.org wrote:
Hey Collin,
It looks like the Supreme Court set a very high bar to overcoming the
presumption of territoriality in ATS cases.
That
I have no reason to believe this is true. It happens to me on a regular
basis as well.
There was a similar question recently as to whether requiring someone to
re-accept the Google TOS upon logging in was an indication of the same.
Again, these both sound like conspiracy theories to me.
On
Except I'm not sure how empirical Freedom House's ranking is. .I think
that's the point.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.orgwrote:
Sounds a lot like Freedom House’s “freedom online” rating/ranking.
** **
Are you happily at home in TBS?
** **
, 2013, Jillian C. York wrote:
Yup. I love RSF's work, but I've been frustrated at the way they conduct
mailings for a long time - by sending them to individuals without an option
to unsubscribe.
But today's stuff - where all of the recipients are visibly Cc'd - is the
worst I've seen
with a friendly email offering
them some advice on how to make their email distros more friendly?
Bernard
Written on my small electric gadget. Please excuse brevity and (possible)
misspelling.
Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.com wrote:
David,
Someone repeatedly signs me up
Honestly? Because there is ample evidence to support it at the moment. I
would also suggest that it's only singled out in the US - in Europe, the
focus right now is on Gamma (FinFisher) and Amesys, largely.
Activists have been accused in the past of singling out Cisco as well.
Attention has
Which is worse:
- Everyone having to read the footer, or
- Several idiotic how do I unsubscribe from this? emails per week?
Serious question.
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
, 2013 - Jillian C. York wrote:
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote:
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part
of
the
e-mail that no-one reads
I just really don't see why this is a big deal. So State's funding
priorities for tech stuff aren't about those subjects. So what?
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote:
My guess is that since money is already allocated for tech, they wanted to
ensure that
, perhaps in reaction to
comments such as the original one on this list:
http://www.state.gov/j/drl/p/206488.htm. It's now clear that there is no
intent to discourage applications.
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Jillian C. York
jilliancy...@gmail.comwrote:
I just really don't see why
I think that means they discourage them *for applying for those grants*.
Which is meh, but not really a big deal.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote:
Fostering Civic Engagement in Ukraine (approximately $500,000
available): DRL’s objective is to support
reply to list/all.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote:
Dear Liberationtech list subscribers,
Several of you have petitioned to change Liberationtech mailing list's
default reply to option from reply-to-all to reply-to-poster. Given
the debate (see
Also on the subject: EFF's very basic guide, designed for bloggers and the
like, includes a guide to webhosts:
https://www.eff.org/keeping-your-site-alive/
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all.
Sadly I was the victim of a targeted DDOS attack on my blog
the business is training you and not
receiving an economic benefit. This is not generally true for a vast
majority of unpaid internships.
--
Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com)
GPG key: 0x1B873635
On 2/22/13 2:20 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:
Unpaid internships are not universally illegal, and how does
Yes, Pranesh. But that would require our administration to actually
acknowledge its existence and stop protecting ATT and the NSA.
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:14 AM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.orgwrote:
Tye, John N [2013-01-29 21:48]:
A petition on whitehouse.gov calls for the U.S. to
Hi Ilf,
EFF has indeed talked with Gamma. To be clear, we have no plans to endorse
the code of conduct, rather, it is generally our policy to try to feed good
ideas to companies, and withhold praise or condemnation until after we've
seen the result.
I have not been on these calls, so I'm not
I'd have to agree with Jim - EFF is closed for the holidays and a lot of
the companies cut down hours anywayI think this would have a lot more
impact in the new year...
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Ryan Gallagher r...@rjgallagher.co.ukwrote:
Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote:
Isn't
I admittedly haven't read the entirety of Jake's original email yet, but
from what I have, plenty resonates. I'll try to come up with a thoughtful
response later, but I do have one earnest question (for Jake, and for
everyone) that I honestly don't have the answer to.
If we believe (as I suspect
Sounds like he might have blocked you. I think that makes a lot more sense
than any of the other possibilities raised.
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Uncle Zzzen unclezz...@gmail.com wrote:
Warning for the politically-correct: this message contains the N-word. I
believe it is in context :)
Nice range of projects, very cool.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Gustaf Björksten gus...@accessnow.orgwrote:
Hi everybody,
The finalists of the Access Technology Innovation Prize have been
announced. The projects selected by the judges as finalists are:
Blackout Resilience Award: Briar,
or possibly not with the
knowledge of the original company.
Bernard
Connected by Motorola
Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.com wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577001911398596328.html
*Blue Coat
Systemshttp://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type
Can anyone pull the exif data from the photo? I'm not having any luck, but
I'm an amateur.
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Douglas Lucas d...@riseup.net wrote:
If anyone can get the name of the office or location, or specific names
of Syrian authorities involved, I might be able to do
Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.com wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203687504577001911398596328.html
/Blue Coat Systems
http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djnsymbol=BCSI
Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., says it shipped the Internet filtering
devices
You might also consider finding someone to analyze dialect...
(listening to them this morning, a Syrian friend claims only one of them
was from Syria, but I don't know what his rationale was).
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Ben Connors benjconn...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Washington Post
I can't speak to the point about interception, but it should've absolutely
been noted that Skype is susceptible to malware attacks:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/darkshades-rat-and-syrian-malware
-Jillian
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.orgwrote:
the security of the Skype
client for any time to come.
--
Collin Anderson
Sent with Sparrow http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig
On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 7:30 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:
I can't speak to the point about interception, but it should've absolutely
been noted that Skype
Hi Rafal and Libtech,
I'd add that this is parallel to a joint letter that EFF, Access, and
others just released last month asking companies to be more proactive in
applying for licenses and reforming the controls generally:
I guess I assumed that we were waiting for a proper survey, but here are my
responses:
- doesn't matter, the list is already open and thus inherently public
- entire list
- add --
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote:
Hi All,
Based on your
Folks, *anyone can join the list*. I assume you all know that, since you
all joined once. Therefore, this seems like a pretty silly thing to argue
about.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote:
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Sam King samk...@cs.stanford.edu wrote:
point about Google. Again, not a technologist, so I'm
taking those of you who are on your word at the moment.
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Moxie Marlinspike mo...@thoughtcrime.orgwrote:
On 08/06/2012 05:28 PM, Jillian C. York wrote:
A /safer /web-based tool than Facebook chat
Actually, I think it almost *only* applies in the US. I know you said you
were only talking about security, but since you bring up warrants...
Because of that, I'd recommend Riseup over Google for most activists
outside the US. Whereas Google may not do the legwork around resisting an
order
the answer to that without
researching the case law. Anyone else?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.com
wrote:
Bernard,
1. Not reading a post and then pontificating on assumptions is pretty
lame.
2. EFF Legal is not on this, because Twitter is well
*And this is something EFF could help with, by assisting young promising
startups on their legal formation before they become the Googles,
Facebooks, and Twitters of the world. *
*
*
You're the second person to suggest that this week. I'll bring it up ;)
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Yosem
Andrew,
Those roadblocks have definitely not been overcome, but restrictions on
technology vis-a-vis Syria generally come from the Commerce Dept. while
those on Iran come from the Treasury Dept.
That said, doesn't surprise me in the least that Syria's ignored. That's
how it's been for years -
address were considered to be
confidential, and rights of use.
Lina
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jillian C. York
jilliancy...@gmail.comwrote:
Bernard,
Twitter's explanation was not that the statement was defamatory, but that
Adams had *posted private information*. The email
doesn't take the usual we're sorry excuse thats trotted out.
Bernard
On 31 Jul 2012, at 16:13, Jillian C. York wrote:
Bernard,
Twitter's explanation was not that the statement was defamatory, but
that Adams had posted private information. The email address he posted,
however, is not private
:48 PM, Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.comwrote:
Mashable says it's 8 Google pages in:
http://mashable.com/2012/07/30/twitter-journalist-suspended/
Twitter's rules contain this sentence: *If information was previously
posted or displayed elsewhere on the Internet prior to being put
My two cents:
I think it's most certainly too simplistic. Not only does it ignore the
5-10 year buildup of various online communities (as opposed to this idea
that one Facebook page suddenly created activists), but of course also
ignores the various offline factors which include food prices but
There's nothing I can say about the problem with #firstworldproblems that
the inimitable Teju Cole hasn't already said better:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/11/whats-wrong-with-firstworldproblems/248829/
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Katy Pearce ucsb
Hi Brant,
You may not want to share it list-wide, but there is certainly interest in
disclosing to trusted members of the security community. That said, I'm
also not a security expert, so I'm hoping that perhaps Hal Roberts or Jake
Appelbaum might jump in and say something here.
Best,
Jillian
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