Re: [liberationtech] SECDEV: Report on Syrian internet shutdown -II

2012-11-30 Thread Cameran Ashraf
Hi Rafal, The link you provided didn't work. Could you send me a copy of the report? Thanks, Cameran -- Ph.D. student Department of Geography University of California, Los Angeles Quoting Rafal Rohozinski r.rohozin...@psiphon.ca: As this list strips PDF's - you can down load the report

[liberationtech] updated analysis #SyriaBlackout

2012-11-30 Thread L. Aaron Kaplan
Folks, Here is an updated analysis from my side: http://www.cert.at/services/blog/20121129184048-616.html This includes a traceroute from within Syria. More comments welcome. a. --- // CERT Austria // L. Aaron Kaplan kap...@cert.at // T: +43 1 505 64 16 78 // http://www.cert.at //

Re: [liberationtech] Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-11-30 Thread Collin Anderson
There has been a great deal of research and reporting on the infrastructure of Syria's international Internet connectivity, particularly in terms of international politics. I think its important to underscore the point that the routing is failing with the Syrian Telecommunications Establishment,

[liberationtech] Proposed statement on Syria

2012-11-30 Thread Yosem Companys
From: *Harold Feld* hf...@publicknowledge.org We would like to get out a statement, as Public Knowledge, on Syria's recent action and how it highlights the implications for free speech in some of the proposed ITRs. Is there anyone not enroute to Dubai who can clear a statement by me? Otherwise we

Re: [liberationtech] SECDEV: Report on Syrian internet shutdown -III

2012-11-30 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Sorry folks, a bit of Google dyslexia… here is the proper public link for the brief report. Nothing really new here except for the fact that we were tracking withdrawal of routes as far back as the 22nd. Also, we've gotten pretty good a geo-locating individual netblocks, and IP range

Re: [liberationtech] SECDEV: Report on Syrian internet shutdown -III

2012-11-30 Thread Andreas Bader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/2012 04:06 PM, Rafal Rohozinski wrote: Sorry folks, a bit of Google dyslexia… here is the proper public link for the brief report. Nothing really new here except for the fact that we were tracking withdrawal of routes as far back as the

Re: [liberationtech] Verification of Speak2Tweet Locales?

2012-11-30 Thread Amin Sabeti
Hi, One of the good ways is to see the time of tweeting and check it with Syria time. Generally, some people are living outside the country but they claim they are in the country! Time Zone can help you to identify is he/she in Syria or not. A On 30 November 2012 18:01, Ben Connors

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-11-30 Thread James S. Tyre
Renesys has a nice follow up post today, the title explains the subject. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2012/11/could-it-happen-in-your-countr.shtml Could It Happen In Your Country? By James Cowie on November 30, 2012 11:32 AM -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736

Re: [liberationtech] Verification of Speak2Tweet Locales?

2012-11-30 Thread Brian Conley
Ben, I've just emailed you some details and a connection with the guys st Google originally behind the service. Brian On Nov 30, 2012 11:02 AM, Ben Connors benjconn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Washington Post Journalist here with a verification question. We're looking to do a little blogging

Re: [liberationtech] Verification of Speak2Tweet Locales?

2012-11-30 Thread Jillian C. York
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

Re: [liberationtech] Renesys: Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-11-30 Thread Amir Rahmati
Nice article. The information about Iran is inaccurate though. Iran only has 2 ASes which are both controlled by the government. They can easily limit or cut internet access at the times of their choosing and have done so frequently in the aftermath of their 2009 election. -- Amir On Fri, Nov

Re: [liberationtech] Verification of Speak2Tweet Locales?

2012-11-30 Thread Laila Shereen Sakr
You are right on, Jillian! R-Shief is currently developing dialect detection software in Arabic. We hope to collaborate more with these guys who have been doing it for a while: http://www.detectdialect.com/about/ On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:08 AM, Jillian C. York wrote: You might also consider

Re: [liberationtech] Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-11-30 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/2012 04:16 PM, Karin Kosina wrote: Is any of you actually able to reach any of those networks? They appear to be unreachable to me. Negative. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium:

Re: [liberationtech] Verification of Speak2Tweet Locales?

2012-11-30 Thread Ben Connors
Thanks, That's the second good suggestion I've gotten. I'm afraid the team I'm working with would need something much more rock solid. Appreciate the responses so far though. Innovation Editor | Video Dept. | Washington Post (c) 202.213.0674 ben.conn...@washpost.com @BCatDC From:

Re: [liberationtech] China just blocked Google.com

2012-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 02:38:19PM -0500, The Doctor wrote: On 11/11/2012 12:01 AM, Christopher Lueg wrote: ... and gmail keeps misclassifying liberationtech emails as spam overridden numerous times so it's not once off it's systematic. Interestingly, I just noticed something similar. My

[liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-11-30 Thread KheOps
Dear all, With quite a short delay (sorry for that!) we're kicking off a CryptoParty tomorrow in Tunis. It will be held at the Engineering School ENSI (National School of Computer Sciences), and will start at 2PM. People will first meet in the main theatre. You may be aware that a previous event

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-11-30 Thread Micah Lee
On 11/30/2012 09:57 PM, KheOps wrote: Dear all, With quite a short delay (sorry for that!) we're kicking off a CryptoParty tomorrow in Tunis. It will be held at the Engineering School ENSI (National School of Computer Sciences), and will start at 2PM. People will first meet in the main

[liberationtech] Fwd: [geoweb-r] Next #geowebchat: The Geoweb and the Internet Off Switch

2012-11-30 Thread Alan McConchie
This twitter chat on Tuesday will be of interest to many on the liberationtech list. It's mostly internet geographers who show up to the chat, but we'd love to have some participation from the experts on this list. Please forward this info to anyone else who might be interested. For more

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-11-30 Thread Dragana Kaurin
Awesome, looking forward to it! Having some difficulty finding the location - can you give me an address and tell me which building on the campus? On Friday, November 30, 2012 15:57 EST, KheOps khe...@ceops.eu wrote: Dear all, With quite a short delay (sorry for that!) we're kicking off

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-11-30 Thread KheOps
Le 01/12/2012 01:50, Dragana Kaurin a écrit : Awesome, looking forward to it! Having some difficulty finding the location - can you give me an address and tell me which building on the campus? MMh even though I'll be attending, I'm not a Tunisian and will be guided to the school by some

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-11-30 Thread Rafik
Nice to see libtech folks going to my alma mater :) I find this plan in the school website http://www.ensi.rnu.tn/fr/contact.php# it is the building with the strange shape . And if it is in the main theatre as indicated in cryptoparty page , it should just be in your left after the entrance .

[liberationtech] 14th WiGiT: Call for Comments

2012-11-30 Thread Aashik Hameed Noorul Ameen
Hi, Professor McKnight and half a dozen SU WiGiT Lab students will be contributing to the Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council demos and meetings at TM Forum Management World Americas, of the Workplace as a Service. The attached Workplace as a Service white paper will not be final next week,