[liberationtech] beta - TERC - iphone blur/secure-cam

2013-02-04 Thread sam de silva
Hi there, I have been meaning to share this iPhone blur/secure cam app called TERC with the LibTech community - but was hoping to get it refined prior to doing so. But it looks like that may not happen in the near future, so here we go: TERC was built using a small grant from Internews to

Re: [liberationtech] Super Bowl Power Outage: Possible SCADA intrusion?

2013-02-04 Thread Asher Wolf
Shortly after the beginning of the second half of the Super Bowl in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, a piece of equipment that is designed to monitor electrical load sensed an abnormality in the system. Once the issue was detected, the sensing equipment operated as designed and opened a breaker,

[liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Stefan Geens
A Syrian whom I trust and who I've helped with security-related issues before needs some help that I am not qualified to answer, so perhaps somebody on this list knows what to do or where to turn for expert help. I don't want to suggest anything to him that gets (even more) people killed... He

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
It would be fascinating to have a low-power FM mesh for this purpose... best, Joe On Mon Feb 4 10:17:08 2013, Stefan Geens wrote: A Syrian whom I trust and who I've helped with security-related issues before needs some help that I am not qualified to answer, so perhaps somebody on this

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Yuval Adam
On Monday, February 4, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Stefan Geens wrote: So, what are our options and the details of the best solutions (using inside or outside Syria base)? Cheap FM broadcast is possible [1], but with limited range. The main goal should be to use disposable, low power, hard-to-detect TX,

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
The approach taken would be: self contained IP-FM transmitter box that can be detected without any danger to people setting it up. If there was access to technology I would suggest a multiple of low cost computing devices (raspberry pi/etc) receiving IP audio stream, connected to a

[liberationtech] Publications from the Cybernorms RG and LUii

2013-02-04 Thread Marcin de Kaminski
Dear all, Just wanted to inform the list about the publications from the Cybernorms Research Group and the Lund University Internet Institute, on case our research interests some of you. Cybernorms RG publications: www.cybernormer.se/publikationer LUii publications:

Re: [liberationtech] beta - TERC - iphone blur/secure-cam

2013-02-04 Thread Collin Anderson
Sam, Congratulations on the application; clearly there is a need for a competitive field of such applications, however, I am a bit concerned about the lack of documentation. The estimated 26 days until the launch of Secure Journalist is a bit of a long wait. In the interim, is there some material

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Stefan Geens wrote: A Syrian whom I trust and who I've helped with security-related issues before needs some help that I am not qualified to answer, so perhaps somebody on this list knows what to do or where to turn for expert help. I don't want to suggest anything to

Re: [liberationtech] Technical Guidelines for Auditing LibTech Apps

2013-02-04 Thread Tom Ritter
Hey all, a followup to my mail below. I got a few offers from folks and integrated some excellent feedback. The github repo is now public, contents licensed BY-SA. The plan is to put a blog article into our queue, which will pop up next week. If you have suggestions, please reply (off-list or

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Stefan Geens
Thanks for the brainstorm, everyone. I've forwarded your collective intelligence to see if they can run with it. I'll update the list with any sharable news. Stefan -- stefan.ge...@gmail.com @stefangeens @ogleearth @dliberation +46 73 504 5261 Skype: stefan.geens PGP: 0x54ABD155F7CE9B68 --

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Andrew Lewis
I know some folks with telecomix had brainstormed some ideas for comms inside Syria awhile back as well. I'll try and dig that up, but my general advice is to stay off the internal telecom networks. Everything is centered in Damascus and centrally monitored, or can be cut off remotely. Andrew