[liberationtech] As Internet Freedom Defender, US Keen on Protecting IP Rights

2013-03-08 Thread Yosem Companys
http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/03/08/us-as-defender-of-internet-freedom-keen-on-protecting-ip-rights/ http://www.ip-watch.org/ US As Defender Of Internet Freedom, Keen On Protecting IP Rights By Catherine Saez, Intellectual Property Watch on 08/03/2013 @ 12:47 am For the third year in a row,

Re: [liberationtech] recommendation for WP host

2013-03-08 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 09:10:30PM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 04:13:26PM -0500, Griffin Boyce wrote: If the problem is limited to DDoS attacks, you might find that Cloudflare offers some relief. I agree, but: this thread (dating from today) may be of interest:

[liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

2013-03-08 Thread Graham Webster
Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application to send messages to a server and sometimes block transmission.

[liberationtech] Cryptography Alt-Folk Band Release a New MixTape!

2013-03-08 Thread Nathan of Guardian
(See, I am learning a thing our two about how to get publicity, aren't I?) Just a quick note to say that Gibberbot, the Guardian Project's free (bot ways), open-source, standards compliant, secure instant messaging app for Android, has been updated. It is rare that you have the opportunity to

Re: [liberationtech] New details on China TOM-Skype vulnerability

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Daly
If you want to jump straight to the data, it's here: http://cs.unm.edu/~jeffk/tom-skype/ On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Graham Webster g...@gwbstr.com wrote: Bloomberg Businessweek reports on a researcher who cracked the list of sensitive terms that trigger the Chinese TOM-Skype application

[liberationtech] Startup Global

2013-03-08 Thread Yosem Companys
http://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/2013/February/Startup-Global.aspx Startup Global Posted by: Jonathan Ortmanshttp://www.entrepreneurship.org/en/Blogs/Policy-Forum-Blog/Author/Jonathan-Ortmans.aspx on February 25, 2013 Source: Policy Dialogue on Entrepreneurship

[liberationtech] Mechanical Turk is not anonymous

2013-03-08 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Matt Lease m...@ischool.utexas.edu via asis.org This may be of interest to those in community using Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform for research, as well as those more generally interested in how online data can be linked in ways that can be surprising to people in practice and compromise

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Allan
An update on this Knight News Challenge submission: The software company Wadobo has joined with its Agora Voting platform. We now have two strong service providers for the mirroring network. We also have the Metagovernment project on board as a neutral facilitator. If you're a provider of

[liberationtech] CfP: Digital Culture Politics

2013-03-08 Thread Yosem Companys
Call for Papers – Digital Culture: Promises and Discomforts Digital Culture and Communication Section of ECREA Workshop Bonn, 2-5 October, 2013 The ongoing mediatisation process is subject to social transformations as well as technical innovation processes and creative practices. We endorse

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-03-08 Thread Douglas Lucas
A small but important point people might have overlooked. An opt-out function for Ubuntu's Dash is less helpful if you're running Ubuntu as a liveboot. If you're running it as a liveboot, you or your startup script will have to disable the Dash leaks each and every time you boot up your computer.

Re: [liberationtech] cellebrite report

2013-03-08 Thread Douglas Lucas
These alternative passcode systems are really neat. Is there a way, though, to quantify, for the different systems, how plausibly the passcode can be 1) remembered or 2) forgotten or 3) forgotten? On 02/27/2013 09:42 AM, R. Jason Cronk wrote: You could play Guitar Hero to get in your phone...

[liberationtech] mHealth projects in Malawi?

2013-03-08 Thread Yosem Companys
From: imaniche...@gmail.com imaniche...@gmail.com Good morning! My name is Imani Cheers and I'm a multimedia producer with the PBS NewsHour and a 2013 New Media fellow with the International Reporting Project. I'm currently beginning a 10 country tour examining mHealth projects impacting women