Re: [liberationtech] New EFF Lawsuit: American Sues Ethiopian Government for Spyware Infection

http://tagdef.com/popcorn for those unfamiliar with the idiom. It's not for the Ethiopian cases per se. However there are other state actors in Maryland and the UK engaging in phenomenally parallel acts on the basis of what some term secret interpretations of US law, in our case. These cases

[liberationtech] Rise up for Ukraine!

From: Vasyl Cherepanyn cherepa...@gmail.com I decided to address to you concerning the present situation in Ukraine. Ukraine is burning! Tens and tens of people are killed by the police and criminals, thousands are wounded, the Ukrainian authorities are kidnapping and torturing activists.The

[liberationtech] Iran's ICT budget analysis

Hi folks, Small Media has published a comprehensive budget analysis for the ICT Ministry: http://smallmedia.org.uk/sites/default/files/u8/InternetInfrastructure_Jan14.pdf The analysis is interesting because it is the first budget that Rouhani's government has submitted and can show his policy

[liberationtech] Google's David Drummond, The Fight for Internet Freedom - Program on Liberation Technology

http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/the_fight_for_internet_freedom/ CDDRL Seminar Series The Fight for Internet Freedom David C. Drummond - Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer at Google, Inc DATE AND TIME February 20, 2014 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

[liberationtech] Hancel: A new tool for journalists in Mexico and beyond

This looks like a great tool. Kudos to Sandra and OpenITP, Knight, Ela Stapley and Diego Mendiburu for making it happen. If anyone here has any thoughts about it please share. Thanks, Frank -

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

On 02/19/2014 03:56 PM, Mitar wrote: Hi! I would like to point to this change in the future W3C spec: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/cbfaa8edfadebf21a9c7428242c12e45934d8c55 This change effectively allows a website to prevent bookmarklets from working. In essence, content providers

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

On 19/02/14 20:56, Mitar wrote: This change effectively allows a website to prevent bookmarklets from working. In essence, content providers can prevent users to execute their own bookmarklets and change how website behaves. It requires users to use extensions and not simple scripts.

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

Hi! On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Mustafa Al-Bassam m...@musalbas.com wrote: Before a bug fix, even Firebug was subject to CSP: http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=6291 Which bug fix? This is still unfixed in Firefox: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#label/00/1444bef5825ee4d0

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

Hi! On 20/02/14 02:03, Mitar wrote: Hi! On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Mustafa Al-Bassam m...@musalbas.com wrote: Before a bug fix, even Firebug was subject to CSP: http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=6291 Which bug fix? This is still unfixed in Firefox:

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

Hi! On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Mustafa Al-Bassam m...@musalbas.com wrote: I can't open that link as it seems to be a private Gmail link(?), but according to http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/detail?id=6291#c68 it was fixed. Sorry, I pasted the wrong link. This is the right one:

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

On 02/19/2014 06:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Now say that the user has installed a third party add-on that either accidentally or intentionally (through design or through compromise) blocks or otherwise prevents my TV