[liberationtech] A Mobilization Story: Patterns for the Impending Emergency

2017-01-20 Thread Doug Schuler
On the occasion of Inauguration Day 2017, I've written a kind of an op-ed / story of the future / manifesto that was developed with the help of some patterns from Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, the book I wrote with 85 other contributors. Please take a look! 

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages]

2017-01-20 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 03:52:57PM -0200, Daniel Arnaudo wrote: > Also anyone using Yahoo Mail on this thread might want to reconsider if > they're concerned with privacy. The same can be said of AOL, Hotmail/Outlook, and Gmail. (Even though I think very highly of Google's security people.) The

Re: [liberationtech] At Stanford, Pegasus Exploits Hack Workshop

2017-01-20 Thread Diana Fernández
Hi There will be a live transmission of this workshop? I am really interested in participate but I am not able to attend to the event (I am in Costa Rica). Please let me know if there will be an online streaming session of this workshop, it sound quite interesting. Thanks and regards, Diana

[liberationtech] Tor Browser 6.5 is ready for testing

2017-01-20 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Georg Koppen Hi all! We are pleased to accounce that Tor Browser 6.5 is ready for testing. Bundles can be found on: https://people.torproject.org/~gk/builds/6.5-build3/ This is a major release and the first one in the 6.5 series. First of all it fixes the usual

Re: [liberationtech] Tor Browser 6.5 is ready for testing

2017-01-20 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 07:01:03AM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: > We are pleased to accounce that Tor Browser 6.5 is ready for testing. > Bundles can be found on: Hi Yosem, Libtech people, This is a testing release, not a release. If people here want to help with testing, I encourage you to

[liberationtech] Frankfurt School Critical Theory - Donald Trump, authoritarian capitalism/populism & Twitter

2017-01-20 Thread Christian Fuchs
Read how Donald Trump is prototypical for a new form of authoritarian capitalism. What is authoritarian capitalism? How does Trump practice authoritarian capitalism? These questions are discussed in C. Fuchs' new study "Donald Trump: A Critical Theory-Perspective on Authoritarian Capitalism"

[liberationtech] At Stanford, Pegasus Exploits Hack Workshop

2017-01-20 Thread Yosem Companys
Want to learn about the Pegasus iOS spyware that targeted human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor last August? Join us at our hack workshop next Tuesday! We will be discussing the Pegasus kernel exploits in detail, including a live demo of the exploits in action on OS X. Date: Tuesday, January 24,