Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

2013-01-16 Thread Fran Parker
I didn't know Aaron Swartz personally, but we all have seen what a wonderful person he was. He was a talented and gifted individual and my heart goes out to his family and friends. And to all of us ... as we all lost an amazing advocate. I posted two different postings on my blog: The Truth a

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-21 Thread Fran Parker
Can you add Fran Parker as an individual please. Thanks. Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Added. Thank you! NK On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Martin Johnsonwrote: GreatFire.org would like to sign. Thanks very much for doing this. Martin Johnson Founder https://GreatFire.org - Monitoring Online

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat announces new website

2013-01-22 Thread Fran Parker
Totally agree! Great job! Definitely want people to choose their browser rather than detecting it, or allowing people the choice of choosing. It is always so frustrating at Oracle's Java page. They don't give you an easy way on the main page to get the version you want, particularly if you w

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat announces new website

2013-01-22 Thread Fran Parker
013 at 1:26 AM, Fran Parker wrote: >> Sometimes people need to download things for others. > This scenario is irrelevant when installing browser extensions. > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liber

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat announces new website

2013-01-22 Thread Fran Parker
Awesome! On Jan 22, 2013, at 7:39 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Fran Parker wrote: >> Totally agree! Great job! >> >> Definitely want people to choose their browser rather than detecting it, or >> allowing people the choice of choos

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: Launch Date!

2013-01-24 Thread Fran Parker
8:36 AM EST and https://skypeopenletter.com will not load. Times out. However, http://www.skypeopenletter.com/ loads fine. https not working I guess. Nadim Kobeissi wrote: It's out, everyone! NK On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: The Open Letter to Skype is launch

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: Launch Date!

2013-01-24 Thread Fran Parker
No worries, Nadim! What a great job as noted earlier! Thanks! Nadim Kobeissi wrote: My mistake! We do not have an HTTPS version. NK On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Fran Parker wrote: 8:36 AM EST and https://skypeopenletter.com will not load. Times out. However, http

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: Launch Date!

2013-01-24 Thread Fran Parker
pread this widely and force Microsoft to respond. Martin Johnson Founder https://GreatFire.org - Monitoring Online Censorship In China. https://FreeWeibo.com - Uncensored, Anonymous Sina Weibo Search. https://Unblock.cn.com - We Can Unblock Your Website In China. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, F

Re: [liberationtech] The Brussels Privacy Declaration - CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-25 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks! I signed too! Kirsten wrote: Dear all, In response to the massive corporate lobbying in Brussels against the data protection reform, European Digital Rights (EDRi), Bits of Freedom and Privacy International drafted a statement (http://brusselsdeclaration.net/) geared towards Members of

Re: [liberationtech] US Feds Threaten to Arrest Lavabit Founder for Shutting Down His Service | Techdirt

2013-08-19 Thread Fran Parker
I would never wish the crapshoot of the court system on anyone where being in the right can even be subverted. On Aug 19, 2013, at 3:02 PM, "R. Jason Cronk" wrote: > As sad as it seems, I hope the do prosecute himnot because I want to see > him convicted but it would be an excellent test o

Re: [liberationtech] Inflated expectations?

2013-08-19 Thread Fran Parker
Was reading about this earlier today. Very interesting. On Aug 19, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > Mesh Networks: The Cure for Keeping the NSA Out of Your Computer > http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/mesh-internet-privacy-nsa-isp > by @pomeranian99 > -- > Liberationtech i

Re: [liberationtech] How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

2013-08-21 Thread Fran Parker
And that is a very noble cause. On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Lina Srivastava wrote: > "There's enough heroism to go around. To get a story of this magnitude > out requires courage from both sources and journalists. And safety is in > no way guaranteed for anyone involved. Plenty of journalists

Re: [liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

2013-08-21 Thread Fran Parker
Excellent point. On Aug 21, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Richard Brooks wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I guess this is progress. > > In ancient Greece and the Middle Ages, exposing people to > the truth would get you killed. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG

Re: [liberationtech] Why can’t email be secure? - Silent Circle Blog

2013-08-25 Thread Fran Parker
Perhaps I should have simply said interesting. ROFL On Aug 25, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Brian Conley wrote: > This last bit is a straw man, in my opinion: > > "The days where it was possible for two people to have a truly private > conversation over email, if they ever existed, are long over." > >

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy-minded search engines?

2012-04-30 Thread Fran Parker
I use DDG, IXQuick and StartPage (sister site to IXQuick from what I understand) On 4/30/12 6:55 PM, Cyrus Farivar wrote: Hey guys, I'm working on a piece about privacy-minded search engines. I know of DuckDuckGo and IXQuick. Any others out there? Thx, -C _

Re: [liberationtech] Avaaz, is this for real?

2012-05-05 Thread Fran Parker
Totally agree, Zack! It's a tough world out there -- for Advocacy as it is for any other venture. Keeping the keel and rudder pointed correctly so the advocacy ship doesn't run aground is not an easy gig. Especially in such a fickle world where you can't afford to have anyone misjudge your int

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12

2012-05-09 Thread Fran Parker
Carl Sagan, as the Narrator of Cosmos, describes a statue on the main wall of the Amsterdam Town Hall: "Justice, with a golden sword, and golden scales. And who is it that justice is trampling underfoot? Why, it is avarice and envy, the gods of the merchants. The Dutch knew that the unrestrain

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12

2012-05-10 Thread Fran Parker
I am not sure that's the case. Maybe what Carl Sagan saw was that, despite how he felt, if left unchecked, greed takes all -- at the expense of all. Therefore there must at least be *some* checks and balances to prevent greed from taking all. But then, you may still be right ... If giving

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy, Moglen, @ioerror, #rp12

2012-05-10 Thread Fran Parker
Wow, that is the second posting from you Shava that was a wow moment in this discussion. So many great thoughts from so many today! It really does seem that ethics are often sacrificed in the presence of the influence* of power AND/OR greed regardless of the source (government, corporate, rel

Re: [liberationtech] Thomas Friedman, New York Times - Thursday, May 10, 12-1, CEMEX

2012-05-10 Thread Fran Parker
+1 On 5/10/12 3:29 PM, Jillian C. York wrote: Sorry, that link would be: http://jilliancyork.com/2011/12/14/the-definitive-collection-of-thomas-friedman-takedowns/ Jillian is mobile On May 10, 2012 12:29 PM, "Jillian C. York" wrote: ___ liberati

Re: [liberationtech] Jennifer Granick to Direct New Civil Liberties Initiative at Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

2012-05-30 Thread Fran Parker
That is excellent news! Congrats to Jennifer Stisa and the Stanford Law School! Fran On 5/30/12 9:11 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Jennifer Stisa Granick as Director of Civil Liberties at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Granick will

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech Mailing List Survey

2012-08-19 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Jillian, I missed this entirely, but your thoughts reflect my own. So, Yosem, please count my votes as noted below in Jillian's response today. On 8/19/12 1:17 PM, Jillian C. York wrote: I guess I assumed that we were waiting for a proper survey, but here are my responses: - doesn

Re: [liberationtech] Iran blocks MP3, MP4, AVI and SWF files

2012-10-07 Thread Fran Parker
Maybe this is a given but, would it be easier to just zip or tar.gz the mp3, mp4 or avi files, maybe even the swfs (they could then drag/drop on a browser window locally)? Could even password protect the zip files if that would be helpful and not throw up any flags. It wouldn't help with audio

Re: [liberationtech] best practices - roundup

2012-10-09 Thread Fran Parker
Great list! On 10/9/12 12:23 PM, Katy P wrote: Best practices for traveling to an internet-hostile regime. There is a lot of variance - obviously the regime's capabilities as well as one's own visibility come into play. And, if it isn't obvious, I'm not a security expert. This is not official

Re: [liberationtech] best practices - roundup

2012-10-09 Thread Fran Parker
Thanks Parker! I was hoping someone would post some of these best practices as an article or white paper link. On 10/9/12 1:28 PM, Parker Higgins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Katy, Excellent list. Sorry I'm late to the game, but if you're traveling to one Internet h

Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle to publish source code?

2012-10-12 Thread Fran Parker
Excellent Julian! Here's the direct link for all three videos by CircledUp (http://www.youtube.com/user/CircledUp) over at Youtube: http://preview.tinyurl.com/8d3wrs6 and raw URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhEzawkDTgE&feature=bf_prev&list=ULDhyUkrGcidQ On 10/12/12 2:16 PM, Julian Oli

Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle to publish source code?

2012-10-12 Thread Fran Parker
I love what they say in the videos. The videos are very well done and immediately put you at ease. I have dealt with Phil's products for a very long time, and I would trust that what he says is true as far as he knows about this product. However, open scrutiny of the code is the only way to tr

Re: [liberationtech] Please Welcome Susan Alderson to Liberationtech

2012-10-12 Thread Fran Parker
Welcome, Susan! I hope you know that any comments I have made are made to help, not hinder or knock Silent Circle. I am actually on the mailing list for Silent Circle and am excited about it, but do have concerns too. On 10/12/12 4:26 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: Susan Alderson, Silent Circle's