global-south August 2020

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Invitation to participate of the Secure Messaging Summit
by Sofía Celi 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Dear, list, We are organizing a Secure Messaging Summit, a place where people from different places (academia, industry, open source implementations, and legal/political perspectives) talk about the latest problems and advancements on the secure messaging sphere. This is an online event but you need to register. More details over here: https://claucece.github.io/Secure-Messaging-Summit/ It will run for two days: the 3rd and 4th of September, 2020, centered around times convenient to the morning in the Americas, the afternoon in Europe and Africa, and the evening in Western Asia. On the first day, we have a set of speakers: - Rosario Gennaro speaking around deniability and the simulation paradigm, - Nik Unger speaking around usability and secure messaging, - Paul Rösler speaking around concurrent group ratcheting, - Daniel Kales speaking around mobile private contact discovery, - Thomas Ristenpart speaking around message franking, - Raphael Robert speaking around group messaging On the second day, we have a set of people speaking in a panel. The topics of the panel will be sent next week; but manly the idea is to talk about the threats/challenges that secure messaging faces from a legal/political and even sociological perspective in different regions. We will have perspectives from Hong Kong, Latin America, US, Tibet and more. The participants are: * Danny O'Brien from EFF * Erica Portnoy from EFF * Glacier Kwong from Keyboard Freedom * Lobsang Gyatso from the Tibetan Action Institute * Carolina Botero from Fundacion Karisma * Paulina Gutiérrez from Article 19 One can register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Knazuv88jaoZW1HAvK9XpHHMHh4YS2U… or you can send an email, as outlined here: https://claucece.github.io/Secure-Messaging-Summit/#how-to-register As stated, further information can be found here: https://claucece.github.io/Secure-Messaging-Summit Register if you are interested! Thank you! Secure Messaging Summit September 3 and 4, 2020 https://claucece.github.io/Secure-Messaging-Summit -- Sofía Celi @claucece http://claucece.github.io/ Cryptographic research and implementation at many places, but mainly at Cloudflare FAB9 3EDC 7CDD 1198 DCFD 4558 91BB 6B45 6F44 2D02

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[CFP] [TICS] Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance 2020
by Vasilis 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hello, TICS has a new call for papers that may be of interest to some of you. Please feel free to share widely. Thank you! Online version: https://tics.site/cfp/ # TICS 2020 **Co-located with the [2020 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2020)](http://wi2020.vcrab.com.au/), to be held online.** ## Introduction Over the past years there has been a greater demand from large-scale players such as governments and dominant media companies for online censorship and surveillance, as an understandable reaction against hate speech, copyright violations, and other cases related to citizen compliance with civil laws and regulations by national authorities. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by a tendency of extensively censoring online content and massively spying on citizens actions. Numerous whistle-blower revelations, leaks from classified documents, and a vast amount of information released by activists, researchers and journalists, reveal evidence of government-sponsored infrastructure that either goes beyond the requirements and scope of the law, or operates without any effective regulations in place. In addition, this infrastructure often supports the interests of big private corporations, such as the companies that enforce online copyright control. Mobile networks are particularly vulnerable to the above points. Due to the nature of their deployment, few actors can achieve far-reaching results, and end-users are left unprotected; we are interested in tracking developments that, without sacrificing functionality and convenience, allow end-users to get control on the amount and breadth of information generated, stored and processed on them. TICS is a special track the area of Internet censorship, surveillance and other adversarial burdens to technology that bring in danger; to a greater extend the safety (physical security and privacy) of its users. Proposals for TICS 2020 should be situated within the field of Internet censorship, network measurements, information controls, surveillance and content moderation. ## Workshop topics The goal of TICS is to raise awareness around the implications of network interference, by inviting researchers from complementary disciplines to consider the effect of their own domain on online censorship and surveillance. Along those lines, we invite submissions that address the following topics: * Research on technologies and policies that build upon advancements on the field of web intelligence to imply blocking, limitation or distortion of the availability of network services and online content * The application of web intelligence concepts such as behavioral modeling, data mining, and social network analytics to target groups and individuals by law enforcement agencies and private corporations * The implications of algorithmic and AI-assisted user content classification (such as for identification of hate-speech, copyright, or disinformation) * Novel techniques that leverage web intelligence to defend netizens against censorship and surveillance, or privacy enhancements to the existing AI infrastructure to mitigate these threats * Measurement methodologies that detect network interference or content moderation based on crowd knowledge or web analytics * The socio-economic consequences and implementation limitations and fallacies of upload filters and recommendation systems * Business models and amendments to legal frameworks which promote the use of web intelligence in ways that build a pluralistic, private, and human-centric experience without violating user freedoms * Privacy on mobile networks * Network measurements * Radio frequency communications * Data leaks * Surveillance * Backdoors into carrier equipment (base stations, antennas, switches, software) * Law enforcement * Telcos security and advance persistent threats * Network espionage and nation state threats (e.g. "operation Soft Cell") * Middleboxes / DPI * Content regulation * Wiretapping * Net neutrality * Data retention * GDPR * Device/radio blocking (Network IMEI) * Ownership of infrastructure, and community-operated networks * Spectrum sharing * License-exempt spectrum ## Important dates * Paper Submission due: September 15th, 2020 * Notification to authors: October 15th, 2020 * Final, camera ready papers, due: November 15th, 2020 * Workshop date: December 14th, 2020 ## Paper Submission **[Paper Submission Page](https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2020/wi20/scripts/submit.php?subarea=S0… Submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the standard ACM 2-column format.\ The ACM Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines can be found at: <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template> ## Committees ### Program Chairs * Vasilis Ververis, Humboldt University Berlin, vasilis(a)tics.site * Marios Isaakidis, University College London, marios(a)tics.site * Gunnar Wolf, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, gwolf(a)tics.site You can contact all of the chairs by addressing your mail to: <chairs(a)tics.site> ### Program Committee * Chrystalenni Loizidou, University of Nicosia * Keith McManamen, Psiphon * Will Scott, University of Michigan ## Past Workshops - [2019 (Valencia, Spain)](https://tics.site/2019) Best regards, ~Vasilis -- PGP Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162 PGP Public Key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8FD5CF5F39FC03EBB38274705FBF…

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OONI testing in Brazil and Central America, may you help us?
by Juliana Guerra 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

Hola comunidad del sur! Esperando que se encuentren bien dentro de lo posible en estos extraños momentos (english below) La próxima semana estaremos desarrollando un taller con mujeres de distintos países de América Latina, para entender mejor cómo se hace monitoreo y análisis de censura en internert, desde una perspectiva técnica. Para eso, queremos contar con datos actualizados sobre bloqueos, y hemos identificado algunos casos en que se podría estar atentando contra los derechos sexuales y reproductivos y el derecho al acceso a la información de las mujeres. Por eso quisiéramos pedirles su apoyo para recabar estos datos, a través de la aplicación OONI. En primer lugar, queremos actualizar la información obtenida por Coding Rights junto con OONI [1] hace algunos meses, sobre el bloqueo de https://www.womenonwaves.org/ en territorio brasilero, y para eso necesitamos que **personas en Brasil**, y conectadas a través de distintas ISP corran el siguiente link https://run.ooni.io/nettest?tn=web_connectivity&ta=%7B%22urls%22%3A%5B%22ht… Además, una de las participantes ha estado investigando el bloqueo de la web https://www.pikaramagazine.com/ por parte de la ISP Claro en algunos países de Centro América. Dado que esta es una investigación en curso, quisiéramos aportar con la mayor cantidad de datos al respecto. **Si usted está en cualquier país de Centro América**, no importa si su conexión es a través de Claro o no (pero mucho mejor si es con Claro) le agradeceríamos mucho si puede correr el siguiente link https://run.ooni.io/nettest?tn=web_connectivity&ta=%7B%22urls%22%3A%5B%22ht… Para correr los links, tanto en el celular como en la computadora, es necesario tener descargada la aplicación OONI [2]. Si quieren y pueden ayudarnos, sería necesario hacer el testeo al menos una vez al día entre hoy y el próximo 5 de agosto. Les agradeceríamos montones si pueden ayudarnos haciendo tests o contándole a sus contactos que pudieran hacerlo. En caso de que lo hagan, también le agradezco que me lo hagan saber :) ¡Muchas gracias! [1] https://www.codingrights.org/relatorio-investiga-bloqueio-a-dois-sites-pro-… [2] https://ooni.org/ *** english *** Hello south community, hoping you are safe and healthy during these strage times! The next weel we'll be running a workshop with women from different countries in Latin America, to better understand how to make internet censorship monitoring and analysis, from a technical perspective. For that, we want to have updated data on blocking, and we have noticed some cases where womens' sexual and reproductive rights as well as the right to access of information may be limited or restricted. That's why we're ask for your help collecting these data, through OONI app. First, we want to update the information included in the report published by Coding Rights and OONI a few months ago [1] on the bloking of https://www.womenonwaves.org/ in Brazil. For that purpose we are calling people **based in Brazil** using different ISPs connections, run the following link https://run.ooni.io/nettest?tn=web_connectivity&ta=%7B%22urls%22%3A%5B%22ht… In addition, one of the participants have been analysing the blocking of https://www.pikaramagazine.com/ by Claro ISP in some countries of Central America. Given this ongoing research, we want to contribute with as much data as possible. If **you are based in any Central America conutry** using -o not- Claro internet connection service (much better if you use Claro anyway), we will appreciate your help running the following link https://run.ooni.io/nettest?tn=web_connectivity&ta=%7B%22urls%22%3A%5B%22ht… To run both links, as in a mobile phone or a computer, it's necessary to have the OONI app installed [2]. If you can help us, it would be necessary run the test at least once a day starting today and until the next Wednsday, August 5th. We will really appreciate your help making tests or spreading this request with your contacts. If you do it, please let us know, and if you have any question please ask me. Thanks, and regards!! 1] https://www.codingrights.org/relatorio-investiga-bloqueio-a-dois-sites-pro-… [2] https://ooni.org/ Juliana

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