[Commotion-dev] Fwd: [liberationtech] Circumventing Government-Imposed Communication Blackouts

[Dan Staples]

On Mon 22 Jul 2013 09:51:04 PM EDT, Dan Staples wrote:
> Some pretty ambitious goals...perhaps let's get in touch with them, if
> no one is already. I've never heard of the project before.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [liberationtech] Circumventing Government-Imposed Communication
> Blackouts
> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 18:17:49 -0700
> From: Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>
> Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> To: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
> CC: Yahel Ben-David <yahel at denovogroup.org>
>
> http://rangzen.denovogroup.org/wp/
>
> We develop technology to allow citizens of repressive regimes to
> communicate freely, independent of government or corporate-controlled
> infrastructure, while providing strong anonymity guarantees.
>
> - Infrastructure Independent: A mobile mesh that scales to millions of
> users, without compromising their safety.
> - Trustworthy: Leverages social connections to resist attack and
> infiltration.
> - Private: Provides strong anonymity guarantees to users to preserve
> their privacy.
>
> Enabled by a generous grant from the US State Department’s Bureau of
> Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL), as part of their Internet
> Freedom Initiative, we embark on an exciting journey to help citizens
> of oppressive regimes circumvent government-imposed communication
> blackouts.
>
> At the core of this work, is our recent study – Rangzen, on which
> we’ll build the remaining elements for a widely deployable solution.
> Some of these elements pose fascinating research challenges, while
> others call for skillful integration of existing solutions.
> Our core team of developers is housed in Berkeley’s computer science
> department (EECS), amidst graduate students and faculty, at the CITRIS
> headquarters, to drive the research agenda and incorporate
> cutting-edge studies through a collaborative process.
>
> We plan to release a beta version of the Android-app by the end of
> summer 2014. This version will be rigorously tested, peer reviewed and
> experimented with by students and the general public, leading to bug
> fixes and feature enhancement in successive releases.
>
> Our work is freely available as open-source encouraging peer review
> and transparency.
>
> We work in tight collaboration with the TIER group and the Data and
> Democracy Initiative (DDI).
>
> Rangzen is the Tibetan word for Freedom/Liberty/Independence.
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And accompanying white paper: 
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~yahel/papers/Building_Dissent_Networks-Towards_Effective_Countermeasures_against_Large-Scale_Communications_Blackouts.FOCI2013.pdf

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Dan Staples

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