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If you know any Venezuelans, tell them about Tor. https://www.torproject.org/ https://www.torproject.org/

rafaelm 13y ago
Yes I have been spreading Tor for a couple of days now. I started in my office and friends. Last night one of the biggest Venezuelan twitter accounts retweeted me too, so many people are aware now. I need to find a similar solution for mobile phones since most people here access twitter using the phones. Any suggestions?
- middleclick 13y ago
  Have a look at Orbot. https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ It is Tor on Android devices.
  - rafaelm 13y ago
    I thought that was only for using the web on phones, but I just saw that it also works with Twitter and any app that supports proxies. Thanks! This is one of those times when I wish there was a simple, secure messaging app for everyone. I don't know if apps like whisper or threema are 100% safe so I'm wary about recommending them.
    - middleclick 13y ago
      If you are looking for a secure desktop IM client, look at Pidgin with OTR. https://securityinabox.org/en/pidgin_main https://securityinabox.org/en/pidgin_main For Android, I had probably trust anything by Moxie. Plus, you don't need to trust him - it's open source. Not that you have to verify it, but it's a good chance it's more secure than closed-source products.
    - e12e 13y ago
      https://whispersystems.org/ https://whispersystems.org/ TextSecure / RedPhone and/or https://silentcircle.com/ https://silentcircle.com/ are a good place to start -- but AFAIK might not provide all the protection you need in a case like this. Assumptions: * the government has (or can easily) link you/your associates to a SIM/Router/DSL/Phoneline * link your ip to said sim/router * the government probably already have you listed as an "enemy" (assuming you've ever said or done anything useful in terms of protest, aren't completely spineless or apathetic) Historically (in Latin/South America), at least one group will have support from the US -- so assume all VPN traffic is logged for trying to match up things like twitter posts to in-country IPs. The only reasonable action is to use TOR for onion routing, and encryption tunnelled through that. This will still show that you communicate covertly (covertly, being "not-open"). It will still show bursts of activity, and clustering of devices (Note that if you both have access to location meta-data, and have half a brain and a couple of informers/officers noting down where people are gathering, you can feed that back into lists of SIM/IMEIs to target...). The best approach would probably be to generate a rate-limited stream of traffic over TOR, and allow that stream to be replaced by communication as needed. I don't know of any tool to do this for phones -- but layering TOR and jabber+OTR might be about as good as you're going to get for now?
- ipince 13y ago
  Rafael, on iPhones you can enable VPN and get over the restrictions. My friends have been using superfreevpn.com with great success. It only involves adding some setting on the iPhone and setting the vpn password (it changes every 24h and is published on their website). This is for WiFi access of course. The mobile data is not censored (yet). I suppose something similar can be done for android but I havent looked into it.

Yes I have been spreading Tor for a couple of days now. I started in my office and friends. Last night one of the biggest Venezuelan twitter accounts retweeted me too, so many people are aware now. I need to find a similar solution for mobile phones since most people here access twitter using the phones. Any suggestions?

middleclick 13y ago
Have a look at Orbot. https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/ It is Tor on Android devices.
- rafaelm 13y ago
  I thought that was only for using the web on phones, but I just saw that it also works with Twitter and any app that supports proxies. Thanks! This is one of those times when I wish there was a simple, secure messaging app for everyone. I don't know if apps like whisper or threema are 100% safe so I'm wary about recommending them.
  - middleclick 13y ago
    If you are looking for a secure desktop IM client, look at Pidgin with OTR. https://securityinabox.org/en/pidgin_main https://securityinabox.org/en/pidgin_main For Android, I had probably trust anything by Moxie. Plus, you don't need to trust him - it's open source. Not that you have to verify it, but it's a good chance it's more secure than closed-source products.
  - e12e 13y ago
    https://whispersystems.org/ https://whispersystems.org/ TextSecure / RedPhone and/or https://silentcircle.com/ https://silentcircle.com/ are a good place to start -- but AFAIK might not provide all the protection you need in a case like this. Assumptions: * the government has (or can easily) link you/your associates to a SIM/Router/DSL/Phoneline * link your ip to said sim/router * the government probably already have you listed as an "enemy" (assuming you've ever said or done anything useful in terms of protest, aren't completely spineless or apathetic) Historically (in Latin/South America), at least one group will have support from the US -- so assume all VPN traffic is logged for trying to match up things like twitter posts to in-country IPs. The only reasonable action is to use TOR for onion routing, and encryption tunnelled through that. This will still show that you communicate covertly (covertly, being "not-open"). It will still show bursts of activity, and clustering of devices (Note that if you both have access to location meta-data, and have half a brain and a couple of informers/officers noting down where people are gathering, you can feed that back into lists of SIM/IMEIs to target...). The best approach would probably be to generate a rate-limited stream of traffic over TOR, and allow that stream to be replaced by communication as needed. I don't know of any tool to do this for phones -- but layering TOR and jabber+OTR might be about as good as you're going to get for now?
ipince 13y ago
Rafael, on iPhones you can enable VPN and get over the restrictions. My friends have been using superfreevpn.com with great success. It only involves adding some setting on the iPhone and setting the vpn password (it changes every 24h and is published on their website). This is for WiFi access of course. The mobile data is not censored (yet). I suppose something similar can be done for android but I havent looked into it.