Google Teams Up With Twitter And SayNow To Bring Tweeting-By-Phone To Egypt. Tweet to Speak. Like many people we’ve been glued to the news unfolding in Egypt and thinking of what we could do to help people on the ground.
Over the weekend we came up with the idea of a speak-to-tweet service—the ability for anyone to tweet using just a voice connection. We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers (+16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855) and the service will instantly tweet the message using the hashtag #egypt. No Internet connection is required. People can listen to the messages by dialing the same phone numbers or going to twitter.com/speak2tweet. We hope that this will go some way to helping people in Egypt stay connected at this very difficult time.
VirusTotal - Free Online Virus, Malware and URL Scanner. Recent events in Egypt. The impact of de-peering is significant; even if someone is able to get packets directly to the edge routers of TE Data or another ISP, no response will be forthcoming.
Renesys, RIPE, and BGPmon have fantastic technical details for those without access to an active BGP router. At this point it is also well-known that the ISP Noor has been up through the entire event. With access to systems inside of Egypt, we have discovered that it appears to be entirely unfiltered - Tor works perfectly, controversial websites are not blocked, and it is even quite fast compared to our systems on other Egyptian networks. As of very late last night, systems from Noor were still unable to reach systems on TE Data or other networks in Egypt.
Early this morning it appears that another ISP, Etisalat (AS36992), returned to the Internet (via nileonline.palermo7.pal.seabone.net) and we're working with contacts in Egypt to test any possible filtering and to ensure that Tor is functional on their network. Egypt/Main Page - We Re-Build. Egypt: Democracy not Dictatorship. Privacy Policy Last modified: November 11, 2011 This Privacy Policy is continually under review to ensure your privacy and security.
This website, (the “Site”) is operated by Access (“We” or “Us”). We work hard to protect your privacy. We’re members too, and we treat your privacy as we do our own. We strongly believe that you have the right to control the use of your personal information and that your privacy must be respected. In this policy, "Access" refers to Access staff, board members, cooperating attorneys, interns, volunteers, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep information they receive as part of their assistance to Access confidential. Collection of Information. Access the internet in Egypt now! Anonymity Online. Tor: Volunteer. Below are a list of Tor related projects we're developing and/or maintaining.
Most discussions happen on IRC so if you're interested in any of these (or you have a project idea of your own), then please join us in #tor-dev. Don't be shy to ask questions, and don't hesitate to ask even if the main contributors aren't active at that moment. For a presentation summarizing many of these projects see... Central project, providing the core software for using and participating in the Tor network. Numerous people contribute to the project to varying extents, but the chief architects are Nick Mathewson and Roger Dingledine. The Tor Browser Bundle is an easy-to-use portable package of Tor, Vidalia, Torbutton, and a Firefox fork preconfigured to work together out of the box. Firefox addon that addresses many of the client-side threats to browsing the Internet anonymously.
The most commonly used user interface for Tor. Provides Tor on the Android platform. TheOnionRouter/TorifyHOWTO. This document explains how to configure a particular application for use with Tor and thus the Tor network.
As Tor constantly evolves, the knowledge and understanding about anonymity online also evolves. Implementations and other aspects of online anonymity become more and more complex. In the past, an end user would just go ahead and "torify" applications like Mozilla Firefox - this is no longer recommend. As we learned more on the subject and implementation of online anonymity, we discovered it was increasingly easy for a user to leak sensitive information to those interested in obtaining it. We will be describing more details on such matters further into this article.
In short, do not torify any applications yourself unless you know exactly what you are doing. Are you using Tor?