Censorship Circumvention Videos

Использовать и Установить Набор для Браузеров Tor

http://bit.ly/cWj6To

Russian subtitled version of our Tor Browser Bundle Tutorial that will teach you how to protect yourself on the go by using a USB flash drive to run Tor at any computer.

Как Установить и Использовать Tor

http://bit.ly/am1hhU

Russian subtitled version of our Tor Tutorial that will teach you how to download, install, and use Tor.

Puff Tutorial

http://bit.ly/dCy13l

A quick and easy explanation on how to download, install, and use Puff.

Freegate Tutorial

http://bit.ly/bjnwrG

A quick, easy to follow tutorial on downloading and using Freegate for censorship circumvention and security.

UltraSurf Tutorial

http://bit.ly/bzRsfl

Quick and easy explanation on how to download and use UltraSurf for Internet security and censorship circumvention.

Using Bridge Relays to Access Tor

http://bit.ly/cuZuWQ

A guide to adding and utilizing bridge relays in order to access the Tor relay network in areas where it has been blocked.

Using Pidgin with Off the Record

http://bit.ly/1Wxotj

A guide to using the Pidgin Instant Messaging Client in conjunction with Off the Record in order to protect the privacy of your instant messages. The Pidgin software can be found at www.pidgin.im and Off the Record can be found at www.cypherpunks.ca/otr.

Tor Browser Bundle Tutorial

http://bit.ly/9X82tS

A quick and easy explanation on how to use the Tor Browser Bundle and a USB flash drive for secure web browsing on the go.

Tor Tutorial

http://bit.ly/biIVDZ

An easy to follow guide on downloading, installing, and running Tor for the first time.

Your Freedom Tutorial

http://bit.ly/1ix7Ib

An easy to follow guide on installing and activating the Your Freedom software.

Hotspot Shield Tutorial

http://bit.ly/a1qxPI

A short, easy to follow guide to installing and activating Hotspot Shield.

Tracing Email

The originating IP is the location information that gets added to the message when one uses Hotmail. By using tracing programs (such as utrace.de) one can try to determine the location where the message was written. it should match where you believe the person is at a given moment in time. Often it will seem that the message has originated in Nigeria. If your contact was not there, then we can safely conclude the message is fake.

Such messages are common, and can be due to a result of a variety of reasons. The most common is that the email address is harvested (ie. collected) from online public sources (such as mailing lists, blogs, websites, etc) and then used by spammers. One recommendation is to suggest to key contacts that they use two email addresses - one for public messages, and another for private/confidential messages. The private email would be used rarely, and not placed publically. Thus depending what email is used to contact you can tell if the message is real or not.
Another approach, is to ask the contact to include a previously agreed to phrase in "help" messages. That phrase, in a way is used to authenticate the source. If it is absent, well, you know the message is either fake or being sent by a third party.

refs - online tools used to analyze headers:

1. http://www.3dmail.com/spam
2. http://en.utrace.de/
   

Prominent Tibetan Dissident Blogger Hacked, Impersonated on Skype

Source: BoingBoing, students for a free tibet

Tsering Woeser, the prominent Tibetan poet and blogger, has been under attack from the Chinese nationalist hacker team Honker Union. Her Skype account has been broken into, and now other dissidents are being contacted by people pretending to be Woeser.

Please stop any communication with “Degewa” on Skype, delete or lock out this user’s name from your Skype account, warn anyone you know who might try to contact me through Skype, tell them to cease contact with “Degewa.” From now on, if you receive any Skype message from “me” in any other users’ name, please speak first (Tibetan friends, please speak in Tibetan) to verify “my identity.” If the other side of the contact refuses to talk, it means you are not in touch with me.

Many dissidents across the world use Skype for communications because of its (closed and unaudited) encryption; it's worth remembering that even if the channel is protected, the person on the other end may not be who you think it is.