ཞི་བའི་གདོང་ལེན་པ་བཞི་ལ་རྗེམ་སུ་ ལོ་སོན་གཟེངས་རྟགས་(James Lawson Award)ཐོབ་པ། Nathan Schneider, June 23, 2011 On June 23rd, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict presented its first James Lawson Award for Nonviolent Achievement—or, rather,...

From Google Security: We’ve noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target…All these attacks abuse a publicly-disclosed MHTML vulnerability for which an exploit was publicly posted in January 2011. Users browsing with the Internet Explorer browser are affected....

Tendor, Students for a Free Tibet’s Executive Director, looks at the nonviolent revolutions sweeping the Middle East and the prospects for change in China and Tibet in an article for the Huffington Post. As people power explodes across the Arab world ­– first in Tunisia, then in Egypt, now in Bahrain, Libya and elsewhere — one can’t help but...

See Nathan and the Guardian Project in this Feb. 23rd Wired article on the U.S. State Department’s Internet Freedom program and funding for innovative secure tech projects (a note from Nathan on the context of his quotes is here). Freitas worries about the proliferation of camera phones — a somewhat counterintuitive concern, given the power of viral videos to...

Chain of Commands – Mainland authorities are detaining individuals for perceived crimes committed online. But how do they access such incriminating information? Paul Mooney, South China Morning Post, September 26, 2010 When Norzin Wangmo used her computer and mobile phone two years ago to communicate with friends about protests in Tibet, she had no idea it...

If you haven’t heard the news, Google.cn is gone, replaced by a freedom-loving, uncensored Google.com.hk! In addition, if you are curious which Google Services are still available from within mainland China (and Tibet, as well, we hope), just visit their new dashboard and you can find out. Here’s the report from...