[e-privacy] * EFF Wants You to Make Online Anonymity Easy (e altro)

[Leandro Noferini]

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* EFF Wants You to Make Online Anonymity Easy

Announcing the Tor Graphical User Interface Competition

San Francisco - Now information designers can make it easier 
for people to protect themselves online.  The developers 
of Tor, a software tool for communicating anonymously 
online, this week announced the Tor graphical user interface 
(GUI) competition.  Entrants will create a usable and 
aesthetically pleasing GUI for the Tor program, which 
will allow people to install and configure Tor easily 
and monitor the software's performance while it's running.

"Security depends on knowing what's working correctly 
and what isn't," said Roger Dingledine, Tor project 
leader.  "A good interface tells users what's going on 
so they can make smart decisions."

Tor, which is currently being developed with support 
from EFF, helps anonymize web browsing and publishing, 
instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications 
that use the TCP protocol.  Tor also provides a platform 
on which software developers can build new applications 
with built-in anonymity, safety, and privacy features.

The competition has two phases.  First, there will be a 
design competition where entrants can submit mock-up 
sketches of good interfaces.  Second, there will be a 
competition to create working implementations of good 
interfaces.  People are encouraged to submit to either 
phase or both phases.  Winning entries will be open 
source, exhibit strong graphic design, and include an 
intuitive and simple interface.  Students, freelancers, 
and professionals at all levels are encouraged to 
enter.  Everyone who enters will get a free Tor t-shirt, 
and the best sketches and working implementations 
will be published on the Tor website.

The competition winners will be announced at the 2006 
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 
conference.

For this release:
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_08.php#003915>

The Tor GUI competition rules:
<http://tor.eff.org/gui/>

SOUPS conference:
<http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/>


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* EFF Launches Cooperating Techs Listserv - Take Two

Not long ago we told you about our new "Cooperating
Techs" listserv to help connect technologists with
attorneys working on cases that are core to EFF's 
mission but beyond what we can handle in-house.  After
a couple of weeks with only a few responses, we realized 
we made a technical mistake with the email alias for 
signing up!

Now that we've recognized our error - as well as the 
irony - we've corrected the problem.  If you're a 
technologist who'd like to apply your skills to the
fight for digital civil liberties, please send - or
re-send - an email to cooptechs at eff.org.   We promise 
that this time, your request will get through - and 
you'll even get a confirmation notice to prove it!  

For more information about how the list will work, see:
<http://www.eff.org/effector/18/25.php#VI>

-- 
Ciao
leandro
......e saluti al brigadiere
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