Help Wanted to Expand Free Speech Globally
A group that wants to assist free speech in authoritarian nations is looking for a technically savvy person -- a CTO or lead engineer type -- who can do a short term study, possibly leading to a longer-term job. This is a paying gig for the right person.
The project is intended, in its intitial form, to make possible blogging that is impossible (or at least extremely difficult) to trace. One of the people involved calls it an "anonymous, anti-tyranny blogging service."
If you're interested, please send e-mail to Jim Hake at jim@spiritofamerica.net --
Note to other bloggers: Please post your own notice about this. It's a good cause.
NOTE: If you tried sending Jim mail earlier today and it bounced, that's because the address was listed incorrectly for a while. Please try again.
Check that e-mail address. All the mail I get from Jim Hake uses spiritofamerica.NET
Posted by: jed | February 27, 2005 at 03:59 PM
I also get a bouceback that it no longer accepts mail.
Seems to me that this project would be a perfect opportunity to deploy Freenet see:
http://freenetproject.org/
Posted by: Stuart Berman | February 27, 2005 at 04:26 PM
Jed and Stuart, yes, the email address was incorrect before. It's now fixed.
Posted by: Dan Gillmor | February 27, 2005 at 04:39 PM
get in touch with the tor folks.
http://tor.eff.org
Posted by: tor | February 27, 2005 at 10:41 PM
If they want to have any appear globally they'd better drop the "america" from their name!
Posted by: hey | February 28, 2005 at 09:48 AM
Invisiblog already exisits--doesn't it fit the bill pretty nicely?
http://invisiblog.com/
Posted by: Ross | February 28, 2005 at 05:08 PM
As with any technology that allows anonymous communication, do you have any concern about potential use to enable terrorist communications?
Posted by: Michael Weiksner | March 01, 2005 at 06:44 AM
Michael, of course. But I assume that any halfway intelligent terrorist is already using such tools, which are readily available for communcation among individuals or small groups. Terrorists would gain nothing from the tools we're discussing here.
Posted by: Dan Gillmor | March 01, 2005 at 08:45 AM
Interesting...
Posted by: Gotham Image | April 03, 2005 at 10:39 AM
somebody who wants to assist me please write to me . Iam from Ethiopia-Africa.
Posted by: YOHANNES | June 23, 2005 at 12:27 AM
Ineed your help .Iam from ethiopia_Africa.Iam astudent in the university. pleas hlp me.
Posted by: YOHANNES | June 23, 2005 at 12:48 AM