TacticalMediaRoom/Signal
Notes from the TacticalMediaRoom Signal group.
Contents
Network and Internet services
Open internet
Network
An Open Internet Remains the Goal - New from RIPE NCC: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hans_petter_holen/an-open-internet-remains-the-goal/
For the techies: this "draft" was refused at IETF, but it explains what could be done, if there is political will, regarding the "technical sanctions" & blocking of the aggressive regimes/countries/networks: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/pdf/draft-giuliano-blocking-considerations-00
https://ooni.org/post/2022-russia-blocks-amid-ru-ua-conflict/ New blocks emerge in Russia amid war in Ukraine: An OONI network measurement analysis. This research report shared OONI data analysis on recent blocks that have emerged in Russia(and in the EU) amid the war in Ukraine.
https://labs.ripe.net/author/athina/eu-sanctions-and-our-russian-membership/ - "We have published an article that explains why the RIPE NCC remains fully compliant with the latest sanctions"
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/internet-perspectives-ukraine-and-russia
About data analysis & visualization -- in relation to censorship -- invite to OONI discussion channel: https://join.slack.com/t/openobservatory/shared_invite/zt-16ndyhjcw-xC~h_CNBKBm0IFZI3zhwNQ
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/internet-perspectives-ukraine-and-russia
Platform governance
group doing analysis on the timeline of platform governance that I've shared here and that Ruben Brave has published online with ISOC. We also have another group doing an analysis on the most popular apps being used in Ukraine during the war. The datasprint will be done on Friday, we can share results after.
Sanctions
https://labs.ripe.net/author/chrisb/a-more-robust-approach-to-sanctions/A More Robust Approach to Sanctions Recent events in Ukraine have spotlighted some fundamental questions about Internet governance and the use of state-imposed sanctions. This post frames the discussion in reference to one of the Internet's most enduring maxims. RIPE NCC "position" : https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/the-ripe-ncc-and-ukraine-russia/
"To sanction or not to sanction the Internet access: A SancNet debate" https://www.giga-net.org/to-sanction-or-not-to-sanction-the-internet-access-a-sancnet-debate/
History of using sanctions against internet in Serbia (& history of war in ex-yugoslavia ) https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom#History
Ukraine
The link to keep Ukraine connect task force is https://keepukraineconnected.org
Ukraine’s Engineers Battle To Keep The Internet Running While Russian Bombs Fall Around Them In the rubble of bombarded Ukrainian cities, technicians are risking their lives to keep the country online. Their government calls them the ‘hidden heroes’ of the war. www.forbes.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/22/while-russians-bombs-fall-around-them-ukraines-engineers-battle-to-keep-the-internet-running/?sh=4a20aad35a4c
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online We are saving digitised collections from Ukrainian museums, libraries and archives. https://www.sucho.org/
https://www.cyberscoop.com/ukraine-internet-starlink-security/ The international surge to help keep Ukraine's frontlines connected Donations of modems, routers and other equipment are flooding in from around the world. 24 mrt. 2022
Russia
https://networkcultures.org/blog/2022/04/04/open-letter/ Open Letter of Dmitry Pilikin, Russian Artist, Curator, Art Historian
Internet
Before a possible internet wall between Russia and the rest of the world is erected, it seems to me a priority to actively invest energy in gather together, receiving (internet) addresses, proxies, VPNs, satellite options, short golf etc. I already saw a group in this box that collects this information. I just can't find it right now. However, it is necessary that that information is quickly decentralized, through various media.
The open internet in Russia must be protected. Here’s why.
https://www.change.org/p/we-call-on-vpn-companies-to-provide-russian-users-with-free-access-to-their-services?recruiter=35946137&recruited_by_id=4ebd72b0-a691-11ec-9bd6-b3261547a842&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_32725181_ru-RU%3A5 !!! AmneziaVPN is the only service that has supported this petition. One free service for all Russians, accessible through a telegram bot - because all foreign vpn services are blocked or impossible to pay for from Russia. It as one small win for free internet access without
https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/how-is-russia-connected-to-the-wider-internet/ How Is Russia Connected To The Wider Internet?
https://tracking.exposed/pdf/tiktok-russia-15march2022.pdf
- On March 7, TikTok made all the content posted by non-Russian channels unavailable to Russian users. This unannounced restriction removes an estimated 95% of the content previously available to Russian TikTok users.
- Content restriction is happening at the application layer rather than the transport layer,which requires the direct involvement of TikTok. It is the first time a global social media platform has restricted access to content at this scale.
- A network of coordinated accounts is using a loophole to post new content promoting Russian pro-war propaganda in Russia, despite the current ban on new content uploads.
Sanctions
Protests
I have contacts in OVD now, so if there is an interest on working together, I can cross-connect; more info: https://ovd.news/news/2022/03/02/russian-protests-against-war-ukraine-chronicle-events
Flag from the Russian opposition https://whitebluewhite.info/english - The Russian design community has created a flag for anti-war movement in Russia. It is a white banner with blue horizontal stripe in the middle. We are removing bloody color because future and prosperity of new Russia is in peace'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/red-is-dead-russian-anti-war-protesters-fly-a-new-flag-for-peace Yes! We have been doing this for weeks. Since the first days of the war the new flag was used by thousands of Russians around the world to express their antiwar position, and to take distance from the regime
Tools
dCommsДецентралізовані комунікації, які працюють з інтернетом або без ньогоdcomm.net.ua This is a useful tool for regular people for connecting with family & friends, if their internet is flaky : https://dcomm.net.ua/
Don’t help Putin and Lukashenko silence anti-war voices - Access Now https://www.accessnow.org/putin-lukashenko/
https://wiki.techinc.nl/TacticalMediaRoom/Workshops#Learning security courses
Online, self-paced courses offered to journalists at https://totem-project.org/
Internet Security
advice about secure communication tools, for non-techies:
https://labs.ripe.net
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/telegram-harm-reduction-users-russia-and-ukraine
https://cip.gov.ua/en/news/viktor-zhora-potencial-rosiiskikh-khakeriv-imovirno-pereocinenii
https://www.ft.com/content/1fb2f592-4806-42fd-a6d5-735578651471
<https://www.hstoday.us/featured/anonymous-hackers-fire-warning-shot-at-companies-refusing-to-pull-out-of-russia/> Anonymous hacktivists warned that the next #OpRussia target will be corporations that refuse to pull their business from Russia as one group of hackers decided to try to use their data haul from a Russian company to financially help the people of Ukraine.
Journalism and Media
Crisis reporting
Institute of Mass Information in Kyiv
https://fixersandjournalists.humanities.uva.nl/
The Russian press in Exile petition to the EUropean Parliament
File:Independent Russian Journalists Relief.pdf
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Desinformation
Funding for projects dealing with disinformation - mentioned by someone IRL on Wednesday; deadline 25. April (info in Duthc) https://www.sidnfonds.nl/grip-op-desinformatie-2
Here are the findings from the warfakes Telegram data sprint research published on INC https://networkcultures.org/?p=14671&preview=1&_ppp=d58a9e9474
Humanitarian
Inzamelplekken Oekraïne / collection points for Ukraine
Vind een inzamelpunt bij u in de buurt en doneer spullen aan Oekraïners in nood. / Find a collection point near you and donate items to Ukrainians in need.
https://www.inzamelplekkenoekraine.nl/
Foods and Goods collection - Adam
untill 25th march
https://verblijfblog.nl/tijdelijke-bescherming-van-oekrainers-in-nederland/
Fundraising and support
Open Society Launches Fund for a Free and Democratic Ukraine https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-launches-fund-for-a-free-and-democratic-ukraine
We have this initiative, which is already supporting a lot of Ukrainian companies.https://dutchcloudcommunity.nl/community/cloud4ukraine/
https://twitter.com/freepressunltd/status/1503734397081735173
https://twitter.com/CFWIJ/status/1503809300589953026
https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-ukraines-media-going
petition https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rlmF3ug8chNX2cemMj-RmRoZ1b71GbuPvax8Vai45rQ/edit?usp=sharing
There is this: https://www.nobelprizeforukraine.org/
News and resources
https://www.ripe.net/participate/member-support/the-ripe-ncc-and-ukraine-russia
Nextcloud folder for the Tactical Media Room. !pwd protected
News on the war
The Last Days Of Mariupol’s Internet
Engineers who kept Ukraine’s port city online have gone missing or died in the carnage inflicted by Russia’s siege. Hope remains that Ukrainian cities knocked off the internet map will come back online fast—once the shelling ends. Some bad news... https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/03/31/the-last-days-of-mariupols-internet/?sh=514f41a45962
From a Ukrainian colleague, a recommendation: "Some twitter accounts to follow: @DmytroKuleba (Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, I saw this account being prised for efficient communication, could be interesting from professional point of view as well), @Kyivindependent, @ukraine_world (news in English), @andersostlund (a Swedish journalist reporting from Kyiv), @nolanwpeterson (war reporter based in Ukraine since 2014).
A Wikipedia author has been arrested in Belarus. Wikipedia advises all editors in Belarus and Russia to hide their personal data, and to write/complete articles about war only from secret accounts. Question: If they write under a pseudonym, is their IP address untraceable, or are they masked by Wikipedia?
MFFR komt met statement uit om Russische en Belarussische jourhttps://verblijfblog.nl/tijdelijke-bescherming-van-oekrainers-in-nederland/
more info: https://ovd.news/news/2022/03/02/russian-protests-against-war-ukraine-chronicle-events
File:FPU leaflet ONE MONTH OF INVASION.pdf
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-russians-fleeing-putins-wartime-crackdown
Platform Geopolitics in 2022: Russian Invasion of Ukraine – an incomplete overview
Information wars
Russia targeting BRICS, Africa, Asia. Not the West really at all. https://twitter.com/carljackmiller/status/1504896238826700800?s=21
OSint - open source intelligence
https://restofworld.org/2022/osint-viral-ukraine/
Events
Coming
12 April 20.00 Witnessing U: testimonials from the frontline HTTPS://toneelmakerij.nl/en/voorstellingen/witnessing-u/ 3 Ukrainian theatre makers Bogdana Orleanova, Iana Gudzenko, Alesia Andrushevska present @ Toneelmakerij, Laurier gracht 99c, Amsterdam
Wendsday 6 apr 2022 20.00 – 21.30, LOCATIE SPUI25 : "De Russische invasie in media" https://spui25.nl/programma/de-russische-invasie-in-media
Past
Datasprint https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmKlgTS-9ZQqIpXieU1OVduIXMinpQaKTn243XYE_iU/edit# Here is the info on the datasprint. Buzzhouse space, located at the University of Amsterdam, BG5 (Oudezijds Achterburgwal 233-237) (enter through the Prisma cafe, then on the first floor). Only the keynote presentation will take place in OMHP D1.08. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmKlgTS-9ZQqIpXieU1OVduIXMinpQaKTn243XYE_iU/edit# Here is the info on the datasprint.
dataprint
datasprint2
datasprint 3
Ripe
As there is a lot of discussion and concern around sanctions related to the war in Ukraine and the effects on the net and the community, weare doing a cooperation working group (virtual) session coming Tuesday,22 March. The session will run from 13:00-14:30 UTC (14:00-15:30 CEST). To participate, you can register at https://www.ripe.net/s/register-coop-wg-20220322
31-03 at 11PM, online event: https://www.umass.edu/russian-eurasian-polish-studies/event/public-interest-technology-symposium-ukraine-and-russia-online-war
30 mrt 2022 event: https://framerframed.nl/projecten/the-hmm-on-a-lighter-internet/
