[HacktionLab] missing workshop - publishing your news anonymously

[mick fuzz]

Hi there,

it would be good to have a workshop on this aspect - publishing your news
anonymously
it would be both a presentation - and a practical aspect of how to do it.

It could be based on the following chapters.

http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists/browsing-the-internet-anonymously/
http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists/publishing-your-news/

Let me know if anyone fancies it!

xxx
mick

ps the publishing your news one needs some work if someone fancies it!
see below

The internet has made it easy for everyone to publish news. Anyone can set
up a blog or start twittering. With the ease of publishing, the internet is
awash with info which makes reaching your audience more challenging. Making
sure your content shows up in search engines like Google has become a
science called Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Using a blogging system or
a well-known news site and tagging your content can help too.

Network internet services which let you share your news often keep a record
of who is visiting and updating your news site. This causes security
problems and legal problems as well.
 Posting anonymously

Websites like wordpress.com and blogger.com and social networking sites like
facebook keep a record of who uses their site. They do this by collecting
the IP addresses.

There are two solutions for posting your news anonymously. You can use Tor
to post anonymously on websites that log your IP addresses (see other
chapter) or you can post to websites that don't log your IP address.
Website and Blogs hosted on certain independent servers

There a number of servers that let you host your website or blog
anonymously. They don't keep records of who is uploading what. In fact, they
are actively trying to resist attempts by governments to impose laws on
monitoring. As can be seen on the front page of the Aktivix website.
http://aktivix.org/
 Indymedia and other secure open posting news sites

Indymedia volunteers coordinate the production and sharing of news content
often ignored by mainstream media. The global IMC network is based on
openness and broad participation: all software is opensource, most lists are
publicly archived, everybody can sign up to the wiki, log-on in chatrooms,
or publish various newswire as long as it doesn't breach the guidelines.
 Tagging your content

Tagging your content makes it much easier to find. If you use tags, your
news can then be classified, better indexed by search engines, and via RSS
feeds the content it can be pulled into other websites (aggregation).
 RSS and aggregation Syndication offers some potential for posting
anonymously. RSS feeds are an agreed standard to allow different sites to
pull in and republish content from other sites. You could publish your news
anonymously on Indymedia - which uses tagging, and an RSS feed - to
republish it onto your convenient (but insecure) wordpress.com site.
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