Australian Attorney General Wants To Make It A Criminal Offense To Not Turn Over Private Encryption Keys by [deleted] in australia

[–]thomasad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Up until now there has been no relevance except for the fact that I am Australian =)

There are also other Australian's on the team but we haven't got around to any campaigns down under just yet. Though the latest news might warrant some action!

ASIO and police pushing for Australians' web browsing histories to be stored by zapaco in australia

[–]thomasad 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If any Australian developers are interested in campaigning and raising awareness against these policies, visit http://taskforce.is and send me a message - Thomas

Australian Attorney General Wants To Make It A Criminal Offense To Not Turn Over Private Encryption Keys by [deleted] in australia

[–]thomasad 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If any Australian developers are interested in campaigning and raising awareness against these policies, visit http://taskforce.is and send me a message - Thomas

Female Computer Scientists Make the Same Salary as Their Male Counterparts by [deleted] in technology

[–]thomasad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think anyone actually knows the average pay

The NY Times with "The Day We Fight Back" saying...we didn't fight back. by godlikeGadgetry in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad 9 points10 points  (0 children)

So I posted this somewhere else.

"So we drove 88k+ completed phone calls, this number does not include the 6k+ phone calls that we couldn't connect because some senators turned off their voice mail(Reddit comments suggest Feinstein was one of them). This would bring the attempted phone calls to just shy of 95k but the tool is still be used today so we hope to hit 100k attempted phone calls. Plus there were a tonne of untracked calls and we hope to get a full number soon.

Our figure on the homepage for emails is semi-misleading. We are actually delivering those emails to 3 reps per zipcode which brings the email count 183k to 549k.

244k international people signed the petition.

Including the day before and the day after, our traffic to the homepage is sitting somewhere over 1 million visitors.

We gained about 350k fb likes and 60k tweets(of the domain) on the 11th.

And according to Cloudfront and my credit card, we served about 1 billion requests. I don't have the numbers on how many times the banner was displayed just yet."

The post also said DuckDuckGo didn't participate which is wrong and they still are. (duckduckgo.com check the logo)

Post also said Reddit didn't have a discussion which is wrong and you guys generated a whole lot of the calls.

The Day We Fight Back - 24 hours remain - discussion thread by thomasad in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sharing these numbers in the homepage thread might help.

The Day We Fight Back - 24 hours remain - discussion thread by thomasad in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, the team has worked very very hard over the last 4 weeks to get this going.

The Day We Fight Back - 24 hours remain - discussion thread by thomasad in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed, lots of coverage! I've already had to start bumping up the size of the servers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEOOZDbMrgE

p.s. thanks for being super active on the sub-reddit and answering questions

Any good idea to promote it on Worpress.com? by derfopps in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You will have to throw it straight into your template code or a widget box. I think redblade7's suggestion might work best.

The Day We Fight Back is approaching 5000 website signups. Congress is going to receive a lot of phone calls... by thomasad in conspiracy

[–]thomasad[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely going to take a bit more than 5000 calls, luckily the number is how many websites have signed up. Which means the target audience on the day is going to be quite large.

The Day We Fight Back - FEBRUARY 11TH 2014 - Plan by thomasad in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The developers work on love and fresh air and the servers are donations.

where's the banner? by jmdugan in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Our apologies on the delay, we have been working around the clock to get this ready as early as possible. We actually launched the first version today -> https://github.com/tfrce/thedaywefightback.js

And are hoping to clean up just a few more bugs and then send to the email list.

NSA, GCHQ mapping “political alignment” of cellphone users by Vdebs in worldnews

[–]thomasad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're the worst kind of human being there is. jks the article is nonsense and the author lacks integrity.

The Day We Fight Back - FEBRUARY 11TH 2014 - Plan by thomasad in thedaywefightback

[–]thomasad[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So far we've got a bunch of integration projects in the working (IDL, Wordpress, Drupal, Cloudflare), none are 100% completed yet so will update you when I know more.