[liberationtech] Could you help our lonely 98-year-old WW2 vet neighbor regain access to his Yahoo email?

[Denver Gingerich]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 03:01:34PM -0400, fuzzyTew wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 1:43 PM Denver Gingerich <denver at ossguy.com> wrote:
> > Thanks very much for the suggestion.  We have been looking at adding a
> > .onion address for our site and hope to do so in the future.  If you have
> > any particular tips for the easiest/fastest ways to do that, let me know.
> > Also, if there are more than just .onion and .i2p that you think we should
> > add, please send those too.
> 
> This shouldn't be hard to do if you have some systems experience.  You
> install Tor and I2P daemon services on the server and follow the
> instructions for each for configuring a user network service ("hidden
> service" for tor, "eepsite" for i2p).  I don't expect this to be more than
> a day's work, although there might be a delay if you run into a hitch and
> need to wait for a reply from someone for help.  I am not experienced with
> administrating high traffic servers to know the kinds of concerns involved,
> though.

Thanks very much for those details.  I'll pass them on to the people who administer our servers to see how quickly we might be able to add these.

> > We have a pretty small team so we aren't always able to keep our secondary
> > communication methods updated at all times.
> 
> Judging by your exhaustive reply on this list, I'm guessing you might have
> the capacity to make a final tweet explaining that twitter is no longer
> updated and directing twitter users to your mailing list.  This could help
> people who make use of twitter find your important active service.

Yes, I could.  I'm not sure if I want to do that yet, as it might be better to keep it active and just link to the JMP email updates when they're released.  But I don't spend much time on Twitter so I don't know if that would seem weird to Twitter users.

> This service looks like such an important part of building avenues of
> safety for technologically minded human rights dissidents, in this era of
> mobile phones.

I hope it helps!  People use JMP for a lot of reasons, and I presume sometimes it's for wanting an anonymous phone number, e.g. to use Signal or other tools that otherwise prohibit anonymity (depending on your country).  I'm happy to hear of ways in which what we're doing helps or hinders the human rights dissident use cases.

> It would likely be helpful if payment via cryptocurrency were accepted some
> day.

We already accept cryptocurrency payments.

It is mentioned in our email updates, but since we do not yet have an automated way of accepting them, it is not officially listed on https://jmp.chat/ (though https://jmp.chat/#payment alludes to other available payment methods).

We are working on automating this, but it's not as simple as using one of the big cryptocurrency processors' APIs, since we want to do it in a privacy-respecting way that does not immediately turn your payment into a fiat currency.  For now we send a price/address to people on request.

In case you're curious, we plan to use https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/merchant.html as a starting point.

Denver
https://jmp.chat/