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MobileVoices: Secure Anonymous Mobile Communication Platform

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MobileVoices explores my concept of an open source bit torrent p2p anonymous mobile communication platform and its possible effects in encouraging the growth of grassroots citizen media and free speech issues within developing nations especially those in Africa.

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How it was done

In researching mobile encryption's issues, I came across to very interesting patents which deal with the issues of secure data transfer from mobile devices, the two in particular that were quite interesting are as follows and were sent to me by my friend and classmate Joshua Klein.

The first patent #7076657, covers the establishment of a secure conduit for sms communication from a center to a wireless terminal. The center encrypts an authorization key in response to a wireless terminals sms message containing a public key and a request for the authorization key, sends back to the wireless terminal an sms message containing the encrypted authorization key, decrypts another sms message received from the wireless terminal which contains an authentication code and a request for a traffic key, authenticates the sms message, encrypts the traffic key, and sends to the wireless terminal another sms message containing the traffic key. This form of secure sms transmission is quite interesting and could be implemented to reach a larger group of users who do not have feature rich mobile devices and this would would be a cost-effective means for people to actively send in information.

The second patent #7,116,786B covers the interception of mobile data, so in a way these two patents lead me to understand that overall concept of secure mobile data transmission and mobile security is something that is being researched, and will continue to be researched as more and more people begin to use their mobile devices for every day use and begin to place a emphasis on privacy and integrity of the data they send and receive.

As my mentor Prof.Rosenthal pointed out in one of my presentations, anytime you have mobile media assets (voice, text, video) encrypted, you are already raising a red flag and increasing the risk of detection, so then the issue becomes how do you enable the transfer of these media assets within networks outside your control in a innovative way that enables rapid dissemination and not risk identification to end user?. I believe that the only way this is possible is through the use of a reverse bit torrent style form of media content distribution and dissemination, which is a major component form of MobileVoices

I believe that MobileVoices can be successfully implemented through a open source platform and with strategic alliances with human rights organizations organizations. I believe that the open source community would best way to make my overall concept become a reality. The overall goal for MobileVoices is to enable everyone to share their stories and thoughts with the world, without any fear of restrictions or personal persecution through their mobile devices.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to your feedback and response.

Yonatan Kelib http://www.mobilevoices.org

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