Yes.
I think I was unnecessarily harsh in my own initial reply.
We simply cannot presuppose knowledge of a system. Security nonexperts
have different mental models.
Can we solve every security issue? No. And this is one that
unfortunately, can't be solved without user education.
However, if
and Ball from Martus/Benetech weighs in...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/wired_opinion_patrick_ball/all/
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I'm sorry to have to say this, but this piece seems to expressly
ignore a lot of the research and discussion that's already happened
about Cryptocat and (I'm sorry) is very self-promotional of Ball and
Martus. The discussion around improving code delivery, which has been
going on for months, is
Patrick, care to comment? You might also want to review the conversation on the
libtech list (all 62 messages) where a lot of issues related to Cyrptocat and
security and activism has been discussed in great detail, and with a lot of
thought and care.
(And, for the record, I have no editorial
-- Forwarded message --
From: Patrick Ball pb...@benetech.org
Date: Aug 10, 2012 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [liberationtech] When It Comes to Human Rights, There Are No
Online Security Shortcuts | Threat Level | Wired.com
To: Katrin Verclas kat...@mobileactive.org
Cc: Nadim Kobeissi
Here's the reply I sent to Patrick:
Patrick,
Thanks for your well-wishes, but I'm under the impression that
actually participating in the conversation and technical debate would
be far, far more productive than ample servings of high-level
gratuitous formality. It's one thing to compliment Jake
Hi All,
Based on your feedback, a short 3-question survey of the Liberationtech
community will be conducted to determine what changes to implement. The
survey will be conducted through Thursday, August 16, 2012, and aggregated
survey results will be released on Friday, August 17, 2012. Changes
Thanks to all who've sent me comments!
The new, and hopefully improved Kickstarter page and video are now up at:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1947703258/smart-notebooks-keeping-on-the-same-page-across-th
Take a look! Comments welcome. So are donations, likes, tweets, diggs,
+1s,
That's the intent:
- Initial document distribution will be by email, so PEM for distribution.
- Peer-to-Peer communication between documents will be over an encrypted
channel
-- model is a publish-subscribe channel per set of linked documents
with a channel key (perhaps several keys with
Do activists seriously diverge from general browser usage
statistics?
Oh hey -- at last, quantifiable question that would lend itself to a solid
research paper. Let's gather aggregate analytics data from activist sites
and compare to the norm. I think I can help on this...
On Friday, August 10,
I enjoyed the following movie(s):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Film
*Part One*, shot in Sweden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden and
released in August 2006, combines accounts from prominent players in the
Swedish piracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-copyright culture (The
Hi, Gabriella. Hi, list. David Meyer wrote one for us (techPresident) which
I thought was quite good ... I am remote right now, so sadly no link.
Best,
Nick Judd
-Original message-
From: Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu
To: Liberation Technologies
Hi Biella and Morgan,
I work with Jamie King, Director/Producer of Steal This Film, as
organizational strategist for his company VODO.net. Though not exactly
recent, you might like some of this writing/posts/links here:
http://jamie.com/ and here: http://torrentfreak.com/author/jamie/ If you
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Mark Belinsky mark.belin...@gmail.com wrote:
... I'm curious about
the benefits/dangers of making the fingerprint of the SSL certificate more
accessible to users through visual means...
we've been exploring the ascii art that key fingerprints generate. It's
Pirate Party founder Falkvinge's TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/rick_falkvinge_i_am_a_pirate.html
:-Douglas
On 08/10/2012 05:45 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
From: Gabriella Coleman gabriella.cole...@mcgill.ca
Hi all,
Can folks recommend articles on the Pirate Party and the Pirate Bay)
Collin Anderson:
Do activists seriously diverge from general browser usage
statistics?
Oh hey -- at last, quantifiable question that would lend itself to a solid
research paper. Let's gather aggregate analytics data from activist sites
and compare to the norm. I think I can help on this...
And my reply:
Dear Patrick,
Your reply has lead me to be capable of better appreciating and
evaluating your perspective. Thanks for clarifying your point of view.
I encourage you to keep an eye on how Cryptocat evolves and hope
you'll find our improvements worthwhile.
Regards,
NK
NK
On Fri,
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 12:50:58 PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote:
Hi All,
Based on your feedback, a short 3-question survey of the
Liberationtech community will be conducted to determine what changes
to implement... Should you have any questions, please let me know.
Not really questions, but a
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