[liberationtech] Torservers.net on the way to more diversity

2013-04-03 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, I have started to make changes to the Torservers.net website to reflect that we have grown from professional Tor Exit hosting to a state where growth of a single organization is not very useful any more. We have refrained from ramping up more exit capacity for quite some time because of that:

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part of the e-mail that no-one reads) at the top of the e-mail so everyone sees it? No, because then *everybody* has to see it. -- Too many emails?

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Jillian C. York
Which is worse: - Everyone having to read the footer, or - Several idiotic how do I unsubscribe from this? emails per week? Serious question. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Simeon Oriko
Perhaps this is an indicator that we need to rethink the design of mailing lists perhaps? I see the same problem in a lot of other mailing lists. -- Simeon Oriko | Digital and Innovation Strategist Web: www.mtotowajirani.com | Twitter: @mtotowajirani LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/simeonoriko

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Petter Ericson
On 03 April, 2013 - Jillian C. York wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part of the e-mail that no-one

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Jillian C. York
Oh, I'm in agreement that top-posting is awful. And I may be conflating this mailing list with others (in overstating the problem), but it is enough of an annoyance that I would consider harsh measures ;) On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Petter Ericson pett...@acc.umu.se wrote: On 03 April,

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Griffin Boyce
My suggestion is to remove the dash-dash-space that precedes the unsubscribe notice. Lots of people have settings that automatically hide these footers. ~Griffin On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Jillian C. York jilliancy...@gmail.comwrote: Oh, I'm in agreement that top-posting is awful. And

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: My suggestion is to remove the dash-dash-space that precedes the unsubscribe notice. Should I remind that this was *also* the result of a vote on 21.8.2012? 3. Eliminate signature, modify, or leave as is? a. Eliminate

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread David Miller
On 3 April 2013 13:47, Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su wrote: Should I remind that this was *also* the result of a vote on 21.8.2012? Maybe a periodic vote about what colours to paint the various bike sheds would be useful? Have we had votes on: * The name of the list * The format of the subject

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
err, I haven't seen any indications that we have libtech members that use screen readers... sorry for the double post. best, Joe -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Senior Staff Technologist Center for Democracy Technology https://www.cdt.org/ On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:33, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:33:17AM -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: Top-posting is definitely worse. Don't do it. A very minor point that isn't especially relevant to libtech, I suspect: I work with a number of blind advocates and top-posting makes their lives much, much easier (since

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread James S. Tyre
Joe, how would you see? '-) (I do, unless I'm in front of my ginormous monitor.) -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969 310-839-4114/310-839-4602(fax) jst...@jstyre.com Policy Fellow, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On 4/3/13 10:37 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:33:17AM -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: Top-posting is definitely worse. Don't do it. A very minor point that isn't especially relevant to libtech, I suspect: I work with a number of blind advocates and top-posting

[liberationtech] Why are we here?

2013-04-03 Thread Shava Nerad
Any texts that people see every day becomes invisible. Like footers. It's perceptual psych. Fixing the footer will not help, and fixing humans is arguably outside the scope of this list. Any texts that people see erupt repeatedly (over voting on mailing lists, checking Snopes first, or bike

[liberationtech] Syria Digital Security Monitor

2013-04-03 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
The SecDev Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the Syria Digital Security Monitor. This site maps and visualizes reports of disruption to critical infrastructure in Syria which includes internet, telecommunication, electricity and water, and reports on cyber threats. The project

[liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Katy P
Thanks! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would you like to give some more context on what it is you are trying to do? remote wipe software for windows. On 3 Apr 2013, at 18:08, Katy P wrote: Thanks! -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Katy P
If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I (or someone else) could log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.orgwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:16:08AM -0700, Katy P wrote: If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I (or someone else) could log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive. Or you could use an encrypting filesystem, which requires a password on boot, and

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Katy P
What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief? On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:16:08AM -0700, Katy P wrote: If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I (or someone else)

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Griffin Boyce
Well, http://preyproject.com/ would be better for a layperson who doesn't have the time/interest to encrypt. But it's not impossible to disable or anything. And in the meantime the thief would have access to your data. Depends on whether you are more looking to get it back (no guarantees), or

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Scott Elcomb
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote: What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief? Despite what it says in my signature, I'm no thief. That said, were I to steal laptop, the first action I'd take is to remove the drive before powering it

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Seth David Schoen
Griffin Boyce writes: Well, http://preyproject.com/ would be better for a layperson who doesn't have the time/interest to encrypt. But it's not impossible to disable or anything. And in the meantime the thief would have access to your data. Depends on whether you are more looking to get

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So the objective Kathy has mentioned is to: log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive It would seem the contents of the hard disk is more important than the actual hardware. In that case I would go for the encryption option. Yes

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Doug Chamberlin
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Katy P katyca...@gmail.com wrote: What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief? Remote wipe schemes are easy for dumb thieves to circumvent because they just have to not hook up the stolen hardware to the Internet to avoid them.

[liberationtech] North Korea, the US, war rhetoric, Anonymous

2013-04-03 Thread Mitch Downey
Hi Lib Tech, I think of Yahoo! as kind of our Minitrue, so the frequent war reports between US and North Korea is worrying me...Yahoo! reports that the Anonymous is hacking North Korea. What % of these hackers do you think are usual Anonymous hacktivists? Also, what do people expect to happen to