Re: [liberationtech] Sociological studies of covert mass-surveillance organisations

2013-09-02 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 09/01/13 21:49, Michael Rogers wrote: On 01/09/13 10:00, Caspar Bowden (lists) wrote: AFAIK Deleuze, Foucault et al. did not say anything specifically about covert (mass-)surveillance, or analyse how the inherently secret nature of such organizations might be a causal element in theories of

Re: [liberationtech] Sociological studies of covert mass-surveillance organisations

2013-09-02 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 09/01/13 22:21, Guido Witmond wrote: ... Before the revelations and the subsequent confirmations, many people would rather believe the old truth (having nothing to hide) than to live with the new truth that they've been misled. Truth hurts. That's the reason why so many people claim they

Re: [liberationtech] Sociological studies of covert mass-surveillance organisations

2013-09-02 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 09/02/13 08:46, Caspar Bowden (lists) wrote: On 09/01/13 21:49, Michael Rogers wrote: ... Wasn't the NSA closer to the panoptic ideal when it was No Such Agency than now, when we know we're being watched? Yes, absolutely, but I don't think NSA wanted that, although a grimly conspiratorial

Re: [liberationtech] Sociological studies of covert mass-surveillance organisations

2013-09-02 Thread Asa Rossoff
Caspar Bowden (lists) wrote: On 09/01/13 21:49, Michael Rogers wrote: ... Is there anyone who's aware of overt surveillance and who doesn't at least suspect that some form of covert surveillance also exists? And isn't that suspicion enough to create a panoptic effect? to some *unconscious*

[liberationtech] Research on communication in ad hoc groups?

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Does anyone on the list know of any research into the way people communicate in ad hoc groups? By an ad hoc group I mean a group formed for the duration of a particular communication, such as the list of people CCed in an email thread, as

[liberationtech] WaPo releases details on US offensive cyber-ops

2013-09-02 Thread Gregory Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Washington Post (Aug 30) - U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011, documents show by @BartonGellman @nakashimae:

Re: [liberationtech] Research on communication in ad hoc groups?

2013-09-02 Thread Yosem Companys
Computer-mediated communication literature has been studying this since the 1980s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-mediated_communication The field has its own journal: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10./(ISSN)1083-6101 Sociological approaches have studied how the choice to

[liberationtech] Postdocs in Spain

2013-09-02 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Gemma Galdon Clavell gemma.gal...@gmail.com The Catalan Government is offering 60 2-year postdoctoral grants for people who compelted their PhD between 01/01/2007 and 31/12/2011. Gross yearly salary of 42,500 euros. I am more than willing to welcome surveillance scholars at my department

Re: [liberationtech] WaPo releases details on US offensive cyber-ops

2013-09-02 Thread coderman
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Gregory Foster gfos...@entersection.org wrote: ... The NSA designs most of its own implants, but it devoted $25.1 million this year to “additional covert purchases of software vulnerabilities” from private malware vendors, a growing gray-market industry based

Re: [liberationtech] WaPo releases details on US offensive cyber-ops

2013-09-02 Thread Jason Gulledge
On Sep 2, 2013, at 11:13 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Gregory Foster gfos...@entersection.org wrote: ... The NSA designs most of its own implants, but it devoted $25.1 million this year to “additional covert purchases of software vulnerabilities”

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-02 Thread Paul Elliott
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:44:41PM -0400, Shava Nerad wrote: Wouldn't there be a licensing issue? It's a hard argument that he has no right to the commercial exploitation of his likeness on the basis of being a fugitive whistleblower, and I doubt anyone is authorized as an agent to grant

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-02 Thread Shava Nerad
No one elected him and he may have volunteered for the spotlight but not in the same way that some one does when they campaign for office. Even movie stars have a right to their visages. Where you could say that a sign We are all Snowden is political speech, citizen Snowden also has rights to

[liberationtech] Forcing VPN on Mac OS X

2013-09-02 Thread Mitar
Hi! Is there some software which would prevent any outgoing networking on Mac OS X until a VPN to a trusted server is established? So on the system level? I am wary that between me connecting to an untrusted WiFi and establishing a VPN tunnel, there is some window where probably all possible

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-02 Thread Travis McCrea
I actually disagree... his ownership of his likeness is minimal. He is a public figure and as such anyone who wanted to make a mask would be pretty free to do so. I am not saying someone should go out and do it, and if you do and get sued don't come after me... but if I had the resources available

Re: [liberationtech] Forcing VPN on Mac OS X

2013-09-02 Thread Percy Alpha
I thought OpenVPN will automatically stop traffic if VPN drops. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or

Re: [liberationtech] Forcing VPN on Mac OS X

2013-09-02 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
Warning - ~I~ haven't tried this but if I was going to suggest something to try to one of my regular end-users (someone w/o their own sysadmin skillset) I'd start by trying to combine one of the following: Hands Off - http://www.metakine.com/products/handsoff/ Little Snitch -

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-02 Thread Tom O
Unless he's trademarked his likeness, it's doubtful he'd have any recourse. And if he did, what chance does he have to defend it in Russia? Slim to none On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, Travis McCrea wrote: I actually disagree... his ownership of his likeness is minimal. He is a public figure

Re: [liberationtech] Postdocs in Spain

2013-09-02 Thread Tom O
In light of this http://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2013/aug/28/science-policy That's a hard sell... On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Gemma Galdon Clavell gemma.gal...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'gemma.gal...@gmail.com'); The Catalan