Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-16 Thread Brian Conley
back in the p2p fad days, So before wide adoption of mobile. What does that have to do with it? There are way more average users on the internet now, and they want different things than you and many geeks want. I can already run a Tor hidden service on a laptop and get connectivity

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-16 Thread Brian Conley
On Sep 15, 2013 8:19 PM, Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org wrote: On 14/09/13 11:03, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: The user have only those two platform, a browser and a mobile phone with downloadable apps. Everything else requiring to install an application over a desktop computer

Re: [liberationtech] Massive passive wiretapper: How to technically troll them?

2013-09-16 Thread Claudio
Run a Tor exit node? ;) On 09/14/2013 05:35 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Hi, i was wondering how it could be possible to bring some kind of denial of service to impact the functionalities and/or reduce the performance of the systems users by massive passive wiretapper listening on

[liberationtech] How to hide hostname from DHCP?

2013-09-16 Thread Jerzy Ɓogiewa
Hello! When my computers (OS X 10.7 + 10.8) connect to DHCP server, it send mac address and hostname. I have solved tracking for mac address by randomizing mac at startup, but hostname is always sent. i know DHCP does not make hostname sending a required, so how to stop it? Randomize hostname

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/09/13 07:59, Brian Conley wrote: On Sep 15, 2013 8:19 PM, Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org mailto:mich...@briarproject.org wrote: On 14/09/13 11:03, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: The user have only those two platform, a browser

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-16 Thread Brian Conley
If Fabio isn't talking about privacy and security I must have misunderstood his entire post. Unless I misunderstood, Fabio wasn't claiming that desktop apps are a failure from a privacy or security perspective, but that users won't install them, therefore we must focus on browsers and

[liberationtech] China broadcasts blogger confession

2013-09-16 Thread Richard Brooks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/china-broadcasts-confession-of-chinese-american-blogger/2013/09/15/3f2d82da-1e1a-11e3-8459-657e0c72fec8_story.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?

2013-09-16 Thread Joe Szilagyi
I assume that was directed toward me name dropping Dropbox. It wasn't; I thought they hyped at one point their encryption and not accessing your files. I guess I was mistaken. This is what Wikipedia says: It also uses SSL transfers for synchronization and stores the data via AES-256

[liberationtech] Fwd: Join our Online Conversation on Media Tactics for Social Change!

2013-09-16 Thread Steven Clift
-- Forwarded message -- From: Kristin Antin, New Tactics Online Community Builder kan...@cvt.org Date: Sep 16, 2013 1:00 AM Subject: Join our Online Conversation on Media Tactics for Social Change! To: t...@e-democracy.org Cc: ** Learn about our current and upcoming

Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 08:47:09AM -0700, Joe Szilagyi wrote: I thought they hyped at one point their encryption and not accessing your files. I guess I was mistaken. They used to claim that dropbox cannot access your files, but after Chris Soghoian and others pointed out that this was not

[liberationtech] Pakistan's YouTube Banniversary

2013-09-16 Thread Sana Saleem
Hi Libtech, Thought some of you may be interested in reading my colleague Farieha Aziz's feature covering the now year long YouTube ban in Pakistan the larger issues of Internet censorship in Pakistan. http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2013/09/to-block-or-not-to-block/ Farieha is an Amicus

Re: [liberationtech] New PewInternet.org report on mobile Internet users

2013-09-16 Thread Steven Clift
Oops: https://bitly.com/pewcellnetuse Not the stats page: https://bitly.com/pewcellnetuse+ Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/democracy Tel/Text: +1.612.234.7072 On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Steven Clift

[liberationtech] New PewInternet.org report on mobile Internet users

2013-09-16 Thread Steven Clift
Important implications for civic tech/open gov: https://bitly.com/pewcellnetuse+ It is notable that 60% of Latinos, 43% of blacks who *use phone to go online* mostly go online that way, while whites mobile net users only come in at 27% (meaning they have more devices/ways to access ... like the

[liberationtech] Current state of RSA/Public Key javascript implementations

2013-09-16 Thread Charles Paul
Hello, Hope everyone is doing great. I was wondering if anyone on this list is aware of the current state of different javascript implementations of RSA or other asymmetric ciphers, and are willing to share a report. Of primary interest are free-software patent unencumbered implementations

[liberationtech] Surveillance readings for instructional purposes...

2013-09-16 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Burcu Bakioglu bbaki...@gmail.com Because some of you asked, I compiled the readings on surveillance that were sent me on a Google doc, editable/sharable and everything. You should have been notified, but the link is here too:

[liberationtech] Socially-Responsible Geeks

2013-09-16 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Uday Dandavate u...@sonicrim.com I just returned home from conducting a three week long study of the future of the internet. My client, Mozilla Fire Fox, a leading open source internet search engine is a non-profit agency. Which means unlike other big players in the digital industry

Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 172, Issue 4

2013-09-16 Thread John Ohno
Yep, I'm aware of those baseband attacks. To carry them out you need access to a Node-B (telecoms equipment mobile phones connect to), real or simulated, and advertise to the device to attach to it. Travis Goodspeed's packet-in-packet attack could probably handle this, and doesn't require a

Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?

2013-09-16 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:47:48PM -0500, Jon Lebkowsky wrote: I followed your links, which said that someone filed a complaint with the FTC. Nothing about the FTC suing Dropbox. Got a link for that? Indeed, seems I was mistaken about how far the issue went. (And I don't understand the

[liberationtech] TOGETHER: A #CoPresence4Good Camp, 9/28, Institute for the Future, Palo Alto

2013-09-16 Thread Sam Gregory
Hi all,, Sharing this for those in the Bay Area. Please come! 'TOGETHER: A co-presence for good' camphttps://copresence4good.eventbrite.com/ ' is taking place at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto on 9/28. It's part of the 'Future for Good' program at the Institute. *Goal*: Bring

[liberationtech] Various ICT4D Jobs

2013-09-16 Thread Yosem Companys
KoBoCAT (KoBo coordinated assessment toolkit) is a partnership between the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and the United Nations to develop technologically based tools for data collection and analysis in emergencies. They are looking for more programmers to join their team. Please contact Phuong

Re: [liberationtech] Current state of RSA/Public Key javascript implementations

2013-09-16 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09/16/2013 07:45 PM, Charles Paul wrote: Hello, Hope everyone is doing great. I was wondering if anyone on this list is aware of the current state of different javascript implementations of RSA or other asymmetric ciphers, and are willing to share a report. Of primary interest are

Re: [liberationtech] Current state of RSA/Public Key javascript implementations

2013-09-16 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/16/2013 09:51 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 09/16/2013 07:45 PM, Charles Paul wrote: Hello, Hope everyone is doing great. I was wondering if anyone on this list is aware of the current state of different javascript implementations of RSA or