Re: [liberationtech] The world's most secure password for websites, games and private data.

2017-06-23 Thread lists
Another joke, but it's not a bad suggestion: https://twitter.com/dcuthbert/status/877469739538407424 More on diceware passwords: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diceware -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Shanghai, China -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations

Re: [liberationtech] Should we start a new Stanford liberationtech-news list?

2017-02-19 Thread lists
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 04:36:02PM -0500, Thomas Delrue wrote: On 02/19/2017 04:25 PM, Rick Valenzuela wrote: and maybe the URL for the article linked within the tweet. Please consider santizing this (i.e. remove the redirection that first hits twatter) so that they doesn't see that you click

Re: [liberationtech] Research project on privacy and encryption

2016-04-10 Thread lists
ha! So much for opsec. Should've looked at the CC line. -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Shanghai, China +86 185 0177 0138 r...@rickv.com GnuPG ID: 0xD5644029 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Whistleblower systems in local governments

2016-03-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Hello, at Hermes Center we got a good set of experience in deploying and customizing GlobaLeaks for Public Agencies and AntiCorruption NGOs (even if we're mostly known for uses in media-activism and investigative journalists). Since we've started cooperating with TI's national chapters and other

[liberationtech] Email provider enabling enforced SMTP/TLS for inbound MX-received emails

2016-01-03 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Hi all, does anyone knows of an email provider enabling enforced SMTP/TLS for inbound MX-received emails? Assume that i want my provide to refuse email destinated to me, at inbound Mail Exchanger level, if they are not coming encrypted with SMTP/TLS, with a decent TLS version and with a decent

[liberationtech] Open Call for GlobaLeaks Developers

2015-08-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Are you interested in making the world a better place by putting your development skills to use in a globally used free software project? Do you feel passionate about using web technologies for developing highly usable web applications? Then read on – this may interest you!

Re: [liberationtech] Surveillance in Africa?

2015-02-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 2/19/15 8:23 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Hille Koskela hille.kosk...@utu.fi Has anybody done research on surveillance in Africa (South of Sahara)? You may wish to speak to Opennet Africa (http://opennetafrica.org/) that's working on that kind of issues too. -- Fabio Pietrosanti

[liberationtech] The missing tech between TBB , Whoonix and Tails

2015-01-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
Hi all, today when a user need to have some degree of protection for his network connectivity, for his browser experience, for his data stored and in the end for his endpoint safety integrity (his computer) there are few options: - Tor Browser Bundle (an App) - Tails (an operating system

Re: [liberationtech] The missing tech between TBB , Whoonix and Tails

2015-01-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 1/19/15 10:05 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote: Hello Fabio: Do you know about Qubes OS? http://qubes-os.org/ It might be of interest to you. Regards, Eduardo Robles Elvira @edulix skype: edulix2 http://agoravoting.org @agoravoting +34 634 571 634 Qube-Os it's

Re: [liberationtech] Afrileaks

2015-01-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 1/14/15 11:51 AM, Marcin de Kaminski wrote: Dear all, What do you make of Afrileaks? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/13/wikileaks-for-africa-introducing-afrileaks https://afrileaks.org/ Yo, as part of the Hermes Center (GlobaLeaks) that's the technology partner of AfriLeaks,

[liberationtech] Registration open: Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium - July 16-18 2014 Amsterdam

2014-05-13 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
* Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium -July 16-18, 2014 Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands * The 14th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium

Re: [liberationtech] One third IT managers think can Cloud compute with encrypted data

2014-05-06 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 06/05/14 13:37, Fabian Keil wrote: Caspar Bowden (lists) li...@casparbowden.net wrote: I downloaded Ponemon/Thales new survey of n=4275 IT managers (United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Brazil, and Russia) a couple of days ago by registering here https

[liberationtech] One third IT managers think can Cloud compute with encrypted data

2014-05-04 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
I downloaded Ponemon/Thales new survey of n=4275 IT managers (United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Brazil, and Russia) a couple of days ago by registering here https://t.co/8rI2Z8vy1j, but they appear to have now pulled the report. It is remarkable that one

Re: [liberationtech] One third IT managers think can Cloud compute with encrypted data

2014-05-04 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 04/05/14 17:19, Caspar Bowden (lists) wrote: I downloaded Ponemon/Thales new survey of n=4275 IT managers (United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Brazil, and Russia) a couple of days ago by registering here https://t.co/8rI2Z8vy1j, but they appear to have now

Re: [liberationtech] One third IT managers think can Cloud compute with encrypted data

2014-05-04 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
Nope, not attachment either, should have used *link https://twitter.com/CasparBowden/status/462967989495558144/photo/1/large* in the first place CB -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Cloud Computing: Virtualizing the FreedomBox

2014-04-24 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 24/04/14 19:21, Zooko Wilcox-OHearn wrote: On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Caspar Bowden (lists) li...@casparbowden.net wrote: TAHOE is also cool, but doesn't claim to provide confidentiality. A TAHOE service provider would have no choice but to round-up/backdoor the necessary keys under

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Cloud Computing: Virtualizing the FreedomBox

2014-04-24 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
keys, nor to backdoor our customers. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Caspar Bowden (lists) li...@casparbowden.net wrote: This is semantics. If you provide the service to a customer, you can be forced to backdoor No, this is wrong. I can understand why you say this, because you've looked at dozens

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Cloud Computing: Virtualizing the FreedomBox

2014-04-22 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 17/04/14 20:29, David Solomonoff wrote: This blog post was inspired by a recent breakthrough in homomorphic encryption at MIT: In 2010 I asked Professor Eben Moglen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen to speak to the Internet Society of New York http://isoc-ny.org about software

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Cloud Computing: Virtualizing the FreedomBox

2014-04-22 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 22/04/14 14:05, Tom Ritter wrote: On 22 April 2014 07:47, Caspar Bowden (lists) li...@casparbowden.net wrote: TAHOE is also cool, but doesn't claim to provide confidentiality. A TAHOE service provider would have no choice but to round-up/backdoor the necessary keys under existing US (FISA

[liberationtech] European privacy regulators' excellent paper on Anonymisation Techniques

2014-04-16 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
It's been a remarkable few days for the Committee of European privacy regulators (the Art.29 Working Party) In their first opinion on Data Protection law and national security http://t.co/itKVGpDI1L, they grudgingly sort of admit it is their job to stop NSA spying, but then the next day they

[liberationtech] CORRECTION: European privacy regulators' excellent paper on Anonymisation Techniques

2014-04-16 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
Please disregard previous, main highlighted link got mangled = It's been a remarkable few days for the Committee of European privacy regulators (the Art.29 Working Party) In their first opinion on Data Protection law and national security

[liberationtech] CFP: IFIP Summer School 2014

2014-04-13 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
I recommend this conference (am on PC) - Caspar --- CALL FOR PAPERS Ninth International Summer School organised jointly by the IFIP Working Groups 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6, Special Interest Group 9.2.2 IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management for the Future

[liberationtech] The state of IM clients (Jitsi / Gajim)?

2013-10-01 Thread ml lists
hello Liberation Techers I was wonder what people think is the current state of IM clients, particularly Jitsi and Gajim I know both have had problems is past but today seem to be safer option than libpurple based cients (Pidgin/Adium). Are they still worth using or is there anything better?

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread LISTS
I wonder if there's a false analogy here. Hypothetically, the librarian's sign could fall down (maybe the wind blew it over) whereas a notice on a site would have to be removed via coding. There would be little other explanation, even in the case where one does not affirmatively renew the dead

Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring

2013-09-04 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
Dear Camino On 09/04/13 08:39, camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: It is not out department in charge of blocking Tor users from accessing content hosted under Europa,eu. Conversations with the DG In charge (DG DIGIT) as most of you know, have been long and unfruitful so far. I am on leave

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

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

2013-09-01 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
Many thanks Yosem, Luis Felipe Greg On 08/31/13 07:14, Luis Felipe R. Murillo wrote: On 08/30/2013 01:54 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Caspar Bowden li...@casparbowden.net I realize this is an improbable request (I think), but is anyone aware of any Surveillance Studies research on the

Re: [liberationtech] Defund Domestic Spying

2013-07-23 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
So the spying on the rest-of-the-world's data sent to the US, including information with respect to a foreign-based political organization _or_ foreign territory that _relates_ to the _conduct of the foreign affairs_ of the United States, that's totally fine is it? When the US domestic spying

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Accesses Skype Chats

2013-05-18 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 05/17/13 12:31, Rich Kulawiec wrote: ... And incidentally, the proffered rationale for this doesn't fly, given that (a) they're only sending HEAD: actually scanning destination URLs for malware et.al. would require fetching the whole page and (b) they're only retrieving HTTPS URLs (per Heise)

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-08 Thread LISTS
...@lists.stanford.edu] on behalf of LISTS [li...@robertwgehl.org] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 1:45 PM To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences Or, potentially, university libraries could