Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/12/12 23:25, Eric S Johnson wrote: Secure deletion is a problem we could solve in software, by encrypting the data and then destroying the key to render the data unrecoverable, *if* we had a few bytes of persistent, erasable storage in which

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-19 Thread Nick M. Daly
fr...@journalistsecurity.net writes: If anyone here has any thoughts about the tools recommended in this Forbes piece, please speak up. The piece gets specific with recommendations form Ashkan Soltani, a technologist who I do not think is on this list, about half way down. Again, any thoughts

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-18 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:28:31PM -0800, Brian Conley wrote: Its SSD so its still not a secure wipe, no? Indeed. From 'Securely Destroying Data' chapter in The CryptoParty Handbook v1.1: //- An important note on

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-18 Thread liberationtech
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 03:28:31PM -0800, bri...@smallworldnews.tv wrote 2.9K bytes in 0 lines about: : Its SSD so its still not a secure wipe, no? Only use fully encrypted disks/filesystems with SSD. Otherwise, assume your data is saved for posterity and forensic recovery on an SSD. This is

[liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread frank
If anyone here has any thoughts about the tools recommended in this Forbes piece, please speak up. The piece gets specific with recommendations form Ashkan Soltani, a technologist who I do not think is on this list, about half way down. Again, any thoughts would be welcome. Thank you! Frank

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread Nathan of Guardian
For photos, think about turning off geotagging on your phone or digital camera so that the information doesn’t get included in the first place. You’ll usually do that in your phone’s “Location Settings.” Instructions here While disabling geo-tagging in your camera app is a great first step,

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Conley
+1 to danny and nathan. I'd also like to note a small detail the author missed. Robert King, the photographer who took the McAfee pic, is the same photographer who was recently in Syria for vice. Let's hope he didn't make the same mistake there. Brian On Dec 17, 2012 9:14 PM, Danny O'Brien

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread frank
of this information is strictly prohibited. Original Message Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists From: Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org Date: Mon, December 17, 2012 4:42 pm To: Danny O'Brien dobr...@cpj.org, liberationtech liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread frank
And my bad for sending that HTML instead of text. Original Message Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists From: fr...@journalistsecurity.net Date: Mon, December 17, 2012 6:06 pm To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu, Danny

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread Brian Conley
Its SSD so its still not a secure wipe, no? On Dec 18, 2012 12:26 AM, Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.org wrote: Secure deletion is a problem we could solve in software, by encrypting the data and then destroying the key to render the data unrecoverable, *if* we had a few bytes of

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread frank
common within this group. But I do think we would serve a great many more people if we had more constructive conversations. Isn't that what this list is for? Original Message Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists From: Steve Weis stevew...@gmail.com

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/12/12 23:25, Eric S Johnson wrote: I'm not aware of any suitable storage on current smartphones or personal computers Isn't this exactly how the iOS (v4+) can be remotely wiped in a couple seconds? Everything's encrypted, so deleting the