Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-12 Thread Jon Camfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 05:52 PM, R. Jason Cronk wrote: Anything which potentially signaled your receipt of an NSL would be grounds for prosecution under the gag-order. This is what the prosecutor was alluding to when he signaled that

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-12 Thread Richard Brooks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For large companies, I wonder how resignations would count in this? Could an NSL require, say, the lead cryptographer of an org to /not/ resign? They could easily do the equivalent of an East German Berufsverbot and make it impossible for them

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-12 Thread R. Jason Cronk
I think if they resigned in a publicly protesting way, then possibly they could be on the hook. In other words, if they resigned and said I'm resigning but I *CAN'T* tell you why then that could arguably be a signal. However, if they just resigned and weren't ostentatious about it then it

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-12 Thread Case Black
Although not an unalloyed fan of Ms. Rand, her words of 50 years ago do seem relevant to our current situation --- Instead of being a protector of man’s rights, the government is becoming their most dangerous violator. Instead of protecting men from the initiators of physical force, the

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/12/2013 04:00 PM, Case Black wrote: Although not an unalloyed fan of Ms. Rand, her words of 50 years ago do seem relevant to our current situation --- Instead of being a protector of man’s rights, the government is becoming their most dangerous violator. Instead of protecting men from

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-11 Thread R. Jason Cronk
Anything which potentially signaled your receipt of an NSL would be grounds for prosecution under the gag-order. This is what the prosecutor was alluding to when he signaled that Lavabit's shut down was tantamount to a violation because his shut down essentially communicated the fact that he

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-11 Thread coderman
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:52 PM, R. Jason Cronk r...@privacymaverick.com wrote: Anything which potentially signaled your receipt of an NSL would be grounds for prosecution under the gag-order. This is what the prosecutor was alluding to when he signaled that Lavabit's shut down was tantamount

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-10 Thread A.Cammozzo
On 09/09/2013 11:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 09/09/2013 03:40 PM, Case Black wrote: There's a more subtle variant to this idea... Regularly state (put up a sign) that you HAVE in fact received an NSL...with the public understanding that it must be a lie (there's no law against

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-10 Thread Jon Camfield
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, September 09, 2013 05:09 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 09/09/2013 03:40 PM, Case Black wrote: There's a more subtle variant to this idea... [SNIP] In short I don't think there's a hack for this one, it just requires old fashioned

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-10 Thread Hauke Gierow
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, you could do it in another way: have a sign somwhere and post a webcam to it, which renews the picture every now an then... many things can happen to this offline signs without codings Hauke -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20

[liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Scott Arciszewski
Hello, I saw this article on The Guardian[1] and it mentioned a librarian who posted a sign that looked like this: http://www.librarian.net/pics/antipat4.gif and would remove it if visited by the FBI. So a naive question comes to mind: If I operated an internet service, and I posted a thing that

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 9 Sep 2013, at 17:29, Scott Arciszewski kobrasre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I saw this article on The Guardian[1] and it mentioned a librarian who posted a sign that looked like this: http://www.librarian.net/pics/antipat4.gif and would remove it if visited by the FBI. So a naive

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Dan Staples
Presumably, if this type of approach became widely adopted, it would be a useful service for an independent group to monitor the status of these notices and periodically publish a report of which companies had removed their notice. On 09/09/2013 12:52 PM, Scott Arciszewski wrote: Forgot the URL:

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] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Scott Arciszewski
Forgot the URL: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/09/nsa-sabotage-dead-mans-switch On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Scott Arciszewski kobrasre...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I saw this article on The Guardian[1] and it mentioned a librarian who posted a sign that looked like this:

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Ben Doernberg
That is genius. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Case Black casebl...@gmail.com wrote: There's a more subtle variant to this idea... Regularly state (put up a sign) that you HAVE in fact received an NSL...with the public understanding that it must be a lie (there's no law against falsely

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Shava Nerad
You are awesome,clever, and full of tricks. :) Should I credit you with this? yrs, On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Case Black casebl...@gmail.com wrote: There's a more subtle variant to this idea... Regularly state (put up a sign) that you HAVE in fact received an NSL...with the public

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Petter Ericson
That, and civil disobedience á la Lavabit. /P On 09 September, 2013 - Matt Johnson wrote: All of the sneaky signs, email headers and web page badges assume the FBI, or whoever the adversary is are incompetent or inept. That does not see like a safe assumption to me. The only prudent

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Case Black
I absolutely agree with your point...cleverness alone doesn't go very far against ruthless adversaries. To paraphrase a prior post that's quite relevant to this discussion: ...the members of this list are uniquely qualified to influence that policy debate in terms of shaping both hard and soft

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Matt Johnson
All of the sneaky signs, email headers and web page badges assume the FBI, or whoever the adversary is are incompetent or inept. That does not see like a safe assumption to me. The only prudent approach is to assume your adversary is intelligent and competent. My guess is that the only defense

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/09/2013 03:40 PM, Case Black wrote: There's a more subtle variant to this idea... Regularly state (put up a sign) that you HAVE in fact received an NSL...with the public understanding that it must be a lie (there's no law against falsely making such a claim...yet!). When actually

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Shava Nerad
Oh yes, but it's funny as hell. There's something to be said for that in times like this. Mouse, meet owl. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Case Black casebl...@gmail.com wrote: I absolutely agree with your point...cleverness alone doesn't go very far against ruthless adversaries. To

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Case Black
There's a more subtle variant to this idea... Regularly state (put up a sign) that you HAVE in fact received an NSL...with the public understanding that it must be a lie (there's no law against falsely making such a claim...yet!). When actually served with an NSL, you would now be bound by law