Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Woodcock
Ah, yes, those expensive man-hours. Security is so much easier when you don't give it time and attention. It also doesn't work. -Bill On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:09, anonymous2...@nym.hush.com anonymous2...@nym.hush.com wrote: I knew this was coming at some point. Yes I

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread anonymous2013
Can we please get back to the issue at hand On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:16:03 + Bill Woodcock wo...@pch.net wrote: Ah, yes, those expensive man-hours. Security is so much easier when you don't give it time and attention. It also doesn't work. -Bill On Feb 28, 2013,

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

2013-02-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 02:19:11PM +0100, Ruben Bloemgarten wrote: It seems I might have jumped the gun, assuming the discussion was about voting systems for use in political elections. Disclosing all voter data, including voter identity would solve much if not all issues regarding

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Bill Woodcock
Sorry, thought you'd asked for advice about the best possible way to do it. Didn't realize you meant best possible with no time or attention. But, wait, that's not quite it either, is it? You meant that you don't want to invest _your_ time and attention, but you think people on the list can

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread anonymous2013
Frankly your whats wrong with a small minority of the people on LibTech. NGO's have to balance cost, security, people, user needs, current infrastructure, software/hardware donation programs, man hours etc etc...Every idiot knows Linux is more secure in many ways than Windows yet sometimes

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for?a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:08:54PM +, anonymous2...@nym.hush.com wrote: I knew this was coming at some point. Yes I am starting with Windows, it's more functional (awaits incoming) and costs less in terms of expensive man hours (the hidden cost vs software) for an Linux guru to run

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Tom Ritter
On 28 February 2013 07:39, anonymous2...@nym.hush.com wrote: Hi, We are a human rights NGO that is looking to invest in the best possible level of network security (protection from high-level cyber-security threats, changing circumvention/proxy to protect IP address etc, encryption on

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread cantona7
Thanks excellent advice - much to think about. On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:09:39 + Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote: On 28 February 2013 07:39, anonymous2...@nym.hush.com wrote: Hi, We are a human rights NGO that is looking to invest in the best possible level of network security (protection

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for?a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:43:38PM +, anonymous2...@nym.hush.com wrote: Every idiot knows Linux is more secure in many ways than Windows yet sometimes other factors come into play that require the use of MS. No. MS is never required. I've heard that contention for decades and it's

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Andreas Bader
drone_guinness1 borgnet: ...end users using Linux :-D (good one) so you say that android users aren't end users? -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread SiNA Rabbani
Speaking of GUNE/Linux operating systems, I am personally a big fan of LiveCDs such as Tails (https://tails.boum.org/), where you don't need to install any software on a computer and loose all data (almost all data) on a reboot. Journalists, activists in high risk countries can have multiple

Re: [liberationtech] The Myopia of excluding censors: The tale of a self-defeating petition - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

2013-02-28 Thread kseel28440
I want to be dropped from subscription but have forgotten my password. Please advise. -Original Message- From: x z xhzh...@gmail.com To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 2:17 pm Subject: Re: [liberationtech] The Myopia of excluding censors: The

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread anonymous2013
Thanks, yes I also have seen young and old people use linux but I've also seen hundreds of people trained to use it and as soonas they have to update a package in Linux, get confused and reach for a windows machine. The NGO in a box stuff is ok but not what I am asking about at all, I'm

Re: [liberationtech] Is cryptography becoming less important?

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Brooks
So organizations get compromised by well-meaning users who click on a link in an email or slip up and use an insecure connection, and while we can ameloriate that to a certain extent with code, we really need to think more about how to make it easier for users to make the right choices versus

[liberationtech] How Copyright Works at Stanford

2013-02-28 Thread Yosem Companys
May be of interest. Document was recently updated. See: http://stanford.edu/group/univ-librarian/2013_Copyright_Reminder.pdf -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at

Re: [liberationtech] Is cryptography becoming less important?

2013-02-28 Thread Kyle Maxwell
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Richard Brooks r...@acm.org wrote: So organizations get compromised by well-meaning users who click on a link in an email or slip up and use an insecure connection, and while we can ameloriate that to a certain extent with code, we really need to think more

[liberationtech] Additional References on Hacking as Activism, for Social Change, for Empowerment

2013-02-28 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Kishonna Gray klg...@asu.edu Hello all! I am looking for additional references similar to Gabriella's work here (awesome book btw). A student is looking for information on hacking as activism, hacking for social change, hacking for empowerment, etc. Any and all citations are welcome!

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Allan
Ruben and Rich, Ruben Bloemgarten said: It seems I might have jumped the gun, assuming the discussion was about voting systems for use in political elections. Disclosing all voter data, including voter identity would solve much if not all issues regarding verifiability, however would that not

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Andreas Bader
anonymous2...@nym.hush.com: Thanks, yes I also have seen young and old people use linux but I've also seen hundreds of people trained to use it and as soonas they have to update a package in Linux, get confused and reach for a windows machine. The NGO in a box stuff is ok but not what I am