[liberationtech] Anyone at SOUPS 2013 ?

2013-07-24 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Is there any Lib Tech bods at SOUPS 2013 this year? If so if you want to say hello, let me know on/off-list. Don't forget you're fan and bottle of water! regards, Bernard - -- Bernard / bluboxthief /

Re: [liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

2013-07-24 Thread bou
On 10/07/13 19:09, Marcin de Kaminski wrote: research and overall information about how to regard e-voting from a technical perspective. You should check the edri website. They were very critical of the then existing technologies as not reliable, at least a few years ago. b. --

[liberationtech] Submission reminder - CfP: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour and Virtual Work: Definitions, Forms and Transformations

2013-07-24 Thread Christian Fuchs
CfP: Philosophers of the World Unite! Theorizing Digital Labour and Virtual Work: Definitions, Forms and Transformations Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism Critique ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 31, 2013 CfP: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/announcement/view/14

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting new project for decentralized communication

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Weis
I skimmed a couple files of this project. It does not inspire confidence. In 7 lines of encryption code, they unsafely use ECB, don't authenticate their ciphertext, don't have any comments, don't have any testing, and have a couple WTF lines like XORing parts of the key with itself:

[liberationtech] StoryMaker - opinions

2013-07-24 Thread Bill Best
Hi I understand that some people on this list are involved with StoryMaker which is an open source app that enables existing and aspiring journalists to produce and publish news using their Android phone as safely and securely as possible:

Re: [liberationtech] liberationtech Digest, Vol 165, Issue 1

2013-07-24 Thread L Jean Camp
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:43 PM, liberationtech-requ...@lists.stanford.eduwrote: Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. Our focus must be on those who break the law, Obama said during a May 23 address after those scandals first surfaced. I believe that the

Re: [liberationtech] ENGAGE Open data community

2013-07-24 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/07/13 19:33, Mikael MMN-o Nordfeldth wrote: PSI is Public Sector Information. It's the common term in European politics on the subject of open data within the public sector. Usually it implies that any data a public sector organisation has

Re: [liberationtech] ENGAGE Open data community

2013-07-24 Thread Mikael Nordfeldth
2013-07-24 22:14, Michael Rogers skrev: On 23/07/13 19:33, Mikael MMN-o Nordfeldth wrote: PSI is Public Sector Information. It's the common term in European politics on the subject of open data within the public sector. [...] Oddly enough, it's a quite popular thing within the European

[liberationtech] Join us for a public hack day on Friday, July 26, 2013 in Munich, Germany.

2013-07-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/join-us-tor-hack-day-munich-germany JOIN US - Tor Hack Day, Munich, Germany Posted July 8th, 2013 by kelley in dev meeting hack day Join us for a public hack day on Friday, July 26, 2013 in Munich, Germany. Thank you to our hosts at the Technische Universität

Re: [liberationtech] Join us for a public hack day on Friday, July 26, 2013 in Munich, Germany.

2013-07-24 Thread LilBambi
That is great news. Especially after you read articles like this from May this year: Australian Spies Want To Hack Tor After Realizing It Routes Around Their Surveillance

Re: [liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

2013-07-24 Thread Walid AL-SAQAF
Hi Marcin, This TED Talk might be of value: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_bismark_e_voting_without_fraud.html Sincerely, Walid - Walid Al-Saqaf Founder Administrator alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship https://alkasir.com walid.al-sa...@oru.se PGP:

Re: [liberationtech] Resources on electronic voting

2013-07-24 Thread Patrick Mylund Nielsen
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Marcin de Kaminski mar...@dekaminski.sewrote: Dear all, Sorry to ask such a general question but I need input on the issue of electronic voting. Is there any comprehensive collection of resources or (preferably academic) research already out there? Take a

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting new project for decentralized communication

2013-07-24 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:59:14 -0700, Steve Weis stevew...@gmail.com wrote: I skimmed a couple files of this project. It does not inspire confidence. Hi, I have discussed these issues with the primary developer of Red. In 7 lines of encryption code, they unsafely use ECB, don't authenticate

Re: [liberationtech] StoryMaker - opinions

2013-07-24 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 07/24/2013 01:42 PM, Bill Best wrote: I understand that some people on this list are involved with StoryMaker Yes, we are! I can speak to some aspects of the project, but I hope/expect my colleagues at Small World News and Free Press Unlimited may also have something to add to this

[liberationtech] SecureGmail Chrome extension

2013-07-24 Thread Rebecca MacKinnon
http://blog.kaspersky.com/send-gmails-that-not-even-google-can-read/ Interested in people's opinions of this. Thanks. Rebecca -- Rebecca MacKinnon Author, Consent of the Networked http://consentofthenetworked.com/ Project Lead, Ranking Digital Rights http://rankingdigitalrights.org/

Re: [liberationtech] SecureGmail Chrome extension

2013-07-24 Thread Al Billings
If it is webmail done in browser, you can't trust that it is fully encrypted end to end. Too many ways to subvert it through poor design and bugs, as well as malicious code. -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Rebecca MacKinnon wrote:

Re: [liberationtech] SecureGmail Chrome extension

2013-07-24 Thread Anthony Papillion
On Jul 24, 2013, at 10:03 PM, Rebecca MacKinnon rebecca.mackin...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.kaspersky.com/send-gmails-that-not-even-google-can-read/ Interested in people's opinions of this. Thanks. Rebecca I think it's a good idea but how do you communicate the shared key. That seems

Re: [liberationtech] SecureGmail Chrome extension

2013-07-24 Thread Eric S Johnson
Wouldn't it be better to use asymmetric encryption-e.g. something OpenPGP-based, like Mailvelope? Best, Eric http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2 PGP From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On

Re: [liberationtech] SecureGmail Chrome extension

2013-07-24 Thread Al Billings
No, just use a mail client. There is no need to take the risks of encrypted webmail. Even gmail offers imap or pop3. You can download your mail and decrypt and compose it local, encrypt, and then send. Al -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 8:40 PM,

Re: [liberationtech] SecureGmail Chrome extension

2013-07-24 Thread John Sullivan
Rebecca MacKinnon rebecca.mackin...@gmail.com writes: http://blog.kaspersky.com/send-gmails-that-not-even-google-can-read/ Interested in people's opinions of this. Having to communicate a password for each message for each recipient, out of band, seems way harder even than using GnuPG with

[liberationtech] Stanford Requests SUNet Users Update Passwords

2013-07-24 Thread Yosem Companys
From: IT Services its-annou...@stanford.edu July 24, 2013 Members of the Stanford Community: Stanford is investigating an apparent breach of its information technology infrastructure similar to incidents reported in recent months by a range of companies and large organizations in the United