Re: [liberationtech] PassLok updated based on feedback from LiberationTech

2013-07-31 Thread Ben Laurie
On 30 July 2013 23:09, Francisco Ruiz r...@iit.edu wrote: 3. Some users are confused by having both symmetric and asymmetric encryption available, so they end up encrypting messages with their private keys, which no one else has. Would it be better to hide or eliminate the symmetric encryption

Re: [liberationtech] [linux-elitists] Evil in certain broadband marketsa isn't really evil

2013-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Don Marti dma...@zgp.org - Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 05:38:11 -0700 From: Don Marti dma...@zgp.org To: linux-eliti...@zgp.org Subject: Re: [linux-elitists] Evil in certain broadband marketsa isn't really evil User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) begin Rick Moen

[liberationtech] [tahoe-dev] press release: LeastAuthority.com announces Spy-Proof Backup

2013-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Zooko Wilcox-OHearn zo...@leastauthority.com - Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:36:52 + From: Zooko Wilcox-OHearn zo...@leastauthority.com To: Tahoe-LAFS development tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org Subject: [tahoe-dev] press release: LeastAuthority.com announces Spy-Proof

Re: [liberationtech] [silk] Pre-emptive counter-revolution

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Dahan
Looking at how technology in Israel used to subjugate Palestinians in the occupied territories has been creeping into Israeli society proper, the situation in the US and UK and the acceptance by more and more people of security measures in the name of national security that restrict or make

Re: [liberationtech] FreedomHack hackathon in DC to build tools for citizen reporters in Mexico

2013-07-31 Thread Kyle Maxwell
Do you have plans for future efforts to include non-DC-located hackers? On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Kirby Plessas ki...@plessas.net wrote: FreedomHack is a hackathon put together by CommunityRED along with Amnesty International and Cont3nt.com with the aim of building digital tools to aid

[liberationtech] XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

2013-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/nsa-top-secret-program-online-data XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' • XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data • NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches • Sweeps up

[liberationtech] New Twitter transparency report

2013-07-31 Thread Kyle Maxwell
Now available at https://blog.twitter.com/2013/working-to-increase-transparency. Interesting quote: An important conversation has begun about the extent to which companies should be allowed to publish information regarding national security requests. We have joined forces with industry peers and

[liberationtech] Again, federal court finds cops don’t need a warrant for cellphone location data

2013-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/again-federal-court-finds-cops-dont-need-a-warrant-for-cellphone-location-data/ Again, federal court finds cops don’t need a warrant for cellphone location data If you want your records anonymized, tell the market or the political process. by Cyrus

[liberationtech] Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance

2013-07-31 Thread Katitza Rodriguez
If your NGO would like to sign, please go to https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/about Huge Global Coalition Stands Against Unchecked Surveillance 100+ Organizations Sign Thirteen Principles to Protect Human Rights San Francisco - More than 100 organizations from across the globe –

[liberationtech] Successful experiment boosting the number of users using OpenPGP verification for file download

2013-07-31 Thread adrelanos
Hi! I hope you are interested in the results of a little experiment. Q: How many users downloaded OpenPGP signatures with the old design of download page? (You can see the design here: [1] [2]) A: 1 in ~30 users. Q: How many users downloaded OpenPGP signatures after adding a colored download

Re: [liberationtech] New Twitter transparency report

2013-07-31 Thread Anthony Papillion
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/31/2013 10:57 AM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: Now available at https://blog.twitter.com/2013/working-to-increase-transparency. Interesting quote: An important conversation has begun about the extent to which companies should be allowed to

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/26/2013 06:18 PM, Steve Weis wrote: DRM technologies have a flip side as privacy-preserving technology. What is the technology that lets me make my data searchable but not copyable? What is the technology that lets Google share my data with a few third parties which I approve but no

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-31 Thread Steve Weis
I think what you're saying was true in the past, but the game is changing with modern hardware. There have been advances in CPU features that make it possible to reduce the trust perimeter to just the CPU and TPM. If I trust those two components, I can privately compute on remote hardware, even if