Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-08-08, at 11:53 PM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: It is profoundly encouraging to see that people of such courage and integrity as the Lavabit staff exist, and are willing to put everything on the line to stand up against this madness. +1. For what it's worth, and even

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: For what it's worth, and even though I think it's pretty unlikely that Cryptocat will receive such an order, *snip* You're right but that should provide little comfort - when they come after the non-business platform libtech

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-08-09, at 11:31 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: For what it's worth, and even though I think it's pretty unlikely that Cryptocat will receive such an order, *snip* You're right but that should

Re: [liberationtech] FW: Lavabit down ...

2013-08-09 Thread Moon Jones
I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. Ladar Levison Thank you Ladar for your statement, your gesture and your excellent service in the past years.

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Julien Rabier
Le 09 août - 11:48, Nadim Kobeissi a écrit : On 2013-08-09, at 11:31 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: For what it's worth, and even though I think it's pretty unlikely that Cryptocat will receive such

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-08-09, at 11:59 AM, Julien Rabier tazi...@flexiden.org wrote: Le 09 août - 11:48, Nadim Kobeissi a écrit : On 2013-08-09, at 11:31 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: For what it's worth, and even

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Jason Gulledge
Also, weren't NSLs ruled unconstitutional recently? NK I don't remember that, but I do remember hearing the FISC ruled some of the NSA's activities unconstitutional….in 2011. http://www.ibtimes.com/fisc-will-not-object-release-2011-court-opinion-confirmed-nsas-illegal-surveillance-1305023

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Jillian C. York
I think Nadim is referring to this: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/national-security-letters-are-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: On 2013-08-09, at 11:59 AM, Julien Rabier tazi...@flexiden.org wrote: Le 09 août

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Nick
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:26:21AM +0300, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: On 2013-08-08, at 11:53 PM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: It is profoundly encouraging to see that people of such courage and integrity as the Lavabit staff exist, and are willing to put everything on the line to

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-08-09, at 1:24 PM, Nick liberationt...@njw.me.uk wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 11:26:21AM +0300, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: On 2013-08-08, at 11:53 PM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: It is profoundly encouraging to see that people of such courage and integrity as the Lavabit

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
On 2013-08-09, at 1:55 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: Il 8/9/13 10:59 AM, Julien Rabier ha scritto: Le 09 août - 11:48, Nadim Kobeissi a écrit : On 2013-08-09, at 11:31 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:26 AM, Nadim

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On Fri Aug 9 06:55:12 2013, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: This is because with OpenFire + Chrome you can also do end-to-end encrypted WebRTC Audio/Video call. Firefox nightlies, as far as I'm aware, also provide WebRTC capability these days (based on DTLS-SRTP... they voted down at last

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 8/9/13 3:29 PM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall ha scritto: On Fri Aug 9 06:55:12 2013, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: This is because with OpenFire + Chrome you can also do end-to-end encrypted WebRTC Audio/Video call. Firefox nightlies, as far as I'm aware, also provide WebRTC capability these

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On Fri Aug 9 09:42:49 2013, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: To be true, i invested 4 weeks of trolling on IETF WebRTC mailing list sustaining the need to support also SDES in order to provide interoperability with existing VoIP world from day 1. ::) I think I'm solidly with EKR on this...

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: If someone want to make this recipie working, i think that the world would appreciate with an easy to be setup, independently run, audio, video, file transfer, chat infrastructure accessible with a web browser . Welp, there goes my weekend. Dangit, naif! ;-)

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09.08.2013 13:15, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Yup, Cryptocat has had build assurance for quite some time. Sorry, not possible to backdoor without people noticing is still a valid line of defence and has been one for a while. You should think about splitting Cryptocat software development and

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Frederic Jacobs
Thankfully Cryptocat can be used with a custom server. They can shut down a server but they can't prevent new servers being configured. Hence the importance of decentralized open-source software. On Aug 9, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: On 2013-08-09, at 11:31 AM,

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Nicholas Merrill
On 8/9/13 5:34 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Also, weren't NSLs ruled unconstitutional recently? NK Yes. However... NSLs have been ruled unconstitutional several times beginning in 2004 [1] with my case ( Doe v. Ashcroft / Doe v. Gonzalez / Doe v. Mukasey / Doe v. Holder ) and then again in 2007

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Brian Conley
Griffin, make it so!! On Aug 9, 2013 7:31 AM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: If someone want to make this recipie working, i think that the world would appreciate with an easy to be setup, independently run, audio, video, file transfer, chat

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Petter Ericson
On 09 August, 2013 - Moritz Bartl wrote: On 09.08.2013 13:15, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Yup, Cryptocat has had build assurance for quite some time. Sorry, not possible to backdoor without people noticing is still a valid line of defence and has been one for a while. You should think about

[liberationtech] Bill Gates on Project Loon vs malaria

2013-08-09 Thread Kyle Maxwell
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/09/bill-gates-google-project-loon === Bill Gates criticises Google's Project Loon initiative Former Microsoft chief says low-income countries need more than just internet access === Google's Project Loon initiative wants to provide internet

[liberationtech] Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down

2013-08-09 Thread frank
This suggests that we need a firm based perhaps in Iceland to offer encryption services to have any chance of being secure. The story also notes that US agencies are allowed to keep any encrypted messages they intercept indefinitely.

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread Reed Black
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: On 2013-08-08, at 11:53 PM, Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org wrote: It is profoundly encouraging to see that people of such courage and integrity as the Lavabit staff exist, and are willing to put everything on the line

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-09 Thread adrelanos
Moritz Bartl: On 09.08.2013 13:15, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Yup, Cryptocat has had build assurance for quite some time. Sorry, not possible to backdoor without people noticing is still a valid line of defence and has been one for a while. You should think about splitting Cryptocat software

Re: [liberationtech] Bill Gates on Project Loon vs malaria

2013-08-09 Thread Richard Brooks
On 08/09/2013 12:25 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/09/bill-gates-google-project-loon === Bill Gates criticises Google's Project Loon initiative Former Microsoft chief says low-income countries need more than just internet access === On the one

Re: [liberationtech] going back to Nadim's original question

2013-08-09 Thread adrelanos
Nadim Kobeissi: Jacob has a problem. For years, I have been abused in private and in public by Jacob regarding my work on Cryptocat, in ways that are so underhanded that if I described them on this list, you would not even believe me. He does this to *many projects*. You obviously have no

Re: [liberationtech] going back to Nadim's original question

2013-08-09 Thread Al Billings
Really? This is what this list is for? I thought we were moderated now to end this sort of BS thread? -- Al Billings http://makehacklearn.org On Friday, August 9, 2013 at 10:22 AM, adrelanos wrote: Nadim Kobeissi: Jacob has a problem. For years, I have been abused in private and in

Re: [liberationtech] Bill Gates on Project Loon vs malaria

2013-08-09 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Those comments by Bill Gates are no more than blows below the belt. Despicable. He should complain about spending on erectile dysfunction (and so many other rich people ailments) research vs. eradication of malaria, not Internet access, which also is a human right! Best Regards | Cordiales

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Thanks for volunteering to help me test the service ;3 Brian Conley wrote: Griffin, make it so!! On Aug 9, 2013 7:31 AM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com mailto:griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: If someone want to make this recipie working, i think

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down

2013-08-09 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09.08.2013 18:34, fr...@journalistsecurity.net wrote: This suggests that we need a firm based perhaps in Iceland to offer encryption services to have any chance of being secure. Please, I don't want to read this myth at least on libtech any more. Repeat after me: Iceland is *not* a data

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Brian Conley
of course!!! Ready and waiting captain! On Aug 9, 2013 10:37 AM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for volunteering to help me test the service ;3 Brian Conley wrote: Griffin, make it so!! On Aug 9, 2013 7:31 AM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com

[liberationtech] Revised Liberationtech List Guidelines

2013-08-09 Thread Yosem Companys
A few days ago, we sent a call for suggestions on how to improve the management of the Liberationtech list to prevent further flaming. Thanks to all those of you who submitted your suggestions. After reviewing these, we found that they generally called for the same thing: List subscribers want

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Hans of Guardian
I think there would be some value to a system like that. It would address a lot of real world threats but it will not address large scale government monitoring systems, which many governments have (US, China, UK, Iran, etc). Sounds like you should team up with Tim Prepscius with his system

[liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
This probably sounds very strange, but *what if* someone ran an email service that required that all mails be GPG encrypted? So here's my idea: Barring the honor system, it would require a filter to look at message content to check for PGP headers. And if said headers didn't exist, the

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Crypto
On 8/9/2013 1:07 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: This probably sounds very strange, but *what if* someone ran an email service that required that all mails be GPG encrypted? So here's my idea: Barring the honor system, it would require a filter to look at message content to check for PGP

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Moritz Bartl
Hi, On 09.08.2013 20:07, Griffin Boyce wrote: So here's my idea: Barring the honor system, it would require a filter to look at message content to check for PGP headers. And if said headers didn't exist, the message doesn't get sent.[1] I wrote a milter for sendmail/postfix to reject

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Eduardo Robles Elvira
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: I wrote a milter for sendmail/postfix to reject non-PGP mail that scans the first lines of incoming mail: https://github.com/moba/pgpmilter My idea of a mail provider: The MX records of domains contain a list of

[liberationtech] Fwd: An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Eduardo Robles Elvira
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: I wrote a milter for sendmail/postfix to reject non-PGP mail that scans the first lines of incoming mail: https://github.com/moba/pgpmilter My idea of a mail provider: The MX records of domains contain a list of

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down

2013-08-09 Thread Richard Graves
Has anyone taken a run at would it take to have a independent, space based data haven? -Richard --- Richard Graves t: 202-372-6756 t: @RichardGraves On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: On 09.08.2013 18:34, fr...@journalistsecurity.net wrote: This

[liberationtech] Drones for much networking

2013-08-09 Thread Shava Nerad
Swords into plowshares, anyone? ;) http://www.norwich.edu/about/news/2013/080913-wifiDrone.html SN -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Persistent violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down

2013-08-09 Thread Blibbet
Has anyone taken a run at would it take to have a independent, space based data haven? The Constellation project might be a place to start looking. https://lists.shackspace.de/mailman/listinfo/constellation http://aerospaceresearch.net/constellation/aboutconstellation.php -- Liberationtech is

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Griffin Boyce
Randolph D. wrote: use bitmail No. Moritz Bartl wrote: I wrote a milter for sendmail/postfix to reject non-PGP mail that scans the first lines of incoming mail: https://github.com/moba/pgpmilter Ooooh. Forked. My idea of a mail provider: The MX records of domains contain a list of different

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Tim Prepscius
If you'd like to help me that would be cool.. My take on this is this: (these are are not all my ideas, can't take full credit) We want to get to a state where an e-mail server is easy to set up. And runs with *non governmental* issued ssl certificates. Where it provides web-mail (think

Re: [liberationtech] My design to implement PGP in commercial email system

2013-08-09 Thread Percy Alpha
In the light of Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down, someone needs to invent a end to end encrypted email soon -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Persistent violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Richard
On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 02:07:25PM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: This probably sounds very strange, but *what if* someone ran an email service that required that all mails be GPG encrypted? I did long wish for a system that would send every non-GPG message to the spamfolder. Richard --- Name

Re: [liberationtech] My design to implement PGP in commercial email system

2013-08-09 Thread Andrew Lewis
We have it already. People for some reason don't want to use it. Part of its usability, part of it is laziness. But it can be done. On Aug 10, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Percy Alpha percyal...@gmail.com wrote: In the light of Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down, someone needs to invent a end to

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread David Holl
ooh, I love this discussion. I'll drop in my quick points, and would love to hear other perspectives. 2 points: 1) Is there a milter that could be plugged into existing SMTP servers (sendmail, postfix, ...) that could require OpenPGP encapsulation, and immediately reject messages back to

Re: [liberationtech] My design to implement PGP in commercial email system

2013-08-09 Thread Kyle Maxwell
OK, so let's say someone needs to invent a USABLE end to end encrypted email soon. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Andrew Lewis m...@andrewlew.is wrote: We have it already. People for some reason don't want to use it. Part of its usability, part of it is laziness. But it can be done. On Aug

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Seth David Schoen
Tim Prepscius writes: We want to get to a state where an e-mail server is easy to set up. And runs with *non governmental* issued ssl certificates. I think this might reflect a misperception of the threat model around misissuance of certificates. If you think governments are likely to use

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09.08.2013 21:54, Griffin Boyce wrote: It can definitely be done. At the risk of getting in over my head cost-wise, this is something I can pay for myself. If you can, fun. :-) First, this needs a proper design. Then, one needs to develop the required pieces of software in a way that it is

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Tim Prepscius
I'd like to respond to this just a bit. 1. requiring PGP without giving a user centric means of using PGP doesn't actually solve anything. It's like telling an adult they have to eat stinky tofu. If they love stinky tofu then fine, but if they don't, there is no way it's going to happen. I

[liberationtech] CFP: Queer the Noise in Lateral3

2013-08-09 Thread Megan Turner
Call for Papers, Projects, and Critical Media: Queer the Noise in Lateral Co-Editors: Megan Turner University of California, San Diego Christina Nadler CUNY Graduate Center Guest Contributors: Jayna Brown and Jack Halberstam Whether it's the pulsating beat of an Adam Lambert track clearly

[liberationtech] arkOS - Making self-hosting your data easy(er)

2013-08-09 Thread Jacob Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello libtech, I've been lurking for awhile and would like to take a moment to introduce you to the open-source project I have been working on for some time now. I'm working on arkOS (https://arkos.io), which some of you may have heard of. It is

Re: [liberationtech] Drones for much networking

2013-08-09 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:36:19PM -0400, Shava Nerad wrote: Swords into plowshares, anyone? ;) http://www.norwich.edu/about/news/2013/080913-wifiDrone.html Several people have done this and IMO the outcome is equally ridiculous. I prefer my AP to have more than 30 minutes uptime. I also

Re: [liberationtech] Drones for much networking

2013-08-09 Thread Shava Nerad
For those who are not aware, Norwich University is a military academy here in the United States. This is why I thought the swords into ploughshares quip was particularly apt, besides it being drones into mesh. It's students using the toys they sell in the student union. But sure. SN On Fri,

[liberationtech] Anonymous’ Secret Presence In The U.S. Army

2013-08-09 Thread David Johnson
Interesting interview with an active-duty Army captain who claims to be part of Anonymous ... http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/anonymous-secret-presence-in-the-us-army [AJAM] David V. Johnson Online Opinion Editor 435 Hudson Street, Suite 400 New York, NY 10014 Direct line: 917 819

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit, Silent Circle both shut down

2013-08-09 Thread adrelanos
Kyle Maxwell: On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:41 PM, liberationt...@lewman.us wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:46:10 +0200 Moritz Bartl mor...@torservers.net wrote: Repeat after me: Iceland is *not* a data haven. [citation needed] Shouldn't it be the other way around? If somebody claims that a

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread adrelanos
Why not post messages to usenet alt.anonymous.messages? It can provide great properties for privacy and anonymity. You don't need any servers or to invent any server software. Just use the existing infrastructure. alt.anonymous.messages can be used as a big shared mailbox. And the client

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-09 Thread Kyle Maxwell
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:13 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: Why not post messages to usenet alt.anonymous.messages? It can provide great properties for privacy and anonymity. You don't need any servers or to invent any server software. Just use the existing infrastructure.

Re: [liberationtech] Bill Gates on Project Loon vs malaria

2013-08-09 Thread Tom O
I think project LOON serves Googles purpose well. Whether it's altruistic, I'll wait and see. Certainly disease and famine are a more important and pressing concern in Africa. I will happily stand with Bill Melinda re this. I don't think the two issues are comparable, which is where I think