Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread Shava Nerad
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights IANAL, but I used to work in entertainment licensing and was a member at licensing.org/LIMA. Probably qualified as a paralegal in this area. Trademark has nearly nothing to do with it, although you can involve a likeness in a trademark -- at

Re: [liberationtech] Forcing VPN on Mac OS X

2013-09-03 Thread elijah
On 09/02/2013 09:54 PM, Mitar wrote: Is there some software which would prevent any outgoing networking on Mac OS X until a VPN to a trusted server is established? So on the system level? I am wary that between me connecting to an untrusted WiFi and establishing a VPN tunnel, there is some

Re: [liberationtech] Forcing VPN on Mac OS X

2013-09-03 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
Ah yes - thanks for reminding me. DNSCrypt has worked well for our end-users and when configured not to fail over - does the necessary trick on OS X: http://opendns.github.io/dnscrypt-osx-client/ .. And something that didn't work well at all (in the context of my last message) was Radio Silence

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread Moon Jones
On 02.09.2013 10:59, Paul Elliott wrote: Is it not funny, no one seems to be commercially oftering Snowden masks for this Holloween. Isn't the Guy Fawkes enough? I mean spliting into «what's your guy perceived as an anti-system icon» pretty much beats the idea. Only complaint is that

[liberationtech] Traffic Correlation on TOR

2013-09-03 Thread ph0_
Hello Libtech, Just came across this paper done by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf ph0_ -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] Traffic Correlation on TOR

2013-09-03 Thread liberationtech
On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:01:32 +0100 ph0_ phoew...@gmail.com wrote: Just came across this paper done by U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf See https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/029756.html for the quick answer.

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread Tom O
Yeah IANAL either but for some odd reason I thought a likeness/name could be trademarked much like a corporate logo. I'm no good at trademark law though. Too much mumbo jumbo. Hah, president? Not me. I don't have the citizenship, friends, money, lack of morality, promise breaking capacity to be a

[liberationtech] fji: First hearing of the LIBE Committee Inquiry on electronic mass surveillance of EU citizens

2013-09-03 Thread katana
Hi, http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/libe/events.html: On 5.09.2013 in the afternoon, LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs EU parliament commitee) will hold the first hearing of the LIBE Committee Inquiry on electronic mass surveillance of EU citizens. The two sessions

[liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread Moon Jones
I stumbled upon UPR these last days. It does not work on my machines. But the idea sounds good. Yet I could not find anything like it. Tails comes close, but the network is enabled. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Moon Jones wrote (03 Sep 2013 12:10:22 GMT) : I stumbled upon UPR these last days. It does not work on my machines. But the idea sounds good. Yet I could not find anything like it. Tails comes close, but the network is enabled. Someone could add a boot option to Tails, that disables the

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread ale fernandez
Snowden, IIRC was trying to say he wasn't particularly heroic and was doing what anyone would have done with a shred of sense/ethics in his situation. If you are someone like that, maybe stick your head in a photocopier/scanner, or photograph yourself looking snowden-like, and print out a mask

Re: [liberationtech] The status of SMTP security in email communication infrastructures

2013-09-03 Thread Ashkan Soltani
Just sending along some links on the topic (from another thread). - I initially put this charthttps://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/350276220006563841 together (which Declan based this story onhttp://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57590389-38/how-web-mail-providers-leave-door-open-for-nsa-surveillance/)

Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/03/2013 09:47 AM, ale fernandez wrote: maybe stick your head in a photocopier/scanner, or photograph yourself looking snowden-like, and print out a mask of your own face. *** Beats the idea of being anonymous though. Guy Fawkes, besides

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread Moon Jones
On 03.09.2013 14:38, intrigeri wrote: Someone could add a boot option to Tails, that disables the network. That would be wonderful as Tails is already pretty complete. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you

Re: [liberationtech] Research on communication in ad hoc groups?

2013-09-03 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Yosem! Networks of practice seems to be a useful phrase for turning up relevant research in the CMC and management literature, and group evolution for the SNA literature. Cheers, Michael On 02/09/13 20:20, Yosem Companys wrote:

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread adrelanos
Nick: On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:10:22PM +0200, Moon Jones wrote: I stumbled upon UPR these last days. It does not work on my machines. But the idea sounds good. Yet I could not find anything like it. Tails comes close, but the network is enabled. I don't know of any other distributions

[liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring

2013-09-03 Thread Camino.MANJON
Dear colleagues (and some friends in the lists), The purpose of this email is to inform you of the recent publication of the Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA). If you are interested in this contract, you should submit your tender no later

[liberationtech] Iranian users vs. FB new policy

2013-09-03 Thread Amin Sabeti
Hi, I was reading the new FB policy and this part was interesting for me as an Iranian: *Special Provisions Applicable to Users Outside the United States.* We made clear that you are not allowed to use Facebook if you are prohibited from receiving products or services from the United States.

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/2013 08:10 AM, Moon Jones wrote: But the idea sounds good. Yet I could not find anything like it. Tails comes close, but the network is enabled. In TAILS, networking is disabled until you use the NetworkManager applet to specifically

Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” (ECSA) - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring

2013-09-03 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 15:27:19 + camino.man...@ec.europa.eu wrote: You will find all the relevant information (invitation to the tender, tender specifications and model contract) in the following link: http://bit.ly/16E6sfG It seems your website is blocking access from the very tools you're

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread intrigeri
Blibbet wrote (03 Sep 2013 17:35:52 GMT) : One really nice feature of UPR is how it bundles TAILs to a single distro, so you can dual-boot TAILS or UPR, depending on your offline/online needs. In the past, this dual-boot distribution has sometimes been lagging behind Tails releases by a few

Re: [liberationtech] Iranian users vs. FB new policy

2013-09-03 Thread Collin Anderson
No, this is clearly covered by General License D for Iran and the 'personal communications' exemptions in other sanctions regimes -- it's a nice find, but I suspect it targets individuals designated under the SDN list. On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Amin Sabeti aminsab...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread Blibbet
I stumbled upon UPR these last days. It does not work on my machines. But the idea sounds good. Yet I could not find anything like it. Tails comes close, but the network is enabled. AFAIK, there are only 2 privacy-centric distros that disable networking: UPR and Tinfoil Hat Linux.

[liberationtech] International Network of Social Innovators for Human Development: Survey - Telecentre.org Online Community

2013-09-03 Thread Yosem Companys
http://community.telecentre.org/profiles/blogs/international-network-of-social-innovators-for-human-development- Recognizing the catalytic nature of mobile technologies in fostering human development, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Motorola Solutionshave entered into a

Re: [liberationtech] Iranian users vs. FB new policy

2013-09-03 Thread Amin Sabeti
Then can we say FB can block the Iran's Supreme Leader page or the Rouhani one? Sent from my iPhone On 3 Sep 2013, at 18:50, Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com wrote: No, this is clearly covered by General License D for Iran and the 'personal communications' exemptions in other

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:46 PM, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: In TAILS, networking is disabled until you use the NetworkManager applet to specifically enable it. Not really — Ethernet connects automatically, and Wireless will do so as well, if your credentials are saved across reboot.

[liberationtech] MEGApwn - recover your encrypted MEGA master key

2013-09-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
As if there weren't enough reasons to not trust Kim.Com. What is MEGApwn? MEGApwn is a bookmarklet that runs in your web browser and displays your supposedly secret MEGA master key, showing that it is not actually encrypted and can be retrieved by MEGA or anyone else with access to your

[liberationtech] NSA-resistant Android application 'burns' sensitive messages

2013-09-03 Thread Yosem Companys
http://www.itworld.com/security/371391/nsa-resistant-android-application-burns-sensitive-messages September 03, 2013, 9:55 PM NSA-resistant Android application 'burns' sensitive messages Silent Circle's messaging application ensures only the sender and receiver can view messages and files By

Re: [liberationtech] NSA-resistant Android application 'burns' sensitive messages

2013-09-03 Thread Brian Conley
Send your thoughts about Jeremy's ridiculous press release for Silent Text here: https://twitter.com/Jeremy_Kirk On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: http://www.itworld.com/security/371391/nsa-resistant-android-application-burns-sensitive-messages