Re: [liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

2014-07-04 Thread duncan
So summarising the you guys mentioned, it looks like our options are: 1. randomise phone MAC addresses 2. turn off WiFi 3. don't use store loyalty cards Are there other things we can do? Are the other leakages we need to stop? On 2014-07-03 16:54, JCX wrote: There are many companies that

Re: [liberationtech] Recently sold sensenetworks has creepy buying habits tracking feature

2014-07-04 Thread Keira Cran
Another option would be to go on the offensive. Someone can leave devices in the store whose sole purpose is just to spoof mac addresses. Ideally, this would flood their data with fake entries, making it useless to the trackers. (They didn't ask permission to do their track.) keira On Fri, Jul

[liberationtech] call and texts

2014-07-04 Thread Vasilis Kostakis
Dear all, This is to bring to your attention the library of the p2p lab with free publications about the Commons and the p2p/open source movement ( http://p2plab.gr/en/publications), as well as an open call for visiting scholars geeks: http://p2plab.gr/en/call. I hope the list might find these

[liberationtech] XKeyscore rules probably are from Snowden, after all

2014-07-04 Thread Maxim Kammerer
There has been some speculation that the recent XKeyscore rule leaks [1] do not come from Snowden — particularly, by Schneier [2]. I believe that there is a good case that the leaks do come from Snowden, since it is possible to pinpoint the date range when the rule sources [3] have been last

[liberationtech] Trends in intelligence gathering by governments - Seeking Peer Reviewers

2014-07-04 Thread Security First
Hi everyone, As some of you might know, the team at Security First is doing some work to breach the gap with some sectors that could benefit from the knowledge of the LiberationTech community and others. In particular, the humanitarian aid space is only now really starting to increase it's use

[liberationtech] messing with XKeyScore

2014-07-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/jamming-xkeyscore_4.html?m=1 Errata Security Advanced persistent cybersecurity Friday, July 04, 2014 Jamming XKeyScore Back in the day there was talk about jamming echelon by adding keywords to email that the echelon system was supposedly looking for. We

[liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

2014-07-04 Thread Doug Schuler
Thought experiment for Independence Day... How easy would it be to develop a “Public Google” that was distributed across tens of thousands of computers similar to the way that the SETI@home project uses the cycles of computers all over the world? I’m not sure how to keep the NSA out but this

Re: [liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

2014-07-04 Thread Natanael
You mean YaCy? Exists already. - Sent from my phone Den 4 jul 2014 17:10 skrev Doug Schuler doug...@publicsphereproject.org: Thought experiment for Independence Day... How easy would it be to develop a “Public Google” that was distributed across tens of thousands of computers similar to the

Re: [liberationtech] messing with XKeyScore

2014-07-04 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/04/2014 10:56 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/jamming-xkeyscore_4.html?m=1 Errata Security Advanced persistent cybersecurity Friday, July 04, 2014 Jamming XKeyScore Back in the day there was talk about jamming echelon by adding keywords to email that the

Re: [liberationtech] [tor-talk] messing with XKeyScore

2014-07-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 09:36:23PM +, isis wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Eugen Leitl transcribed 5.8K bytes: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/jamming-xkeyscore_4.html?m=1 Errata Security Advanced persistent cybersecurity Friday, July 04, 2014