Re: [liberationtech] Internet is designed for surveillance

2013-06-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 09:03:43AM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: Where is the effort honor the Internet paradigm and move away from the presumption of hierarchy to a distributed approach that doesn’t assume that we must declare our intent merely to exchange bits? At very least we should move

[liberationtech] nettime Leonid Bershidsky: U.S. Surveillance Is Not Aimed at Terrorists (Bloomberg)

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Call for Participants @ Noisy Square - Putting the Resistance back in OHM

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 04:28:11PM -0700, coderman wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: ... If you want to focus your ire on something, go take a look at how DEFCON and BlackHat are inviting NSA Director Keith Alexander to give the keynote! they

Re: [liberationtech] Call for Participants @ Noisy Square - Putting the Resistance back in OHM

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 09:08:59PM -0300, hellekin wrote: They are ramping such a system up but it isn't in place yet, remember, they are firing 600 people in the following years. *** I guess you mean: outsourcing to the private sector. The budgets in general will shrink a lot in the

Re: [liberationtech] Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] hey, sounds familiar

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
“People who radicalise under the influence of jihadist websites often go through a number of stages,” the Dutch report said. “Their virtual activities increasingly shift to the invisible Web, their security awareness increases and their activities become more conspiratorial.”

[liberationtech] Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
ISP that advertises they encrypt their links that leave the country? :) -- Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [liberationtech] Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
? (or get a copy of the monitor ports) -chris - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8

Re: [liberationtech] Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Are undersea cables tapped before they get to ISP's? [was Re: Security over SONET/SDH]

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] Secrecy News -- 06/25/13

2013-06-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
/donate ___ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web:www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: safterg...@fas.org voice: (202) 454-4691 twitter: @saftergood - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl

[liberationtech] NSA wiretapping without a warrant

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-without-warrant Revealed: the top secret rules that allow NSA to use US data without a warrant Fisa court submissions show broad scope of procedures governing NSA's surveillance of Americans' communication • Document one: procedures

Re: [liberationtech] [ZS] ZS encryption standards

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
emails from it, send an email to doctrinezero+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[liberationtech] NSA is very likely storing all encrypted communications it is intercepting

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/06/20/leaked-nsa-doc-says-it-can-collect-and-keep-your-encrypted-data-as-long-as-it-takes-to-crack-it/ Leaked NSA Doc Says It Can Collect And Keep Your Encrypted Data As Long As It Takes To Crack It If you use privacy tools, according to the

Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 06:51:11PM +0200, phryk wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:55:57 -0400 Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: The solution to this is to make encryption more and more widely used. By increasing the number of people with access to encryption technology for their

Re: [liberationtech] Euclid Analytics

2013-06-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:25:21AM -0700, Matt Johnson wrote: So do we all need to generate random MAC addresses now? I don't think you can do that on an iPhone though. MACs are easy, and they're limited-scope, anyway. Much better would be a daemon that mutates your IMEI on a daily, or hourly

[liberationtech] we don't need no steenkin PRISM

2013-06-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/enterprise-it/security/India-sets-up-nationwide-snooping-programme-to-tap-your-emails-phones/articleshow/20678562.cms India sets up nationwide snooping programme to tap your emails, phones Reuters | Jun 20, 2013, 12.32 PM IST India has launched a

[liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust [was: Help test Tor Browser!]

2013-06-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:35:36PM -0400, The Doctor wrote: There is a problem with that: Traffic to and from small providers has to traverse the networks of the tier-II and tier-I providers to go any appreciable distance. We already know that at least some of the peering points are

Re: [liberationtech] NYT: Obama’s German Storm

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:40:23PM +0200, fukami wrote: Hi, it's not the first time I hear or read this from Americans: Many people already gave up discussions about data protection a long time ago. So there seems a lot of hope that Europeans and especially the Germans with their

Re: [liberationtech] Interesting QA

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 12:18:38PM +0300, Michael Azarkevich wrote: Why settle for strong enough? Use the strongest options you have at your disposal. One-time pads are provably strong if done right, but come with considerable usability disadvantages (but are potentially worth it if people's

[liberationtech] Jim Bamford's comments all in one place

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.reddit.com/user/JimBamford In case you haven't read his books, go read his books. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at

Re: [liberationtech] security aspects of OpenQwaq

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
. This is for military users not corporate or casual users. -tom On Jun 17, 2013 10:46 AM, Eugen Leitl mailto:eu...@leitl.org eu...@leitl.org wrote: OpenQwaq is potentially a useful tool for collaboration, especially multimedia (webcam streaming to avatar face, audio (best

Re: [liberationtech] [tp] NSA flag terms

2013-06-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] [tt] WaPo: NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn't anyone use it?

2013-06-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
and hopefully crashing their systems while fooling with their minds. ___ tt mailing list t...@postbiota.org http://postbiota.org/mailman/listinfo/tt - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

2013-06-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
someone should look into packaging http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/os-downloads.html into a free VMWare appliance that is easy to deploy even for novice users -- yes, this still will need support, but much less so). Thanks! Brian On Jun 14, 2013 7:03 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote

Re: [liberationtech] security aspects of OpenQwaq

2013-06-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
- From: openq...@googlegroups.com [mailto:openq...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 9:11 AM To: openq...@googlegroups.com Subject: security aspects of OpenQwaq What's the security model of OpenQwaq? How secure is the communication model

Re: [liberationtech] How to defend against attacks on chips?

2013-06-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:16:54AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: It's true that in the limit, we can never be sure that a given piece of hardware contains no trojans. However, there are many ways that a trojan could be implemented which could be found with available techniques. It would be

Re: [liberationtech] Blocking TCP flows?

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
? --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net // http://www.arbornetworks.com Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton -- Phil Fagan Denver, CO 970-480-7618 - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http

Re: [liberationtech] huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
it could be done cheaper somewhere else presupposes we know the economics of what they're trying to do. We don't, so we should assume that routers just like everything else are a target, and that you almost certainly won't notice it if they are. Mike - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl

Re: [liberationtech] [tt] NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 03:10:36AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 15.06.2013 02:18, Guido Witmond wrote: The original analysis read to me: We face severe problems that might lead to civil unrest. We need more population control, whatever the price. Now we also have civil unrest due to the

Re: [liberationtech] huawei

2013-06-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com - Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:44:32 -0400 From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org Cc: NANOG na...@nanog.org Subject: Re: huawei With the CPU and RAM available in a router that has to actually continue

[liberationtech] Free cryptography I course (courtesy Coursera)

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto?utm_classid=971022utm_notid=5333944utm_linknum=1 Cryptography I Dan Boneh Learn about the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to apply this knowledge in real-world applications! Workload: 5-7 hours/week Watch intro video Sessions: Jun

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:11:34AM -0700, William Gillis wrote: Now that everyone knows about the NSA isn't it time you tackled setting up PGP? If it's not transparent, Johny User will eventually drop it. Before you do that, rather enable StartTLS on your mail transport agent (e.g. postfix).

[liberationtech] U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms By Michael Riley - Jun 14, 2013 4:44 AM GMT+0200 Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with

Re: [liberationtech] Secure and Cheap Provider in Sweden or Iceland?

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 02:51:05PM -0400, Lorenzo Franceschi Bicchierai wrote: Hey guys, In lieu of the recent NSA leaks, I'm going to transfer my website to a new provider in either Sweden or Iceland (because well, you never know). Griffin Boyce suggested I use moln.is, do you guys have any

[liberationtech] [tt] NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism US

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
will (look into this message's rich headers, chances are, you're already secure along some part of transport way without being even aware of it). And of course it's fully compaptible with VPNs, or GNUPG or whatever have you. -- Matt Johnson On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Eugen Leitl eu

Re: [liberationtech] Secure and Cheap Provider in Sweden or Iceland?

2013-06-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 01:32:14PM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: 1984.is have been very helpful to colleagues of mine. The boxen over there are said to be very stable. The only downside with 1984 is they require you to order an annual subscription,

Re: [liberationtech] [Freedombox-discuss] BTNS on Freedombox

2013-06-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
Any Debian developers listening? - Forwarded message from Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk - Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 01:28:18 +0200 From: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org, freedombox-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] BTNS

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 06:15:30AM -0400, Sheila Parks wrote: Why not use her instead of his? Using his in 2013 is, indeed, misogyny List moderator, please control this before it completely goes out of hand. People are trying to get work done here, and this is not helping. -- Too many

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] New Anonymity Network for Short Messages

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
(Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Reply-To: jam...@echeque.com On 2013-06-12 1:09 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org either writes or quotes: - Forwarded message from Sean Cassidy sean.a.cass...@gmail.com - - Any specific reason you picked CTR? CTR

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] New Anonymity Network for Short Messages

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 On 12/06/13 07:27, Eugen Leitl wrote: Additionally to this, CTR allows bit-level maleability of the cleartext: a bit flipped in a CTR cipherstream translates into a bit flipped in the cleartext. all encryption modes usually provide confidentiality

Re: [liberationtech] [ipv6hackers] opportunistic encryption in IPv6

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] [ipv6hackers] opportunistic encryption in IPv6

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
like Scrypt. It's not more difficult to implement than SHA et al. but it's slower to brute-force with dedicated crypto hardware. On Jun 12, 2013, at 5:21, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: - Forwarded message from Jim Small jim.sm...@cdw.com - Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:31:10 +

Re: [liberationtech] nettime dark days

2013-06-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

2013-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:27:33PM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: The big deal is that now it's become impossible to believe the lies, and that you [Americans] are forced to accept the truth. Reality check: https://twitter.com/_nothingtohide

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
-no-illegal-spying/article_ec623964-d23a-53c6-aeb0-14bf325a7f3c.html scott - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org

Re: [liberationtech] [ipv6hackers] opportunistic encryption in IPv6

2013-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
of it. --Jim ___ Ipv6hackers mailing list ipv6hack...@lists.si6networks.com http://lists.si6networks.com/listinfo/ipv6hackers - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [liberationtech] [ipv6hackers] opportunistic encryption in IPv6

2013-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
/listinfo/ipv6hackers - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89

Re: [liberationtech] [ipv6hackers] opportunistic encryption in IPv6

2013-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
___ Ipv6hackers mailing list ipv6hack...@lists.si6networks.com http://lists.si6networks.com/listinfo/ipv6hackers - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptopolitics] [cryptography] skype backdoor confirmation

2013-06-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
/cryptopolitics - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89

[liberationtech] opportunistic encryption with IPv6

2013-06-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
Native IPv6 deployment is on an exponential track http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html Unlike IPv4, IPv6 has had encryption as part of the specs, but no opportunistic ways to set up an encrypted session. There have been efforts like http://www.inrialpes.fr/planete/people/chneuman/OE.html

[liberationtech] Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal • Top secret PRISM program claims direct access to servers of firms including Google, Facebook and Apple • Companies deny any knowledge of program

Re: [liberationtech] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret ppt reveals

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 12:32:10PM +1200, Andrew Lewis wrote: PRISM isn't really even that illegal, as long as they discard communications considered to be American. So, as long as every TLA world wide does, and they all share the information, everything is all right? Not so fast. The NSA

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
/~bicknell/ - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89

Re: [liberationtech] Stop promoting Skype

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 08:32:36AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: These revelations constitute an existence proof that the number of backdoors in various services is nonzero. There's no reason to believe that this nonzero value is 1. It is prudent to believe that the value is exactly one.

Re: [liberationtech] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret ppt reveals

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:23:03PM -0700, x z wrote: What surprised me is how Guardian and Washington Post cover this story. The Power Point slides looks laughable to me. Maybe I should interpret direct access to servers of firms as like when I'm typing this email I am also having *a direct

Re: [liberationtech] Stop promoting Skype

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:15:32AM -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Mine is something like this: if one day, the folks from the NSA showed up at X's door with a van full of equipment and asked nicely if they could please bring it in, then why wouldn't their counterparts in every other country do

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
at that provider and it was utterly contrary to the expressed culture. take up beekeeping, or alcohol, or something.). -- Jamie Rishaw // .com.arpa@j - reverse it. ish. arpa / arpa labs - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [liberationtech] Stop promoting Skype

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 10:18:25AM -0400, Griffin Boyce wrote: I'll keep that in mind the next time someone from Tor promotes Riseup ;-) But seriously, average users need to have basic services that are (unfortunately) run by third parties. At a minimum, diversification of services

Re: [liberationtech] Stop promoting Skype

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 04:28:31PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: BTW, since I'm getting offlist questions about this: in case you were thinking what you want is the FreedomBox, NO, what I'm talking about is NOT the FreedomBox. What I'm suggesting is compatible with the FreedomBox, but it's

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

2013-06-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
speculation, I'm not speaking for anyone, on behalf of anyone, or even remotely authorized or acknowledged by any entity on this rambling, so please don't go quoting this anywhere else, it'll make you look foolish, and probably get me in trouble anyhow. :( Matt - End forwarded message - -- Eugen

[liberationtech] How the U.S. Government Hacks the World

2013-05-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-23/how-the-u-dot-s-dot-government-hacks-the-world#r=tec-st How the U.S. Government Hacks the World By Michael Riley on May 23, 2013 http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-23/how-the-u-dot-s-dot-government-hacks-the-world Obscured by trees and

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:19:05PM -0700, Seth David Schoen wrote: I'm curious whether people in some countries have had success using wifi-only phones, including to make and receive calls by VoIP. There are ways that wifi can be more private in some ways in some situations compared to the

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:56:32PM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Dan Gillmor d...@gillmor.com Given the vanishingly small likelihood that companies or governments will do anything about cell phone tracking, I'm interested in what countermeasures we can take individually. The obvious one

Re: [liberationtech] Frei PiratenPartei

2013-05-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:18:09PM +, andreas.ba...@nachtpult.de wrote: I am a Member of the Piraten in Germany. Let me answer with a question. Do you really think a party like that has a chance in the USA? Failure is default if you never try. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to

[liberationtech] Attorney General: Tourists’ Emails Can be Searched at Israel’s Borders

2013-04-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.acri.org.il/en/2013/04/24/ag-tourists-israel-emails/ Attorney General: Tourists’ Emails Can be Searched at Israel’s Borders Update:April 24, 2013 Photo by Tal Dahan In response to an inquiry from ACRI regarding reports of authorities requiring access to tourists’ email accounts

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 09:26:05PM -0400, micah wrote: Can't rely on them to be there for what exactly? Just being there and responsive for the entire duration you need them. Where is the liberatory technological element to recommending commercial The liberatory technological element is

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:50:22PM +, Andreas Bader wrote: Hetzner Germany is pretty good. We use it since years and never had problems with it. Hetzner is good and cheap (though no longer that cheap) but they'll drop you like a hot potato in case of ever the slightest problems. I would

Re: [liberationtech] Secure, inexpensive hosting of activist sites

2013-04-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 03:07:35PM +0200, ilf wrote: I can't believe this bullshit thread recommending *only* commercial services. Look, free is distinctly unaffordable. If you need a dedicated box somebody has got to pay for the hosting and remote hands. Activists donating own resources are

[liberationtech] Human Breath Analysis May Support the Existence of Individual Metabolic Phenotypes

2013-04-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0059909 Abstract The metabolic phenotype varies widely due to external factors such as diet and gut microbiome composition, among others. Despite these temporal fluctuations, urine metabolite profiling studies have suggested

[liberationtech] [CCM-L] Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)-nytimes

2013-04-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:51:11AM -0700, Katy P wrote: What is easier for a lay person and least susceptible to a smart thief? You didn't mention your operating system, but in terms of least pain I would go with http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads and encrypt the whole drive. Make sure your

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part of the e-mail that no-one reads) at the top of the e-mail so everyone sees it? No, because then *everybody* has to see it. -- Too many emails?

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 10:33:17AM -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: Top-posting is definitely worse. Don't do it. A very minor point that isn't especially relevant to libtech, I suspect: I work with a number of blind advocates and top-posting makes their lives much, much easier (since

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:16:08AM -0700, Katy P wrote: If my laptop was stolen, for example, some website or something that I (or someone else) could log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive. Or you could use an encrypting filesystem, which requires a password on boot, and

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:37:50PM -0500, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: The beauty of democracy! :-) Failure, actually. It shows that democratic decisions tend to produce technically suboptimal results. That the whole list was spammed with voting traffic just adds insult to injury

[liberationtech] alexandria cable cutters?

2013-03-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
) nyt reports capture of scuba divers attempting to cut telecom egypt undersea fiber. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/27/world/middleeast/ap-ml-egypt-internet.html randy - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[liberationtech] Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility

2013-03-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
(full text available on site) http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130325/srep01376/full/srep01376.html Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, César A. Hidalgo, Michel Verleysen Vincent D. Blondel Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 1376

[liberationtech] [tt] Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration.

2013-03-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.nature.com/news/brain-scans-predict-which-criminals-are-more-likely-to-reoffend-1.12672 Brain scans predict which criminals are more likely to reoffend Neuroimaging 'biomarker' linked to rearrest after incarceration. Regina Nuzzo 25 March 2013 Activity in a particular region of

[liberationtech] [hackerspaces] Byzantium Linux v0.3a is out!

2013-03-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.

2013-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page Bitmessage Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:08:42PM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Regarding SSL, hasn't Skype claimed in the past that the conversations are encrypted client-to-client, as in, even from Microsoft or Skype itself? Why is it relevant what they claimed? You can't check it, so why spend any time on

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:36:41PM +, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: I have one answer: Amateur radio. Forget mobile phone networks. Amateur radio is cheap, very durable and will provide you with the functions you need, and if you can get access to amateur radio operators in your

Re: [liberationtech] NYT covers China cyberthreat

2013-02-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Internships available at leading Palo Alto tech startup

2013-02-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] About private networks (Was Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat)

2013-02-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 08:53:36PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:03:06PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography Doesn't really work. Essentially

Re: [liberationtech] About private networks (Was Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat)

2013-02-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 09:03:06PM -0600, Charles Zeitler wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography Doesn't really work. Essentially, this is expensive snake oil. -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at:

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:01:37AM +0100, Andreas Bader wrote: So why not create a own OS that is really small because of its security? Chrome OS is small because it's cheap. If you were right then Android was the most secure system. Aren't there any Android viruses? RedHat seems to have less

[liberationtech] nettime Copy Paste in Brussels

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:22:39PM +0700, Uncle Zzzen wrote: Even if the average activist could master mutt (I use it regularly, and still feel like a noob :) ), it only applies to devices that have a keyboard. We've used to have chording keyboards like

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy...

2013-02-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Removing watermarks from pdfs (pdfparanoia)

2013-02-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 06:59:03PM -0500, liberationt...@lewman.us wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:20:22 -0600 Bryan Bishop kanz...@gmail.com wrote: How about removing those pesky watermarks from pdfs? Sometimes they completely obfuscate the contents of a paper we're trying to read, or

[liberationtech] [drone-list] CRS on integration of drones into NAS

2013-02-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
win win for consumers. Maybe that's why the big players want to throw the baby out with the bath water. :P -- Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl

Re: [liberationtech] Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] Geurilla open access cookbook

2013-01-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:40:13AM -0500, bbrewer wrote: Andreas Bader noergelpi...@hotmail.de wrote: Mega seems also to have an exploitable bug for email spaming. A lot of bloggers report this. All the money in the world, and still, so many listed problems on this new service.

[liberationtech] nettime Response to Academe Is Complicit essay

2013-01-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
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