[liberationtech] [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — August 6th, 2014

2014-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Lunar lu...@torproject.org - Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:00:57 +0200 From: Lunar lu...@torproject.org To: tor-n...@lists.torproject.org, tor-t...@lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — August 6th, 2014 Message-ID: 20140806120057.GB20092@loar

[liberationtech] Carnegie Mellon Kills Black Hat Talk About Identifying Tor Users -- Perhaps Because It Broke Wiretapping Laws

2014-07-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140721/11362227955/carnegie-mellon-kills-black-hat-talk-about-identifying-tor-users.shtml Carnegie Mellon Kills Black Hat Talk About Identifying Tor Users -- Perhaps Because It Broke Wiretapping Laws from the questionable-legality dept There's some buzz in

[liberationtech] Leaked GCHQ catalog of exploit tools for manipulation and mass surveillance

2014-07-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/24145/leaked-gchq-catalog-exploit-tools-manipulation-and-mass-surveillance?source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2014-07-17 Leaked GCHQ catalog of exploit tools for manipulation and mass surveillance By Darlene Storm July 16, 2014 1:22 PM EDTAdd a comment Just as

[liberationtech] Experts report potential software back doors in U.S. standards

2014-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/15/usa-nsa-software-idUSL2N0PP2BM20140715 Experts report potential software back doors in U.S. standards BY JOSEPH MENN SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:58pm EDT (Reuters) - U.S. government standards for software may enable spying by the

[liberationtech] GeoIP is a threat to democracy

2014-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Nicolas Bourbaki nicolasbourb...@riseup.net - Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 07:39:12 +0200 From: Nicolas Bourbaki nicolasbourb...@riseup.net To: cypherpu...@cpunks.org Subject: GeoIP is a threat to democracy Message-ID: 53bf7880.5050...@riseup.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

[liberationtech] The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

2014-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney –

Re: [liberationtech] data mine the snowden files [was: open the snowden files]

2014-07-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 04:58:05PM +0200, edhelas wrote: What about a Torrent ? We can easily share the magnet everywhere (Reddit, Twitter…). Great idea. Don't forget to publish the magnet on TPB as well. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list

[liberationtech] [cryptome] Cryptome Kickstart Project

2014-07-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from doug douglasrankine2...@yahoo.co.uk - Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:34:31 +0100 From: doug douglasrankine2...@yahoo.co.uk To: crypt...@freelists.org Subject: [cryptome] Cryptome Kickstart Project Message-ID: 53bbe557.7060...@yahoo.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11;

[liberationtech] The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies

2014-07-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/morgan-marquis-boire-first-look-media/ The Ex-Google Hacker Taking on the World’s Spy Agencies BY ANDY GREENBERG 07.08.14 | 6:30 AM | PERMALINK Ariel Zambelich/WIRED During his last six years working as an elite security researcher for Google, the hacker

[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] NSA targets the privacy-conscious

2014-07-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-1.html NSA targets the privacy-conscious von J. Appelbaum, A. Gibson, J. Goetz, V. Kabisch, L. Kampf, L. Ryge The investigation discloses the following: Two servers in Germany - in Berlin and Nuremberg - are under surveillance by the NSA.

[liberationtech] some things never change

2013-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
(Just who is a radicalizer, these days, in which we have bona fide dissidents who are persecuted for fighting for our freedoms?) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html?1385526024 Top-Secret Document Reveals NSA Spied On Porn Habits As Part Of Plan To Discredit

[liberationtech] If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong, ' You're Wrong

2013-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131126/01352025373/if-you-dont-care-about-nsa-because-you-havent-done-anything-wrong-youre-wrong.shtml If You Don't Care About The NSA Because You 'Haven't Done Anything Wrong,' You're Wrong from the you-have-done-many-things-wrong dept Cardinal Richelieu's

[liberationtech] Meet the Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work

2013-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/21/the_obscure_fbi_team_that_does_the_nsa_dirty_work?hidecomments=yespage=full Meet the Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work This obscure FBI unit does the domestic surveillance that no other intelligence agency can touch. BY SHANE HARRIS | NOVEMBER

[liberationtech] [IP] NSA report

2013-11-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Dave Farber d...@farber.net - Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:56:20 -0500 From: Dave Farber d...@farber.net To: ip i...@listbox.com Subject: [IP] NSA report Message-ID: CAKx4trhUOu7dOpsXqKO=jfwg6l9scwkv1fql-dx1wwqmnmh...@mail.gmail.com Reply-To: d...@farber.net [image:

[liberationtech] Exclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere

2013-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/exclusive_inside_americas_plan_to_kill_online_privacy_rights_everywhere Exclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere Posted By Colum Lynch Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 6:10 PM Share The United States and

[liberationtech] [IP] My blog today on Permissionless Innovation

2013-11-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Dave Farber d...@farber.net - Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:28:48 -0500 From: Dave Farber d...@farber.net To: ip i...@listbox.com Subject: [IP] My blog today on Permissionless Innovation Message-ID: CAKx4triMv4zeA6mV_POaLfyosZk_1qumW7m+=1fw37zvs9m...@mail.gmail.com

Re: [liberationtech] Ubuntu Privacy Remix remix?

2013-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 01:21:20PM -0800, Matt Johnson wrote: Sorry Eugen, I am still not getting it. You will author content in isolation, without reference to any information at all? Or perhaps in Let's say you're a journalist working with Snowden's leaked documents. Would you be comfortable

Re: [liberationtech] Ubuntu Privacy Remix remix?

2013-11-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:54:34AM -0800, Matt Johnson wrote: I fail grasp the utility of such and offline computer. If you keep a You must have nothing to hide, then. Some of us do. computer air gaped as you describe you will not be able to do much with it. Gee, how about authoring content,

[liberationtech] INDECT: Intelligent Information System Supporting Observation, Searching and Detection for Security of Citizens in Urban Environment

2013-11-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.openaire.eu/en/component/openaire/project_info/default/619?id=218086 Project: INDECT Title: Intelligent Information System Supporting Observation, Searching and Detection for Security of Citizens in Urban Environment Call: FP7-SEC-2007-1 Grant agreement number: 218086

Re: [liberationtech] Randomize MAC of Android phone?

2013-10-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 04:53:41PM -0700, coderman wrote: this works for most wifi devices if you have root; just modify init scripts to ifconfig hw ether a random mac (you can do this in shell). don't delegate something critical like this to an arbitrary app, which is invoked much later in

[liberationtech] Snowden sets OPSEC record straight

2013-10-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
declined to provide details about his living conditions in Moscow, except to say that he was not under Russian government control and was free to move around. - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[liberationtech] [guardian-dev] This Friday: Open Office Hours (via Hangout/IRC)

2013-10-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America

2013-10-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-united-stasi-america Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution Daniel Ellsberg

[liberationtech] How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

2013-10-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/all/ How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses BY JOSHUA DAVIS10.15.136:30 AM These students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn’t have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope—until a radical new

[liberationtech] [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 16th, 2013

2013-10-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=al_national NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally Video: In June, President Obama said the NSA’s email

[liberationtech] nettime Book Review: The Circle by Dave Eggers (NYT)

2013-10-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] nettime Milton Mueller: Core Internet institutions abandon the US Government

2013-10-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] Cryptographers condemn US National Security Agency’s tapping and tampering, but mathematicians shrug.

2013-10-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-split-over-nsa-hacking-1.13911 Researchers split over NSA hacking Cryptographers condemn US National Security Agency’s tapping and tampering, but mathematicians shrug. Ann Finkbeiner 08 October 2013 The National Security Agency is the largest employer of

[liberationtech] How Lavabit Melted Down

2013-10-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/10/how-lavabit-edward-snowden-email-service-melted-down.html HOW LAVABIT MELTED DOWN POSTED BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS AND MATT BUCHANAN On August 8th, Lavabit, newly famous for being the secure e-mail service used by the National Security Agency

[liberationtech] Bruce Schneier on the good, old air gap

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/149481/ Want to Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect to the Internet BY BRUCE SCHNEIER 10.07.13 6:30 AM Photo: Ariel Zambelich / WIRED; Illustration: Ross Patton / WIRED Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to

Re: [liberationtech] Bruce Schneier on the good, old air gap

2013-10-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 09:14:35PM +0200, yersinia wrote: I like Bruce much, i have read all of him, every book, mostly article, from years. But no normal person would follow these advice, all smartphones That advice is not exactly targeted towards Jane Doe. should be turned off, each

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:07:10PM +0100, Nick wrote: Sorry for coming late to the party. This is an interesting idea, that I hadn't thought of before. I also like that it can allow one I'm glad that nobody sees a massive flaw in the scheme. to stop disclosing location data in a way that's

Re: [liberationtech] [coreboot] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
: Roundcube Webmail/0.9.2 Am 2013-09-20 11:51, schrieb Eugen Leitl: The Intel Atom-based MinnowBoard is a new UEFI dev platform, and it's Linux-based, and targets hackers; it uses Intel's definition of Open Hardware, mainly meaning no NDAs involved. It is much cheaper and smaller than the above

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:39:35PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Yes, but Firefox OS and Cryanogenmod only control the user facing part of the smartphone. Loading eg Cryanogenmod onto a android phone leaves the software running the radio part of the phone untouched (otherwise the phone

Re: [liberationtech] iPhone5S Fingerprint and 5th amendment

2013-09-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:04:44AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: Similarly, any other sort of one-way algorithm that prevents you from reconstructing a valid input from the stored data is not going to work. Typical fingerprint matching uses classification, recognizing and encoding multiple

Re: [liberationtech] iPhone5S Fingerprint and 5th amendment

2013-09-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:20:56AM -0700, Peat Bakke wrote: This is likely subject to a precompiled hash lookup table attack, as the number of all possible fingerprints, quantized via a classification vector is not that large. Can you give us a better idea of how large not that large is?

Re: [liberationtech] Meet the 'cowboy' in charge of the NSA

2013-09-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 12:50:49PM +0200, phryk wrote: http://cryptome.org/2013/09/nsa-cowboy.htm 9 September 2013 The Cowboy of the NSA Keith Alexander

[liberationtech] [cryptography] NSA can spy on smart phone data

2013-09-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] [Cryptography] NYTimes: Legislation Seeks to Bar N.S.A. Tactic in Encryption

2013-09-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [liberationtech] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:26:22PM -0400, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi Eugen, When Bruce Schneier made the call for people to come forward and describe being asked to degrade standards or build backdoors I don't think this is what he meant. Bruce is a cool guy, but nobody died, and made him

[liberationtech] How to remain secure against NSA surveillance

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance How to remain secure against NSA surveillance The NSA has huge capabilities – and if it wants in to your computer, it's in. With that in mind, here are five ways to stay safe Bruce Schneier theguardian.com,

Re: [liberationtech] The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing leaks prosecution

2013-09-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/04/barrett-brown-gag-order-us-government US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing leaks prosecution Federal court order prohibits Brown from talking to the media in what critics say is latest in crackdown on investigative journalism Ed

[liberationtech] Spy Files: New WikiLeaks docs expose secretive, unruly surveillance industry

2013-09-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-spy-files-release-402/ Spy Files: New WikiLeaks docs expose secretive, unruly surveillance industry Published time: September 04, 2013 16:06 Edited time: September 05, 2013 10:00 Get short URL Screenshot from a leaked documentScreenshot from a leaked document

Re: [liberationtech] NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches

2013-09-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com - Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 10:02:39 -0400 From: Scott Helms khe...@zcorum.com To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org Cc: NANOG list na...@nanog.org Subject: Re: [liberationtech] NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches The last

Re: [liberationtech] Safest exit country?

2013-09-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
easily found hidden services, exited around camouflaging exits. That, to be sure, was and remains the fundamental intent of Tor: off the grid, criminal, illegal, illegitimate, government grade security. - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

[liberationtech] NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches

2013-09-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-router-hacking/ NSA Laughs at PCs, Prefers Hacking Routers and Switches BY KIM ZETTER09.04.136:30 AM Photo: Santiago Cabezas/Flickr The NSA runs a massive, full-time hacking operation targeting foreign systems, the latest leaks from Edward Snowden

[liberationtech] what to install on a secure communication device

2013-08-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
I'm looking to build a list for reasonably secure (no snake oil) ways to communicate (search, store, etc.). My ad hoc list so far is: Pidgin/OTR cables Jitsi Tor YaCy RetroShare TorChat Tahoe LAFS GnuNet No doubt I'm missing a lot. Any further suggestions? -- Liberationtech is a public list

Re: [liberationtech] what to install on a secure communication device

2013-08-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:46:15AM +, andreas.ba...@nachtpult.de wrote: Why not also JonDonym? The problem with TOR for productivity is its bandwith. Because it's officially backdoored. There are also some pretty good commercial services. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives

[liberationtech] [tahoe-dev] reproducible builds for Tahoe-LAFS: where do we start?

2013-08-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
/ ⁵ ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/filesystems/tahoe-lafs/README.html ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http

Re: [liberationtech] [Cryptography] The Case for Formal Verification

2013-08-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
at 11:50 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: ... Much of what has changed is proof technology, and it is a technology. The tools for doing formal verification are now, for the first time, just barely usable for real work on interesting programs, and getting better all the time

[liberationtech] [cryptome] NSA Head: US Cyber Offense Is Best in World

2013-08-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
cyber effects, our technological and operational superiority delivers unparalleled effects against our adversaries' systems. - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

[liberationtech] [drone-list] How Not to Think About Drones, or Goliath Died for Your Sins

2013-08-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
...@vcnv.org -- Want to unsubscribe? Want to receive a weekly digest instead of daily emails? Change your preferences: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list or email compa...@stanford.edu - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

Re: [liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

2013-08-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 01:30:15PM -0400, The Doctor wrote: On 08/21/2013 04:59 PM, Shelley wrote: Sure, but I think Manning has a zero chance of obtaining a pardon. Examples needed to be made to dissuade anybody else from doing something similar. Manning was the example. There will

Re: [liberationtech] NSA's 100% perfect internal audits...

2013-08-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:36:37AM -0500, Case Black wrote: Addressing the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas, an annual gathering for the information security industry, he gave a personal example: I have four daughters. Can I go and intercept their emails? No. The technical limitations are in

[liberationtech] Dubious sources feed national-security reporter Eli Lake a fraudulent story for political purposes — once again

2013-08-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
How very surprising. http://harpers.org/blog/2013/08/anatomy-of-an-al-qaeda-conference-call/ Anatomy of an Al Qaeda “Conference Call” Dubious sources feed national-security reporter Eli Lake a fraudulent story for political purposes — once again By Ken Silverstein Share Single Page

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit and End-point Security

2013-08-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
vulnerable to some degree or another - it's just a function of cost and skill to compromise. turtles all the way down! ;P - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

[liberationtech] nettime Interview with Lavabit's Ladar Levison

2013-08-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl

Re: [liberationtech] In defense of client-side encryption

2013-08-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:46:26PM +0200, Arjen Kamphuis wrote: Client-side encryption means a Free Software code stack running on a machine that is physically under your control at all time. Anything else is BS. Indeed. And it can be argued that we even need open, fully inspectable hardware,

[liberationtech] nettime Deborah Orr: What does idealism get you today? Abuse, derision, or sometimes prison (Guardian)

2013-08-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [liberationtech] [drone-list] [nodrones] what can I do ?

2013-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
preferences: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list or email compa...@stanford.edu - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

[liberationtech] Secrecy News -- 08/06/13

2013-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
: @saftergood - 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 4EC5

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

2013-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[liberationtech] [tahoe-dev] press release: LeastAuthority.com announces Spy-Proof Backup

2013-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
://wikileaks.org/ 6. https://leastauthority.com/ ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[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] 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

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

2013-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 05:19:27PM -0700, Percy Alpha wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Randolph D. rdohm...@gmail.com wrote: uh? why commercial? http://bitmail.sf.net is open source. Regards Again, I want common people to use PGP. I want every communication to be Then, put GPG

[liberationtech] Moscow Metro says new tracking system is to find stolen phones; no one believes them

2013-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/moscow-metro-says-new-tracking-system-is-to-find-stolen-phones-no-one-believes-them/ Moscow Metro says new tracking system is to find stolen phones; no one believes them Experts: Russians are probably using fake cell tower devices for surveillance.

[liberationtech] [cryptography] evidence for threat modelling -- street-sold hardware has been compromised

2013-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
documented “back-door” hardware and “firmware” vulnerabilities in Lenovo chips. ... ___ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http

[liberationtech] nettime John Naughton: Edward Snowden's not the story. The fate of the

2013-07-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[liberationtech] NSA History of Traffic Analysis

2013-07-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
the mail analogy of T/A for the envelope, C/A for the contents. As noted elsewhere T/A is now publicized as metadata. - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100

[liberationtech] Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

2013-07-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
(See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL) ) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57595202-38/feds-put-heat-on-web-firms-for-master-encryption-keys/ Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys Whether the FBI and NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that

Re: [liberationtech] Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

2013-07-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:22:25AM +0100, Nick wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL) ) Would Convergence help here? I can't see how. If a government secretly aquired the SSL private keys for a site

[liberationtech] [hackerspaces] Prism Break Badge

2013-07-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
___ Discuss mailing list disc...@lists.hackerspaces.org http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[liberationtech] Join us for a public hack day on Friday, July 26, 2013 in Munich, Germany.

2013-07-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/join-us-tor-hack-day-munich-germany JOIN US - Tor Hack Day, Munich, Germany Posted July 8th, 2013 by kelley in dev meeting hack day Join us for a public hack day on Friday, July 26, 2013 in Munich, Germany. Thank you to our hosts at the Technische Universität

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] a Cypherpunks comeback

2013-07-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:06:50AM +0200, Jason Gulledge wrote: It looks like https://cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks also serves the same purpose. is to drive away potential subscribers -- that was a funny one. Going to that other one presents with a bad SSL certificate pointed to

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] a Cypherpunks comeback

2013-07-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:14:11AM +0200, jd.cypherpu...@gmail.com wrote: 22.07.2013 10:43 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org: Either way, interesting to see how many of original list members are still around. You do have the courage to ask? Nobody will tell you. :) I *know* who

[liberationtech] a Cypherpunks comeback

2013-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
to the Cypherpunks mailing list. If you're interested, you can join via https://al-qaeda.net/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks Hello, In the past couple days I've exchanged emails with John Young and Eugen Leitl on some brokenness in the Cypherpunks mailing list. This discussion brought us

Re: [liberationtech] [Freedombox-discuss] Serval Mesh Extenders

2013-07-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130514 Thunderbird/17.0.6 On 07/17/2013 12:11 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: - Forwarded message from John Gilmore g...@toad.com - Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:17:54 -0700 From: John Gilmore g...@toad.com To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org, g...@toad.com Cc: freedombox

[liberationtech] [tahoe-dev] Dedicated LAFS nodes offer

2013-07-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
) ___ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

Re: [liberationtech] Traffic Analysis Countermeasures

2013-07-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:51:23AM -0500, Charles Allhands wrote: Thanks for the link! Is there a reason why mix networks aren't commonly used? I see mixminion hasn't been worked on in years. Most of the payload of mix was spam and malware. It's effectively an open relay as far as RBLs are

Re: [liberationtech] Surespot? Re: Feedback on Threema - Seriously secure mobile messaging.

2013-07-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:17:38PM -0700, Tony Arcieri wrote: They seem to have an... interesting philosophy about open source: When you have an entire planet looking at the source code you can be assured that the implementation is highly scrutinized and proven. Apparently all you have to

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
, CAs and chat systems for Americans spring to mind. ___ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

Re: [liberationtech] One time pad Management system?

2013-07-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:12:32PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: Are there any practical one time pad management systems out there, GPLed for GNU/Linux? The biggest problem of one-time pads is their generation. You need a properly whitened and reviewed hardware entropy source for that, which is a

Re: [liberationtech] One time pad Management system?

2013-07-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 07:23:17AM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Jul 12, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: I would be very interested in hardware recommendations for an affordable, high-quality hardware RNG (ideally something like VIA Padlock RNG). We use

Re: [liberationtech] [tor-talk] Network diversity [was: Should I warn against Tor?]

2013-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
tor-t...@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com

Re: [liberationtech] [tor-talk] Network diversity [was: Should I warn against Tor?]

2013-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk - 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

Re: [liberationtech] In his own words: Confessions of a cyber warrior

2013-07-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:03:50AM +, Andreas Bader wrote: Tens of thousands zero-days; that sounds like totally shit. That guy seems to be a script kiddie poser, nothing more. Are there any real hackers that can issue a competent statement to that? See http://blog.fefe.de/ -- Too many

[liberationtech] Thank you for choosing cyberpunk dystopia.

2013-07-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
https://medium.com/surveillance-state/b804de3b5b in Surveillance State14 min read Thank you for choosing cyberpunk dystopia. encryption, capitalism, and law June has been a pretty surreal month. As the Guardian and the Washington Post continue to publish internal NSA documents in what has

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] SSL session resumption defective (Re: What project would you finance? [WAS: Potential funding for crypto-related projects])

2013-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
___ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100

[liberationtech] Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America (retracted article from Guardian)

2013-07-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://pastebin.com/yMGTZ1PZ# DELETED ARTICLE FROM GUARDIAN http://www.guardian.co.uk/info/2013/jun/30/taken-down Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America Germany 'among countries offering intelligence' according to new claims by former US defence analyst At

Re: [liberationtech] Secret European deals to hand over private data to America

2013-07-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 02:15:15AM +0200, André Rebentisch wrote: Dear all, do you follow the news? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/berlin-washington-cold-war http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/eu-confronts-us-over-alleged-spying-on-european-allies/article12899295/

[liberationtech] Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to ATT, Verizon

2013-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57591391-38/surveillance-partnership-between-nsa-and-telcos-points-to-at-t-verizon/ Surveillance 'partnership' between NSA and telcos points to ATT, Verizon Newly disclosed classified document suggests firms allowed spy agency to access e-mail and phone call

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

2013-06-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:02:15PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: YaCY and other FOSS engines (in a sibling thread someone mentioned another that I already forgot) are also something that I will accept search plugins for the Omnibox, but their result quality, index depth, and crawl frequency are no

[liberationtech] A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping

2013-06-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
(for the sake of completeness) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/ssl_forward_secrecy/ A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping It might slow you down, but hey, you can't have everything By John Leyden, 26th June 2013 Forward Secrecy An obscure feature of SSL/TLS

Re: [liberationtech] Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
- 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 4EC5 -- Too many emails

Re: [liberationtech] Security over SONET/SDH

2013-06-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
they don't know about. -- 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 __ ICBM

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