Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly
Rich Kulawiec: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:17:18PM +0100, Christian Huldt wrote: Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? Spammers for hire, and no, you shouldn't -- doubly so since (like many such operations) they embed unique-per-recipient tracking links in every message they send. Last time I checked they were operating over 300 domains -- e.g., mcsv94.net, mcsv95.net, mcsv96.net. This is a tactic used exclusively by spammers who are attempt to evade domain-based blacklisting: there is absolutely no legitimate purpose for it. The best way for GovLab to avoid all of this is to set up a Mailman instance in-house. As Ken over at the PopeHat blog has astutely observed, when you outsource your email, you outsource your reputation. And I'll add to that that you also surrender the privacy of your readers to third parties unknown to you. That's also the best way for everyone else. If you're trying to do something with a mailing list that Mailman doesn't do, there's a very good chance that what you're trying to do is wrong, stupid, silly or abusive. (Yes, Mailman is *that* good. And it's very well supported by an active community. I could use anything I want -- or write my own -- but I use it because I think I think it's the best available by a wide margin.) Privacy and security do not always go hand in hand. In this case, they diverge. The threat model is evolving. The danger is no longer simply the collection of your private information. The danger is sabotage. Spies (or other adversaries) don't like your project? They sabotage your mailing list. They corrupt the database, they delete users, they add users who never opted in (thus destroying your domain reputation), and in general interfere with the running of your list. Feudalism is a protection racket. And in a world of digital feudalism, few people are capable of running their own mail server etc in a secure way. So we pay fealty to Google, MailChimp, etc, giving up our privacy in exchange for something more or less approaching security. While invisible barbarians assault us from all sides, we are forced to huddle inside these castle walls, serfs to our feudal overlords. Perhaps the day will come when that is no longer necessary. I hope so, anyway. JMP -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?
While we have no consensus, most of these options are using similar stuff at the encrypted layers. Realistically as long as the encryption is good, the Chinese gov't can only block stuff by host/IP/protocol, I think all the VPN providers listed are taking active steps to change IPs and obscure their protocol as needed. My pref of VPN is you aren't limited to just a voice communications services. --- -ITG (ITechGeek) i...@itechgeek.com https://itg.nu/ GPG Keys: https://itg.nu/contact/gpg-key Preferred GPG Key: Fingerprint: AB46B7E363DA7E04ABFA57852AA9910A DCB1191A Google Voice: +1-703-493-0128 / Twitter: ITechGeek / Facebook: http://fb.me/Jbwa.Net On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: Tim Libert writes: thanks all for the many good suggestions! however, in absence of a clear consensus, I will advise my friend to avoid voice and stick to encrypted email. my understanding is that the new leadership in china isn’t f#cking around, so the risk/reward equation here suggests heightened caution - especially as I cannot make assumptions on technical know-how of parties involved. A countervailing point is that encrypted e-mail with the mainstream technologies used for that purpose never provides forward secrecy, while most voice encryption techniques do. So with the use of encrypted e-mail, there is an ongoing risk into the future (assuming that a recipient's private key still exists somewhere), while with the voice encryption, the risk may be time-limited -- assuming that the implementations were correct enough, and that the key exchange was based on a mathematical problem that will remain hard for an attacker. As a simple analogy, sometimes people prefer to have a phone call about sensitive matters because it doesn't create records, while writing a letters would make a paper trail. The technical reasons behind the analogy don't transfer at all, but there might still be something to the intuition that the encrypted phone call can be more ephemeral than the encrypted mail. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?
thanks all for the many good suggestions! however, in absence of a clear consensus, I will advise my friend to avoid voice and stick to encrypted email. my understanding is that the new leadership in china isn’t f#cking around, so the risk/reward equation here suggests heightened caution - especially as I cannot make assumptions on technical know-how of parties involved. thanks again! - t -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?
Tim Libert writes: thanks all for the many good suggestions! however, in absence of a clear consensus, I will advise my friend to avoid voice and stick to encrypted email. my understanding is that the new leadership in china isn’t f#cking around, so the risk/reward equation here suggests heightened caution - especially as I cannot make assumptions on technical know-how of parties involved. A countervailing point is that encrypted e-mail with the mainstream technologies used for that purpose never provides forward secrecy, while most voice encryption techniques do. So with the use of encrypted e-mail, there is an ongoing risk into the future (assuming that a recipient's private key still exists somewhere), while with the voice encryption, the risk may be time-limited -- assuming that the implementations were correct enough, and that the key exchange was based on a mathematical problem that will remain hard for an attacker. As a simple analogy, sometimes people prefer to have a phone call about sensitive matters because it doesn't create records, while writing a letters would make a paper trail. The technical reasons behind the analogy don't transfer at all, but there might still be something to the intuition that the encrypted phone call can be more ephemeral than the encrypted mail. -- Seth Schoen sch...@eff.org Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] BitTorrent, VPS and no DMCA
just had found being able to run a torrent seed box (in a medium bandwidth VPS, cheap) without getting DMCA requests, restarting daemon every 240 seconds - new randomized port on each restart. Using Deluge as torrent program and 8 lines of bash script to do the restart job. i forgot the restart script once and, next day, DMCA arrived. didnt bothered to found the optimal value since 240 seconds is ok for my needs. any other experiences? -Virilha -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] CfP 4th GCEG Oxford: Digital Growth Entrepreneurship at the Margins
Session: Growth Entrepreneurship at the Margins: Digital Production and Innovation in Low-Income Contexts Call for Papers: 4th Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG), Oxford August 19-23, 2015 *Session Organisers: Nicolas Friederici, Mark Graham (Oxford Internet Institute)* *See http://www.gceg2015.org/uploads/2/6/9/5/26954337/entrep_tech_inno_at_margins.pdf http://www.gceg2015.org/uploads/2/6/9/5/26954337/entrep_tech_inno_at_margins.pdf for an abridged version* The geography of the globalized digital economy is “double-edged”: creative and coordinating functions of production are shaped by centripetal forces and are highly clustered (usually in Silicon Valley or urban centers in developed countries), while other value creation and distribution processes benefit from dispersion economies and can stretch across the globe (Malecki and Moriset 2007). This has led to vastly divergent geographies of digital consumption and production: most of the content and applications that are used in developing countries are actually produced in the Global North (Graham 2014). Recently, however, low-income contexts have seen significant upgrades in Internet connectivity that has been paralleled by economic growth and a rising middle class. This has revived efforts to create local digital innovation and production centers, even in places with a weak incumbent digital economy. While planning interventions such as technopoles, ICT incubators, and science parks have a history of several decades and are still favored in some policy circles, what is new is an increasing dominance of grassroots, entrepreneur-led, and urban approaches to local development. Success stories of fast-growing clusters, such as in Israel and Taiwan, have inspired a narrative that sees small communities of motivated, educated, and experienced entrepreneurs as drivers of regional and even national growth, while policy is relegated to a supporting and enabling function (Saxenian 2006; Feldman, Francis, and Bercovitz 2005). This is not so different from the trajectory that innovation discourse has taken in countries and regions in the Global North. Technocratic and policy-oriented notions in national and regional development (such as knowledge spillovers, innovation systems, and clusters) dominated the 1990s and 2000s. But recently, academia and practice have instead become more interested in the individual- and local-level underpinnings of innovation. Concepts such as “buzz” (Storper and Venables 2004), the creative class (Florida 2005), entrepreneurial ecosystems (Pitelis 2012), startup communities (Feld 2012), or innovation districts (Katz and Bradley 2013) have gained in popularity far beyond scholarship, and it is safe to say that the “in” topics for geographical perspectives on innovation have become entrepreneurship and the city. This session seeks to clarify where this leaves our understanding of where, why, and how digital innovation happens at Global Margins. Can we translate theories and concepts developed in the context of buzzing urban centers in North America and Europe to places like Harare and Kathmandu? Where do driven entrepreneurs come from if there is no legacy of entrepreneurship? What kinds of innovations and businesses can we expect to succeed? Does the potential of local digital production and innovation lie in job creation and economic growth through startups, or rather in small-scale, targeted innovations that are not commercially viable but fulfill an unmet user need? What is the role that development organizations play in this mix? Will we continue to see a highly uneven global digital innovation landscape, or rather a more evenly distributed one, with specialized, complementary production centers in different places? We invite both theoretical and empirical contributions, ideally bridging multiple disciplines such as economic geography, innovation management, and development studies. Our focus is not squarely on developing or low-income countries, but generally on ‘Global Margins,’ that is, the people, places, and processes that have not been able to occupy central positions in transnational networks of digital production and value creation. Submissions discussing the African context are particularly encouraged. Potential themes include but are not limited to the following: - Comparative theories and concepts for geographies of digital entrepreneurship and innovation at Global Margins, capturing differences between cities, regions, and nations - Legacies, path dependencies, and lock-in effects for digital innovation and entrepreneurship - Differences in dispersion and agglomeration effects for distinct digital business models, innovation stages, specializations, etc. - Evolution of entrepreneurial capacity and competence - Dynamics of serial entrepreneurship, spin-offs, and role models - Ecosystem perspectives; in particular tackling
Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly
Excellent service! Definitely subscribe. On Feb 13, 2015 11:33 AM, Maria Hermosilla ma...@thegovlab.org wrote: Hi! If you and your colleagues are not yet familiar with The GovLab Digest, please take a moment to review the current issue http://eepurl.com/bee691. The Digest, delivered electronically every week, is a carefully curated gathering of the most important new developments and findings related to civic technology and governance innovation. With so much research, design, and pilot testing now going on in these areas in so many different parts of the world, the Digest provides a timely, convenient, and synoptic way to stay on top of the current state of knowledge and experimentation. There is no charge for subscribing to the Digest. Our goal is to help build, extend, and energize the community of those working on innovations in governance that touch real people's lives. To subscribe, click here http://thegovlab.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1a990feb5cid=d90a01c7ff Please do sign up and see for yourself if this weekly collection of materials proves useful. If it does not, you can always stop your subscription at any time. We very much hope you become and active reader -- and an active contributor of new ideas, new materials, and new suggestions for things to be included. Sincerely, Maria Hermosilla The Governance Lab NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering ma...@thegovlab.org and...@thegovlab.org | 1-917-648-8706 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly
Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? (providing a name is enhancing trust, but I don't personally know Ben Chestnut) 2015-02-17 15:42, Steven Clift skrev: Excellent service! Definitely subscribe. On Feb 13, 2015 11:33 AM, Maria Hermosilla ma...@thegovlab.org mailto:ma...@thegovlab.org wrote: Hi! If you and your colleagues are not yet familiar with The GovLabDigest, please take a moment to review the current issue http://eepurl.com/bee691. TheDigest, delivered electronically every week, is a carefully curated gathering of the most important new developments and findings related to civic technology and governance innovation. With so much research, design, and pilot testing now going on in these areas in so many different parts of the world, theDigestprovides a timely, convenient, and synoptic way to stay on top of the current state of knowledge and experimentation. There is no charge for subscribing to theDigest. Our goal is to help build, extend, and energize the community of those working on innovations in governance that touch real people's lives. To subscribe, click here http://thegovlab.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1a990feb5cid=d90a01c7ff Please do sign up and see for yourself if this weekly collection of materials proves useful. If it does not, you can always stop your subscription at any time. We very much hope you become and active reader -- and an active contributor of new ideas, new materials, and new suggestions for things to be included. Sincerely, Maria Hermosilla The Governance Lab NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering ma...@thegovlab.org mailto:and...@thegovlab.org | 1-917-648-8706 tel:1-917-648-8706 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu. -- Christian Huldt +46704612207 -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:17:18PM +0100, Christian Huldt wrote: Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? Spammers for hire, and no, you shouldn't -- doubly so since (like many such operations) they embed unique-per-recipient tracking links in every message they send. Last time I checked they were operating over 300 domains -- e.g., mcsv94.net, mcsv95.net, mcsv96.net. This is a tactic used exclusively by spammers who are attempt to evade domain-based blacklisting: there is absolutely no legitimate purpose for it. The best way for GovLab to avoid all of this is to set up a Mailman instance in-house. As Ken over at the PopeHat blog has astutely observed, when you outsource your email, you outsource your reputation. And I'll add to that that you also surrender the privacy of your readers to third parties unknown to you. That's also the best way for everyone else. If you're trying to do something with a mailing list that Mailman doesn't do, there's a very good chance that what you're trying to do is wrong, stupid, silly or abusive. (Yes, Mailman is *that* good. And it's very well supported by an active community. I could use anything I want -- or write my own -- but I use it because I think I think it's the best available by a wide margin.) ---rsk -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] FLOSS4P2P: distributed FLOSS for communities (London, March)
*FLOSS4P2P: Call for Participation* A 2-day London workshop in March, gathering *FLOSS projects* that are building software for *peer production and organization*, with a focus on *distributed* platforms. *Scholarships* to attend are offered to grassroots communities. ** Context ** We know that the Internet was originally decentralized, with protocols and services built by hackers. However, with the arrival of the celebrated Web 2.0, centralization and corporations proprietary platforms seem to have taken over. Moreover, this centralized structure is used by governments to increase surveillance (following Snowden’s revelations), to blackout internet whenever it is needed (e.g. Egypt, Syria, or San Francisco’s BART) or to choke annoying activist organizations (such as Wikileaks). On the other hand, in the last few years we have seen the emergence of Internet-enabled collaborative communities building shared libre/open resources. Commons-based Peer to Peer Production (CBPP) is rapidly growing: not just for software and encyclopedias, but also for information (OpenStreetMap, Wikihow), hardware (FabLabs, Open Source Ecology), accommodation (Couchsurfing) and currency (Bitcoin, Altcoins). In the last few years, it has become clear to many that it is not enough to develop free/libre/open source (FLOSS) alternatives, but we also need to re-decentralize the Internet. Many initiatives are being undertaken under this premise (e.g. Ethereum, Diaspora, OwnCloud, MediaGoblin, Sandstorm). These new software tools may also be useful to boost CBPP communities further. In this workshop, we will gather those working around the decentralized FLOSS that could help CBPP/P2P communities. Hackers, academics, activists and interested stakeholders are welcome. **When** March 16-17th 2015 **Where** Fab Lab London http://fablablondon.org **Call for Proposals** We welcome proposals for: - Lightning talks (2m-5m): summarise your idea receive feedback - Show Tell presentations (20m): explain your project/tech/research - Tutorials on software tools (1h) Please email: lu.y...@surrey.ac.uk with your idea/proposals. The workshop will have both presentations and unconference-style participatory dynamics for finding points of collaboration and extraction of conclusions. ** Topics ** - Focus on FLOSS software with some of the following features: - Social: communication - e.g. social-networking, microblogging, reworked email - Social: collaboration - e.g. wikis, pads, wave, shared file hosting, multimedia repositories - Alternative to proprietary choices - Federated / Distributed / Interoperable - Open Standards - Secure / Encrypted - Encouraging Peer Production communities - Encouraging the construction/maintenance of Commons - Potential cases for discussion: - Diaspora (federated social network) - Wave (federated real-time collaboration) - Lorea (federated social network) - DarkWallet (distributed wallet social network) - Ethereum (P2P infrastructure) - MaidSafe (P2P infrastructure) - Sandstorm.io (facilitates federated sw) - Mailpile (encripted email) - MediaGoblin (federated multimedia repository) - OwnCloud (file hosting) - … (your case) **Scholarships** There are a few scholarships for potential participants who wish to attend the event. The scholarship will cover participant’s travel and subsistence cost, up to €400. If you are interested in applying for the scholarship, please email: lu.y...@surrey.ac.uk before 28 February 2015, with a paragraph stating why you think your FLOSS is relevant, plus a short bio. Priority will be given to those with low resources, innovative FLOSS within the topics of the call, and being a grassroot community. ** More ** More info will be posted online in: http://p2pvalue.eu/2nd-floss4p2p-workshop Email queries to: lu.y...@surrey.ac.uk -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Speaking as a Technical Area Co-Chair for M3AAWG [1], I would like to comment on this. Mailchimp is a M3AAWG member company in good standing, and if you know anything about M3AAWG, you should understand that companies which violate the code of conduct, and do not live up to high standards of other member companies, get ejected from M3AAWG membership. And it does happen. M3AAWG provides a legitimate framework for ESPs (E-Mail Service Providers) so that they can conduct their legitimate *business* in a ethical and moral model, provide proper opt-in/opt-out models, and provides a legitimate and legal service to their customers. You may not like sales marketing e-mail services, but that does not make them spammers, illegal, or sketchy. There are *real* criminals and *real* spammers, but ESPs who conduct themselves under the auspices of the M3AAWG code of conduct are not spammers, regardless of anyone's personal opinions on marketing e-mail. Back to your regularly scheduled programming, - - ferg [1] https://www.m3aawg.org/ On 2/17/2015 10:41 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:17:18PM +0100, Christian Huldt wrote: Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? Spammers for hire, and no, you shouldn't -- doubly so since (like many such operations) they embed unique-per-recipient tracking links in every message they send. Last time I checked they were operating over 300 domains -- e.g., mcsv94.net, mcsv95.net, mcsv96.net. This is a tactic used exclusively by spammers who are attempt to evade domain-based blacklisting: there is absolutely no legitimate purpose for it. The best way for GovLab to avoid all of this is to set up a Mailman instance in-house. As Ken over at the PopeHat blog has astutely observed, when you outsource your email, you outsource your reputation. And I'll add to that that you also surrender the privacy of your readers to third parties unknown to you. That's also the best way for everyone else. If you're trying to do something with a mailing list that Mailman doesn't do, there's a very good chance that what you're trying to do is wrong, stupid, silly or abusive. (Yes, Mailman is *that* good. And it's very well supported by an active community. I could use anything I want -- or write my own -- but I use it because I think I think it's the best available by a wide margin.) ---rsk - -- Paul Ferguson VP Threat Intelligence, IID PGP Public Key ID: 0x54DC85B2 Key fingerprint: 19EC 2945 FEE8 D6C8 58A1 CE53 2896 AC75 54DC 85B2 I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas. - Herman Melville -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlTjmAgACgkQKJasdVTchbINKQEAkWif8UAljWDOjcjLQVBHS/s4 BG/zJrfarqkaQ30kSQoA/AmjbwVbIH6NRdmbamkMfN1OT1zKhRuymvaYuEVtdhSL =o+TJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
