[liberationtech] Fwd: [Sdi-latinamericacaribbean] Nicaragua: company convicted of theft of restricted cadastral information
Cautionary thoughts in the Age of Open Data -- except in despotic or paranoid regimes. bp Begin forwarded message: From: Kate Lance klance_rem...@yahoo.com Subject: [Sdi-latinamericacaribbean] Nicaragua: company convicted of theft of restricted cadastral information Date: December 5, 2013 12:52:59 PM EST To: SDI-legal-socioecon legal-socioe...@lists.gsdi.org, SDI-LAC sdi-latinamericacaribb...@lists.gsdi.org Reply-To: Kate Lance lanc...@aya.yale.edu Condenados por sustracción de información restringida http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/sucesos/303713-condenados-sustraccion-de-informacion-restringida Nicaragua: company convicted of theft of restricted cadastral information (article in Spanish) December 2, 2013: On charges of disclosing confidential information and providing public access to classified information, Tosca Alexandra Altamirano Barreda, who works for the Nicaraguan Institute of Land Studies (INETER), could spend eight years in prison, while Tupac Amaru Aguilar Beteta who also worked for that institution, could face a sentence of five years. The conviction for both former employees of the Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies, was issued by the Tenth District Criminal Trial Judge of the capital, Nancy Aguirre. According to the prosecution, Tupac Amaru Aguilar was found guilty of influence peddling, because was using his personal relationship with Tosca Altamirano to get INETER's cadastral information. The stolen classified information (cadastral survey plans, cadastral data of special areas of border protection and cadastral records of state property), which is confidential and only the state can handle, was used by Aguilar Altamirano and the company created by them, called TGA, SA, which provided surveying services. The two also appropriated aerial and satellite photos of state properties. The sentencing for defendants was scheduled for court next Friday at 10:00 am. ___ SDI-LatinAmericaCaribbean mailing list sdi-latinamericacaribb...@lists.gsdi.org http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-latinamericacaribbean Bruce bpot...@irf.org -- 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] Metadata Cleanup trough File Format Convertion?
Maybe this would help -- On the Mac platform, Lemkesoft's GraphicConverter is one of the oldest and most versatile graphic media format conversion programs (AND a good photo editor) -- it currently works with 60+ formats and explicitly allows removing OR modifying METADATA in batch mode. www.lemkesoft.com or write to the author, Thorsten Lemke at supp...@lemkesoft.com There are a dozen or more language versions of GraphicConverter -- it's modestly priced. bruce - - - - - - - On Jul 17, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: Hi all, i've been thinking about the topic of metadata cleanup of files from an implementation point of view. Regardless the consideration whether it's something useful or not for a Whistleblowing platform (GlobaLeaks), i've been considering whenever the Metadata Cleanup can't be approached by File Format Conversion. If i'd like to remove metadata from various documents formats (pdf, word, ppt, excel, etc) or image file, i've been thinking that rather then explicitly removing metadata a possible different approach would be by doing a file convertion . If a JPEG is converted to PNG, maybe all metadatas are lost. (this has to be verified) If a DOC/DOCX is converted to a PDF, maybe all metadatas are lost. At GlobaLeaks we've been discussing about introducing metadata cleanup [1] , but also a file sterilization [2] with the goal to protect Receivers of a Whistleblowing site against targeted 0day attacks. Should we approach metadata cleanup by doing the file sterilization processing trough existing Libreoffice convertion API [3] to save engineering effort/time? [1] Metadata Cleanup https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/issues/305 [2] File Sterilization https://github.com/globaleaks/GlobaLeaks/issues/270 [3] Libreoffice Convertion API https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?
That and get everyone to salt every message with a random assortment of words and phrases from flag lists On Jun 21, 2013, at 11:55 AM, 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 communications, we dilute this threat. NK On 2013-06-21, at 11:52 AM, Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org wrote: Signed PGP part It's unfortunate that Ars Technica has chosen that angle, since I believe it misrepresents the situation: if you use encryption, the NSA may indeed retain your encrypted traffic, but won't be able to read it. If you don't use encryption, the NSA will be able to read your traffic, and will retain it if it contains anything interesting, or if you're not an American. So encryption is still a net gain for privacy. Blending in is a red herring in my opinion - metadata (which isn't subject to the restrictions discussed in the Ars Technica article) reveals who talks to whom and when. That's sufficient to identify persons of interest, regardless of whether they use encryption. Any activist or journalist should assume they're already a person of interest, thanks to their job and the people they talk to. Not to be subject to surveillance would be something of a professional embarrassment. ;-) So forget about blending in. Assume you're subject to surveillance, and think about what steps you're going to take in response. Cheers, Michael On 21/06/13 16:41, dan mcquillan wrote: a few people who came to our university cryptoparty asked whether they're just going to draw attention to themselves by encrypting email. the latest leaks seems to give a firm 'yes', as the NSA specifically keeps encrypted comms indefinitely. sample news item: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/15390323549/nsa-has-convinced-fisa-court-that-if-your-data-is-encrypted-you-might-be-terrorist-so-itll-hang-onto-your-data.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130620/15390323549/nsa-has-convinced-fisa-court-that-if-your-data-is-encrypted-you-might-be-terrorist-so-itll-hang-onto-your-data.shtml?utm_source=dlvr.itutm_medium=twitter how would list members answer the question 'to encrypt or not to encrypt'? cheers dan -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Decoupling from current power structures
Decoupling might have been a feasible option in Thomas Jefferson's time (although they DID create the UNITED States after experimenting with the more decoupled Articles of Confederation), but somehow in a nation of 300 million, and a global system heading for 10 billion, I don't see it. At least until we can start colonizing asteroids. Afraid the answer is finding ways to humanize big systems. On Jun 18, 2013, at 8:01 AM, phryk in...@phryk.net wrote: I am pretty sure that I am not the only one thinking that we (colloquially known as we, the people) need to make ourselves independent from current power structures ie. governments and corporations. Even if you are not an anarchist or similiar you will have to acknowledge that a centralized government poses a single point of failure. If the government collapses it's fuck-all for the people living in that state. At the most basic level what people need is food and shelter. In our day and age the obvious way for giving *everyone* access to something would be automation. So, in essence, my question is this: What efforts for automating the supply of food, shelter and other things needed to be independent of our current, centralized, power structures do you know of? I know of the urban farming community but think they are a bit too low-tech. Automated vertical farming[1] seems interesting, but I don't know of any project trying to do this open-source or even just proprietarily… What seems very interesting in terms of shelter is a technology called contour crafting[2] which was inspired by 3D-printing and could revolutionize how we think about architecture. Last but not least I know of the Global Village Construction Set[3] which is a promising project, but seems to depend on classical, inefficient, agriculture. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming [2] http://www.contourcrafting.org/ Greetings, phryk -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Why Metadata Matters
The other point worth keeping in mind is that NSA can keep this data forever (hence the humoungous cyber farm NSA is building in Utah) -- So a decade from now they can check the metadata to see if it fits some theory a paranoid analyst thinks might have happened half a lifetime ago. bp On Jun 6, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Griffin Boyce griffinbo...@gmail.com wrote: I see a lot of people wondering why metadata matters. But they don't know *what* you're doing there! So I'll give a short example to illustrate how metadata can be used to not only determine who someone is talking to, but also to invade their privacy and uncover the most intimate details of their life. Jane is at 16th L Street for an hour. Carla is at 16th L Street for four hours. She's had a short visit previously. James is at 16th L Street for twenty minutes. He comes back at the same time every week. Kris is at 16th L Street for ten hours. Rick is at 16th L Street for eight hours every night. Samantha has been there for three days and four hours. 16th L Street is the address of a Planned Parenthood in Washington, DC. Jane is having a physical. Carla is having an abortion. James receives his medication there. By visit time, location, and frequency, he is likely a trans guy. If his appointments were every two weeks, the metadata would indicate that James is a trans woman. Kris is protesting there. Rick works in an office in the same building. Samantha dropped her phone in the Farragut West Metro Station and has been looking for it ever since. And that's just location data. If one calls a physician every day, perhaps they have a major medical problem. If a crime happens on the other side of town, and you suddenly start calling attorneys... did you do it? There are numerous explanations for either of those scenarios, but this kind of metadata in isolation can be used to tell almost any story you want. Stay safe out there. best, Griffin Boyce -- Technical Program Associate, Open Technology Institute #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR: sa...@jabber.ccc.de -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator atcompa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings athttps://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Anonymous Group Moderation?
I have a friend working in a politically volatile environment overseas environment who's interested in taking over a public e-mail group/listserv as a public participation service. The friend is based in the US, but the focus of the listserv is in a country where courts have held group moderators responsible for the content of various sorts of forums and discussion groups -- even if messages themselves are not moderated. Because my friend would prefer to avoid litigation, and perhaps limits on his future international travel, he's looking for simple options that would allow him to set up a group anonymously. Can that be done? Bruce Potter -- Island Resources Foundation --- i...@irf.org 40+ Years of Environmental Service to Small Tropical Islands -- 1718 P St NW, # T-4Fone 202/265-9712 Washington, DC 20036 Potter cell: 1-443-454-9044 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Subscribe to environmental e-mail groups at http://www.irf.org/help/email.php -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TWITTER:@IRFinDC; Facebook: http://j.mp/IRF_Facebook -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
