Re: [liberationtech] Silicon Valley Must Be Redistributed
Silicon Valley is a garbage fire, but calling it the "greatest threat to the human race" and describing American authorities as uniquely predisposed to coerce the companies based on its soil is laughable. The answer to companies being coerced by the American govt isn't "more global businesses spread out in more countries that are not the US." If anything, the precedent that FBI v Apple sets will only embolden governments to obtain the same coercive power in other countries, including those more repressive than the US. (And those that Any long-term solution in this area I believe has to start with completely decentralizing the technical infrastructure of software developments and updates. Otherwise we eventually wind up in the same spot with a different governments possessing and utilizing the same coercive powers. J.M. Porup: > The continued existence of Silicon Valley in its current form is the > single greatest threat to the human race we face today. > > As the FBI v Apple fiasco makes clear, any Silicon Valley business can > be commandeered, coerced to serve the surveillance apparatus. [0] > > The solution: We must disrupt Silicon Valley, redistribute innovation > around the world. > > That's why we founded the LatAm Startups Conference. [1] > > Unlike many "entrepreneurship initiatives," our goal is not a > thinly-disguised counter-insurgency program designed to create nations > of shopkeepers. > > Our goal is to end the brain drain to Silicon Valley, to encourage the > modern Janissaries on whom the empire depends to go home, to stay home, > to build globally-scalable businesses from their home countries. > > Ensuring internet freedom is a business and political problem as much as > it is a technical problem. And when the American secret police are > hellbent on betraying every last principle of freedom that the country > was founded on, it's time for you to pick up your toys and go play > somewhere else. > > The third annual LatAm Startups Conf takes place in Mexico City in > October. [2] To celebrate Conf 3.0, we're releasing 30 tickets for only > $100. We expect tickets to sell out quickly, so if you're interested, > grab one now. [3] > > Hacking for freedom means not just technical solutions, but business > solutions. Startups are motivated by greed, but also by idealism. Show > them a better way to make money--and avoid coercion--and they will take > it. > > Hack the planet. > > jmp > > [0] https://medium.com/@toholdaquill/plunder-it-s-a-thing-b449485812bc > [1] https://www.latamstartups.biz/ > [2] https://www.latamstartups.biz/conference2016.html > [3] https://www.latamstartups.biz/tickets.html > > -- Joshua Kopstein journalist + researcher http://lawfulintercept.net PGP: https://github.com/lawfulintercept/contact -- 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] Whatsapp + textsecure?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 IIRC Moxie mentioned something a while back about trying to implement some kind of transparent encryption/key exchange for WhatsApp, but for now there's really no telling what the app is actually doing Until WA gets that and the ability to manually compare fingerprints, Signal/Textsecure is far more trustworthy On 05/18/2015 12:08 PM, Brian Conley wrote: Anyone know with certainty whether whatsapp has actually implemented the textsecure encryption? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVWhu3AAoJEOciqED1Gro8zN8P/3Z8P2Vih0DWJZDvKd1IlQ1c lDScBGfQHG5PhH+koVLml/ZvbS6Sem+SDXtxVslyuxtvGREgqsoFRtY357km/Uz6 GhSec/w5iRH6k3OpJi0vp7D4n0XXs5MxcDavcK+mV9ipkrkl9UCeTP7oUniFSqhq RivXczv5NpeNsi8DBdlN2UBxj7uruuy4Zb17xYNpbbQ9JUDoBzBLdLwXxkQ19PVU nHD6+eghNH9nCWwr5VJtHpYyAvqT5M6fHcmyZJ2AiRgMJki3iwlBmZHoCLhjtEvF ZKvKnrJiAckqswDOXfI0ctcDzPKq1F9X1caW6Z3bFa3FnGc0ySM9+WRmNIxsgROj O3KZHm5X18N93C2W/4JzG7Q4WJtDIZFdjPCvUsg3LhMgoNV+PTUiGTB30/EE/967 NktUq0UnYWIauL0DzFybImxXmp7sXhh2ReO0svFZbpgdPybI+TU82H/mVYkv/p7+ WzIrAsYZK1irkVSVfT0jA7a46K66lpCIUydiCRkt/iyf4akpTVp7Pz3Pbig7OIRo o/5CH8xZkz6papotX45wZEIfuBoekP94nS9H16eQTf2u1a7NpsutOq6eNTapxEL9 55t273VIbfhALSdKCWU1ZRq6H9exZTI+Nr/7An+zKF2OU99tlFrTzKZl1pmndkEX 88IuGUA/FUJJUH3E+kr6 =HtCl -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.
[liberationtech] Inside Citizen Lab, the “Hacker Hothouse” protecting you from Big Brother
Hey LibTech, Seeing as how their research is frequently posted here, I thought the list might be interested in this profile of Citizen Lab I wrote for Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/inside-citizen-lab-the-hacker-hothouse-protecting-you-from-big-brother Citizen Lab does really important work and is a pretty well-known in the human rights privacy scenes. But I'm hoping this piece will make their efforts a little more visible and present within the larger tech world and beyond -- esp. given their uniqueness as an institution that grapples with these topics on multiple levels in the post-Snowden era. Please feel free to share widely. Cheers, -- Joshua Kopstein cyberculture journalist https://joshk.contently.com PGP: http://is.gd/lHEXgs -- 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] Wicker: Déjà vu all over again
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 6/9/2014 8:42 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: Wickr is back in the news in spectacular form: http://www.inc.com/magazine/201407/ceo-of-wickr-leads-social-media-resistance-movement.html ...despite known security problems we've discussed on the list before: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2012-June/004239.html Seems as though we need better tactics to share with journalists our impressions about security. YC Looking at the list of issues Nathan mentioned, I'm seeing that at least some of them like PFS have been addressed since that posting (with the glaring exception of Open Source, unfortunately). They've also received an audit from Veracode since then IIRC. Obviously I can't speak expertly on the crypto, but I think it should be a positive thing that there's a push for ephemeral social media/messaging with some semblance of security in mind (aka - not Snapchat). I've spoken with one of the creators several times and they've always struck me as forthcoming and fairly determined to hammer out these issueseventually. A lot of people I talk to in the infosec community also seem pretty enthusiastic about it. But yeah, would definitely love to have some kind of catalog of concerns about this and other commercial solutions - I get pitched on the latest magic email encryption snakeoil regularly. - -- Joshua Kopstein ? Cyberculture Journalist ? PGP Key: http://is.gd/lHEXgs https://joshk.contently.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTlxQEAAoJEP1hZpSrdQtYFNoH/26KB0xR7XoqcWVfujlGbv7C rR5mj6qA61c7zD+thtIRQMJ1FAK7DUa2tuYaa127YIlEPfpu9B25MWitcCMe2zmm saUrVyZ/Y/8j/zfX1XTjXmArdv4Fg1EMuEvvTXx9aXPx4yRbl2cNY3bpW9k0z4Fo PNlxSZ9cKR1cSVhtb9YrGoRNz8RSdYmYwEPhYFvMxtcRLY42GbfiTQVUC1e7LL/W ZUWoeJm6aXPaih2alW5l4MgauIF1pGE9e7nVUVv7MO6tpOjzN5iYnym/Qv2u6FQa +ilbTOAwL+Vy3LrsymKsL+UoMNoQ3qT7THfBtbnYC5UPBJYAkJcI+5BipjuV2zI= =f+qA -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.
