Re: NICC - Israel Cable Connector
On Saturday 18 August 2007 16:22, you wrote: Hey, A. it's all bash, so there's like no need to really publish a source RPM B. i added a tar.gz archive, but as i said, it's probably not useable on debian, yet! C. it's noarch now, thanks for bringing my awareness And - I'm going to maintain and response quickly to feedbacks. I can feel the pain of novice users having troubles connecting their linux to our lame israeli cable infrastructure. Dan. Cool man! but.. : A. Why not the source also? B. What about debian users? C. Isn't it just bash? then why it's i386 and not noarch? On Friday, 17 August 2007 17:03:31 you wrote: Hi, I didn't write over here for a while :) Anyway, I know some users might be frustrated with the PPTP cable connection of several ISPs around in israel, newbies for instance... Fortunately i wrote a bunch of scripts which simplifies the whole process. Oh, and, umn, it's customized for fedora / rhel / centos distros - but should there be any interest, I'll sit down and port it to other distros just as well. The concept is pretty simple - the configuration you need to fill up is just your username, password and ISP. Generally it should plugged in into your /etc/inittab to make sure your connection is always up... And I almost forgot - the script suites newbies excellently!!! Anyway, just try it out, and send me some feedback : www.nevela.com/nicc/ Dan. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894512.html In short: There is a law presently being passed that will give the police free access to all phone numbers, IP addresses, etc, creating the largest such database for police use in the entire Western World (i.e. Israel will set a new precedent for what is allowable in a democracy, using totalitarian policies as inspiration). This really worries me. Not that I am a terrorist or criminal warlord who is worried in a disruption of my activities, but in that I consider it a major invasion of my privacy and a very bad direction for Israel to go in. I am therefore writing for two reasons: 1) To make you know about this proposed law. 2) To find out what we do to prevent it (assuming others are as troubled as I am). In my mind, there are very good reasons why in democracies, the police need to obtain a warrant or court order for sensitive information. Privacy is a basic liberty which needs to be protected. Not only that, such a system is bound to be abused, at first a little until such abuse is common place. All in all, a very downward spiral for the State. Other thoughts are of course welcome. Gadi -- Gadi Cohen aka Kinslayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.wastelands.net Freelance admin/coding/design HABONIM DROR linux/fantasy enthusiast KeyID 0x93F26EF5: 256A 1FC7 AA2B 6A8F 1D9B 6A5A 4403 F34B 93F2 6EF5
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Hi all! A few days ago, I reported this Firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392339 I'd like some help in trying to reproduce it on various systems. (Including non-Linux ones). Before you do, please read all the comments, because one needs to install some extensions first. To reproduce: 1. Install the latest Flash plugin. 2. Install the following extensions: 2.1 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 (firebug) 2.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 (Greasemonkey) 2.3 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4287 (Split Browser) 3. Restart Firefox. 4. Follow the instructions on the bug report. Thanks in advance, Shlomi Fish - Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage:http://www.shlomifish.org/ If it's not in my E-mail it doesn't happen. And if my E-mail is saying one thing, and everything else says something else - E-mail will conquer. -- An Israeli Linuxer = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Gadi Cohen wrote:
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:03:09 +0300
From: Gadi Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: IGLU Mailing list linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
Subject: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/894512.html
In short: There is a law presently being passed that will give the
police free access to all phone numbers, IP addresses, etc, creating the
largest such database for police use in the entire Western World (i.e.
Israel will set a new precedent for what is allowable in a democracy,
using totalitarian policies as inspiration).
This really worries me. Not that I am a terrorist or criminal warlord
who is worried in a disruption of my activities, but in that I consider
it a major invasion of my privacy and a very bad direction for Israel to
go in. I am therefore writing for two reasons:
1) To make you know about this proposed law.
Thanks, already read about it in Haaretz like most folks on this list.
2) To find out what we do to prevent it (assuming others are as troubled
as I am).
To prevent the law, probably nothing. To subvert it - anonimyzers,
encrypted file systems and and encrypted email.
In my mind, there are very good reasons why in democracies, the police
need to obtain a warrant or court order for sensitive information.
Privacy is a basic liberty which needs to be protected. Not only that,
such a system is bound to be abused, at first a little until such abuse
is common place. All in all, a very downward spiral for the State.
The stegonographic and encryption technologoes to subvert the law are
already freely available open source.
- yba
Other thoughts are of course welcome.
Gadi
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Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
In addition, stop using your ISP's email, use either GMAIL or HOTMAIL or whatever you like. As YBA suggested, encrypt email. Use steganography. Use pigeons. Smile at the camera, while you're at it. Marc = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use pigeons. Sorry, we've had all the pigeons wired last week. This change takes away the illusion of privacy you had nothing more. Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] Codefidence. A name you can trust(tm) http://www.codefidence.com Phone: +972.3.7515563 ext. 201 | Cellular: +972.52.8260388 SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fax: +972.3.7515503 Lacking fins or tail the gefilte fish swims with great difficulty. -- A Jewish Haiku = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Gadi Cohen wrote: In short: There is a law presently being passed that will give the police free access to all phone numbers, IP addresses, etc, creating the largest such database for police use in the entire Western World (i.e. Israel will set a new precedent for what is allowable in a democracy, using totalitarian policies as inspiration). It's been just over 225 years since the American War of Independence is over, And americans are just now starting to forget why the fourth amendment to their constitution ([1]) was needed. In Israel, we never understood it in the first place. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution When you see your government (in the American case, the British government before the revolution) abuse their search rights and use them for unreasonable purposes, you understand why such an amendment is necessary. In Israel, we apparently have no such traumatic memories (we have far more traumatic memories from just before our independence, unfortunately), so people are far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. -- Nadav Har'El| Sunday, Aug 19 2007, 5 Elul 5767 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |If a million Shakespeares tried to write http://nadav.harel.org.il |together, they would write like a monkey. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
On 20/08/07, Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. There is also the issue of having all the information about you concentrated in one place, open for corrupt officials to give/sell away to anyone who wants to know this stuff about you. It's already mostly there with the Identification Number being a single join field on everything written about you - from your birth certificate through your school marks, your army records, your rental agreements, bank records, national insurance, any club membership your have etc. etc. As far as I followed the article, the new law is just going to make it even easier to track you. BTW - all this cryptography and stenography stuff is not the point - I suppose none of us in this forum are criminals that have anything to hide. But as law abiding citizens we are now even more exposed to criminals having more information about us - e.g. someone who gathers enough information about you can start pretending to be you and get credit cards on your name, or know that you are away from home for a period and break into it, knowing exactly what to look for because they also found your credit card or warranty records, etc. --Amos
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :) On 20/08/2007 01:03, Amos Shapira wrote: On 20/08/07, *Nadav Har'El* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. There is also the issue of having all the information about you concentrated in one place, open for corrupt officials to give/sell away to anyone who wants to know this stuff about you. It's already mostly there with the Identification Number being a single join field on everything written about you - from your birth certificate through your school marks, your army records, your rental agreements, bank records, national insurance, any club membership your have etc. etc. As far as I followed the article, the new law is just going to make it even easier to track you. BTW - all this cryptography and stenography stuff is not the point - I suppose none of us in this forum are criminals that have anything to hide. But as law abiding citizens we are now even more exposed to criminals having more information about us - e.g. someone who gathers enough information about you can start pretending to be you and get credit cards on your name, or know that you are away from home for a period and break into it, knowing exactly what to look for because they also found your credit card or warranty records, etc. --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Online privacy, police to have free access to IP addresses
IANAL, but if I remember correctly, the answer is that it is not only forbidden to encrypt a message, it is even forbidden to modulate a message (i.e. change the signal), without due permission from the relevant ministry. In effect, by using such problematic and scurrilous items as voice mail systems, cellular phones and so forth, we all are risking being sent to the nach und nebel. M - Moshe Leibovitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wonder if the Israeli law allows you to encrypt your communications over public channels. I wouldn't shock me to find out the even this discussion is illegal :) On 20/08/2007 01:03, Amos Shapira wrote: On 20/08/07, *Nadav Har'El* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: far less opposed to giving the police more search power. It doesn't make us a totalitarian state, unless the police actually (ab)uses this power, and so far, I don't think that it actually does. There is also the issue of having all the information about you concentrated in one place, open for corrupt officials to give/sell away to anyone who wants to know this stuff about you. It's already mostly there with the Identification Number being a single join field on everything written about you - from your birth certificate through your school marks, your army records, your rental agreements, bank records, national insurance, any club membership your have etc. etc. As far as I followed the article, the new law is just going to make it even easier to track you. BTW - all this cryptography and stenography stuff is not the point - I suppose none of us in this forum are criminals that have anything to hide. But as law abiding citizens we are now even more exposed to criminals having more information about us - e.g. someone who gathers enough information about you can start pretending to be you and get credit cards on your name, or know that you are away from home for a period and break into it, knowing exactly what to look for because they also found your credit card or warranty records, etc. --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
