Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBuddy to use Tor to resolve IP address of nodes?

2013-01-06 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 16:20 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I believe Tor is only relevant to consider including into FreedomBox > when someone can provide sensible defaults for it which can be > integrated with the Debian packaging of Tor. > > Until then, Tor is outside the scope of FreedomBox

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] T-shirts

2012-12-06 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 01:01 +0100, Alexander Berntsen wrote: > Hi, > > First-time poster here. Nice to meet you all! > > Seemingly "all" foundations of every kind make money off of various > merchandise. I'm sorry if this is corny or just really ridiculous in > the present state of the project, b

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] NYC Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays

2012-11-29 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:06 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > But please - rather than posting (again? I didn't check my archive) > here > what I recommend is to make it easier to find such ongoing activities > at > the Wiki. Yes, I see now (thanks to your edit today) that this > particular thin

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition)

2012-11-14 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 13:21 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > When I referred to "these" attacks going away, I was talking about > implementations > of the Kaminsky attack, or efforts to link an IP address with a > transaction even > without connecting to all nodes (say, making inferences from the da

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition)

2012-11-13 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 22:11 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > My initial point might not have been clear. To keep an ISP from spying it > makes > no sense to grab a different IP from the pool every time you view a web page-- > this will not impede the ISP from reviewing their log of your activity i

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition)

2012-11-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 14:13 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > I'm with you so far. > > > > > When the attacker has the IP address of a Bitcoin address, they're one > > step away from getting the underlying home address -- but they have to > > go through either the legal system or an existing attac

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition)

2012-11-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:56 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > > > The Bitcoin transaction log records transactions between addresses. If > > you never change your Bitcoin address, the transaction log will > > accumulate records of your transactions. > > > > Without a very significant amount of w

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition)

2012-11-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 10:28 -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > - Original Message - > > > From: Daniel Pocock > > To: freedombox list > > Cc: > > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 3:32 AM > > Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox and Bitcoin (and the petition) > > > > > > > > I'm just

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora becoming a community project

2012-08-30 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 17:52 +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > On 30/08/12 17:45, Dan Ballance wrote: > > Would it be possible for "power" FBX users to provide a > > PageKite-equivalent service for other users on dynamic IPs? Could > > these services be advertised within the FBX network maybe? > > I'

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0729 Available

2012-07-30 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 17:40 -0500, Nick M.Daly wrote: > To use wireless, make sure eth1 can access the Internet during the > first-boot process, so the wireless driver is downloaded and > installed correctly. After it reboots, it'll start broadcasting > the > "freedombox" network,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PHP Alternatives?

2012-07-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 12:37 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Correct, Diaspora is written in Rails, which unfortunately is > similarly > worrisome as PHP: even if (arguably) the underlying Ruby language has > saner coding style and community habits, Ruby on Rails tend to focus > on > rapidly mas

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Raining on the parade

2012-06-26 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 10:27 -0700, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > The activists are the ones sending data with a tor fingerprint. The > Everybodies are the ones doing what they were already doing-- > going to Facebook and Twitter. > Tor traffic is designed to be identical to HTTPS, and can even be o

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Raining on the parade

2012-06-26 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 09:32 +0800, Sandy Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 11:07 +0800, Sandy Harris wrote: > >> Evgeny Morozov has written a critique of the whole > >> notion of using the net as a way t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Identity UI

2012-06-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 10:00 +0200, Michiel de Jong wrote: > Pros of Tor: > - it is the only (or at least the most mature) option we know of to > not inadvertently disclose your geographical position. Since > freedombox is for a large part about privacy-by-design, that seems to > be a strong argumen

[Freedombox-discuss] Decentralized Tor in Freedombox (was: Re: Identity UI)

2012-06-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 01:59 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Note also that Tor brings with it its own bit of centralized control, in > the form of the 8 directory authorities [0] (4 need to be compromised > for an adversary to gain control over your tor connection), but i think > that's an impr

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Raining on the parade

2012-06-24 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 11:07 +0800, Sandy Harris wrote: > Evgeny Morozov has written a critique of the whole > notion of using the net as a way to liberate the world. > His book definitely has limitations; for one thing, he > looks at the problem mainly from the point of view > of US foreign policy.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] School intimidates girl to give up Facebook password

2012-03-13 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 13:23 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > I haven't seen any proposals for how FreedomBox could help the user > themselves resist disclosure of their own credentials. Maybe i > haven't > been following closely enough. i would be happy to be wrong, please > point me to

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] updates to plinth

2012-03-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 14:59 -0400, James Vasile wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:15:27 +0000, Ted Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 18:47 +0100, Mathieu Jourdan wrote: > > > > > > - my girlfriend took briefly a look on it, she said those colours were > &

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] updates to plinth

2012-03-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 18:47 +0100, Mathieu Jourdan wrote: > > - my girlfriend took briefly a look on it, she said those colours were > for males. I'm no authority on this list, but I'd appreciate it if the freedombox initiative would use actual research for things like choosing gender-neutral de

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] PGP Keyserver

2011-12-09 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 18:36 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > How are software updates planned, for that matter? Self-hosted > via p2p or regular Debian depositories? You can do "regular Debian" repositories over p2p (apt-transport-debtorrent, apt-p2p). These are centrally managed, but "self-hosted"

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Tap-to-share PGP key exchange

2011-10-05 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 12:38 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > One thought: what about a point-to-point wired connection? That's > pretty easy for humans to physically inspect/verify, and wouldn't need > the additional optical verification check. > > Is there such a standard connection for co

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] identicons are not strong crypto [was: Re: Tap-to-share PGP key exchange]

2011-10-03 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 19:35 +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > On 03/10/11 18:13, The Doctor wrote: > > Sort of like this? > > > > http://www.thc.org/papers/ffp.html > > > > I am surprised that no one has brought up bubble-babble fingerprints > > yet (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bu

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Tap-to-share PGP key exchange

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Smith
, 2011-09-30 at 16:09 +0200, Timur Mehrvarz wrote: > I provided this with my original post: http://timur.mobi/anymime-ksp/ > Can you please phrase your concern relative to the fingerprint > verification example? > > On 30.09.2011 15:50, Ted Smith wrote: > > So, how can a use

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Tap-to-share PGP key exchange

2011-09-30 Thread Ted Smith
So, how can a user verify that the key material comes from the expected peer? I know nothing of bluetooth and NFC, so instead of describing low-level protocols (which in most cases are NOT implemented using free software and CANNOT be naively trusted), please describe what I'd see using your app.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] WLAN firmware soldered onto hardware

2011-09-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 20:44 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-09-19 at 01:04pm, Felipe Sanches wrote: > > This is so sick! They seem to be trying to hide the trash... > > Sickness is on FSF for suggesting and encouraging that approach. The FSF position on this, for those who aren't familiar,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Counter-revolution?

2011-09-08 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:54 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:15:08AM -0700, > freedombox-discuss.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > > It's not unusual for the existing cartels to use all their tools to > > resist a revolution. How many patents does the FreedomBox Fou

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] off the shelf reference hardware software.

2011-09-07 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:49 -0700, freedombox-discuss.neophyte_...@ordinaryamerican.net wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:41 AM, Ted Smith - te...@riseup.net wrote: > > > > What the Freedombox Foundation could do to address this is come up with: > > > > * A list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] off the shelf reference hardware software.

2011-09-07 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 08:59 -0400, Jim Tarvid wrote: > Some commercial off the shelf products approach the design requirements for > FreedomBox. For example, the FoxConn nT535 - > http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Barebones/nT-535/index.html# The > addition of a 2.5" SATA drive, a single stick

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Internet Dream

2011-09-06 Thread Ted Smith
Tay Zonday? As in Chocolate Rain? The internet is a great equalizer to exactly the extent that IP, DNS, and the physical infrastructure involved is egalitarian. On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 09:04 -0400, Jim Tarvid wrote: > Tay Zonday undoubtedly gets closer than I will but is a server on the > Internet

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 15:40 +0200, Isaac Wilder wrote: > 4) Persistent Names (which don't rely on existing DNS) > > a)Name resolution based on a DHT. Problem with table poisoning > could be approached by authorizing and authenticating those that > participate in the resolution table. T

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CCC Meeting Notes

2011-08-16 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 14:24 +0200, Henry Story wrote: > Is there a good link to .onion urls ? Wikipedia does not mention > those. I am wondering if .onion urls can be resolved using DNS or if > they require a special protocol. If they require a special protocol, > then one can't simply write > >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] report on activities in Banja Luka

2011-08-10 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 06:33 -0700, J David Eisenberg wrote: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > On 11-08-09 at 08:45pm, John Walsh wrote: > [snip] > > > I recommended Buddycloud as an initial sample application for FreedomBox > > development, because it... > > > > * is

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Webserver

2011-08-02 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 20:01 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-08-02 at 06:40pm, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > I think it's well established by now that freedombox will run a web > > server. > > Personally I still keep it open to have a FreedomBox design without a > web UI. But I might be quit

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox Webserver

2011-08-02 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 18:40 +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > I think it's well established by now that freedombox will run a web server. > > I'm keen to start getting things up and running, even if it's only > something as small as a web presence running under debian, maybe with > an FB badge. > >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 22:45 +, ya knygar wrote: > i'll not mention the possible need for ERP again:) > > what i know - there are, definitely, a lot of existing projects in various > states, i think - making from what's already in Debian reps is controversial > desicion, however - why not if w

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-19 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 16:31 +1000, John Walsh wrote: > Hi Ted, > I am expressing my personal opinion and do not speak for FBF. > > > > I think that the mistake being made most on this mailing list > > is the tendency to devise solutions to complicated problems. > > Sadly, this is just not a thin

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-18 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 17:13 -0400, James Vasile wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:14:37 -0400, Ted Smith wrote: > Non-text part: multipart/mixed > Non-text part: multipart/signed > > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:19 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > > a non-centrali

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Warn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-18 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:19 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > a non-centralised non-attackable truly peer-to-peer > replacement for the existing DNS infrastructure. Is this something the FreedomBox Debian project or the FreedomBox Foundation have committed to producing? Such a replace

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communication between Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 16:14 +0200, Lukas Nagl wrote: > Hi, > > although the topic is raised in various subjects, I think that there is > a need for a specific place to talk about how different freedomboxes > will be able to establish communication with each other. > > This question doesn't conc

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communication between Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 15:52 -0400, i...@churchkey.org wrote: > I think it is important to consider that people want a mechanism for > enforcing community standards of SPAM and abuse. Everything from forums > to online dating sites rely on having a mechanism for filtering out > communications and me

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox threat model

2011-06-30 Thread Ted Smith
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:46 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 06/29/2011 01:35 PM, Ted Smith wrote: > > Any time two programs running on FreedomBoxes are talking to each other, > > there's very little reason not to use Tor. It only makes sense not to > > use Tor if t

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox threat model

2011-06-29 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 12:23 -0400, i...@churchkey.org wrote: > On 06/28/2011 08:55 AM, berta...@ptitcanardnoir.org wrote: > > First, there is no real "central" logging, no unique big > > brother that the freedombox might want to defeat, but a lot of different > > (from size to content) logging data

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Rouge Freedomboxes and government intervention

2011-06-21 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 19:43 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 11-06-21 at 11:56am, Anthony Papillion wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I've been following the discussion here on the list and one thing I've > > not seen a lot of discussion about is government intervention. Since > > the Freedombo

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is / Is Not

2011-05-31 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 17:42 -0400, James Vasile wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 16:22:56 -0400, Ted Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 10:23 -0400, James Vasile wrote: > > > * Is a torrent client and can use TOR for that purpose. > > > > Is this a typo? Using

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is / Is Not

2011-05-31 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 10:23 -0400, James Vasile wrote: > * Is a torrent client and can use TOR for that purpose. Is this a typo? Using Tor for BitTorrent traffic is frowned up by the Tor Project, and the default exit policy is to block common BitTorrent ports, and BitTorrent clients commonly leak

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: Translating expressions...

2011-05-25 Thread Ted Smith
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 22:27 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 05/24/2011 03:31 PM, James Vasile wrote: > > On Tue, 24 May 2011 16:05:04 -0300, Nicolás Reynolds > > wrote: > >>> First of all is the use of "Free World"[0] to refer to a certain sector of > >>> the world. As the Wikipedia refere

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Should we change the mailing list format?

2011-05-09 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 07:13 -0700, Chris Troutner wrote: > Hey all, > > > > I'm sure that I'm not alone in getting swamped by emails from this list. > It's great that the list is so big and so active, but the meaningful > emails containing important information/thoughts tend to get swamped out

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Has anyone looked at phantom? What other hard core security things are people investigating?

2011-03-28 Thread Ted Smith
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 14:51 -0500, Charles N Wyble wrote: > > Second, I just read Phantom's license. That was quite a chore, given > > how it is drafted. Phantom is released under the Hacktivismo > > Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement (HESSLA), which appears to be > > neither GPL compatib

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FOAF developers taking FreedomBox into their equation

2011-03-12 Thread Ted Smith
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 16:20 -0500, Boaz wrote: > This is something that I think ordinary people can actually do. You > make a phone call, up on your screen it says “clockwork pegasus”. You > say “hey Bob, does your screen say 'clockwork pegasus'?”, and Bob > responds “yeah, mine says 'clockwork p