Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 2/14/13 8:36 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: The live code review with ascii art was really something to behold. It was some kind of new art form that isn't very good but at the same time is nearly impossible to not watch... Something interesting happened yesterday, here a summary in case someone

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Petter Ericson
On 14 February, 2013 - Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: On 2/14/13 8:36 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: The live code review with ascii art was really something to behold. It was some kind of new art form that isn't very good but at the same time is nearly impossible to not watch... Something

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
The collaborative platform which we've been using to inspect Silent Circle's code (and where we were making good progress) has been continuously vandalized for the past seven hours straight. Yes, that's someone who's been on that pad for literally seven hours trying to prevent collaboration.

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Hi guys, Let's set up another pad for collaboration, which hopefully will not get vandalized. Please try not to share this pad on Twitter or outside LibTech. https://pad.riseup.net/p/silentcircle9504 NK On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: The collaborative

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
Nadim, While I ~entirely~ agree this sucks and you're been mercilessly and tastelessly trolled - if you're inferring there was any relation to the SC code being swapped out - that's an irrelevant and unnecessary stretch. Lets look at it from the other side w/ the same irrelevant and unnecessary

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Lex van Roon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, First of all, hi, I'm Lex van Roon from the Netherlands, and I've been a lurker of this list up until now. Seeing the issues you guys have had with keeping the silentcircle pad up running, I've setup a pad on one of my colo boxen on which I

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Answers to some of your questions (Silent Circle responds..)

2013-02-14 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Wow, nice! :-) Perhaps also ask him if he can make Silent Phone easier to build in Xcode? NK On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.comwrote: Mr. Jon Callas of Silent Circle was kind enough to field questions on another list and also pay attention to the

[liberationtech] Understanding the Pax Technica: Social Media, Big Data, and the New Rules of Global Power Politics

2013-02-14 Thread Yosem Companys
Just a reminder of Phil Howard's great liberationtech seminar today. If you can't attend the seminar, definitely follow him on Twiter for some great posts on digital activism and Internet freedom: http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/understanding_the_pax_technica_social_media

Re: [liberationtech] The Privacy Book, by James Black, PhD?

2013-02-14 Thread Greg Norcie
Good ideas should speak for themselves. Some of the most knowledgeable people working on PETS don't have PhDs (or sometimes, lack degrees completely.) Anyone who stresses the PhD in order to imply their ideas are somehow better than others gets an eyebrow raise from me. (And that's coming from

Re: [liberationtech] The Privacy Book, by James Black, PhD?

2013-02-14 Thread Steve Weis
I see nothing online to indicate that this book is good and don't want to spend 0.5 grams of gold to find out. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Lee Fisher blib...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any opinions about the advise in this book? Thanks.

Re: [liberationtech] Do Not Track Dangerous and Ineffective

2013-02-14 Thread liberationtech
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 01:57:57PM -0500, na...@nadim.cc wrote 7.8K bytes in 0 lines about: : I've written a blog post about a problem with web privacy practice that's : been bothering me for a long time. I think there needs to be a discussion : about Do Not Track — there are many problems with