Re: [liberationtech] Internet Historiography

2013-05-18 Thread Pranesh Prakash
Yosem Companys [2013-05-16 22:00]: From: Adam Fish Anybody know of articles or books analysing 1) the political historiography of the internet. Who has criticized the historiography of the internet as being written for political gain? Kim Veltman's "American Visions of the Internet: A Crisis

Re: [liberationtech] Frei PiratenPartei

2013-05-18 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Well, "I don't think so" :-) let's not call it a "Party", then.. 1. According to "Internet census data", Internet adoption in the US is at "saturation point". Hence, conditions are ripe for the emergence of a socio-political "mesh network" that expresses and amplifies the voice and concerns of cit

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Accesses Skype Chats

2013-05-18 Thread Caspar Bowden (lists)
On 05/17/13 12:31, Rich Kulawiec wrote: ... And incidentally, the proffered rationale for this doesn't fly, given that (a) they're only sending HEAD: actually scanning destination URLs for malware et.al. would require fetching the whole page and (b) they're only retrieving HTTPS URLs (per Heise)

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-18 Thread Michael Zeltner
On 18 May 13:32, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > On 5/18/13 12:38 PM, Michael Zeltner wrote: > >Hmm, interesting. A friend and I have recently "discovered" an easy Tor > >configuration hack to do something similar: > >https://www.cryptoparty.at/tor2tcp > > > >Would be interested to hear what you

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 5/18/13 12:38 PM, Michael Zeltner wrote: Hmm, interesting. A friend and I have recently "discovered" an easy Tor configuration hack to do something similar: https://www.cryptoparty.at/tor2tcp Would be interested to hear what you think of that. I haven't delved into why using that instance of

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Accesses Skype Chats

2013-05-18 Thread Rich Kulawiec
First: thanks for the followup/information/analysis. Most helpful. Second: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:10:24AM -0400, Jon Camfield wrote: > I'm doing some follow-up tests to see if it follows redirects, links > posted without http:// or https:// , links without www.* and so on. > This could infor

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-18 Thread Michael Zeltner
On 18 May 09:50, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > On 5/18/13 6:12 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > > An Apple app is not the best option. You could set up your own > >customized tor2web service and serve the onion that way. It seems more > >practical long-term, since it can't be blocked by Apple or a

Re: [liberationtech] Frei PiratenPartei

2013-05-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
fiorella, Thanks for the links to the events; I'd not been aware of them. I probably won't be able to participate in the conferences--geography not being as pliable as electrons are transmissible--but I'd be interested to read your paper. The question here was first asked about the inconceivabil

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 5/18/13 6:12 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Kevin Poulsen mailto:k...@hacknet.com>> wrote: That's awesome! But you write that the dot-onion can only be reached from mobile Android devices. What about this? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onion-browser/id519296448?mt=8 An Apple app