Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/02/2013 03:44 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote: I also had a hard time with his nastiness, which struck me as vapid. It's kind of hard to look at the writing of Tim O'Reilly, for example, and be kind: http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/08/my-tonguelashing-from-eben-mog.html It's instructive to play

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Jonathan Wilkes wrote (02 Jul 2013 21:57:01 GMT) : On 07/02/2013 12:46 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 07/02/2013 04:51 AM, intrigeri wrote: + verify that the signed file you've downloaded is actually the version you intended to download, and not an older, also properly signed one.

[liberationtech] Iranian Internet Infrastructure and Policy Report: Election Edition

2013-07-03 Thread Collin Anderson
Libtech, Small Media released its Election Edition of the ongoing Infrastructure series. It should make for a quick read, but lend a great deal of technical and political insight into the fairly aggressive campaign against access that occurred in the final days of the lead up to the first round

Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-03 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/2013 06:50 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: And not to be churlish, but of course language did not solve all of our problems. But as in the parable you mentioned, It did help humankind dominate nature ? lions included. Talking to a lion doesn't

[liberationtech] Query re. Corporate censorship

2013-07-03 Thread Charles Ess
Dear colleagues, I have been encouraged to repost this query to this list, and am more than happy to do so. I've been asked to develop a presentation on the future of freedom of expression in online environments, including discussion of multiple ways in which - in addition to whatever

[liberationtech] Real World Crypto 2014

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Weis
Registration for the Real World Crypto 2014 workshop is open (and free). http://realworldcrypto.wordpress.com/ What: The Real World Cryptography Workshop aims to bring together cryptography researchers with developers implementing cryptography in real-world systems. The main goal of the workshop

Re: [liberationtech] [Tails-dev] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-03 Thread intrigeri
Hi, adrelanos wrote (03 Jul 2013 13:20:46 GMT) : intrigeri: Other than this, our current take on it is, I believe, making it easier to verify OpenPGP detached signatures. E.g. we're working to make it work flawlessly on the GNOME desktop. So you're working with Debian/upstream to integrate

[liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread Matt Johnson
This NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mail.html?hp_r=2pagewanted=all reports that the USPS has been keeping images of the outside of mail for years. It is used in criminal investigations and for national security. This is some information about how often

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/03/2013 04:47 AM, intrigeri wrote: Hi, Jonathan Wilkes wrote (02 Jul 2013 21:57:01 GMT) : On 07/02/2013 12:46 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 07/02/2013 04:51 AM, intrigeri wrote: + verify that the signed file you've downloaded is actually the version you intended to download, and

Re: [liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/2013 02:11 PM, Matt Johnson wrote: I thought this might be of interest to this list, especially to anyone who thought they could be safe by not using digital communications. It would be interesting to correlate this against reports of

Re: [liberationtech] How to protect users from compelled fake ssl certs?

2013-07-03 Thread coderman
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Ralph Holz h...@net.in.tum.de wrote: DANE: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698 CAA: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844 I wonder whether that would have protected against the Comodo Hacker. It seems it depends when and from where the CAA checks are run.

Re: [liberationtech] How to protect users from compelled fake ssl certs?

2013-07-03 Thread Daniel Sieradski
i use https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm to verify certs on the client end to make sure i'm not being man in the middled. it would be awesome if this were available as a firefox and chrome plugin that automatically did a check for you and gave you a red or green light. -- Daniel Sieradski

Re: [liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread R. Jason Cronk
This was revealed last month (possibly earlier). See http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/woman-arrested-for-obama-bloomberg-ricin-letters-687435 To The Doctor's point, I'm not sure what you would correlate. Everybody's mail is being photographed so On 7/3/2013 2:34 PM, The Doctor

Re: [liberationtech] How to protect users from compelled fake ssl certs?

2013-07-03 Thread Anthony Papillion
On 07/03/2013 01:54 PM, Daniel Sieradski wrote: i use https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm to verify certs on the client end to make sure i'm not being man in the middled. it would be awesome if this were available as a firefox and chrome plugin that automatically did a check for you and gave

Re: [liberationtech] Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance

2013-07-03 Thread Karl Fogel
Micah Lee micahf...@riseup.net writes: I have added the CC license to the bottom of the web version: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/whitepapers/encryption-works-how-protect-your-privacy-age-nsa-surveillance And I've also uploaded the source LibreOffice ODT, so it'll be easier for people to

Re: [liberationtech] Help with Privacy online

2013-07-03 Thread Karl Fogel
Justin Breithaupt usacomputert...@gmail.com writes: I would like to know what services are available for e-mail that don't share my private information, like Gmail does when it shares my info. A simple answer is: riseup.net (and donate some money to them, if you can afford to, by the way). The

Re: [liberationtech] Salt Lake Tribune on NSA's Utah Data Center

2013-07-03 Thread James S. Tyre
Interesting, thanks. But, unlike Reuters, it doesn't tell us that NSA is getting demoralized. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-nsa-furloughs-20130703,0,5221135.story -- James S. Tyre Law Offices of James S. Tyre 10736 Jefferson Blvd., #512 Culver City, CA 90230-4969

[liberationtech] Transcript of NSA recruiters vs. students

2013-07-03 Thread Douglas Lucas
A freelance journalist/Ph.D. candidate in anthropology and media attended an NSA recruitment at a language program at the University of Wisconsin very recently and produced this transcript of him and students challenging the recruiters about the Snowden leaks. It gives me a slight sense of the NSA

[liberationtech] Google: CLG News 'does not comply with Names Policy'

2013-07-03 Thread Lori Price
Google: CLG News 'does not comply with Names Policy' by Lori Price, www.legitgov.org 02 Jul 2013 NSA buddy Google will not allow CLG News on Google+. After receiving countless promos at from Google to set up a 'Google+' account, I clicked to 'upgrade' to Google+. Google requested I select a