Re: [liberationtech] Metadata Cleanup trough File Format Convertion?

2013-07-18 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Griffin Boyce wrote (17 Jul 2013 21:40:57 GMT) : PDFs are an interesting situation, because they have metadata, and the files within have metadata, and even embedded fonts can have metadata that could reveal the source of the document. IIRC the MAT [1] uses an interesting trick:

Re: [liberationtech] Stability in truly Democratic decision systems

2013-07-18 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Peter Lindener lindener.pe...@gmail.com wrote: At his point, while we could have discussions about how best to resolve these cyclically ranked majority. It seems that you are assuming that the possibility of cyclically ranked majority is the biggest

Re: [liberationtech] Is Most Encryption Cracked?

2013-07-18 Thread phryk
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:47:28 -0500 Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: I swear I recognize that argument structure from somewhere... strongstrongstrongstrongstrong North Korea /strong/strong/strong/strong/strong is best Korea? :F -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change

[liberationtech] [tahoe-dev] Dedicated LAFS nodes offer

2013-07-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Avi Freedman freed...@freedman.net - Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 00:23:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Avi Freedman freed...@freedman.net To: tahoe-...@tahoe-lafs.org Subject: [tahoe-dev] Dedicated LAFS nodes offer X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] Reply-To: Tahoe-LAFS development

[liberationtech] Blackberry 10 Sends Full Email Account Credentials To RIM

2013-07-18 Thread staticsafe
Might be of interest to this list: http://frank.geekheim.de/?p=2379 [source] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/BlackBerry-spaeht-Mail-Login-aus-1919718.html http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/07/18/1249236/blackberry-10-sends-full-email-account-credentials-to-rim Why, RIM, why? -- staticsafe

Re: [liberationtech] Blackberry 10 Sends Full Email Account Credentials To RIM

2013-07-18 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
This is only ~mildly~ new - this is how they're service always worked for most non-BEM addresses. From their design standpoint, for the delivery mode they were promising, it made more sense than having your device poll constantly (battery). Obviously it's still not cool - I'm just failing to see

[liberationtech] Traffic Analysis Countermeasures

2013-07-18 Thread Charles Allhands
Does anyone know of software designed to thwart traffic analysis? With all the recent news about metadata gathering this would seem like a useful privacy tool alongside Tor and good crypto. -Charles -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator

Re: [liberationtech] Traffic Analysis Countermeasures

2013-07-18 Thread Tom Ritter
Mix Networks are designed to do this, with remailers being implementations of them (although quite out of date, and best studied academically and not relied on. An intro, in blog form, is here: https://crypto.is/blog/ Shared Mailboxes like the usenet group alt.anonymous.messages also are

Re: [liberationtech] Traffic Analysis Countermeasures

2013-07-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:51:23AM -0500, Charles Allhands wrote: Thanks for the link! Is there a reason why mix networks aren't commonly used? I see mixminion hasn't been worked on in years. Most of the payload of mix was spam and malware. It's effectively an open relay as far as RBLs are

Re: [liberationtech] [cfabrigade] Mapping Sea Levels

2013-07-18 Thread Tina Lee
SF non-profit SPUR keeps tabs on stuff like this as part of their focus on disaster planning and building a resilient city, and they've been publishing research papers that include scenarios for rising sea levels due to earthquakes and global warming. While research papers won't include

Re: [liberationtech] Traffic Analysis Countermeasures

2013-07-18 Thread adrelanos
Charles Allhands: Thanks for the link! Is there a reason why mix networks aren't commonly used? Thanks for asking this interesting question. See this. Not written by me. Source [1] Roger Dingledine Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:10:48 -0700 On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:15:04AM +0100, StealthMonger

[liberationtech] Frank La Rue at New America

2013-07-18 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Carolina Rossini carolina.ross...@gmail.com http://www.newamerica.net/events/2013/human_rights_surveillance Safeguarding Human Rights in Times of Surveillance The Open Technology Institute and Global Partners Present: Frank La Rue, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression --

Re: [liberationtech] Stability in truly Democratic decision systems

2013-07-18 Thread Peter Lindener
Hi Mitar- You ask good questions... I think I mentioned Wide open group choice ranking systems as a critical component in the effective function of crowd sourced idea percolators... That is, a wide open alternative spaces, under consideration, as you suggest is clearly key as a staring