Re: [liberationtech] Demos of eccentric-authentication

2013-08-14 Thread Guido Witmond
Hi Francisco, On 08/13/13 22:37, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Hi Guido, This looks very interesting, but I have trouble understanding it. Can you give me a sample URL where this is being shown in action? Thank you for your interest. The protocol is still in the proof-of-concept phase. I've a

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Ritter
On 9 August 2013 18:16, Seth David Schoen sch...@eff.org wrote: If you think governments are likely to use their own CAs for spying by issuing fraudulent certificates, you want to remove trust for those CAs _in your web browser_. Having a valid, correct, and publicly issued certificate from

[liberationtech] 30C3 Call for Participation

2013-08-14 Thread fukami
30C3 – 30th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th–30th 2013, CCH, Hamburg 30C3 is the 2013 edition of the Chaos Communication Congress, the Chaos Computer Club’s international conference and hacker party. During the four days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, thousands of technology

Re: [liberationtech] verifying SSL certs (was Re: In defense of client-side encryption (Guido Witmond)

2013-08-14 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 08/14/2013 08:54 AM, Guido Witmond wrote: It worked quite well for most sites. But big ones, like Google use a different certificate for each endpoint. And Perspectives registers the server-certificates it detects when it connects to the servers, not the CA that signed it. Can you use

Re: [liberationtech] verifying SSL certs (was Re: In defense of client-side encryption (Guido Witmond)

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Laurie
On 14 August 2013 08:54, Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl wrote: On 08/13/13 19:42, Andy Isaacson wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:10:39AM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: There is another problem. You rely on HTTPS. Here is the 64000 dollar question: Q._What is the CA-certificate for your

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-14 Thread Ralph Holz
Hi Tom Aside from StartCom (free) most CAs have roughly the same price and service. Since service is equivalent, you're free to choose a CA based on your political opinion, and not worry about missing out on 'features'. It's basically like voting in an election - elections are won by tens

Re: [liberationtech] verifying SSL certs (was Re: In defense of client-side encryption)

2013-08-14 Thread Guido Witmond
On 08/14/13 15:18, Ben Laurie wrote: On 14 August 2013 08:54, Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl mailto:gu...@witmond.nl wrote: On 08/13/13 19:42, Andy Isaacson wrote: On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:10:39AM +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: There is another problem. You rely on HTTPS. Here

[liberationtech] Interview with Lavabit founder Levison on Democracy Now

2013-08-14 Thread Nicholas Merrill
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/exclusive_owner_of_snowdens_email_service also a short follow-up with me: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/former_internet_provider_gagged_by_national -N -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013

Re: [liberationtech] Dalai Lama's Website Hacked, Now Serving Malware

2013-08-14 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 08/14/2013 12:04 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: The Dalai Lama's Chinese website has been hacked and is now serving malware to visitors in China: To be clear, Tibet.net is the website of the Central Tibetan Adminstration, i.e. the Tibetan government-in-exile. It is not the Dalai Lama's website,

Re: [liberationtech] Dalai Lama's Website Hacked, Now Serving Malware

2013-08-14 Thread Kyle Maxwell
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info wrote: On 08/14/2013 12:04 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: The Dalai Lama's Chinese website has been hacked and is now serving malware to visitors in China: To be clear, Tibet.net is the website of the Central Tibetan

[liberationtech] CFP: WorldCIST'14 - World Conference on IST; Best papers published in JCR/ISI Journals

2013-08-14 Thread WorldCIST
Apologies if you are receiving this mail more than once... Please disseminate by friends, colleagues, researchers, students, etc. Thanks a lot! ** WorldCIST'14 The 2014 World Conference

Re: [liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-14 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/13/2013 05:37 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Haven't hackers always been portrayed in a way to scare people? * If it's not dDoSing script kiddies, its zombie network owning Latvian mafias.. Or SysOPs using their BBSes to move satellites

[liberationtech] Fwd: Zero Degrees of al Qaeda - By J.M. Berger | Foreign Policy

2013-08-14 Thread Kyle Maxwell
Zero Degrees of al Qaeda* * http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/14/zero_degrees_of_al_qaeda_twitter How Twitter is supercharging jihadist recruitment*.* BY J.M. BERGER | AUGUST 14, 2013* * There's a new jihadist recruiter on the Internet*.* Based in San Francisco and backed by a

Re: [liberationtech] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-14 Thread Griffin Boyce
So I set up a proof-of-concept server last Friday, which was far easier than I had pictured. Special thanks to Moritz for his PGP milter [1], but I'm also customizing a lot of the other security and spam filter settings. Short: It should be up for comment in the next two weeks. Long: I'm

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 08/14/2013 05:01 PM, Web Admin wrote: Are there oher services to consider? We (the Guardian Project) are happily using SparkleShare. Credit to the Commotion/OTI team for introducing us to it, and for Hans-Christoph on our team for getting it running. SparklShare is based on Git, has nice,

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread mark burdett
I finally tried Bittorrent Sync this week and it seems to work quite nicely for serverless file-sharing (mostly, as there is a server fallback to get around firewalls). Too bad it's not FLOSS so I can't actually recommend it :/ --mark B. On Aug 14, 2013 2:42 PM, elijah eli...@riseup.net wrote:

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:01, Web Admin webad...@cpj.org wrote: Are either of these servics a more secure alternative to 3rd party services like DropBox? My reasonng is that a hacker would first need to know you host your own cloud in a articular way to attack it. Is my thinking too simplistic?

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Hah, we all must have read the same article.. ;) On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:42, elijah eli...@riseup.net wrote: On 08/14/2013 02:01 PM, Web Admin wrote: It would be good to be able to advise folks on more secure alternatives, if they exist. free software: * http://seafile.com *

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:47, mark burdett mfburd...@gmail.com wrote: I finally tried Bittorrent Sync this week and it seems to work quite nicely for serverless file-sharing (mostly, as there is a server fallback to get around firewalls). Too bad it's not FLOSS so I can't actually recommend it

Re: [liberationtech] Passlok's broken security model

2013-08-14 Thread Francisco Ruiz
Hi Steve, Some answers inline below, and thanks for taking all this time to help me. I changed my browser's default encoding. That changes the charset in the html tag, as well as some characters in the body. I tried UTF-8, Arabic, and Chinese encodings and they all saved with slightly

Re: [liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 20:42, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: Signed PGP part On 08/13/2013 05:37 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Haven't hackers always been portrayed in a way to scare people? * If it's not dDoSing script kiddies, its zombie network owning Latvian mafias.. Or

[liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers
I came across this article outlining historical operation of Lavabit's services. http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabit-architecture-creating-a-scalable-email-s.html It mentions in two separate places that they stored users passwords in plaintext to allow key generation

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 15 Aug 2013, at 00:01, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote: On 14 August 2013 18:29, Bernard Tyers b...@runningwithbulls.com wrote: I came across this article outlining historical operation of Lavabit's services.

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] An email service that requires GPG/PGP?

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Ritter
On 14 August 2013 18:01, Richard r...@linux-m68k.org wrote: On the other end of the paranoia scale I would like to remind folks of the the mixmaster remailer chaining technique which does much more than plain encryption - as far as I can see it is theoretically completely untraceable. That

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Ritter
On 14 August 2013 19:11, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: Yes, you're right. My mistake. But is my second question not still valid? If SSL was compromised would the user not then be compromised? Is: …we generate public and private keys for the user and then encrypt the

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 15 Aug 2013, at 00:20, Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg wrote: On 14 August 2013 19:11, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: Yes, you're right. My mistake. But is my second question not still valid? If SSL was compromised would the user not then be compromised? Is: …we generate

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Tom Ritter
On 14 August 2013 19:30, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: IF, (big IF) my understanding of Lavabit's architecture is correct, then if you gained access to the user's SSL session, and then also access to Lavabit's server where the user's data and (encrypted) private key is stored

Re: [liberationtech] Adam Curtis on the nature of espionage

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Allan
For anyone unfamiliar with Curtis's work, many of his documentaries are streamed here: http://thoughtmaybe.com/by/adam-curtis/ His theme is power in society. His style often borders on theatre, which he takes to a whirlwind pitch in this 2009 immersive theatre piece:

[liberationtech] Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw

2013-08-14 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Hey Libtech, Hot on the heels of last week's Bitcoin wallet for Android heist, Google has confirmed that this was due to a critical crypto flaw in Android, which could affect security in thousands of apps according to Ars Technica: Google developers have confirmed a cryptographic vulnerability

Re: [liberationtech] Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw

2013-08-14 Thread Nathan of Guardian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/15/2013 12:07 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Hot on the heels of last week's Bitcoin wallet for Android heist, Google has confirmed that this was due to a critical crypto flaw in Android, which could affect security in thousands of apps according