Re: [liberationtech] Auditing of Auto-Update of software commonly used by Human Rights Defenders

2014-05-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 5/20/14, 4:24 AM, Tony Arcieri ha scritto: Also note that most software update systems are one key (or sadly in many cases, zero keys) away from being remote code execution vulnerabilities. All of these attacks are covered by The Update Framework: http://theupdateframework.com/ But it's

Re: [liberationtech] Auditing of Auto-Update of software commonly used by Human Rights Defenders

2014-05-23 Thread Blibbet
There was a good thread on this topic on the OSS-Security list, and another, probably this list about 6 months ago. It'd be worth studying Tor's Thandy, a secure update tool. I wish I could recall why Tor abandoned Thandy, that might be important. :-( There might be clues in Trac.

Re: [liberationtech] Hardened servers, new hope for federation?

2014-05-23 Thread Steve Weis
Hello Carlo. PrivateCore is my company and ironically your libtech message was flagged as spam in my inbox. You are correct that today's technology reduces the trust to the CPU and, for now, the TPM. I view that a significant improvement compared to having to trust all components, like network

Re: [liberationtech] PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets ( 2 part series )

2014-05-23 Thread Gregory Foster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 7:07 PM, Nicholas Merrill wrote: United States of Secrets (Part One) How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In United States of Secrets, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the