Re: [liberationtech] Securing Email Communications from Facebook offering PGP support

2015-06-01 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 18:26 -0400, Thomas Delrue wrote: On 06/01/2015 06:19 PM, z...@manian.org wrote: For their notification system, FB is leveraging GPG as an identity provider to say only a person who has a certain private key should be able to reset access credentials for this account.

Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-15 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 11:44 -0800, Al Billings wrote: You’re avoiding the question. Please name a nation state in which software can be produced which isn’t subject to the kind of legal pressures or potential requirements as the USA when it comes to national security, spying, and the like.

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook available as a Tor hidden service

2014-10-31 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 10:12 -0600, Robert W. Gehl wrote: I tried to login (with a fake account I maintain for just such a purpose). Your account is temporarily locked, it says. I get that; it appears I'm trying to login from a strange location. I've asked some people connected to the project

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-09-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 14:55 -0700, Huned Botee wrote: Eleanor, maybe you can help shed some light on this lack of awareness. How do you think developers should be analyzing risk here? Do you have specific suggestions and/or can you point to sources where that information can be found? The

[liberationtech] Hardware trojans, RNGs, and Syphermedia

2013-09-13 Thread Matt Mackall
This paper outlines simple changes that can be made to insert vulnerabilities into silicon that are invisible to current reverse-engineering techniques: http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf It uses Intel's random number generator as an example, detailing precisely how it can be

Re: [liberationtech] iPhone5S Fingerprint and 5th amendment

2013-09-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 08:42 -0700, Peat Bakke wrote: Are there any reasons why fingerprint data couldn't be treated with the same concern as passwords? That is, subject to a one-way hash before being stored, transmitted in signed payloads, etc? I'm not sure how securing this data would be

Re: [liberationtech] Random number generator failure in Rasperri Pis?

2013-07-19 Thread Matt Mackall
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 10:42 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 01:17:51PM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: On 19/07/13 13:03, KheOps wrote: Just came accross this article, apparently showing the bad quality of the hardware RNG in Raspberri Pi devices.

Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:47 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: Linux now also uses a closed RdRand [2] RNG if available. There was a bunch of churn when this code went in, so I could be wrong, but I believe that RdRand is only used to stir the same entropy pool as all of the other inputs which are

Re: [liberationtech] How to defend against attacks on chips?

2013-06-16 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, 2013-06-16 at 11:54 +0200, Guido Witmond wrote: On 16-06-13 04:12, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sat, 15 Jun 2013 17:19:14 -0500, Anthony Papillion anth...@cajuntechie.org wrote: But how do we handle hardware attacks? For example, what happens when a chip maker, say Intel,

Re: [liberationtech] list reply-all

2013-03-20 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 18:02 +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote: Isn't that a valid point? No, it's a useless imaginary construct. A valid point would be an example (preferably, more than one) of such an email on this list, where it would be possible to debate whether the person actually deserved

Re: [liberationtech] list reply-all

2013-03-19 Thread Matt Mackall
On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 19:08 -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not reply-all by default been broached? Reply-to-list poses a significant usability risk that can escalate into a security issue, so it's unfortunate that it's being used here of all

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 13:15 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 09:55 -0800, x z wrote: @Nadim, I think breaking in a CA is a rather serious crime that GFW would refrain from committing; Unlike, say, breaking into the Tibetan government-in-exile, Google and hundreds of other

Re: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China

2013-01-30 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 23:30 -0800, x z wrote: 2013/1/30 Matt Mackall m...@selenic.com On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 13:15 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 09:55 -0800, x z wrote: @Nadim, I think breaking in a CA is a rather serious crime that GFW would refrain from

Re: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit

2012-12-27 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, 2012-12-27 at 23:56 +0100, Radek Pilar wrote: Full HDD encryption (including swap space and hibernate file) and powered down or hibernated (s2disk) machine is the only way to go. Expect that if you're a target of state oppression that your laptop WILL be taken away from you for hours at

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 18:39 -0400, Andrew Lewis wrote: Maybe someone is simply scrapping the archives for the sender address? Scraping archives is passe. Most likely scenario: - random subscriber's Windows box got owned by botnet malware - malware scraped their disk for address books and credit