Re: [liberationtech] Shoshanna Zuboff: Dark Google

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Allan
haven't already. FAZ does not play on alarmism, it sells newspapers for decades and doesn't need to go cheap. At best, it means they goofed. Even an invasion from Mars wouldn't warrant such an hysterical intro. (Sorry to disagree.) -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com

[liberationtech] As F.B.I. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm

2013-10-03 Thread Michael Allan
DALLAS — One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent’s business card on his Dallas doorstep. So began a four-month tangle with law enforcement officials that would end with Mr. Levison’s shutting the business he had spent a decade building and becoming an unlikely hero of

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

2013-08-14 Thread Michael Allan
-by-machines-of-loving-grace/ -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Gregory Foster said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 BBC Blogs (Aug 8) - BUGGER: Maybe The Real State Secret Is That Spies Aren't Very Good At Their Jobs and Don't Know Very Much About

Re: [liberationtech] Self-determined publics

2013-08-04 Thread Michael Allan
on it. I'll share what's found. -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu

[liberationtech] Self-determined publics

2013-07-29 Thread Michael Allan
found. -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Ensuring Free Access to Ideas in Public Spaces?

2013-07-19 Thread Michael Allan
Hi Nick, In a recent search, I came across these folks: http://www.ifla.org/ See in particular their mailing lists and their FAIFE committee: http://www.ifla.org/mailing-lists http://www.ifla.org/about-faife Hope this is helpful, -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/w

Re: [liberationtech] (advice sought) Public safety and configuration of list

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Allan
) On Apr 23, 2013, at 16:39, Michael Allan m...@zelea.com wrote: Maybe there's a misunderstanding here. The list subscribers are not responsible for the safe administration of the list. The university alone is responsible. It could never pass that responsibility on to the subscribers

[liberationtech] (advice sought) Public safety and configuration of list

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Allan
be perceived as feasible? INTERIM RECOMMENDATION While Stanford University is evaluating these safety concerns and has yet to make a decision, it should return the configuration to its default setting. The default setting is known to be safe. -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Allan
to be citizens? Are we making ill-informed decisions for lack of reasoned discussion there, too? I'm thinking we ourselves might be in need of some liberation technology. -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes said: The beauty of democracy

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Allan
, and against the advice of technical experts, and thus to infringe on the safety of the sender and other subscribers. Mike Michael Allan said: Andrés said: The beauty of democracy! :-) Well, the decision is binding and must be respected. But the issue decided here is not the issue

Re: [liberationtech] list reply-all

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Allan
that the issue be put up for a vote again so that the default is changed back from reply-to-all to reply-to-poster? If so, I will get that survey going. Thanks, Yosem One of the moderators On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Michael Allan m...@zelea.com wrote: Matt said: Reply

Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on Reply to Question

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Allan
Please vote by submitting your preference to me by 11.59 pm PST on Sunday, March 24, 2013. Any votes received after this date and time will not be counted. reply-to-poster please -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Yosem Companys said: Dear Liberationtech list

Re: [liberationtech] list reply-all

2013-03-19 Thread Michael Allan
seems ill-informed. -- Michael Allan Toronto, +1 416-699-9528 http://zelea.com/ Matt Mackall said: 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

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Allan
An update on this Knight News Challenge submission: The software company Wadobo has joined with its Agora Voting platform. We now have two strong service providers for the mirroring network. We also have the Metagovernment project on board as a neutral facilitator. If you're a provider of

Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

2013-02-28 Thread Michael Allan
Ruben and Rich, Ruben Bloemgarten said: It seems I might have jumped the gun, assuming the discussion was about voting systems for use in political elections. Disclosing all voter data, including voter identity would solve much if not all issues regarding verifiability, however would that not