Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread ale fernandez
Snowden, IIRC was trying to say he wasn't particularly heroic and was doing what anyone would have done with a shred of sense/ethics in his situation. If you are someone like that, maybe stick your head in a photocopier/scanner, or photograph yourself looking snowden-like, and print out a mask

Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

2013-06-22 Thread ale fernandez
Hi, On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 18:51:01 +0200 phryk ph...@phryk.net wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:55:57 -0400 Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: The solution to this is to make encryption more and more widely used. By increasing the number of people with access to encryption technology for

Re: [liberationtech] FT: Companies scramble for consumer data (personal data are so cheap... why bother to protect them)

2013-06-15 Thread ale fernandez
With all this talk of how snooping agencies and companies are trading people's data, wouldn't a citizen aggregated and voluntary free / creative commons database or similar be of value - perhaps at least as a way of reducing the value of all these data mining companies? Ale On Sat, 15 Jun

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread ale fernandez
Hi On Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:13:04 -0500 Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: Either I'm a total idiot or this is the most pretentious website on the Internet There may be more options than the two you see at the moment.. :) I'm certainly using it like mad since it came out, both bug finding

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy-minded search engines?

2012-05-01 Thread ale fernandez
I wonder if the distributed ones Seeks and yacy are any good for privacy? Ale On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:19:06 -0700 Parker Higgins par...@eff.org wrote: On 4/30/12 3:55 PM, Cyrus Farivar wrote: Hey guys, I'm working on a piece about privacy-minded search engines. I know of DuckDuckGo