Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-09 Thread michael gurstein
Perhaps you could explain what you mean here as your comment seems rather a non sequitur. M -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Karl Fogel Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 9:30 PM To:

[liberationtech] Yahoo Hacks (Was: Increased email blocking/spam filtering)

2013-04-09 Thread David Miller
On 9 April 2013 01:29, Steven Clift cl...@e-democracy.org wrote: Part of the problem maybe yahoo mail hacked accounts which are an ongoing disaster. What's the deal with that - I seem to get lot's of YahooMail spam... couldn't find anything reporting on it when I googled though -- Love

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-09 Thread David Miller
On 9 April 2013 08:29, Petter Ericson pett...@acc.umu.se wrote: Gettings things published (as in, readable by the public) is no longer a problem Quite. However, they still need to pick-and-choose... which they would then endorse, rather than publish. Which has long been one of the

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-09 Thread michael gurstein
If I understand what you are saying I think you've got it a wee bit mixed up... -Original Message- From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Petter Ericson Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 12:29 AM To: liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] For everyone and their grad students: Fake, pay-to-publish journals conferences

2013-04-09 Thread Petter Ericson
Journals semifrequently acquire an exclusive copyright license, meaning that you the author can not actually put your own article up for free downloading. Instead, you need an article subscription to even access the text (except possibly unfinished versions). That, in short, is the difference

Re: [liberationtech] Cloud encryption

2013-04-09 Thread Wayne Moore
Some people think this is an elaborate troll. Not a Mac user so I can't really evaluate this and as I understand it the actual details of the iMessage implementation are not known publicly anyway.

Re: [liberationtech] Cloud encryption

2013-04-09 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
There you go. The same beef with Skype - encrypted communications, but Skype retains the encryption keys (assuming it works the same under Microsoft ownership), so a no-no for privacy/security-minded organizations and individuals. Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco

[liberationtech] Participatory Design Conference PDC'14 - First call for papers

2013-04-09 Thread Doug Schuler
Call for Papers: The 13th biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) in Windhoek, Namibia. 6. – 10. October 2014 www.pdc2014.org Join us in Windhoek, Namibia in 2014 to celebrate the 13th Participatory Design Conference (PDC). The conference theme of the PDC 2014 is “Reflecting

Re: [liberationtech] Cloud encryption

2013-04-09 Thread Christopher Parsons
I entirely agree that the information could be accessed by targeting Apple (or, likely, Skype) to access information either retroactively or going forward. But, one thing that did strike me as potentially an issue for LEAs after reading the memo: given that communications aren't uniformly going

[liberationtech] Securing Cyberspace in a World Without Borders - 4/11 - 4/12 at Stanford Law School

2013-04-09 Thread Yosem Companys
Just a reminder... Symposium: The Virtual Battlefield: Securing Cyberspace in a World Without Borders April 11, 2013 - April 12, 2013 at Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle http://www.stanford.edu/group/sjil/virtual-battlefield.fb For tech-savvy Silicon Valley, there is nothing more important

[liberationtech] sudo apt-get install torbrowser

2013-04-09 Thread Micah Lee
Hey libtech, For the last couple months I've been working on a project called Tor Browser Launcher that I hope will eventually turn into the recommended way for GNU/Linux (and eventually Windows and Mac) users to install Tor Browser Bundle. It downloads the correct TBB for your architecture and

[liberationtech] Article 19 Digital Security YouTube video

2013-04-09 Thread frank
The Paris-based NGO Article 19 has put some digital security videos on YouTube that may be of interest to anyone involved or interested in training. At the very least it shows an attempt to try and meet the need for such information that has long gone unmet. Any comments or thoughts one way or

Re: [liberationtech] Article 19 Digital Security YouTube video

2013-04-09 Thread Dirk Slater
Hi Frank, Thought it might be a good time to out myself. I've been lurking a bit on the list here as I've recently subscribed. I appear in a couple of those videos, so would also be happy to hear any comments or thoughts. You can view the full videos with their interactive content here:

Re: [liberationtech] Article 19 Digital Security YouTube video

2013-04-09 Thread frank
Pleasure to meet you, Dirk. I think the videos are a good idea, and an effective way to introduce basic and more elaborate concepts and some basic training. There may well different opinions on this list, of course. And I do hope they weigh in to help us improve guidance and training. But one way