Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-11 Thread LilBambi
I am sure that was a very hard move by EFF after being part of this group for five years. Corporate members being meddled with in regard to their security practices about their internal privacy and security systems is no way to effectively run any civil society that is hopeful of keeping people

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-11 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
I believe it was The right thing to do, just like eating Quaker Oats. Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes a...@acm.org +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:43 AM, LilBambi lilba...@gmail.com wrote: I am sure that was a very hard move by EFF after

[liberationtech] Gpg4win woes

2013-10-11 Thread Scott Arciszewski
TL;DR - Gpg4win is unusable for the average internet user == Okay, I had a hard drive die on me a couple of weeks ago and I just reinstalled Windows and all the drivers on it last night. This morning when I was installing

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-11 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/13 01:14, carlo von lynX wrote: No one anywhere has solved the problem of asynchronous, forward-secret group cryptography. I think you have to be a bit opportunistic about it. Briar does it somehow, if I understood correctly. Yes and

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-11 Thread Tempest
Gregory Maxwell: My other big technical complaint about PGP is (3) in the post, that every encrypted message discloses what key you're communicating with. PGP easily _undoes_ the privacy that an anonymity network like tor can provide. It's possible to use --hidden-recipient but almost no one

[liberationtech] CPJ: Solidarity in the face of surveillance

2013-10-11 Thread frank
Great piece here by Josh Stearns of Free Press and Freedom of the Press Foundation for the Committee to Protect Journalists' Journalist Security Blog. http://cpj.org/security/2013/10/solidarity-in-the-face-of-surveillance.php Solidarity in the face of surveillance By Josh Stearns/CPJ guest

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Tempest temp...@tushmail.com wrote: Gregory Maxwell: My other big technical complaint about PGP is (3) in the post, that every encrypted message discloses what key you're communicating with. PGP easily _undoes_ the privacy that an anonymity network like tor

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-11 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 3:23 PM, carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org wrote: We had some debate on this topic at the Circumvention Tech Summit and I got some requests to publish my six reasons not to use PGP. Well, I spent a bit more time on it and now they turned into 10 reasons not to.

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-11 Thread Tempest
Gregory Maxwell: Do you think any of your users should want to send you email to anonymous one time use tech support mailboxes using that key, provably showing they were communicating to you to anyone who can monitor their email? Do you think your users will even realize that sending you

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-11 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Tempest temp...@tushmail.com wrote: a fair point. but one could significantly address this issue by hosting the public key on a tor hidden service. that would greater ensure that, in order to get your key, they would be using a system that protects against

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-11 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
yeah, but we have to go further, and get the United Nations HQ The Heck out of the USA http://gadebate.un.org/68/venezuela-bolivarian-republic por eso y por mucho más! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G--xIaMTSuc Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-11 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes alps6...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, but we have to go further, and get the United Nations HQ The Heck out of the USA If you want an impotent organization to be even moreso - then that's a good move. The problem is while all this

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-11 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Yes, of course. BUT! Look at HISTORY Why did the US become the seat of the UN? And now, for THOSE SAME REASONS The US should NOT be the SEAT of the UN Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes a...@acm.org +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:16 PM,

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-11 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes alps6...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, of course. BUT! *snip* Then the rest is moot - that's my point. Unless you can substantially change the behavior of the permanents seats of the UN Security Council - ~where~ the figureheads meet