[liberationtech] Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

2014-02-07 Thread Lina Srivastava
This might be of interest to some on this list. Lina -- Forwarded message -- From: *NPCC GGIS* g...@npccny.orgjavascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','g...@npccny.org'); Date: Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Subject: Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention To:

Re: [liberationtech] uVirtus Linux, encrypted OS for Syria: a security review

2014-02-07 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Sahar Massachi sa...@brandeis.edu wrote: The fact that there's a naked sudo hole is brutal. Forgive me if I misunderstand the problem, but how could *anyone* ship a distribution with a passwordless sudo? That seems like it requires deliberate malice to even set

Re: [liberationtech] need advice on using hashes for preserving PII's utility for disambiguation while protecting sensitive info

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Ritter
In addition to what the others have said, I'll give a name to some of these techniques. The process of assigning an opaque random identifier to an easily reversed string is 'Tokenization'. I don't work in payment processing - but it's big there. Don't want to have a ton of PCI requirements? Pay

Re: [liberationtech] Catch-22: When Government Tells Professors What Not to Teach

2014-02-07 Thread Tom Ritter
A cleared friend lamented this recently. (But long enough ago my memory is a tad hazy.) I believe they told me that they're allowed to read reports _about_ the material (e.g. a summarizing article) but not the content themselves. They wished there was some uncleared, but 'blessed' source from

Re: [liberationtech] uVirtus Linux, encrypted OS for Syria: a security review

2014-02-07 Thread KheOps
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 11:25:31AM +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:37 AM, Sahar Massachi sa...@brandeis.edu wrote: The fact that there's a naked sudo hole is brutal. Forgive me if I misunderstand the problem, but how could

Re: [liberationtech] [sunlightlabs] need advice on using hashes for preserving PII's utility for disambiguation while protecting sensitive info

2014-02-07 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/02/14 20:56, Margie Roswell wrote: For all I know, the lack of implementations using this kind of one-way transformation isn't about government sluggishness but rather about its feasibility. I'd be very curious to hear folks ideas on

[liberationtech] Unmasking the hardliner webosphere in Iran

2014-02-07 Thread Amin Sabeti
​Hi folks, Small Media has published a report about the hardliner webosphere in Iran. The report is the first in-depth research about the hardline on the Persian cyberspace with lots of interesting information. You can read the report here: http://unmaskthearzeshi.com I was one of the senior

Re: [liberationtech] Seed Grants for Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

2014-02-07 Thread Brian Conley
I believe it's only open to winners of the tech challenge from last year. On Feb 7, 2014 12:54 AM, Lina Srivastava l...@linasrivastava.com wrote: This might be of interest to some on this list. Lina -- Forwarded message -- From: *NPCC GGIS* g...@npccny.org Date: Wednesday,

[liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread taltman1
I awoke this morning to find this awaiting me behind Stanford's WebAuth to access Zimbra: WebLogin What is this? You are being temporarily blocked from accessing Stanford systems because one or more of your mobile devices is not compliant with the School of Medicine's Data Security Policy. To

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
Transfer to Harvard Medical School, or MIT, or Columbia! :D Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes a...@acm.org +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:52 AM, taltm...@stanford.edu wrote: I awoke this morning to find this awaiting me behind Stanford's

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, taltm...@stanford.edu wrote: This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy. This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to no backlash against spyware

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread taltman1
In response I have created the following Facebook Group to help gather support for showing the administration that their policies have crossed a line: https://www.facebook.com/groups/nospysu/ Of course I have reservations using Facebook for this (i.e., the public/private surveillance

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread Joseph Mornin
This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was little to no backlash against spyware requirements for exams in most law-schools. There was backlash at Berkeley (my law school), and the school no longer forces students to install exam software. On 2/7/14, 10:12 AM, Gregory Maxwell

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
What kind of webmail are you talking about? Microsoft Exchange? That would be, like, so unprofessional! On Feb 7, 2014 11:52 AM, taltm...@stanford.edu wrote: I awoke this morning to find this awaiting me behind Stanford's WebAuth to access Zimbra: WebLogin What is this? You are being

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/07/2014 01:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, taltm...@stanford.edu wrote: This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy. This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was

[liberationtech] GIS data for Gender International Development

2014-02-07 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Hemant Purohit hem...@knoesis.org I am wondering if you could help me find some GIS dataset relating to gender and development, relevant to international development policy applications. Please let me know about any pointers to further dig into. I appreciate your help. Thanks very much,

[liberationtech] Suggested Readings on Consumer Surveillance

2014-02-07 Thread Yosem Companys
From: surveilla...@jiscmail.ac.uk Surveillance and Society: http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/view/Consumption Pridmore, Jason. 2012. “Consumer Surveillance Context , Perspectives and Concerns in the Personal Information Economy.” In Routledge Handbook of

[liberationtech] First public DNSChain server went online yesterday!

2014-02-07 Thread Greg
From README.md on GitHub: DNSChain (formerly DNSNMC) makes it possible to be certain that you're communicating with who you want to communicate with, and connecting to the sites that you want to connect to, without anyone secretly listening in on your conversations in between. •