http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/02/20132314561857436.html
The Myopia of excluding censors: The tale of a self-defeating petition
Closing US borders in the name of openness does not create more
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Hi all,
Frustrated by the lack of critical reporting on the matter, I put
together a post on the EU Cybersecurity Strategy that was announced
yesterday. Apart from prof. Ross Anderson's, I've read very few
worthwhile analysis of it coming from civil society or academia. So I
thought it would be
Libtech,
I appreciated the short articulation of this counterargument at the time of
the petition being posted and this article summarizes it well. Firstly,
unfortunately while Libtech has fostered an impression of being a private
network, it has grown beyond that over the past three years, into
Overall, I am dissatisfied with Chris totally ignoring my point regarding
hype in the media. Chris selectively criticizes projects he doesn't like
when the media hypes them up, but when it's Silent Circle, even calling it
unbreakable crypto doesn't get anything out of him but dozens of
quotations
A new competition offers $100,000 in prizes for creative and provocative
digital media pieces that offer new ideas and fresh perspectives to help
improve American democracy. The competition - Looking@Democracy
http://www.lookingatdemocracy.org/ - aims to spark a national
conversation about why
At this point, I'd like to realize that I'm no longer contributing
productively to this conversation. I've stated my points, would like to
apologize should anyone have felt offended, and am going to bow out.
NK
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote:
Overall, I
This appears to be in front of the IEEE paywall for a bit, so grab it
now unless you want to #icanhazpdf it later...
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/security/content?g=53319type=articleurlTitle=going-bright%3A-wiretapping-without-weakening-communications-infrastructure
Going
- Forwarded message from Jon Callas j...@callas.org -
From: Jon Callas j...@callas.org
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:26:23 -0800
To: Randombit List cryptogra...@randombit.net
Subject: Re: [cryptography] Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set
to revolutionize privacy...
When law enforcement relies on vulnerabilities in the system (be it
protocols, operating systems, applications, or web sites), they are
incentivized to keep it insecure. If it were secure, how would they
get in?
Would the FBI patch their own systems against the bugs they know
about? How would
Found a downloadable PDF of it here (thank you smb!):
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/GoingBright.pdf
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Brian Conley:
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My point was for something off the shelf, I know of nothing better and as
far as it goes... I'd say it's a step up for a lot people who should be
using more secure IT technologies and methods than they are (such as some
journalists), and they can take that step with
Brian Conley:
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote:
Brian Conley:
Micah,
Perhaps you can tell us the secret to convince all family members and
colleagues to become Linux hackers able to be completely self-sufficient
managing their own upgrades and
As an activist working against online censorship in China, I find this
petition both useful and encouraging for many reasons:
- It promotes much-needed discussion of Internet censorship in China.
- The petition and the public listing of individuals contributing to the
Great Firewall could
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