Greetings,
Though I imagine that the facebook use is significantly lower (and more
judicious) among the libtech users than among a more generic tech-savvy
population, this essay makes a rather good case on why quitting facebook
entirely is the proper thing to do at some point - sooner rather than
Would be interested in your thoughts on what the expansion of Chinese internet
tools to U.S. consumers mean for the user’s privacy? Other issues?
(The article calls it “WeiChat” but that seems to be a direct translation. It
is marketed in English as “WeChat”.)
Off the top of my head, I'd have major security concerns around this
because essentially this makes it very easy for an adversary to
destroy all data on a system.
That said, in appropriate use cases, there's value for a kill switch
or even a dead man's switch (if you don't take some action within
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com wrote:
Consider the case one has volatile data on a remote machine that needs to be
removed as fast and as discretely as possible. The last thing you want to be
doing is whipping out the laptop and logging in via SSH, an
Most Mexican journalists and bloggers reporting on highly sensitive
topics (such as crime, corruption, violence and human rights issues) do not
fully understand the risks and threats they face when they use digital and
mobile technology, even though the topics they cover make them even more
I think a subtle difference is what exactly the bargain entails. In the
case of television advertising, it's a relatively straightforward exchange
of your attention for entertainment. Facebook is asking for more than that.
The marketing is less oppressive because they receive the addition payment
..on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:57:36PM -0600, Kyle Maxwell wrote:
Off the top of my head, I'd have major security concerns around this
because essentially this makes it very easy for an adversary to
destroy all data on a system.
In fact only selected folders defined in the script on the server
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com wrote:
Very nice! I would see this as a companion project as it doesn't quite do the
same thing - it's whole disk focused rather than on deletion of directories
themselves (which could be followed with a reboot cycle and
..on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 08:22:27PM +0100, Jens Christian Hillerup wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Julian Oliver jul...@julianoliver.com
wrote:
Very nice! I would see this as a companion project as it doesn't quite do
the
same thing - it's whole disk focused rather than on
In case anyone's interested, I've written about this before too: my 10 reasons
to leave Facebook.
http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/10-reasons-to-leave-facebook/
There's quite a lot of stuff written on this in the academic world.
Paul
Dr Paul Bernal
Lecturer
UEA Law School
*From: *Patrick Kane Zambrano [pka...@gmail.com]
I want to share a short article from the NYTimes. Last week I had great
pleasure and fortune to speak with Thomas Friedman in a round table
discussion on Mexico’s past, present and future.
Today, Thomas Friedman’s NYTimes column “How Mexico
A few items from the folks at OpenITP:
*March 18 | NYC Event *
*Remailers: a Tool for Anonymous Email **
*Tom Ritter will discuss how remailers work, what systems are available,
their status and current issues, and whether they are still relevant. The
presentation is part of Techno-Activism 3rd
I'm curious how the infosec community, particularly those of us who
speak and write Spanish, can assist in helping Mexican activists and
journalists. I understand that a large portion of that community
actively exchanges data on Twitter; any pointers would be appreciated.
Feel free to contact me
Hi Lib Tech
The Citizen Lab's Seth Hardy has authored a new research post, APT1s GLASSES –
Watching a Human Rights Organization,
which analyzes some malware targeting civil society that relates to data in the
much discussed Mandiant report.
Key Findings
• Malware (“GLASSES”) sent in
From: Michael Allan m...@zelea.com
I'm seeking collaborators for a Knight News Challenge proposal. As
Steven mentions, this year's challenge is, How might we improve the
way citizens and governments interact? https://www.newschallenge.org/
Below is a rough draft of the proposal. My own
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