Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

2013-03-13 Thread Petter Ericson
Well, given that protocol uses essentially now new tech (apart from the message bit, which to me looks a bit superfluous), it should require relatively little time to implement properly. Furthermore, there are various parts of the protocol that are Good Ideas, independently of the other parts -

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

2013-03-13 Thread Guido Witmond
Thank you for your concerns, I think I have the issues you mention covered in the 'protocol' On 03/13/2013 12:31 AM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: I appreciate the intention, but I see a lot of problems here. Without doing an exhaustive analysis: A. This doesn't eliminate phishing because users will

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing a privacy preserving authentication protocol

2013-03-13 Thread Guido Witmond
On 03/13/2013 08:33 AM, Petter Ericson wrote: Kyle: A. This doesn't eliminate phishing because users will still enter their credentials at a site that doesn't actually match the one where the cert was previously signed. Otherwise, existing HTTPS controls would already protect them. Not

[liberationtech] You Only Click Twice

2013-03-13 Thread Ronald Deibert
Dear LibTech I am pleased to announce the Citizen Lab's latest publication, You Only Click Twice: FinFisher's Global Proliferation, authored by Marquis-Boire, Bill Marczak, Claudio Guarnieri, and John Scott-Railton.

Re: [liberationtech] CfP: USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (DC!)

2013-03-13 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
I've been waiting for this CFP with great excitement and will be submitting for sure! Thanks, Collin. :-) NK On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com wrote: Colleagues, Libtech receives a fair number of call for papers on conferences and journals every

[liberationtech] Update on Humanity United USAID Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

2013-03-13 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Mia Newman mnew...@humanityunited.org I wanted to follow up on my email from last month about the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention, as we are excited to announce that our second round formally launched last week. Hopefully you received our email blast announcement below, but I also

[liberationtech] Bay area opensource mesh wireless meetups

2013-03-13 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Rich Bodo richb...@gmail.com Cc: ja...@cozybit.com If any of you are in the San Francisco bay area, I'm interested in starting an open-source mesh wireless meetup group. I am a member of hacker dojo (hackerdojo.com) so we could meet there. Ping me if you are interested. If there is

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-13 Thread Karl Fogel
fl...@pgm.com writes: Thanks to Ali-Reza for reposting Dr. Dey's reply. If you are looking for lowest-cost short to medium range communications using ham radio, Android phones are not the answer. You still need VHF or UHF radio hardware. There are at least 20 radio manufacturers in China that

[liberationtech] CodeX Fellowship 2013/14

2013-03-13 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Roland Vogl rv...@law.stanford.edu CodeX – The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (http://codex.stanford.edu) is accepting applications for a Resident Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year. CodeX is a cross-disciplinary research center jointly operated by Stanford Law School and

[liberationtech] Free university student government election app to increase voter turnout

2013-03-13 Thread Mitch Downey
Hi LibTech, The EveryVote Facebook app is a free (open source) technology to increase voter turnout in university student government elections by helping students learn about, share their opinion on, and interact with all of their candidates on one convenient page. The app is still a

[liberationtech] Era of the Digital Mercenaries

2013-03-13 Thread G.W. Schulz
Today, 12 March, World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, we are publishing two lists. One is a list of five “State Enemies of the Internet,” five countries whose governments are involved in active, intrusive surveillance of news providers, resulting in grave violations of freedom of information

[liberationtech] New book: Digital Disconnect

2013-03-13 Thread Yosem Companys
“A major new work by one of the nation's leading analysts of media.… A hard to put down, meticulously researched must-read.” —Juliet Schor, author of True Wealth Purchase Digital Disconnect “Over the past 20 years, the world has experienced a profound communications revolution delivered by the

[liberationtech] Soft launch of VOA Radiogram this weekend

2013-03-13 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Dewayne Hendricks dewa...@warpspeed.com VOA Radiogram will soft launch this weekend. VOA Radiogram is a Voice of America program experimenting with digital text and images via shortwave broadcasting. http://voaradiogram.net Dewayne-Net RSS Feed: http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress -- Too