[liberationtech] alexandria cable cutters?

2013-03-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Randy Bush ra...@psg.com - From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:46:25 +0900 To: North American Network Operators' Group na...@nanog.org Subject: alexandria cable cutters? User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/22.3 Mule/5.0

[liberationtech] Installation free end-to-end encryption: Asking for public review / opinion / suggestion

2013-03-28 Thread Simon Rothe
Hi liberationtech, my name is Simon. I am a German software engineer. I propose to develop a (web) app providing end-to-end encryption for email; covering the following features: - no installation - for all devices - fast and secure hosted by Amazon-Web-Service All source code will be

[liberationtech] Fwd: [ra...@psg.com: alexandria cable cutters?]

2013-03-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I don't think it's a huge leap to suggest that someone may be trying to hobble telecommunications in/out of the Middle East, that they're doing so for a reason, and that they'll try again. ---rsk - Forwarded message from Randy Bush ra...@psg.com - From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com Date:

Re: [liberationtech] Installation free end-to-end encryption: Asking for public review / opinion / suggestion

2013-03-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Simon Rothe wrote: - fast and secure hosted by Amazon-Web-Service I wouldn't. (a) Nobody with any clue accepts SMTP traffic from Amazon's cloud, as it's proven itself to be a massive source of spam and other forms of SMTP-borne abuse. Attempts to get

[liberationtech] Mexico's Geo-location law

2013-03-28 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
A quick question: I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find a good English translation of the Mexican Geo-location/Geo-localization law, do they? Many thanks Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ email:

Re: [liberationtech] What's wrong with the kids these days? - On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene

2013-03-28 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/26/2013 04:03 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: I find the observations in the article extremely grim and depressing - it is largely as a matter of agreement, I might add. *** +1 Consider this as a threat not only to the Dutch democratic

Re: [liberationtech] What's wrong with the kids these days? - On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene

2013-03-28 Thread Lex van Roon
On 28/03/13 14:41, hellekin wrote: On 03/26/2013 04:03 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: I find the observations in the article extremely grim and depressing - it is largely as a matter of agreement, I might add. *** +1 Agreed, but Consider this as a threat not only to the Dutch

Re: [liberationtech] Schneier: Focus on training obscures the failures of security design

2013-03-28 Thread Eleanor Saitta
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2013.03.28 00.45, Carol Waters wrote: At the risk of igniting an inbox-exploding smackdown thread, I think the following piece by Schneier http://www.darkreading.com/blog/240151108/on-security-awareness-training.html is definitely worth a

Re: [liberationtech] Schneier: Focus on training obscures the failures of security design

2013-03-28 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 07:45:45PM -0400, Carol Waters wrote: At the risk of igniting an inbox-exploding smackdown thread [...] You say that like it's a bad thing. ;-) I'll quote Marcus Ranum on the subject of educating users, from his essay: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

[liberationtech] New report: Nonprofit Technology Assistance Providers Sector Reach Assessment

2013-03-28 Thread Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Dear Liberation Tech Colleagues, Check out this important new report: http://www.nten.org/sites/default/files/ntap_sra_public_report_-_final_0.pdf It's a result of a collaboration among the following great organizations: - 501cTech - Idealware - Network For Good - NPower - NTEN (Nonprofit

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Allan
Andrés said: The beauty of democracy! :-) Well, the decision is binding and must be respected. But the issue decided here is not the issue that was raised by Joseph Lorenzo Hall and defined by Matt Mackall. We can see this from the comments that accompany the public votes. One or two voters

Re: [liberationtech] Installation free end-to-end encryption: Asking for public review / opinion / suggestion

2013-03-28 Thread Scott Elcomb
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:48:17AM +0100, Simon Rothe wrote: - fast and secure hosted by Amazon-Web-Service I wouldn't. snip (b) The assertion that Amazon's cloud is secure has no proof. Nor will it have proof anytime soon

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Allan
PS - A fellow list administrator kindly points out that I'm wrong about the actual configuration variables. And in that connection, I also misrepresented what Karl was saying. (Sorry for the added noise and confusion.) The actual config variables are: (1) Should any existing Reply-To: header

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Yosem Companys
We voted on #2 because that was the issue Joseph Lorenzo Hall raised (see: http://www.mail-archive.com/liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu/msg03767.html). He specifically asked for the following: Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not reply-all by default been broached? Maybe I'm

Re: [liberationtech] What's wrong with the kids these days? - On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene

2013-03-28 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/28/2013 10:51 AM, Lex van Roon wrote: Without any factual evidence this is just speculation imho. Do you have some publicly accessible sources that can confirm these facts? *** Please define this and these. I suppose you're referring to

[liberationtech] Fwd: [svc4all] Food Hackathon 9AM April 6, 2013 - 7PM April 7, 2013 (Saturday and Sunday)

2013-03-28 Thread Sam King
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jim Murray jim.mur...@stanford.edu Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:08 AM *Food Hackathon 9AM April 6, 2013 - 7PM April 7, 2013 (Saturday and Sunday) http://foodhackathon.eventbrite.com/# * We thought you might be interested in the event highlighted

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Karl Fogel
Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu writes: We voted on #2 because that was the issue Joseph Lorenzo Hall raised (see: http://www.mail-archive.com/liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu/msg03767. html). He specifically asked for the following: Has the possibility of reconfiguring libtech to not

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Karl Fogel
M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net writes: Karl, in this message from you there was one Reply-To header, set to: Karl Fogel kfo...@red-bean.com, liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Thank you. Then we're at least avoiding the can't find my way back home problem, which is

Re: [liberationtech] Vote results on Reply to Question

2013-03-28 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Hi all, I'm not comfortable enough with this list to reply-all very often (while it's a very informative list, the tenor doesn't match my own style, especially for a list with public archives), and it is a non-standard configuration -- in my experience -- to reply-to-list. That being said,