[liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=al_national NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally Video: In June, President Obama said the NSA’s email

Re: [liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 09:50:12 AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_story.html?wpisrc=al_national NSA collects millions of e-mail address books

[liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Ringo
Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were any more

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Yishay Mor
there used to be http://cpsr.org/ but I think they dissolved. there's http://www.ict4d.org.uk/ which is close, but not quite what you're after. ___ http://www.yishaymor.org learning; design; technology; research On 15 October 2013 10:07, Ringo ri...@hackbloc.org

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Alberto Cammozzo
Hello Ringo, IFIP ( International Federation for Information Processing) has a working group on social accountability and computing: http://ifipwg92.org/ You also might be intrested in the ETHICOMP conferences: Last one:

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Georg Koppen
Ringo: Hey Liberation Tech, I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there were

Re: [liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 10/15/2013 10:59 AM, M. Fioretti wrote: to prove that quick dirty solutions like the percloud is needed NOW http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software (to know more about the percloud, and why it **is** needed in spite of FreedomBox etc... pls check the slideshow at

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Doug Schuler
Yes, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility was dissolved (although the web site is still available.) There is still a need! I think FIFF is a good example and I believe there are several more. I'm hoping to add these to http://publicsphereproject.org/civic_organizations. (Ideally

Re: [liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 11:49:46 AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: A self-hosted mail provider will obviously *not* help much against NSAs mass collection of emails and email addresses. Don't sell it as a solution in this context. why? No, seriously. Marco -- Liberationtech is public archives

Re: [liberationtech] NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread Nick
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:49:46AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: A self-hosted mail provider will obviously *not* help much against NSAs mass collection of emails and email addresses. Don't sell it as a solution in this context. Well the article seems to be talking about address books, as opposed

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-15 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On 10/11/13 9:43 AM, LilBambi wrote: I hope others may also consider making the hard decision to join EFF in leaving this group until they can be more effective. It is scary to think that faith in a group of this nature can no longer be trusted because of government meddling. Frankly, I

[liberationtech] OUT of: NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally

2013-10-15 Thread M. Fioretti
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 11:49:46 AM +0200, Moritz Bartl wrote: A self-hosted mail provider will obviously *not* help much against NSAs... Nick already pointed out that today's news is about direct copy of address books from centralized providers. Anyway, the ONLY reason I'm posting this email is

[liberationtech] per-cloud or How to get something ready for folks to use really quick

2013-10-15 Thread carlo von lynX
Moritz is right, mentioning the same project 8 times is a bit much, but I can understand that it's annoying if noone bothers to tell you what they are thinking about it. You need some decent feedback. On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 01:07:20AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:

[liberationtech] [Job] HRDAG is looking for Tech lead with a hacker's heart.

2013-10-15 Thread Enrique Piracés
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear all, The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is hiring a Technical lead with a hacker's heart. If you are interested in working with brilliant people while supporting ground-breaking Human Rights projects in Syria, Colombia, DR Congo, Guatemala,

[liberationtech] per-cloud or How to get something ready for folks to use really quick

2013-10-15 Thread Yosem Companys
Message appears to have gotten caught in the Liberationtech filter, so re-sending on behalf of poster... YC -- Forwarded message -- From: carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:40 AM Subject: [liberationtech] per-cloud or How to get something

[liberationtech] The Martus Software Project 10th Anniversary The Future of Human Rights Tech.

2013-10-15 Thread Enrique Piracés
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear all, We are organizing a small event to celebrate Martus 10th anniversary. Martus (https://www.martus.org/) is a secure human rights documentation system used by human rights initiatives to document and preserve evidence and testimonies of

[liberationtech] NSA must be best informed entity regarding viagra market

2013-10-15 Thread Richard Brooks
Since most email is spam, how productive is the NSA dragnet? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/15/the-nsas-giant-utah-data-center-will-probably-hold-a-bunch-of-spam/?wpisrc=nl_tech -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Jayne Cravens
On 2013-10-15 04:07, Ringo wrote: I was wondering if anybody here knew of any organizations for IT professionals/computer repair technicians that are in the same vein as physicians for social responsibility? Obviously there are civil advocacy groups like the EFF, but I was wondering if there

Re: [liberationtech] 13 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-15 Thread Tempest
carlo von lynX: People expect PGP to be secure without having such a clear idea of what they mean by secure. Suddenly, times have changed. This summer times have changed and nothing is as it was. Now we know just being able to encrypt and sign is not enough for most situations in life. It's

Re: [liberationtech] EFF Resigns from Global Network Initiative

2013-10-15 Thread Jillian C. York
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org wrote: On 10/11/13 9:43 AM, LilBambi wrote: I hope others may also consider making the hard decision to join EFF in leaving this group until they can be more effective. It is scary to think that faith in a group of this

[liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-15 Thread Yosem Companys
Hi All, Lately, I've been receiving inquiries from Internet users seeking to replace their commercial email accounts (e.g., Gmail) with more private and secure alternatives. A number of these inquiries pertain to Riseup (https://mail.riseup.net). While I admire the work of the Riseup team, I

[liberationtech] Mykolab.com [Was: Re: RiseUp]

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't speak to RiseUp, but I moved most of my personal GMail traffic over to http://mykolab.com/ based in Switzerland. It is *not* free. :-) - - ferg On 10/15/2013 3:07 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: Hi All, Lately, I've been receiving inquiries

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-15 Thread elijah
On 10/15/2013 03:07 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: If you have any thoughts about Riseup, whether security/privacy-related or otherwise, I'd love to hear them. I think I am the only person from the Riseup collective who is subscribed to liberationtech, so I will reply, although what follows is not

Re: [liberationtech] Tech equivalent of Physicians for Social Responsibility?

2013-10-15 Thread Sandy Harris
ACM (assoc for Computing Machinery) are one of the oldest and I think still the largest professional society in the field. They have many SIGs (special interest groups). Try this one: http://www.sigcas.org/ Also try IEEE http://www.ieee.org/index.html I went to one Computers, Freedom Privacy