Re: [liberationtech] Want to shield text, photos from government? Wickr says it has an app for that | SiliconBeat

2013-06-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu To: Liberation Technologies liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Saturday, June 8, 2013 2:22 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Want to shield text, photos from government? Wickr says it has an app for that |

Re: [liberationtech] Use of PRISM corporations by social activists campaigns

2013-06-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu To: Liberation Technologies liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Cc: Charles Lenchner clench...@organizing20.org Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:26 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Use of PRISM corporations by social activists campaigns From: Charles

Re: [liberationtech] Building a encrypted mobile network

2013-06-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Building a encrypted mobile network -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi

Re: [liberationtech] Building a encrypted mobile network

2013-06-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com; liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 6:58 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Building a encrypted mobile network -BEGIN PGP

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: micah mi...@riseup.net To: Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org; liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

[liberationtech] tools for meta-data protection

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Is there a list somewhere for software that gives a user more privacy regarding their meta-data? If not then here's a three-pronged start: 1) Peer-reviewed, stable: * Tor - https://www.torproject.org/ 2) Not (yet) peer-reviewed(?): * torchat - https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat * torfone -

Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] NSA breakthrough

2013-06-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org To: Liberation Technologies liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu; i...@postbiota.org; zs-...@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] [cryptography] NSA breakthrough -

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Anne Roth annal...@riseup.net To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 1:13 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives Hi, Tactical Tech has been getting a lot of questions

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: micah mi...@riseup.net To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com; liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu; liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

2013-06-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com To: micah mi...@riseup.net; liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives Here's the much more articulate version

Re: [liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust [was: Help test Tor Browser!]

2013-06-19 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:54 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust [was: Help test Tor Browser!] [...] This is where

Re: [liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust

2013-06-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:34 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust [...] Thanks for the responses.  I'm not a security

Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

2013-06-21 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: dan mcquillan d...@internetartizans.co.uk To: Liberation Technologies liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 11:41 AM Subject: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt? a few people who came to our university cryptoparty

[liberationtech] phantom protocol

2013-06-22 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list,  Did anyone ever take a look at Magnus Brading's phantom protocol? http://code.google.com/p/phantom/ Hasn't been much development on it for awhile.  I'm just curious if anyone used it and saw problems with the design or not. Thanks, Jonathan-- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

2013-06-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org To: liberationtech liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:26 AM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage Google is also unwilling to work with us to deploy rate limiting

Re: [liberationtech] a privacy preserving and resilient social network

2013-06-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Eleanor Saitta e...@dymaxion.org To: liberationtech liberationt...@mailman.stanford.edu Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [liberationtech] a privacy preserving and resilient social network [...] Congratulations!  Your job is now to

Re: [liberationtech] eternity USENET (Re: Internet blackout)

2013-06-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 06/29/2013 01:07 AM, Eleanor Saitta wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2013.06.28 21.02, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: That's anecdotal evidence. The vast majority of the smartphone userbase just learned the word meta-data a few weeks ago. The news about the scope of NSA

Re: [liberationtech] On the technical and legal aspects of security, transparency, and audibility of the NSA surveillance data.

2013-07-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/01/2013 07:06 PM, Landon Hurley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 (And the quote I cannot find ATM from the cryptography guy back in the 1800s who said you should be able to describe how a cryptosystem works without breaking it probably applies here.)

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/01/2013 09:22 PM, Martin Uecker wrote: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com: On 07/01/2013 07:22 PM, Martin Uecker wrote: Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: ... We need a secure downloading tool, we need it to be built into every OS by default and until then, we'll have to rely

Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/02/2013 03:44 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote: I also had a hard time with his nastiness, which struck me as vapid. It's kind of hard to look at the writing of Tim O'Reilly, for example, and be kind: http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/08/my-tonguelashing-from-eben-mog.html It's instructive to play

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/03/2013 04:47 AM, intrigeri wrote: Hi, Jonathan Wilkes wrote (02 Jul 2013 21:57:01 GMT) : On 07/02/2013 12:46 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 07/02/2013 04:51 AM, intrigeri wrote: + verify that the signed file you've downloaded is actually the version you intended to download

Re: [liberationtech] PRISM and an Agenda for European Network

2013-07-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/04/2013 10:04 PM, hellekin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I want to thank Christian Grothoff and his team(s) for the exceptional work they're doing on GNUnet. Christian gave an awesome presentation at the Free University of Amsterdam a couple of days ago, and the

Re: [liberationtech] DecryptoCat

2013-07-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/07/2013 05:20 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, CodesInChaos codesinch...@gmail.com wrote: So introductory-level programming course mistakes are right out. In my experience it's quite often a really simple mistake that gets you, even when you're an experienced

Re: [liberationtech] DecryptoCat

2013-07-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/09/2013 10:29 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Patrick Mylund Nielsen: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:12:21AM -0400, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: If it's so easy, go ahead and produce a more secure alternative that people You

Re: [liberationtech] DecryptoCat

2013-07-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/09/2013 02:33 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Jonathan Wilkes: On 07/09/2013 10:29 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: Patrick Mylund Nielsen: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:12:21AM -0400, Patrick Mylund Nielsen wrote: If it's so easy

Re: [liberationtech] DecryptoCat

2013-07-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/11/2013 12:38 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Jacob Appelbaumja...@appelbaum.net wrote: While I think Maxim is viewed as exceedingly harsh in how he writes, I think that your response is really the wrong way to deal with him. We should consider that his cultural

Re: [liberationtech] DecryptoCat

2013-07-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/11/2013 02:08 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: I think the upshot of that is to steer whatever funds Cryptocat has toward the form of peer review that did work, which is the bug hunt (as well as look into other forms

[liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-13 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi List, Looking at the enormous list of members in the WC3 along with the fact that application membership is subject to final arbitrary approval by the current WC3, I'm concerned about the lack of democratic checks on their decision making. Example with Encrypted Media Extensions

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/15/2013 11:45 PM, Catherine Roy wrote: As a member of the HTML working group and the Restricted Media community group, my experience is that discussions within these groups surrounding the EME draft have been extremely frustrating. The same scenario as with Jeff Jaffe's blog post has

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-16 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/16/2013 10:15 AM, Nick Daly wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: On 07/15/2013 11:45 PM, Catherine Roy wrote: As a member of the HTML working group and the Restricted Media community group, my experience is that discussions within these groups

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-22 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/16/2013 10:15 AM, Nick Daly wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Jonathan Wilkesjancs...@yahoo.com wrote: On 07/15/2013 11:45 PM, Catherine Roy wrote: As a member of the HTML working group and the Restricted Media community group, my experience is that discussions within these groups

[liberationtech] Defund Domestic Spying

2013-07-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
To any U.S. citizens out there, this might be a good time to act: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/tomorrow-congress-votes-amendment-defund-spying-heres-how-you-can-help -Jonathan -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/25/2013 07:14 AM, Mitar wrote: Hi! Some very good arguments *for* DRM on the web: http://unitscale.com/mb/bomb-in-the-garden/ Sure. It's also _necessarily_ an argument against free software operating systems as well as an argument against general purpose computing. It is both of these

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/26/2013 08:06 AM, Mitar wrote: Hi! On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Nickliberationt...@njw.me.uk wrote: But his wider point that everything sucks if it's designed with advertising as the only business model is fair, and an important issue. DRM cannot be a fair and reasonable solution,

Re: [liberationtech] WC3 and DRM

2013-07-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/26/2013 06:18 PM, Steve Weis wrote: DRM technologies have a flip side as privacy-preserving technology. What is the technology that lets me make my data searchable but not copyable? What is the technology that lets Google share my data with a few third parties which I approve but no

Re: [liberationtech] Anonymity Smackdown: NSA vs. Tor

2013-08-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/07/2013 03:26 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Aug 7, 2013, at 12:05 AM, Roger Dingledine a...@mit.edu wrote: Consider two scenarios. In scenario one, NSA doesn't run any Tor relays, but they have done deals with ATT and other networks to be able to passively monitor those networks --

[liberationtech] multisig password manager

2013-08-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Is there such a thing yet? I can see a lot of cases where, my lawyer has the other half of this amulet, would come in handy. -Jonathan -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated:

Re: [liberationtech] scrambler

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/30/2013 01:51 PM, Michael Hicks wrote: Thank you so much we appreciate your opinion and facts. would you have any recommendations? something we could fix? the whle purpose of this software is to give the American people privacy and not have to worry about the NSA's spying. The American

[liberationtech] getting past that first turtle

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, I want to download and play with Liberté Linux, but I have a few questions that are of a general enough nature to be of interest for this list. At least that's my hope. My Abilities: can use GPG cli commands, can install junk I download to a thumbdrive, use free software (almost)

Re: [liberationtech] getting past that first turtle

2013-09-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/06/2013 12:26 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: For example, if it turns out that Bitcoin has a backdoor in it, a lot of people (some on this list) would take a big reputation hit. That's most certainly not what would

Re: [liberationtech] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Eugen, When Bruce Schneier made the call for people to come forward and describe being asked to degrade standards or build backdoors I don't think this is what he meant. Mr. Gilmore seems perfectly happy to give us enough details to be able to find the identity of a suspicious Kernel

Re: [liberationtech] [Cryptography] Opening Discussion: Speculation on BULLRUN

2013-09-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/07/2013 02:46 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:26:22PM -0400, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi Eugen, When Bruce Schneier made the call for people to come forward and describe being asked to degrade standards or build backdoors I don't think this is what he meant. Bruce

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/09/2013 03:40 PM, Case Black wrote: There's a more subtle variant to this idea... Regularly state (put up a sign) that you HAVE in fact received an NSL...with the public understanding that it must be a lie (there's no law against falsely making such a claim...yet!). When actually

Re: [liberationtech] Meet the 'cowboy' in charge of the NSA

2013-09-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/09/2013 12:50 PM, Al Billings wrote: Have fun tilting that windmill, Mr. Quixote. Like it or not, to fully use websites at this point, you generally need things like Javascript and CSS. The reason that most folks, even security folks like the ones I work with, don't run with NoScript on

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-12 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/12/2013 04:00 PM, Case Black wrote: Although not an unalloyed fan of Ms. Rand, her words of 50 years ago do seem relevant to our current situation --- Instead of being a protector of man’s rights, the government is becoming their most dangerous violator. Instead of protecting men from

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-14 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/14/2013 06:03 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Hi all, i would like to notice that in those internet freedom space there's a missing component in the communication security landscape, that's the ability to interoperate between Web and Mobile for communication security technologies.

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/15/2013 04:22 AM, Brian Conley wrote: On Sep 15, 2013 2:22 AM, coderman coder...@gmail.com mailto:coder...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Lee Azzarello l...@guardianproject.info mailto:l...@guardianproject.info wrote: We have a federated telephony system...

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/15/2013 02:32 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/09/13 16:49, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: I'm not completely sure, but I don't think that is possible. For example: regardless of privacy implications, discoverability on Facebook is a feature

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-22 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/17/2013 04:46 PM, Michael Rogers wrote: [...] Please push me back on the right track if I have a blind spot here-- I'm having a difficult time seeing a technical difference between a social network that allows partial views of the graph in order to maintain a semblance of privacy, and a

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/23/2013 11:20 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/09/13 20:51, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: [...] Otherwise you create a social network that looks like it has checks and balances built-in, but, e.g, no one really understands _why_ sharing beyond

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/24/2013 09:56 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/09/13 05:21, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Is Briar able to hide metadata that describes who is messaging whom within the network from an attacker with a splitter on the internet and a $50+ billion

Re: [liberationtech] The missing component: Mobile to Web interoperability (in Internet Freedom Technologies)

2013-09-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 09/26/2013 12:32 AM, coderman wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: ... Roger Dingledine has said that his biggest fear is that the NSA has found a way to break Tor, citation? ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUyuFH9CbI It was a mistake

Re: [liberationtech] 10 reasons not to start using PGP

2013-10-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 10/10/2013 03:55 PM, adrelanos wrote: Thank you for doing this work! The world needs someone facing the truth, explaining why gpg isn't the solution, advocating positive change. It's a communicative task, a very difficult one. As long there is gpg, most geeks don't see need to create better

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 10/15/2013 06:47 PM, elijah wrote: 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

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 10/18/2013 04:57 PM, groente wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:20:58PM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote: snip Second, the unusual stress of ideology in such a service is very relevant to product's security in this case. When I read RiseUp's social contract page [1] some time ago, I found the mild

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-19 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 10/18/2013 07:23 PM, Alfredo Lopez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Besides being wrong, this is truly offensive. Rise-Up is a remarkable collective with outstanding service and enormous commitment to principle. Then I'd strongly suggest rethinking the four bullet

Re: [liberationtech] [Freedombox-discuss] [tahoe-dev] Blog post: Introducing BRIC (Bunch of Redundant Independent Clouds)

2012-10-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
It's an interesting idea. What is the little party/ceremony people have in Germany when they decide to address each other with du instead of the formal Sie?  How about celebrating with a beer and then clicking a button on your FBXes that reciprocates 10gigs of storage on each others drives? 

Re: [liberationtech] [Freedombox-discuss] Happy Creepy February!

2013-02-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com To: freedombox-disc...@lists.alioth.debian.org; Liberation Technologies liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Cc: Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:47 PM Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Happy Creepy February! T hanks to

Re: [liberationtech] dark mail alliance

2013-11-04 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 11/04/2013 05:28 AM, phree...@yandex.ru wrote: On Sunday, November 03, 2013 04:06:11 PM Bill Woodcock wrote: On Nov 3, 2013, at 3:30, phree...@yandex.ru phree...@yandex.ru wrote: I don't see how pasting over a QR code in a way that's not easily detectable is somehow harder than pasting over

Re: [liberationtech] arkOS starts funding campaign to push forward development

2013-11-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Jacob, Can you talk more about how the user would run arkOS services as Tor hidden services? Can the user run the services they want _only_ as hidden services (i.e., not accessible through normal web)? Will the user need to do any extra configuration to enable this option, or will

Re: [liberationtech] Ubuntu Privacy Remix remix?

2013-11-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 11/06/2013 04:21 PM, Matt Johnson wrote: Sorry Eugen, I am still not getting it. You will author content in isolation, without reference to any information at all? Or perhaps in a library with books on paper? When I author something I constantly refer to other material. You know most

Re: [liberationtech] Twister: P2P Decentralized Microblogging

2014-01-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/10/2014 08:57 AM, carlo von lynX wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 08:50:34PM +0100, Simon Rothe wrote: Here is another one: Twitter based on Bitmessage: https://bitchirp.org/ Found this via Slashdot: twister is the fully decentralized P2P microblogging platform leveraging from the free

[liberationtech] nweb + Tor

2014-01-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list, I'm thinking about setting up a slightly modified version of nweb as a Tor hidden service: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/index.html?ca=dat This is for fun, mostly just to learn some more about Tor hidden services and webservers. But it's got me

Re: [liberationtech] nweb + Tor

2014-01-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
static content. -Jonathan 2014/1/20 Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com mailto:jancs...@yahoo.com Hi list, I'm thinking about setting up a slightly modified version of nweb as a Tor hidden service: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/index.html?ca=dat

Re: [liberationtech] nweb + Tor

2014-01-21 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
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Re: [liberationtech] A modest proposal for protecting the work (and freedom) of activists.

2014-01-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/20/2014 02:29 PM, Kate Krauss wrote: Hi, I think the idea is that there is a subset of activists and journalists who are very motivated to encrypt who can't. Glen Greenwald comes to mind. I come to mind, and a bunch of my activist friends from countries under pressure. I don't see much

Re: [liberationtech] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate

2014-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/26/2014 08:12 AM, Guido Witmond wrote: On 01/26/14 10:20, Tomer Altman wrote: To Liberation Tech: Stanford is implementing a new security policy detailed here: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/computersecurity/ I am personally very concerned about steps #2 and #3. BigFix is basically a back

Re: [liberationtech] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate

2014-01-29 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/29/2014 04:50 PM, Guido Witmond wrote: On 01/29/14 19:57, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 01/26/2014 08:12 AM, Guido Witmond wrote: BigFix: the missing package manager for Windows. What every self respecting unix/linux/bsd/etc system already has. Good. How is a centralized service

Re: [liberationtech] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate

2014-01-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/30/2014 11:38 AM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: Jonathan Wilkes: Before I write anything else: Is the BigFix client free software? Couldn't figure it out from a quick look at the website. I also couldn't find confirmation it's Free Software. Someone from Stanford want to weigh in here

Re: [liberationtech] New public XMPP / Jabber server with Forward Secrecy/DNSSEC/Tor Hidden Service/DANE support - jabber.calyxinstitute.org

2014-01-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/30/2014 05:29 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Nicholas Merrill li...@calyx.com wrote: Hey all I wanted to let everyone here know that we (The Calyx Institute) opened an experimental public and free Jabber / XMPP server to the public today that has a number of

Re: [liberationtech] New public XMPP / Jabber server with Forward Secrecy/DNSSEC/Tor Hidden Service/DANE support - jabber.calyxinstitute.org

2014-01-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 01/30/2014 07:23 PM, Nathan of Guardian wrote: On 01/30/2014 07:02 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: So I'd recommend forcing OTR. Then the people discussing lolcats won't feel so bad about wasting their time, because even seemingly frivolous privacy helps to protect everyone else's. Is there any

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford blocking webmail access to those who refuse spyware

2014-02-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/07/2014 01:12 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:52 AM, taltm...@stanford.edu wrote: This is the kind of heavy hand that Stanford is laying down on students and faculty who do not want to give up their privacy. This seemed to me like an inevitable outcome when there was

Re: [liberationtech] Hacking Team and the Targeting of Ethiopian Journalists

2014-02-14 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/14/2014 01:23 PM, hellekin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/14/2014 02:30 PM, Morgan Marquis-Boire wrote: Thanks Frank, Thanks for the kind words. The ubiquitous targeting of journalists is very concerning. *** Indeed it is. Thank you for this report. I

Re: [liberationtech] The Fight for Internet Freedom - Program on Liberation Technology

2014-02-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/18/2014 01:00 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: http://liberationtechnology.stanford.edu/events/the_fight_for_internet_freedom/ The Fight for Internet Freedom Stanford CDDRL Seminar Series SPEAKER David C. Drummond - Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer at

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

2014-02-19 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/19/2014 03:56 PM, Mitar wrote: Hi! I would like to point to this change in the future W3C spec: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/cbfaa8edfadebf21a9c7428242c12e45934d8c55 This change effectively allows a website to prevent bookmarklets from working. In essence, content providers

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

2014-02-19 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 02/19/2014 06:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Now say that the user has installed a third party add-on that either accidentally or intentionally (through design or through compromise) blocks or otherwise prevents my TV

Re: [liberationtech] Another loss for the Internet

2014-02-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
for the Internet On 02/19/2014 06:39 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Now say that the user has installed a third party add-on that either accidentally or intentionally (through design or through compromise) blocks

Re: [liberationtech] Amazing New Privacy Product for Webcams

2014-03-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 03/03/2014 12:19 PM, Rayzer Raygun wrote: On 3/2/2014 12:13 PM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: Isn't it reasonable to assume that EVERYBODY IS BEING OR IS BOUND TO BE SPIED ON in the Internet? [...] I've always assumed anything I ever put on the internet, no matter encrypted

Re: [liberationtech] Vandalism and Video Surveillance

2014-03-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 03/17/2014 06:30 AM, Marc Juul wrote: [...] Seriously... other hackerspaces deal with theft, homeless people sleeping in the space, violent individuals, armed robbery, hate speech, etc. and they still haven't set up cameras. That's right. A hackerspace is the _last_ place we should

[liberationtech] LibrePlanet 2014 keynote

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Has anyone seen this: http://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/m/free-software-for-freedom-surveillance-and-you/ If that is indeed what people saw when they watched a live stream going over Tor, I'm very impressed.  Interested to know more about the setup. -Jonathan -- Liberationtech is public

Re: [liberationtech] LibrePlanet 2014 keynote

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 03/27/2014 11:02 AM, Nick wrote: Quoth Jonathan Wilkes: Has anyone seen this: http://media.libreplanet.org/u/zakkai/m/free-software-for-freedom-surveillance-and-you/ If that is indeed what people saw when they watched a live stream going over Tor, I'm very impressed. Interested to know

Re: [liberationtech] LibrePlanet 2014 keynote

2014-03-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 03/27/2014 11:25 AM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Nick wrote: Yep, and it worked well, with really good quality, even projected onto a big screen. Questions were asked to him over IRC (mostly through audience members on their laptops, some via a volunteer at the front). I got the impression there

[liberationtech] SQRL

2014-04-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Anyone ever heard of this? https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm -Jonathan-- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change

[liberationtech] popcorn-time

2014-04-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list, Can some tech liberator out there versed in javascript and video streaming please take over the popcorn-time project? It looks like it was developed pseudonymously by at least three teams now which have all disappeared (probably due to pressure from Hollywood). If you haven't

Re: [liberationtech] popcorn-time

2014-04-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page BitMessage is a secure peer-to-peer communications protocol that allows you to broadcast a message (or receive a broadcast message) without revealing your IP address. Cheers, On 04/06/2014 11:41 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi list

Re: [liberationtech] popcorn-time

2014-04-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page BitMessage is a secure peer-to-peer communications protocol that allows you to broadcast a message (or receive a broadcast message) without revealing your IP address. Cheers, On 04/06/2014 11:41 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi list, Can some tech

Re: [liberationtech] Communities needed to mitigate heartbleed type bugs

2014-04-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 04/23/2014 10:04 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 23 Apr 2014, at 08:38, Nick liberationt...@njw.me.uk wrote: I took the liberty of changing the subject line to something that hopefully somewhat summarises your email. Quoth Arnaud Legout: As polemical as it can be, deeply-held belief

Re: [liberationtech] Communities needed to mitigate heartbleed type bugs

2014-04-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 04/25/2014 03:16 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 25 Apr 2014, at 14:21, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: On 04/23/2014 10:04 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 23 Apr 2014, at 08:38, Nick liberationt...@njw.me.uk wrote: I took the liberty of changing the subject line

Re: [liberationtech] About Confide

2014-04-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 04/26/2014 05:18 PM, Shava Nerad wrote: Anyone who is lauding the verifiability of open source security software had best show that their code has been regularly and thoroughly audited. I'm not sure what that means, so I'll start a new paragraph for what could be a non sequitur...

Re: [liberationtech] About Confide

2014-04-26 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 04/26/2014 09:33 PM, Shava Nerad wrote: Security software isn't like a lot of open source projects. Generally there have to be narrowly controlled commits, well reviewed. Those people are experts who may have a lot of other demands on their time that are far far more monetarily

Re: [liberationtech] About Confide

2014-04-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Astronomy, astrology-- at this point I am pretty much universally disgusted by anything publishing conclusions without clear data to back it up. Neither is perfect at describing the universe, so there's plenty of blame to go around.  We should try to focus less on ideology and more on improving

[liberationtech] cables

2014-04-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list, Does anyone use Cables? Is Cables included any distro other than Liberté Linux? Could Cables be packaged in Debian, or does it require a hardened/privacy-based distro in order to work properly? Has a non-anonymous dev experienced in security software ever had a look at the code? If so,

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing OPI - Reclaim Your Digital Life

2014-05-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 05/07/2014 05:47 PM, Tor Krill wrote: Dear list, I just wanted to take some time to inform you on our IndieGoGo campaign to launch our new device OPI: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/opi-reclaim-your-digital-life/ OPI is an attempt to let everyday users take back control over their

Re: [liberationtech] Google keeps the chat history even you enabled the OTR

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 05/08/2014 07:06 PM, carlo von lynX wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 08:15:04AM -0500, Anthony Papillion wrote: The bottom line is that, bug or not, privacy conscious people need to simply stay away from Google. And I don't mean just Google Search or Chat. I mean /all/ of Google, Everything

Re: [liberationtech] Google keeps the chat history even you enabled the OTR

2014-05-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 05/08/2014 09:31 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/08/2014 08:23 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: Realistically we need to develop an entire suite of publicly owned tools. Could the development and implementation be massively distributed? Or is it

Re: [liberationtech] Google keeps the chat history even you enabled the OTR

2014-05-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 05/09/2014 06:13 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: On May 9, 2014, at 4:42, Ximin Luo infini...@pwned.gg wrote: On 09/05/14 02:31, Anthony Papillion wrote: On 05/08/2014 08:23 PM, Doug Schuler wrote: Realistically we need to develop an entire suite of publicly owned tools. Could the

Re: [liberationtech] Auditing of Auto-Update of software commonly used by Human Rights Defenders

2014-05-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 05/18/2014 09:54 AM, Cristina wrote: El 18/05/14 09:40, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) escribió: Il 5/15/14, 11:47 PM, Tom Ritter ha scritto: On 14 May 2014 23:36, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: i think that would be very important to organize a project to Audit the

Re: [liberationtech] [GNU/consensus] Why support Reset the Net ? I don't get it

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 06/05/2014 06:28 AM, carlo von lynX wrote: Heya.. I saw the ACLU, AI, EFF, FSF, Greenpeace, MoveOn and other logos on the https://www.resetthenet.org page. [...] - Would be better to fix the scalability of Tor hidden services so we can use .onion instead of the broken HTTPS thing.

Re: [liberationtech] Wicker: Déjà vu all over again

2014-06-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 06/10/2014 05:03 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: I just want to jump in and mention again that it's entirely possible to pick apart applications written for Android, iPhone, Windows, Mac, etc and understand how they operate. Going even deeper than just 'what they store on disk' and 'what they send

[liberationtech] Tor-only wireless access

2014-06-23 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi,      Is anybody doing router software that allows guest access, but _only_ if the client is using Tor to connect?  The Tor network and its various relays and exits are known, so it seems like it should be doable. In this case, the router owner could open up access with less risk of having

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