Re: [liberationtech] Whistleblower systems in local governments

2016-03-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
l, that surely knows better also the specific "legal" requirements that may impact the procedures and workflows for Whistleblowing. If we can gives some advice / support in evaluating / deploying globaleaks in that context, let's fire an email! :-) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HE

[liberationtech] Email provider enabling enforced SMTP/TLS for inbound MX-received emails

2016-01-03 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
and automatic advocacy and advice for email security to sender writing me from unsecure email. Any email provider that enable to do so? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https

[liberationtech] Open Call for GlobaLeaks Developers

2015-08-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any classification protected by law. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org

Re: [liberationtech] Surveillance in Africa?

2015-02-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
On 2/19/15 8:23 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: From: Hille Koskela hille.kosk...@utu.fi Has anybody done research on surveillance in Africa (South of Sahara)? You may wish to speak to Opennet Africa (http://opennetafrica.org/) that's working on that kind of issues too. -- Fabio Pietrosanti

[liberationtech] The missing tech between TBB , Whoonix and Tails

2015-01-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
in that direction, opening up tons of new users. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - https://tor2web.org - https://ahmia.fi -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations

Re: [liberationtech] The missing tech between TBB , Whoonix and Tails

2015-01-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
that use a computer procedurally, the learned procedure to do stuff, and once those procedure completely because the entire operating environment change, it's likely too hard . Sounds like there's no easy-go-solution for that kind of users -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency

Re: [liberationtech] Afrileaks

2015-01-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists
. I think that we would see many country-based PubLeaks-like initiatives if there would the right approach to push that kind of initiative. A collaborative leak-site in each country of the world, would be a nice target for 2017? :-) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) @fpietrosanti HERMES - Center

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

2014-06-04 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
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 functionalities of Auto-Update of software commonly used by human rights defenders. Sounds

Re: [liberationtech] Fighting Surveillance by Improving OpenSource Surveillance

2014-06-02 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 11/28/13, 7:21 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) ha scritto: A frequent thinking is, how can we troll the surveillance industry with unconventional methods? A very nice, yet controversial, way could be to improve Opensource Surveillance Technologies. In reference to this post, i'd like

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography Leak in Enigmail / GnuPG

2014-06-02 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 4/28/14, 9:25 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) ha scritto: Il 11/24/13, 2:19 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) ha scritto: I just wanted to notice that the mostly used encryption software like GnuPG and Enigmail, have some privacy leak that in the XKEYSCORE's ages could represent a major risk

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography Leak in Enigmail / GnuPG

2014-06-02 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
by -Y (PGP Universal service); Sun, XX XXX 20XX 11:11:11 +0100 X-PGP-Universal: processed; by XX-X on Sun, XX XXX 20XX 11:11:11 +0100 -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http

Re: [liberationtech] W3C WebCrypto Last Call for Comments *today* (OT)

2014-05-24 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org

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

2014-05-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
to fix that kind of problem. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you

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

2014-05-19 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 5/18/14, 6:24 PM, Rich Kulawiec ha scritto: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 07:36:07AM +0200, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: i think that would be very important to organize a project to Audit the functionalities of Auto-Update of software commonly used by human rights defenders. Yes, but I'll go

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

2014-05-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
such a projet and/or providing proper funding for such purpose. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography Leak in Enigmail / GnuPG

2014-04-28 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 11/24/13, 2:19 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) ha scritto: I just wanted to notice that the mostly used encryption software like GnuPG and Enigmail, have some privacy leak that in the XKEYSCORE's ages could represent a major risk. a) Enigmail, Thunderbird's PGP plugin, does send X-Enigmail

[liberationtech] Shouldn't Browser Vendors provide useful suggestions to bypass censorship?

2014-03-30 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
of users, whenever they get impacted by internet-censorship during their browsing activity, could have a valuable path to look at to fix the problem . I don't see many difficulties, but we should likely ask to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome team? Opinions? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES

[liberationtech] MobiFlage: Deniable Storage Encryption for Mobile Devices

2014-03-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
into the stock Android OS, as a standard feature? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines

Re: [liberationtech] Browser extensions or native application for crypto? Was: Whiteout OpenPGP.js encrypted mail client (Chrome HML5 App)

2014-01-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
than the native ones. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated

[liberationtech] Whiteout OpenPGP.js encrypted mail client (Chrome HML5 App)

2014-01-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
From the very active OpenPGP.js community it has been just released the Alpha version of WhiteOut mail, an encrypted email client entirely done in HTML5/Javascript delivered as a Chrome Packaged App with Gmail integration. It's worth looking at the future of this project. -- Fabio Pietrosanti

Re: [liberationtech] Whiteout OpenPGP.js encrypted mail client (Chrome HML5 App)

2014-01-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
is in the the future of any application development, it's the only eterogenous application development environment, the browser is the home of the end-user. That's what we just need to accept, it already happened, it's always that way. We just need to deal with that. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES

[liberationtech] EU report on NSA by Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

2014-01-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Greetings, released today from the draft report on NSA Surveillance by EU Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2fEP%2f%2fNONSGML%2bCOMPARL%2bPE-526.085%2b02%2bDOC%2bPDF%2bV0%2f%2fEN Fabio -- Liberationtech is public

[liberationtech] Cryptography Leak in Enigmail / GnuPG

2013-11-24 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
attack, profiling the end-user target. Are those pieces of information really needed to make the Enigmail / GnuPG software working? -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org

[liberationtech] Asyncronous secure messaging (Email): Why reinvent the wheel?

2013-11-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
by improving those one. I'm confident that it can be done, but all of the crypto activist community must works in that direction. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org p.s. It's

Re: [liberationtech] Asyncronous secure messaging (Email): Why reinvent the wheel?

2013-11-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
something like that, they should drop out an IETF's standards based internet-draft and subject it to public review and discussion ASAP. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org

Re: [liberationtech] dark mail alliance

2013-11-02 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org Il 11/1/13 4:44 PM, Sacha van Geffen ha scritto: http://threatpost.com/lavabit-silent-circle-form-new-anti-surveillance-dark-mail-alliance/102757

[liberationtech] GlobaLeaks - SecureDrop comparison Security improvements

2013-10-29 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
those documents. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-20 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 10/20/13 5:02 PM, anon14...@safe-mail.net ha scritto: On 18.10.2013 20:20, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: Generally is not valuable to use only 1 email provider, because email is made up of many pieces: - Inbound flow - Outbound flow - Data storage That require a user to have

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
/flows by using easy web-interfaces of hosting providers without having to deal with server's setup. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives

Re: [liberationtech] RiseUp

2013-10-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
* than a single email provider setup, in a single country, in a GCHQ/NSA massively monitored communication line. This is obviously for an average user that does not engage in snowden-grade leaks :) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http

Re: [liberationtech] Call for Tenders SMART 2013/N004 “European Capability for Situational Awareness” - European Federation for cyber-censorship and human rights monitoring

2013-09-25 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
, we would be happy to propose and discuss our support for active participation. Regards, -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org p.s. GlobaLeaks project is actively looking

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

2013-09-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https

[liberationtech] Massive passive wiretapper: How to technically troll them?

2013-09-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
% of storage? Just don't record it! -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-13 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
interacti with that This will finally enable Javascript application to full interoperate within OpenPGP world, from Web and Mobile environment over HTTPS. I really feel that 2014 is going to be a year plenty of good news for massive adoption of end-to-end encryption :-) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif

[liberationtech] The status of SMTP security in email communication infrastructures

2013-08-26 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
willing to work on that kind of issues from a global internet perspective, requiring a lot of work in a lot of different areas, would be my personal heroes for 2014! -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http

Re: [liberationtech] Open letter to Phil Zimmermann Jon Callas of Silent Circle, re: Silent Mail shutdown

2013-08-16 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 8/16/13 11:59 PM, Yosem Companys ha scritto: From: Zooko Wilcox-OHearn zo...@leastauthority.com also posted here: https://leastauthority.com/blog/open_letter_silent_circle.html Totally agree. I underlined the same point some months ago there http://mashable.com/2013/06/28/encryption-apps/

Re: [liberationtech] Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw

2013-08-15 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
/RNG_nordsec07_cameraReady.pdf - The Sources of Randomness in Smartphones with Symbian OS http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xkrhovj/lectures/2007_SPI_Sources_of_Randomnes_in_Smartphones_slides.pdf - ZRTP Standard 4.8 section https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6189#section-4.8 -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL??? (Recipe for Secure Audio, Video, Chat, File Transfer)

2013-08-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 8/9/13 3:29 PM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall ha scritto: On Fri Aug 9 06:55:12 2013, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: This is because with OpenFire + Chrome you can also do end-to-end encrypted WebRTC Audio/Video call. Firefox nightlies, as far as I'm aware, also provide WebRTC capability

Re: [liberationtech] Freedom Hosting, Tormail Compromised: I LOVE NADIM AND JAKE

2013-08-06 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Because that's become a trolling-engagement thread, i cannot resist to hijack it. I LOVE NADIM AND JAKE!** -naif ** Especially when they engage in trolling Il 8/6/13 12:32 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ha scritto: -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too many emails?

Re: [liberationtech] Freedom Hosting, Tormail Compromised // OnionCloud

2013-08-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
, maybe the amount of TorHS that has been takendown are just a few. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Liberationtech list is public and archives are searchable on Google. Too

Re: [liberationtech] Your definition of social spam - Research

2013-08-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Il 8/5/13 1:15 PM, Andrea St ha scritto: Hello Liberationtech friends, after the last research on Twitter (bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/fake-twitter-followers-becomes-multimillion-dollar-business/), i'm doing a new about Facebook. What is your definition of social spam on Facebook? If

[liberationtech] International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance

2013-07-23 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Clinic (Canada) 28. SHARE Conference | SHARE Defense (Balkan Region) 29. Statewatch (United Kingdom) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change

Re: [liberationtech] CyberGhost5 VPN beta testing

2013-07-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
, -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org Il 7/9/13 11:43 AM, oana.ciobo...@cyberghost.ro ha scritto: Hey guys, After the discussion we had on Twitter I decided that it would be great

Re: [liberationtech] Advice needed for secure IM/Voice/Video Service

2013-06-28 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
such as SSH or SSL private keys. That way anyone would be able to fully inspect the server, even without logging-in, by assessing configurations and checking out that logs are not kept. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org

Re: [liberationtech] AdLeaks - a whistleblowing platform

2013-06-24 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
* Whistleblower awareness. Anyhow i'm excited to meet at OHM2013 the AdLeaks team and do a brainstorming on it! :) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Too many emails

Re: [liberationtech] Secure and Cheap Provider in Sweden or Iceland?

2013-06-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
economy strong privacy law) -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa

[liberationtech] Global Principles on National Security Whistleblower

2013-06-12 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
on the case related to that principles is being prepared. For media and analysts interested on it, they may contact sandra.coli...@opensocietyfoundations.org and jonathan.birch...@opensocietyfoundations.org . Regards, -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital

[liberationtech] OHM2013 Hacker Camp: Five Whistleblowing Lectures

2013-06-11 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
attitudes to using social media to blow the whistle, from the World Online Whistleblowing Survey. Finally it reviews some of the advances, proposed or actual, for whistleblowing laws in different countries. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
of Tor2web within a Whistleblowing platform must be used with extreme care, by understanding exactly how it change the threat model within the respect to the anonymity matrix https://docs.google.com/document/d/1niYFyEar1FUmStC03OidYAIfVJf18ErUFwSWCmWBhcA/pub#h.fpje7tqvacyf . -- Fabio Pietrosanti

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-18 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
a custom version of Tor (Tor2web Mode) that *remove* the anonymity on the client side of the access. In fact a user accessing Tor2web is not anonymous. And it's strongly advised (by the injected disclaimer header) to download TBB and goes directly. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-16 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
it overkill for a general use. -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - https://globaleaks.org - http://tor2web.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa

Re: [liberationtech] Has #Iran finally launched the #Halal ‘net?

2013-05-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 5/14/13 5:00 PM, Amin Sabeti wrote: The 2013 Iranian presidential election is rapidly approaching, with the first round of voting set to take place on June 14. This election is tipped to be one of the most unpredictable contests in recent years, with the conservative establishment having

Re: [liberationtech] Important Iranian Filternet Changes

2013-05-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 5/5/13 12:57 PM, Collin Anderson wrote: Readers of Libtech may be interested in the changes to the filtering regime that were imposed a few hours ago. Currently traffic streams, at least unknown streams if not all, are being dropped after exactly sixty seconds, terminating the connection.

[liberationtech] New approach with Android Router to bypass GFW

2013-04-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
resources respect to current simple, stateless firewall). I invite people to look at that project and look for cooperation with that guy as it really seems to me a promising approach! -- Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) HERMES - Center for Transparency and Digital Human Rights http://logioshermes.org - http

Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 4/6/13 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: Hi, I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough. I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this attention regarding use in countries where the

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Releases 2012 Law Enforcement Requests Report

2013-03-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 3/21/13 5:27 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: I don't agree with that reading of the report. There is likely a lot of word-smithing here - for example, Does Skype include SkypeIn and SkypeOut or just Peer to Peer video, text and storage of (other) meta-data? Does CALEA happen on the Skype side of

Re: [liberationtech] Qt TorBrowser

2013-03-17 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 3/17/13 8:43 AM, Randolph D. wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/torbrowser/ While i *strongly appreciate the idea* (a fully integrated browser without different pieces of software glued together like TBB), it appear to me that this project is trying to appear like if it from tor project

[liberationtech] Crypton.io: framework for building cryptographically secure cloud applications

2013-03-01 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i wanted to send a notice to the mailing list about the Crypton Project: https://crypton.io/ From the website: Crypton is a framework for building cryptographically secure cloud applications. Such applications offer meaningful privacy assurance to end users because the servers running

Re: [liberationtech] Chinese Hacking, Mandiant Cyber War

2013-02-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 2/21/13 5:27 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: Sadly, policymakers seem to think we have completely solved the attribution problem. We have not. This article published in Computerworld does an adequate job of stating my position: http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=94AB4F98-9BBD-1370-154D49FAA7706BE9

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-14 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 2/14/13 8:36 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: The live code review with ascii art was really something to behold. It was some kind of new art form that isn't very good but at the same time is nearly impossible to not watch... Something interesting happened yesterday, here a summary in case someone

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-13 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Here some notes i collected with a quick review of the source code: https://pad.riseup.net/p/silentcircle -naif On 2/14/13 1:36 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: This is good news! Still far from a complete source code release, but it's good that they're progressing, even if very slowly. Once all

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-13 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Wait, wait, i just read some code around but without taking care much about the logic of the code itself. So there are stuff that should be checked more in details by someone else, notes also by other people ended up on that sort of collaborative/caotic pad https://pad.riseup.net/p/silentcircle .

Re: [liberationtech] White House Petition - Deny Visas to Censors

2013-02-09 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 1/29/13 5:18 PM, Tye, John N wrote: Hi everyone, A petition on whitehouse.gov calls for the U.S. to deny visas to anyone working to advance internet censorship, e.g. the builders of the Great Firewall. So far it has 8796 signatures -- and needs 91,204 by February 24 before the White

Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle is reading the list. ;-)

2013-02-06 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
What's about Transactional Records? [1] http://privacysos.org/transactional_records Fabio On 2/6/13 12:47 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie wrote: They're agile about their coverage. ;-) -Ali -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at:

Re: [liberationtech] Pressure Increases On Silent Circle To Release Application Source Code (Transactional data)

2013-02-06 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Please remind that for a service-based model the risks are not also related to the transactional data : http://privacysos.org/transactional_records It would be really nice to know which is the data-retention policy for: - connection logs - phone call logs - email logs (as they will provide also

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: Launch Date!

2013-01-26 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Cool, this kind of media action cooperation worked very well. In Italy (and in Italian) we made a press-release of Hermes Center ( http://logioshermes.org ) and broadcasted it to +50 journalists working on internet-stuff and to all the major organization active on internet privacy, digital rights

[liberationtech] Internet Censorship in Italy: 5.495 websites are blocked

2013-01-08 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, it has been publicly released a website reporting detailed data on Internet Censorship in Italy. It's in Italian, but it report detailed stats about blocked websites http://censura.bofh.it/ . For those who don't know, in Italy several organization can ask ISPs to apply blocks for

Re: [liberationtech] Draft checklist for choosing tools

2013-01-05 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
With such kind of checklist it would be nice to create: - an inventory of existing tools with related capabilities - a wizard (even a purely javascript one) that let the user choose and at the end does provide a report It's not a small task, but it maybe wonderful to have a software to choose a

Re: [liberationtech] 29C3 whistleblower panel: Radack, Drake, Binney

2013-01-02 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 1/2/13 8:27 AM, Gregory Foster wrote: Within the first minute of his talk (~1:28:36), William Binney describes the legal and intellectual property guidance he received when retiring from the NSA to set the scene for an announcement that he has created a commercial product which describes a

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptocat Censored in China

2012-12-22 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 12/22/12 8:58 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Dear LibTech, I would like to report that Cryptocat is now being censored in China. The URLs being 100% blocked are: - Cryptocat Project Website: https://project.crypto.cat - Cryptocat Development Blog: https://blog.crypto.cat It should be nice to

[liberationtech] Namecoin: secure, anti-censorship naming system based on bitcoin

2012-12-21 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i encountered such a project called Namecoin: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page Namecoin http://dot-bit.org/Namecoin is a peer-to-peer *generic* name/value datastore system based on Bitcoin http://www.bitcoin.org/ technology (a decentralized cryptocurrency). It allows you to: * Securely

Re: [liberationtech] Let's talk about ZRTP

2012-12-03 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
application that's using the Zorg (http://www.zrtp.org) oss implementation. It's called http://www.lumicall.org/ Does anyone have tried it? Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

[liberationtech] ShofarLeaks ?

2012-11-07 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i wanted to share that initiatives that i knew just now, ShofarLeaks http://shofarleaks.com/ . They say: Distributing that kind of volume of whistleblower data, and the analysis work of others, securely and anonymously, onto your desktop is the goal of ShofarLeaks. It is a framework

Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle Dangerous to Cryptography Software Development

2012-10-12 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 10/12/12 1:55 AM, Christopher Soghoian wrote: If conversations are taking place over ZRTP, and, assuming that the crypto works, and that there isn't a backdoor, then the only data that silent circle should have access to is conversation metadata and data about the subscribers (IP addresses,

[liberationtech] Using Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) To Improve Cross-Border Lawful Intercept Procedures

2012-10-10 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i'd like to suggest reading that ICC policy statement on Using Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLATs) To Improve Cross-Border Lawful Intercept Procedures document, i found it very interesting regarding the possible impact of policy development in that particular field. Some

Re: [liberationtech] Iran blocks MP3, MP4, AVI and SWF files

2012-10-06 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 10/6/12 10:36 PM, Collin Anderson wrote: File extension in URL requested, Content-Type or are they even finding their own Content-Type? You are correct, all that it took to trigger the blocking was a php file with the following: header(Content-Type: audio/mpeg); The server

Re: [liberationtech] What I've learned from Cryptocat

2012-08-13 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 8/13/12 6:53 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: For example, it wouldn't be hard to educate people to only install software on their secure systems via a downloading tool that verifies (cryptographically) that the software which is being installed has been independently peer reviewed by multiple

Re: [liberationtech] Revised Liberationtech Mailing List Guidelines

2012-08-03 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 8/3/12 9:07 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: Hi All, [...] 5. The Liberationtech mailing list archives are private to the extent that only list members can access these archives. But do we have a leak breaking the policy? http://www.mail-archive.com/liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu/

Re: [liberationtech] Finfisher Spy Kit Revealed in Bahrain

2012-07-28 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
On 7/27/12 11:54 PM, Andre Rebentisch wrote: The common denominator of my campaigning on the EU level is reduction of legal risks for software development. We both know that even general-purpose equipment and operating systems could be dual use. It's tricky from a regulatory perspective, but

[liberationtech] Chinese preparing for a Autonomous Internet ?

2012-06-17 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Hi all, i wanted to notice that there is a new internet draft in IETF that should make us think on the chinese government respect strategies to internet governance issues. DNS Extension for Autonomous Internet(AIP) https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-diao-aip-dns-00 This proposal by China

Re: [liberationtech] Flame | sKyWIper - 'the son of stuxnet' -

2012-05-29 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
Imho it does not have anything in common with stuxnet. That's a poor's man malware. There just a lot of hype by the AV Vendors and CERTs to claim big discovery and get new budget to fight cyberwar! All news and reports try to make comparison with Stuxnet. There is NO RELATIONSHIP AT ALL with