[liberationtech] twice-per-day bitmessage

2015-12-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list,Let's say I revise Bitmessage to have the following constraints:* only two messages are sent per day: one at 0:00 GMT and another at 12:00 GMT* receipt acknowledgement happens inside messages, either manually "Hi, I got your message", or automating the process in the client.  Either way

Re: [liberationtech] Any project missing on the updated map of a "GNU Internet" ?

2015-10-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
email: """ Why is this message in Spam? It has a from address in yahoo.com but has failed yahoo.com's required tests for authentication. """ Strange. I wonder what are yahoo's tests for authentication. Regards, real. On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan Wilkes <

Re: [liberationtech] Any project missing on the updated map of a "GNU Internet" ?

2015-10-05 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
t anonymity-overlays? -Jonathan On Monday, October 5, 2015 1:48 PM, carlo von lynX <l...@time.to.get.psyced.org> wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:37:50PM +, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > Glad to see you finally removed Oneswarm. :) Onewhat? I don't know what that is. > I pers

Re: [liberationtech] Digital Social Currency Design

2015-08-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
-coins show that it is just as difficult to solve the bootstrapping as it is to solve the db sync'ing. Best,Jonathan On Sunday, August 9, 2015 4:57 AM, Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote: dear John, On 9 August 2015 01:42:05 CEST, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi jaromil

Re: [liberationtech] Blockchain Revolution | Social network | Decentralized web | Smart Contracts

2015-08-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
and citations? -Jonathan On Sunday, August 9, 2015 12:24 AM, hellekin helle...@gnu.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/09/2015 12:32 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi hellekin,In which file are you seeing that flag? File?  I provided a link.  I'm not sure

Re: [liberationtech] Digital Social Currency Design

2015-08-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
: dear Jonathan, Please excuse me if I'm not going to explain further what we are doing, I guess the doc I've sent is already a tl;dr for many. Nevertheless, a few answers to clarify our focus: On Fri, 15 May 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: 1) You don't have a bootstrapping algo.  Leaving

Re: [liberationtech] Blockchain Revolution | Social network | Decentralized web | Smart Contracts

2015-08-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi hellekin,In which file are you seeing that flag?  I can't find it, and to be honest I'm not even sure how it would induce buggy behavior. Do you have a crasher demo? In general I do agree that it is _imperative_ to get the economics and politics exactly right before releasing.  Just like

Re: [liberationtech] Digital Social Currency Design

2015-05-15 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 05/13/2015 08:04 AM, Jaromil wrote: Dear peers, friends and colleagues, comrades and futurists, I hope this email finds you well. I'm writing you because in the past, in a way or another, we have chatted, conspired and dreamed around the scenario of cryptographic blockchain technologies and

[liberationtech] blockchain-based protest clocks

2014-12-08 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list, Let's say protesters plan an action in an as of yet undisclosed location on Wednesday.  One of the dangers of wide-net surveillance is that if law enforcement finds out on Tuesday, they could query The Big Harddrive and search through _everyone's_ data from Monday and find the

Re: [liberationtech] Feedback for debate on encryption with former FBI General Counsel

2014-11-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
So it's a former FBI lawyer vs. the former FBI lawyer's friend who doesn't use SSL, doesn't have a GPG key/fingerprint on his site, nor really any time to do his own research on a foundational principle in his area of expertise. I do not think this will end up being a very vigorous debate, but

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook available as a Tor hidden service

2014-11-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
That's great. And if TBB implements the security slider with Whistleblower at one end and Log in to Facebook at the other, where do you think the average post-Snowden user would set it? Where would you set it? https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9387 Not that the TBB devs would

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook available as a Tor hidden service

2014-10-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Rob,You do know TBB's defaults regarding scripts, right? If it's a conundrum with no easy answer for Tor devs, it's a conundrum for Facebook as well. So please do get on Tor Talk list and criticise TBB for having an (advised) yet non-default setting for blocking all scripts. I understand

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook available as a Tor hidden service

2014-10-31 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
a strange location, so there will be that issue. In the end, I don't get why FB is doing this, other than to look hip. - Rob On 10/31/2014 11:40 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hi Rob, You do know TBB's defaults regarding scripts, right? If it's a conundrum with no easy answer for Tor

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-10-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Bill,Just keep in mind that there hasn't been a single citation of any reliable research or human rights reports about deniability in this thread.  So if you are looking for advice specifically on whether the system should even include deniability, you're basically working off an opinion of

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-10-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
And just to keep the discussion on topic-- I'm talking about research or reports on the benefits/drawbacks of using software in the field that has some deniability features. -Jonathan On Monday, October 6, 2014 12:56 PM, Eleanor Saitta e...@dymaxion.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 10/03/2014 12:57 PM, Greg wrote: Dear Natanael, Call up Red Hat and ask them about how they manage their open source Linux distribution. Oh, I am very familiar with the Red Hat model, and I respect it greatly, and am in fact pursuing something similar. Red Hat works because it is

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Rich, Your footnote #1 is dubious at best.  The cost of aiming peoples eyes at bugs is _not_ $0.  Until it is, the free software community has a problem with too few resources chasing too many bugs.  Sitting my Debian box next to an XP box that's running Flash certainly doesn't change

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Well, to be completely honest I wouldn't use security software with a proprietary GUI myself.  But I'm not most people, and it would be better for your business logic to be open source than for the whole thing to be subject to the terms you describe. -Jonathan On Friday, October 3, 2014

[liberationtech] automating email send/receive

2014-09-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list, I'd like to set up a machine to automatically fetch emails from my yahoo account at some interval-- maybe once or twice a day, and then to send out any emails I happen to write at a similar interval. In the outgoing emails, I want the time/date in headers to reflect the time the

Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-09-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi Eleanor, I understand the logic of the argument, but are there news stories about people being harmed in the field due specifically (or mainly) to deniability of the software they are using? (Or research on the topic, though I'm not sure how it could be a falsifiable or reproducible.)

[liberationtech] proof of tampering

2014-09-16 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hi list, There now seems to be a wealth of documents and articles on the general techniques spy agencies employ for both wide-net and targeted surveillance around the world. Additionally, there are many documents and articles that outline general techniques of exploiting end-user devices

Re: [liberationtech] Lantern Ask me anything over on Reddit now

2014-08-28 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/27/2014 08:17 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Does your software have a friendly UI that shows the user sharing their internet connection _exactly_ what requests they are making on another's behalf? Does it store a log and require the user to read and analyze that log? I'll just go ahead

Re: [liberationtech] Lantern Ask me anything over on Reddit now

2014-08-27 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Does your software have a friendly UI that shows the user sharing their internet connection _exactly_ what requests they are making on another's behalf?  Does it store a log and require the user to read and analyze that log? -Jonathan On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 4:30 PM, Adam Fisk

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/04/2014 08:45 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: Totally agree with Travis. Also - who is the intended audience for this? People who want to know how the different layers of the OSI stack work in practice? -- Charles On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Travis Biehn tbi...@gmail.com

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin Armory not as secure as promised?

2014-08-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/10/2014 12:44 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: So, the response was this: Guys, calm down. The code you posted doesn't send your username to bitcoinarmory.com http://bitcoinarmory.com, it sends the *truncated hash* of your user home directory path. This does not

[liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Is there anything like a database for software that is critical to a functioning internet? Best, Jonathan -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech.

Re: [liberationtech] no-disclosure / other-disclosure [was: Foxacid payload]

2014-07-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/20/2014 11:00 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/07/14 01:02, coderman wrote: as thought experiment: a hidden site is setup by presumed trustworthy experts. exploits are funneled there, then they all dry up. - congratulations! NSA is out of

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/18/2014 06:12 AM, coderman wrote: [...] i approve of this timeline, and am anxious to see if NSL's are used to trump some exploits. (how would you know? good question :) * U.S. National Security Letters * U.S. National Exploit Stockpile * Effective public bug-quashing program in U.S.

[liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello list, We know something about the selectors that could trigger Foxacid attacks, and we can record the data sent to a machine running Tor Browser Bundle. So has anyone set up a sitting duck to trigger and record the payload of the attack? Once the payload is known then Firefox

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/17/2014 04:11 PM, coderman wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: ... this is exactly why some who have received these payloads are sitting on them, rather than disclosing. Hmmm, that seems pretty antisocial and shortsighted. While the pool of

Re: [liberationtech] Lantern censorship circumvention tool public download

2014-07-13 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/13/2014 02:23 PM, Derek Frech wrote: Hey LibTech, We are happy to announce that Lantern (censorship circumvention tool) is no longer invite only. As of yesterday, we have released a public download of the software via our website https://getlantern.org/ https://getlantern.org/%20

Re: [liberationtech] The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

2014-07-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/11/2014 06:36 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the

Re: [liberationtech] An interesting anonymous chat project: Invisible.im

2014-07-11 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/11/2014 02:15 PM, carlo von lynX wrote: [...] Using ratchets to authenticate at the current point in time without needing an absolute identity (the thing about OTR being used in an ephemeral way) is how Briar does it. It makes it harder to reconstruct the social graph as you need to

Re: [liberationtech] Centralized control of the debates on the Snowden docs

2014-07-10 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/10/2014 09:28 AM, Ryan Bartos wrote: Hi LibTech, The debates that rage on after every trickle of snowden release justifiably causes much resentment. However, one crucial point about these debates are often missed. And that is that the exact debates we are having and the exact evidence on

Re: [liberationtech] messing with XKeyScore

2014-07-04 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/04/2014 10:56 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/jamming-xkeyscore_4.html?m=1 Errata Security Advanced persistent cybersecurity Friday, July 04, 2014 Jamming XKeyScore Back in the day there was talk about jamming echelon by adding keywords to email that the

Re: [liberationtech] Tor-only wireless access

2014-06-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 06/23/2014 07:07 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: On 06/23/2014 04:55 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: 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

[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

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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

[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

[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] 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

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] nweb + Tor

2014-01-21 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
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[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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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)

2013-09-23 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)

2013-09-22 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)

2013-09-15 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)

2013-09-14 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] 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] [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] [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] 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] 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)

[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] 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 --

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

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