Re: [liberationtech] TrueCrypt Alternatives?

2014-10-06 Thread Lucas Gonze
Deniability is not inherently better. Of course it has advantages. But a world that only had deniable cryptography would be worse than one which also had systems like TrueCrypt whose presence is not hidden. It makes no sense to argue that an improved version of TrueCrypt is no better if it’s

Re: [liberationtech] Mapping out physical surveillance across a city

2014-06-24 Thread Lucas Gonze
If anybody comes up with a such a map for the bay area, I'd love to see it. -- 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

[liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
Let's say web servers auto generated self-signed certificates for any domain that didn't supply its own certificate, likely one from an authority. What that would accomplish is to make the stream unreadable over the wire, unless the attacker was willing and able to do an MITM with their own auto

Re: [liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
, at 16:35, Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl wrote: On 03/14/14 19:56, Julian Oliver wrote: ..on Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:46:30AM -0700, Lucas Gonze wrote: Let's say web servers auto generated self-signed certificates for any domain that didn't supply its own certificate, likely one from

[liberationtech] espionage as plain old corruption

2013-10-30 Thread Lucas Gonze
The shoes left to drop: 1) NSA insiders using privileged information for investments. It's hard to imagine this doesn't happen. 2) How precisely do businesses get the NSA and CIA to create competitive advantages? How do they convince the Trade Representative that they deserve government

Re: [liberationtech] quid pro quo

2013-09-11 Thread Lucas Gonze
Again, the cash payments are a deception. They are in no way enough to compensate these companies. Operational expenses associated with processing data requests are a small part of the overall cost. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org wrote: On 9/10/13 4:51 PM,

[liberationtech] quid pro quo

2013-09-10 Thread Lucas Gonze
Let's say major corps like ATT and Chase are doing favors for NSA. Why would they if not for a quid pro quo? And if they are getting favors in return, isn't that illegal? I wonder if there is evidence to show what the payback is. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable

Re: [liberationtech] quid pro quo

2013-09-10 Thread Lucas Gonze
not legal to pay for preferential treatment from the government, that's bribery. Why would it be illegal for the NSA to pay ATT Chase? On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Lucas Gonze lucas.go...@gmail.comwrote: Let's say major corps like ATT and Chase are doing favors for NSA. Why would

Re: [liberationtech] quid pro quo

2013-09-10 Thread Lucas Gonze
? On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Lucas Gonze lucas.go...@gmail.com wrote: Let's say major corps like ATT and Chase are doing favors for NSA. Why would they if not for a quid pro quo? And if they are getting favors in return, isn't that illegal? I wonder if there is evidence to show what

Re: [liberationtech] Designing Fairness for DMCA

2013-07-16 Thread Lucas Gonze
. It is not a workflow for online service providers. -Lucas Gonze -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-02 Thread Lucas Gonze
the world at large through our various activities, online and off. And it is also why we are supportive of the efforts of people like Evgeny Morozov and others in journalism who seek to improve public discourse. On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Lucas Gonze lucas.go...@gmail.com wrote: I find

Re: [liberationtech] Internet is designed for surveillance

2013-06-26 Thread Lucas Gonze
Bob, can you give examples alternatives to pipes owned by service providers? On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Bob Frankston bob19-0...@bobf.frankston.com wrote: I realize it's very hard to give up on the idea of networks but they are no more necessary for communicating than railroads are for

[liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-14 Thread Lucas Gonze
It occurs to me that Prism exclusively targets large providers. This suggests that it relies on economies of scale. Which suggests a defense against Prism: use small providers, because there are diseconomies of scale. Thoughts? -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password

Re: [liberationtech] New Anonymity Network for Short Messages

2013-06-12 Thread Lucas Gonze
the ideal would be to hit a high enough rate that it makes real-time analysis of content (by a human) impossible. By the time the service hit that rate of chats, it will be nigh-unusable by people. Every client could broadcast a message on a timer. Sometimes the message would be wheat and