Re: [liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Perry
that bit works out better this time, for everyone involved. -- Mike Perry -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest

Re: [liberationtech] What if Firefox adopts Tor as feature?

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Perry
and archives are searchable on Google. 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 -- Mike Perry -- Liberationtech list is public

Re: [liberationtech] From Snowden's email provider. NSL???

2013-08-08 Thread Mike Perry
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Re: [liberationtech] NSA's crypto city

2013-07-12 Thread Mike Perry
down a high-ranking political official who suddenly becomes inconvenient, using only inappropriately obtained information... -- Mike Perry -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https

[liberationtech] The Tor Project is looking for a Lead Automation Engineer

2013-07-09 Thread Mike Perry
. For more details, including information on how to apply, see the job posting: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-lead-automation.html.en -- Mike Perry -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings

Re: [liberationtech] abuse control for Tor exit nodes

2013-06-28 Thread Mike Perry
and the relative infrequency of actual abuse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy The same math applies to Tor exits. -- Mike Perry -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Perry
Nick: Quoth Mike Perry: Hidden service circuits require ~4X as many Tor router traversals as normal Tor exit circuits to set up, and unlike normal Tor exit circuits, they are often *not* prebuilt. Once they are set up, they still require 2X as many Tor router traversals end-to-end

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Perry
Jacob Appelbaum: Mike Perry: In terms of data confidentiality and integrity though, I think it is probably true that the Tor hidden service trust root is much stronger than the browser CA trust root, even given the 80bit name hash and RSA-1024 sized keys (which probably are roughly

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

2013-06-26 Thread Mike Perry
://yacy.de/ YaCY and other FOSS engines (in a sibling thread someone mentioned another that I already forgot) are also something that I will accept search plugins for the Omnibox, but their result quality, index depth, and crawl frequency are no match for either StartPage or DDG. -- Mike Perry

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Perry
Michael Carbone: On 06/24/2013 10:00 PM, Mike Perry wrote: IxQuick has so far successfully negotiated with Google against outright banning us. Google sees a spike in IxQuick traffic every time we increase StartPage's prominence in TBB, and this does not go unnoticed by Google

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
Cooper Quintin: The default engine was Google for a while until Mike Perry and I changed it. We chose StartPage over DDG because while both being privacy aware, start page had more relevant search results. However these days I personally find that DDG's results are often more relevant than

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
open to suggestions on how to balance these concerns. -- Mike Perry -- 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] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: Jacob Appelbaum: Jillian C. York: +1 On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cooper Quintin coo...@radicaldesigns.orgwrote: Start page also allows you to generate a url that has certain settings, for example this one ( https://startpage.com/do/mypage.pl?prf

[liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
on the network (rate limited to 50KB/sec or less), but it is quite debatable as to if either of these things are actually helpful to Tor. In fact, such a slow Tor relay probably harms Tor performance more than helps (in the rare event that you actually happen to select it). -- Mike Perry -- Too many

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

2013-06-24 Thread Mike Perry
Michael Carbone: On 06/24/2013 08:20 PM, Mike Perry wrote: I've had a number of people tell me that they vouch for DuckDuckGo. What does this even mean? Nobody seems to be capable of rationally explaining it. Have you inspected their datacenter/server security? Have you audited

Re: [liberationtech] NSA is very likely storing all encrypted communications it is intercepting

2013-06-21 Thread Mike Perry
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Re: [liberationtech] Bush-Era Whistleblower Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004

2013-06-21 Thread Mike Perry
is magnificently directed. -- Mike Perry -- 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] Deterministic builds and software trust

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Perry
Jonathan Wilkes: From: Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org [...] This is where deterministic builds come in: any individual can use our anonymity network to download our source code, verify it against public signed, audited, and mirrored git repositories, and reproduce our builds

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

2013-06-18 Thread Mike Perry
Jacob Appelbaum: Hi, I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic builds that allow us to verify that he is honest to actually having serious usability improvements. First, thanks

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
if there's something I can try. Best regards, MH 2013/6/17 Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net Hi, I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic builds that allow us to verify

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
Mike Perry: Kody Leonard: I get the same error on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It will run when Windows XP is selected under Compatibility mode. I had the same issue with other languages. This is logged in the event viewer when it doesn't run as-is: Faulting application name

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

2013-06-17 Thread Mike Perry
/verifyonly couldn't find any discrepancy. Hope it helps. Best regards, MH 2013/6/18 Mike Perry mikepe...@torproject.org Mike Perry: Kody Leonard: I get the same error on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It will run when Windows XP is selected under Compatibility mode. I

Re: [liberationtech] FT: Companies scramble for consumer data (personal data are so cheap... why bother to protect them)

2013-06-16 Thread Mike Perry
awareness of data value. Cheers, @Toon -- 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 -- Mike Perry -- Too many emails

Re: [liberationtech] New Anonymity Network for Short Messages

2013-06-11 Thread Mike Perry
-dependent way. -- Mike Perry -- 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] Crypho

2013-06-08 Thread Mike Perry
from the client should be based upon blind-signatures/ZKPs instead of unique account credentials. But like, really nobody in the world is doing any of this, are they? -- Mike Perry -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa

[liberationtech] The Tor Project has funding for a Firefox developer

2012-08-03 Thread Mike Perry
to apply and what to send in with your application, please see the job posting: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs-browserhacker.html.en -- Mike Perry ___ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your