[liberationtech] Stipends available for the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium

2017-05-16 Thread Roger Dingledine
Hi libtech! The PETS conference is where all of the academic privacy / anonymity experts gather each year: https://petsymposium.org/ This year it's in Minneapolis, July 18-21. Please consider joining us -- and if you do, be sure to stay for the hike on July 22, which is where many interactions

Re: [liberationtech] Tor Browser 6.5 is ready for testing

2017-01-20 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 07:01:03AM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: > We are pleased to accounce that Tor Browser 6.5 is ready for testing. > Bundles can be found on: Hi Yosem, Libtech people, This is a testing release, not a release. If people here want to help with testing, I encourage you to

Re: [liberationtech] [SPAM:###] Re: Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries | TIME.com

2013-10-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:44:46PM -0700, Adam Fisk wrote: We do, however, strongly believe in the potential of WebRTC to provide both interesting cover traffic as well as usability improvements that come as a result of reusing technology already built into the browser. I agree! I think the

Re: [liberationtech] Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries | TIME.com

2013-10-21 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:25:48AM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: The most ambitious product launch is uProxy, a new Web browser extension that uses peer-to-peer technology to let people around the world provide each other with a trusted Internet connection. It's a shame that designs like this

Re: [liberationtech] 49 Page NSA analysis of Tor

2013-10-04 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 02:05:23PM -0700, d.nix wrote: Just published by Bart Gellman (Thanks Bart!): http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/nsa-research-report-on-the-tor-encryption-program/501/ And when you're done reading it, read the better, newer version of their mjolnir attack:

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

2013-09-25 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 09:32:46PM -0700, 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? ;) You left out the rest of his sentence

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

2013-08-07 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:43:39PM -0500, Kyle Maxwell wrote: The key, obviously, is the primary assertion that the NSA runs lots of Tor nodes. I've seen this assertion before, and while it's certainly a reasonable assumption, I don't know if anybody outside the NSA actually has hard evidence

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

2013-08-06 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 07:20:21AM +0300, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: You will note that this was posted recently. However, 5 weeks ago, Mozilla posted a security advisory for Firefox and fixed the issue. Tor then updated the Tor Browser Bundle with the fix, 5 weeks ago, *without releasing a security

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

2013-08-05 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:46:35AM +0200, Georg Koppen wrote: On 05.08.2013 10:15, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: Now, we find out that the FBI has been sitting on an exploit since an unknown amount of time that can compromise the Tor Browser Bundle is that really so? See:

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

2013-08-05 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:54:00AM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote: Specifically, it would appear that the TBB updates we put out on June 26 addressed this vulnerability: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2013-August/89.html has some more details now. Or see https

Re: [liberationtech] Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills

2013-02-26 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 04:01:03PM -0800, Eva Galperin wrote: I'm not sure that I would support ranking drug cartels as a less technologically sophisticated threat than the government in Mexico. When we did a Tor talk for the US DEA in January, one of the use cases we explained for Tor was law

Re: [liberationtech] issilentcircleopensourceyet.com

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 02:28:36PM -0500, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: I believe that releasing closed-source, unreviewed and centralized crypto software and then marketing it as secure to be malpractice. That is simply my point. I stopped looking at SilentCircle when I was looking through their FAQ: