Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-13 Thread Uncle Zzzen
2. Abandon all-singing all-dancing applications. They're enormous. They use massive code bases which in turn use massive libraries. And to borrow from the quoted passage above, they make it harder to peek under the hood. So: no GUI. Don't tell me it can't be done -- I've done it. Anyone

[liberationtech] Deadline (Feb 15): ESA 2013 Conference, RN18 panel on Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change

2013-02-13 Thread christian . fuchs
Dear colleagues, This is a brief reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the European Sociological Association's bi-annual conference is this Friday, February 15th. Best, Christian Fuchs Chair, ESA RN18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research

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

2013-02-13 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
Dear All Just to let you know, I've just been interviewed by a man from the NYT/IHT (European office) about the Skype Open Letter - he'll be writing a piece in a week to ten days. I hope I said the right kind of thing… Paul Dr Paul Bernal Lecturer UEA Law School University of East Anglia

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:01:37AM +0100, Andreas Bader wrote: So why not create a own OS that is really small because of its security? Chrome OS is small because it's cheap. If you were right then Android was the most secure system. Aren't there any Android viruses? RedHat seems to have less

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Foster
Incidentally, NICTA are the same researchers hired by DARPA to make the U.S. drone fleet safe from hackers. Looks like there might be some open source tools emerging from the effort. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/19/nicta_develops_drone_protection/ gf On 2/13/13 6:54 AM, Eugen Leitl

[liberationtech] POTUS Executive Order on Cybersecurity

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Foster
Here's the President's Executive Order, embargoed last night until delivery of the SOTU: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/executive-order-improving-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity Section 5 addresses Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections for the information that

Re: [liberationtech] POTUS Executive Order on Cybersecurity

2013-02-13 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
On Wed Feb 13 09:55:22 2013, Gregory Foster wrote: Here's the President's Executive Order, embargoed last night until delivery of the SOTU: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/12/executive-order-improving-critical-infrastructure-cybersecurity Section 5 addresses Privacy and

[liberationtech] nettime Copy Paste in Brussels

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Felix Stalder fe...@openflows.com - From: Felix Stalder fe...@openflows.com Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:58:45 +0100 To: nettim...@kein.org Subject: nettime Copy Paste in Brussels User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130106

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-13 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:22:39PM +0700, Uncle Zzzen wrote: Even if the average activist could master mutt (I use it regularly, and still feel like a noob :) ), it only applies to devices that have a keyboard. We've used to have chording keyboards like

Re: [liberationtech] POTUS Executive Order on Cybersecurity

2013-02-13 Thread Shava Nerad
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Gregory Foster gfos...@entersection.orgwrote: Here's the President's Executive Order, embargoed last night until delivery of the SOTU: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-**press-office/2013/02/12/**

Re: [liberationtech] POTUS Executive Order on Cybersecurity

2013-02-13 Thread Shava Nerad
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org wrote: On Wed Feb 13 09:55:22 2013, Gregory Foster wrote: Here's the President's Executive Order, embargoed last night until delivery of the SOTU:

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

2013-02-13 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
looks like the Silent Circle code is up on github? https://github.com/SilentCircle-- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] beta - TERC - iphone blur/secure-cam

2013-02-13 Thread sam de silva
Hi Collin and Brian, Thanks for your messages. Regarding the support site, it's been online in the past, and I've taken it offline to do some further work on it. Poor timing on my behalf… The code will be shared - it's just been a slow process, the budget was tiny, but no excuses. Hipster

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

2013-02-13 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
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 of the code is out I'll finally shut up about Silent Circle. NK On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Joseph Lorenzo Hall j...@cdt.org wrote: looks like the

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

[liberationtech] UNDERGRADS: Stanford Undergrad LibTech Club-

2013-02-13 Thread Zak Whittington
Stanford Undergrads (if there are any others out there...), I'm considering starting a Liberation Tech club sometime soon, and I wanted to gauge your support. Would any of you be interested in joining? The primary focus would be networking- we'd be trying to increase the number of students

[liberationtech] Silicon Valley v. Financial Lobby

2013-02-13 Thread Aaron Greenspan
Hello, With an emphasis on the part of liberation technology that seeks to empower the poor (and maybe increasingly, the middle class) and encourage economic development… If you are sick of paying credit and debit card fees and you happen to live in California, I could really use some help

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

2013-02-13 Thread Nathan of Guardian
Fabio Pietrosanti (naif): Here some notes i collected with a quick review of the source code: I can see the headlines now... Cryptography super-group more like a cover band Cryptography Boy Band covers Latvian super-group Cryptography super-group? More like Milli Vanilli! or perhaps simply:

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

2013-02-13 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
So to recap: It hasn't been a few hours since Silent Circle released *some* of their source code, and we already know that: 1. Silent Circle isn't in built to be a secure communications platform, but is simply a rebranding of TiviPhone, a latvian-made VoIP software, with added

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

2013-02-13 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Fabio just discovered that Silent Phone derives device IDs by hashing the device IMEI with MD5... WOW NK On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: So to recap: It hasn't been a few hours since Silent Circle released *some* of their source code, and we already

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] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-13 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
The TiVi rebranding page is gone but the cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://rebrand.tiviphone.com/ It would be utterly bizarre if Silent Circle started as a $199 euro investment. I just can't swallow that. Not, by default, a negative attribute - just - whacky. I

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

2013-02-13 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Who is light green on the etherpad?? NK On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Ali-Reza Anghaie a...@packetknife.comwrote: The TiVi rebranding page is gone but the cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://rebrand.tiviphone.com/ It would be utterly bizarre if Silent

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

2013-02-13 Thread Ali-Reza Anghaie
The last useful version of the Silent Circle pad before troll-erasing is at http://pastebit.com/pastie/12001 if you want to DL it.. Useful has varying definitions. Cheers, -Ali On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Nadim Kobeissi na...@nadim.cc wrote: Who is light green on the etherpad?? NK

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

2013-02-13 Thread Brian Conley
Well so we've learned a few things: 1. The limits of completely open/anonymous spaces 2. Why anarchists operate in affinity groups and not everyone has equal right hooray! 3. Someone is obviously threatened by nadim(be proud not frustrated Nadim!) 4. People are still utter douchebags. I'm