[liberationtech] French ISP blocks all web based advertisement, by default.

2013-01-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free ISP a French ISP with approx. 5M subs has blocked, by default, all web based advertisements being served to their fixed-line Internet subscribers. [1, 2] As a consumer, I would be very happy about it. As a "Internet neutrality" (whatever you

Re: [liberationtech] French ISP blocks all web based advertisement, by default.

2013-01-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
t;> One funny thing is that the ad-company of lemonde.fr (biggest online >> journal in France) owned by X. Niel who also owns Free, is still accessible. >> It's not in Free's blacklist. >> >> There is a fight between Free and Google about Youtube for some months now. &g

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-16 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do all signatories need to be affiliated/part of an organisation? On 16 Jan 2013, at 16:58, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > Dear Privacy Advocates and Internet Freedom Activists, > > I call on you to review the following draft for our Open Letter to Skype

Re: [liberationtech] Skype Open Letter: CALL FOR SIGNATORIES

2013-01-16 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16 Jan 2013, at 17:27, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Do all signatories need to be affiliated/pa

[liberationtech] Any TSF people subscribed?

2013-01-17 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Is anyone from TSF, Télécoms sans frontières, subscribed to the list? thanks, Bernard - -- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2

Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Jan 2013, at 12:45, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:40:13AM -0500, bbrewer wrote: >> >> >> "All the money in the world", and still, so many listed problems on this new >> service. Malicious intent, or just complete rush to giv

[liberationtech] Manuel Castells talk at RSA London, 20 March

2013-01-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, For those interested, Manuel Castells (University Professor and Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California) is talking at The RSA Wednesday 20 March. Tickets are free. Talk descriptio

Re: [liberationtech] digital to analog: Syria radio help needed

2013-02-04 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
The approach taken would be: self contained IP->FM transmitter box that can be detected without any danger to people setting it up. If there was access to technology I would suggest a multiple of low cost computing devices (raspberry pi/etc) receiving IP audio stream, connected to a reasonabl

Re: [liberationtech] Internships available at leading Palo Alto tech startup

2013-02-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23 Feb 2013, at 04:40, Griffin Boyce wrote: > > The unpaid internship "bubble" for Fortune 500 companies should have burst > five years ago. Not only is it bad business practice, it's unfair to the > interns who are put in that position. We

Re: [liberationtech] Internships available at leading Palo Alto tech startup

2013-02-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While I support the idea of exposing the internal workings of these pointless companies, I would expect the poor "intern" who was "successful" would be bound by umpteen NDA's requiring various body parts if they were ever breached! Is it worth marty

[liberationtech] Please help out a student!

2013-03-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I am doing a data visualisation project as part of an MSc programme. Part of it is a timeline of events surrounding the civil war in Syria since the start of 2011. The goal of the project is understand the influence of events ("actions"

Re: [liberationtech] Please help out a student!

2013-03-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
the link. Any help appreciated! thanks, Bernard On 3 Mar 2013, at 23:55, Andrew Lewis wrote: > Telecomix? Anon? SEA? > > Of which I can provide some insight, at least on TCX. > > On Mar 4, 2013, at 12:28 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED ME

Re: [liberationtech] Please help out a student!

2013-03-04 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
but the authors of this >> one, from Al Jazeera, might be able to supply more details if asked. >> >> See: http://aje.me/Yld95a >> >> -louis >> >> >> On 13-03-03, at 19:10 , Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: >> >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED ME

Re: [liberationtech] [SPAM:####] Re: [SPAM:####] CfP: Society, Informatics and Cybernetics (March 19)

2013-03-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wow, who'd have guessed that spammers and scammers operate in the world of academia too! http://fakeconference.blogspot.co.uk/ On 5 Mar 2013, at 12:24, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:13:42AM +, scarp wrote: >> I'm kind of sh

Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would like to be added also if possible. On 5 Mar 2013, at 18:15, gaby david wrote: > Hello all, > > why not? I mean, it is a very nice idea and me sumo a la lista ! > > gaby david > PhD candidate > Lhivic - EHESS > Paris > > twitter, facebo

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Dr. Dey: Disclosure: I am a licensed amateur radio operator. I am slightly biased. :) I have one answer: Amateur radio. Forget mobile phone networks. Amateur radio is cheap, very durable and will provide you with the functions you need, and if

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy AA6AX, Nice to meet you. On 6 Mar 2013, at 21:09, Sky (Jim Schuyler) wrote: > Your APRS idea is interesting and I only know it from the "positioning" side, > not from passing any text, so you may want to continue looking into it. I do > not

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hea Doctor, On 7 Mar 2013, at 16:38, The Doctor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/07/2013 03:02 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >> The whole ham culture and liberation technologies do not really >> mix. > > Unfortunatel

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Eugen, On 7 Mar 2013, at 08:02, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 09:36:41PM +0000, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > >> I have one answer: Amateur radio. Forget mobile phone networks. Amateur >> radio is cheap, ver

Re: [liberationtech] SUBSCRIPTION

2013-04-02 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Suggestion 1: Can we trial putting the UNSUBSCRIBE footer (that part of the e-mail that no-one reads) at the top of the e-mail so everyone sees it? Suggestion 2: change the wording of the unsubscribe footer to something shorter: "Too many e-mails?

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Would you like to give some more context on what it is you are trying to do? "remote wipe software for windows". On 3 Apr 2013, at 18:08, Katy P wrote: > Thanks! > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > em

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So the objective Kathy has mentioned is to: "log into and delete the contents of the laptop's hard drive" It would seem the contents of the hard disk is "more important" than the actual hardware. In that case I would go for the encryption option. Y

Re: [liberationtech] suggestions for a remote wipe software for Windows?

2013-04-04 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Apologies if I am making an assumption on people's knowledge) Entropy in disk encryption is the "random information" collected by an computers OS or encryption application for use in encrypting a hard disk. Those with more knowledge in encryption

[liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been thinking about this for a while, and can't find a logical reason. Possibly I'm not thinking about it hard enough. I'm curious as to why Bluecoat seem to be singled out for all this attention regarding use in countries where the gover

Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Attention has now turned to Bluecoat. When there is evidence of another > company's misdeeds, attention will surely turn there. > > Is that sufficient logic for you? > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE---

Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
co as well. > Attention has now turned to Bluecoat. When there is evidence of another > company's misdeeds, attention will surely turn there. > > Is that sufficient logic for you? > > On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: > -

[liberationtech] Encrypted smartphone addressbook/contact list?

2013-05-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Has anyone come across an encrypted address book / contact list application for smartphone devices? Thanks in advance, Bernard - -- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -BEGIN

Re: [liberationtech] Encrypted smartphone addressbook/contact list?

2013-05-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
vance, Bernard On 6 May 2013, at 20:15, andreas.ba...@nachtpult.de wrote: > How about AIO Solutions like Blackberry? > Diese Nachricht wurde Ihnen von meinem BlackBerry® von 1&1 gesendet. > Bestellen Sie diesen Service unter www.1und1.de. > > -Original Message----- > F

Re: [liberationtech] Free Speech in Practice: A Usability Evaluation of the Tor Browser Bundle (Tomorrow, May 9)

2013-05-13 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Yosem (and Greg), Greg: I have read your eval of the TBB from last year. Will this talk be different, or include other content? Either way, I would appreciate it very very much if it were possible to record this talk, audio, video. I am about

Re: [liberationtech] Cell phone tracking

2013-05-27 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Dan, (NB: This information is specific to GSM networks, it is probably 90% valid for CDMA networks, but not WiFi.) The short story is you cannot stop cell phone tracking. Cellular mobile phone networks require location and identity informatio

Re: [liberationtech] Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf

2013-06-04 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Andrea for answering my questions. So regarding the cost its due to the extra PVA bypass, which the "follower merchants" charge for..I wonder if there is any connection between these merchants and botnets? Botnet owners or spammers would se

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Richard, Without going into too much details can you explain why they "think" its Chinese or Israeli? Or what country they are talking about? Also why they think there is network surveillance equipment there at all? What type of data re you l

Re: [liberationtech] Airline Shutdown Because of Loss of Internet Service?

2013-06-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not knowing the detail of the situation, I am making an educated guess based on experience and prior-knowledge of dealing with similar situations in the past.. The technical reason of "The Internet is down" can span from a) the computer used by the

Re: [liberationtech] Network surveillance

2013-06-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Jun 2013, at 23:38, Eric S Johnson wrote: > I've heard that a lot (especially "it's the Chinese") but found very little > evidence to support such allegations. There is OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/) Open Observatory of Network Interfere

Re: [liberationtech] Why Metadata Matters

2013-06-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm glad someone brought up the NSA datacentre. I was thinking is there any connection to this? How far is it to being finished? Is that public knowledge/possible to find out? It wouldn't warrant this amount of data, which I would expect is pretty

Re: [liberationtech] NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret ppt reveals

2013-06-06 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Still that figures seems awfully small. For whats involved. I've seen telco projects of a fraction the size of something like this costing £10M. Unless they've managed to get the companies to foot the majority of the bill? In that case, why would th

Re: [liberationtech] Who Runs Prism...

2013-06-08 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That is interesting. Presumably by sheer coincidence, the docs.palantir.com sub-domain is not available, but thanks to Google cache, you can see the two URLs posted in that article here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VTVVOpHB

[liberationtech] Fwd: Persona and Prism

2013-06-08 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 While not as big a player in the identity area as others, below is Mozilla's Identity group response to a question about legal (or otherwise) requests. Begin forwarded message: > From: Melvin Carvalho > Date: 8 June 2013 15:11:44 GMT+01:00 > To: B

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-12 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12 Jun 2013, at 11:15, Sheila Parks wrote: > Why not use "her" instead of "his"? > > Using "his" in 2013 is, indeed, misogyny Why would you derail a useful and (IMHO) really important thread? Clearly you made the comment for the jibe.. The *on

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

2013-06-17 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congratulations Tor Project. Well done to Mike Perry and all the contributors. I've tested it on Mac OS X 10.6.8 and Debian 6.0 Squeeze and I had no technical issues on either. First launch (using clear Internet connection) took approx 40-50 seconds

liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu

2013-06-17 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Jun 2013, at 22:23, Richard Brooks wrote: > From Guardian Q&A with Snowden > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower > > Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id > my d

[liberationtech] USA Today panel with 3 American Whistleblowers

2013-06-18 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This might be of interest to people.. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/ A round-table discussion with Thomas Drake, William Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe. I thought these videos

Re: [liberationtech] Internet is designed for surveillance

2013-06-26 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Bob, I agree with you on the whole but I'm going to argue some of your points. On 26 Jun 2013, at 17:03, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: "Bob Frankston" > > The current implementation of the Internet is hierarchical in that we get IP > addres

[liberationtech] Anyone at SOUPS 2013 ?

2013-07-24 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Is there any Lib Tech bods at SOUPS 2013 this year? If so if you want to say hello, let me know on/off-list. Don't forget you're fan and bottle of water! regards, Bernard - -- Bernard / bluboxthief / e

[liberationtech] Fwd: [jitsi-users] New XMPP Server

2013-07-28 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those interested, these two forwarded mails mention two separate "secure" Jabber servers with "no-logging". I cannot vouch for the validity of them. IMO, any alternative to running the now closed (as in no non-GTalk users can talk directly) Goog

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [jitsi-users] New XMPP Server

2013-07-28 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28 Jul 2013, at 13:21, John Perry wrote: > On 7/28/2013 6:44 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: >> For those interested, these two forwarded mails mention two >> separate "secure" Jabber servers with "no-loggi

Re: [liberationtech] Internet misuse in Gambia

2013-07-29 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29 Jul 2013, at 15:26, Richard Brooks wrote: > New law in Gambia makes using the Internet to "incite > dissatisfaction" with the government punishable by > up to 15 years in jail and $100,00 fine: > > http://frontpageinternational.wordpress.com/20

[liberationtech] Rumours of Zimbabwean telcos blocking signals & sending pro-govt messages?

2013-07-30 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zimbabwean telcos are battling rumours that they have been both blocking signals to obscure election transparency and sending pro-ZANU PF messages. Interested to hear anything to this effect from others in Zimbabwe. https://plus.google.com/100542281

[liberationtech] Advice: recruiting participants for usability tests

2013-08-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to ask advice of people working in human rights, civil rights, investigative journalism communities. I am doing my MSc in human-computer interaction, focusing on mobile Privacy Enhancing Technology tools, a lot of which are discussed h

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

2013-08-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firstly: this is not a anti-Tor/pro-anything/anti-developer comment. If anything it's "pro-have_some_understanding_for_people" point-of-view. I contribute to Tor as I believe it can do a lot of good. As I understand it, the issue was: a compromise a

[liberationtech] Freedom House / Tor Hidden Service compromise traced to SAIC/NSA

2013-08-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is this true? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/researchers-say-tor-targeted-malware-phoned-home-to-nsa/ Initial investigations traced the address to defense contractor SAIC, which provides a wide range of information technology and C4ISR (

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

2013-08-05 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5 Aug 2013, at 21:08, Al Billings wrote: > You realize Tor didn't know this vuln was an issue until two days ago? I presume thats directed at Griffin. > The Tor Browser Bundle is based off of Firefox ESR releases. All the high > profile securi

Re: [liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-13 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Haven't "hackers" always been portrayed in a way to scare people? * If it's not dDoSing script kiddies, its zombie network owning Latvian mafias.. If this *is* the case, how can General Alexander go to Blackhat 2013 and say (paraphrasing) "we (CIA) use the same tools as you do. Help us protect A

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:01, Web Admin wrote: > Are either of these servics a more secure alternative to 3rd party > services like DropBox? My reasonng is that a hacker would first need to > know you host your own cloud in a articular way to attack it. Is my > thinking too simplistic? This is som

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Hah, we all must have read the same article.. ;) On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:42, elijah wrote: > On 08/14/2013 02:01 PM, Web Admin wrote: > >> It would be good to be able to advise folks on more secure alternatives, if >> they exist. > > free software: > > * http://seafile.com > * http://sparklesh

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:09, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > On 08/14/2013 05:01 PM, Web Admin wrote: >> Are there oher services to consider? > > We (the Guardian Project) are happily using SparkleShare. Credit to the > Commotion/OTI team for introducing us to it, and for Hans-Christoph on > our team

Re: [liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:47, mark burdett wrote: > I finally tried Bittorrent Sync this week and it seems to work quite nicely > for serverless file-sharing (mostly, as there is a server fallback to get > around firewalls). Too bad it's not FLOSS so I can't actually recommend it :/ Hi Mark, Can

Re: [liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 14 Aug 2013, at 20:42, The Doctor wrote: > Signed PGP part > On 08/13/2013 05:37 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > > Haven't "hackers" always been portrayed in a way to scare people? * > > If it's not dDoSing script kiddies, its zombie network owni

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 15 Aug 2013, at 00:01, Tom Ritter wrote: > On 14 August 2013 18:29, Bernard Tyers wrote: >> I came across this article outlining historical operation of Lavabit's >> services. >> >> http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/8/13/in-memoriam-lavabit-architecture-creating-a-scalable-email-s.html

Re: [liberationtech] Lavabit stored user passwords in plaintext?

2013-08-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 15 Aug 2013, at 00:20, Tom Ritter wrote: > On 14 August 2013 19:11, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: >> Yes, you're right. My mistake. But is my second question not still valid? If >> SSL was compromised would the user not then be compromised? >> >> Is: >

Re: [liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-19 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 15 Aug 2013, at 19:09, Kyle Maxwell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: >> My issue is with - "Hacking" is bad when people do it. It's ok when the >> government do it. > > To play devil's advocate for a m

Re: [liberationtech] SMS questions

2013-08-27 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Hi Richard, Depending on the information your colleagues want to collect, and depending on how onerous the control of the telco system is, FrontLine SMS might be useful. http://www.frontlinesms.com/ http://www.frontlinesms.com/technologies/frontlinesms-overview/ Hope it helps, Bernard On 27 A

[liberationtech] Request for participants for HCI study into the use of mobile apps

2013-08-28 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Hi all, I'd like to ask list members who are based in London, or *who will be in London anytime during September*, to participate in my research. I am exploring the use of mobile apps by investigative journalists, human rights and NGO workers. - Are you an investigative journalist, NGO or a hu

[liberationtech] MEGApwn - recover your "encrypted" MEGA master key

2013-09-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
As if there weren't enough reasons to not trust Kim.Com. What is MEGApwn? MEGApwn is a bookmarklet that runs in your web browser and displays your supposedly secret MEGA master key, showing that it is not actually encrypted and can be retrieved by MEGA or anyone else with access to your computer

Re: [liberationtech] Naive Question

2013-09-09 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 9 Sep 2013, at 17:29, Scott Arciszewski wrote: > Hello, > > I saw this article on The Guardian[1] and it mentioned a librarian who posted > a sign that looked like this: http://www.librarian.net/pics/antipat4.gif and > would remove it if visited by the FBI. So a naive question comes to min

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptogeddon

2013-09-10 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
This sounds a nice idea. There was a similar idea (in its early stages) presented at SOUPS 2013 (Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security) earlier this year. [1] It was called "Device Dash: An Educational Computer Security Game" presented by Era Vuksani. Unfortunately the Era's thesis is not

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-12 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Stefan: Why not? Fabio, this sounds really interesting. Thanks for sending it. Now I need to go and sub to another list… On 12 Sep 2013, at 23:06, Stefan <2...@2904.cc> wrote: > But... PGP/GPG on a smartphone? Are you sure, that you want that? > > Am 09.09.13 00:56, schrieb Fabio Pietrosanti (

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-13 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 13 Sep 2013, at 09:39, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Bernard Tyers wrote: > >> Firstly: I agree with you in principle but these tools need to be >> available to all. >> >> Technology is not used in a sterile, hygienic environment, it is used on >> the streets, by people who can't write, who

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-13 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 13 Sep 2013, at 10:04, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 06:39:35PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > >> Yes, but Firefox OS and Cryanogenmod only control the user facing part >> of the smartphone. Loading eg Cryanogenmod onto a android phone leaves >> the software running the r

Re: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?

2013-09-14 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
>> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 07:58:17AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> > Dropbox is pulling a Skype. >> >> no it's not, it's generating thumbnails. also this is advertising. Hi, I don't follow what you mean by advertising. Thanks, Bernard -- Bernard / bluboxthi

Re: [liberationtech] (no subject)

2013-09-19 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
On 19 Sep 2013, at 04:44, aman1971 wrote: > Plz put me on the list. > Regards You're on the list! Congratulations! -- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of

Re: [liberationtech] Hammond Banned from using Cryptography

2013-11-19 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
It seems a similar stupidly idiotic requirement to the one imposed on Kevin Mitnick when he was released. From memory the requirment on him was that he wasn’t allowed to use “computers or telephony” equipment. It might have been possible in the early 2000’s but today? IANAL, but would it be w

Re: [liberationtech] Hammond Banned from using Cryptography

2013-11-20 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
on Mitnick’s trial and thought he understood…no let’s not go there.. > Couldn’t stick with the ten years, had to piss on it, pardon my crudeness. Don’t follow. Bernard (He who understands follows little) > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: > I

[liberationtech] Telenor Azerbaijan surveillance documentary link?

2014-02-08 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
Hi, I have been looking for a link for a Norwegian documentary on the Telenor/Azerbaijan surveillance scandal from a few years ago (2-3?), but my Google foo is weak today. I wonder if anyone has a link? From memory it was in Norwegian but with English subtitles. I know it was discussed on this

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Your Domain - Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name? - Gun.io

2012-05-08 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, (Apologies, I replied from an incorrect e-mail address) Someone asked me off list why I would not recommend Gandi for hosting, so I thought I'd reply to list. Firstly, I do have some hosting with Gandi, more for historical reasons than anythin

Re: [liberationtech] FB-like "Twitter-connect" soon. How can we avoid all this tracking?

2012-05-30 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I may have the wrong end of the stick but in my mind, a solution would be: Use a Site-specific browser/Single-Site Browser (SSB), such as Prism, or Fluid. An SSB is a software application that is dedicated to accessing pages from a single source (si

Re: [liberationtech] If we want to be anonymous in #azerbaijan we take batteries out of our cellphones

2012-06-18 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The "still being tracked with no battery in my phone" story sounds like a hoax to me. If you are within close proximity, enough to measure any weak passive (non-powered) electrical field, some inductance from an electronic article surveillance (AKA

Re: [liberationtech] If we want to be anonymous in #azerbaijan we take batteries out of our cellphones

2012-06-18 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Jun 2012, at 19:55, Parker Higgins wrote: > On 6/18/12 11:44 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: >> The "still being tracked with no battery in my phone" story sounds >> like a hoax to me. > > Yeah, I wouldn

Re: [liberationtech] IPv6 good for anonymity

2012-06-19 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi David, On 18 Jun 2012, at 21:23, David Conrad wrote: > Bernard, > > On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:05 PM, ei8...@ei8fdb.org wrote: >> I'm not an IPv6 expert, but any technical courses I have done on IPv6 have >> promoted the complete trackability and ful

Re: [liberationtech] Are analogue technologies making a comeback for activists?

2012-07-19 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would wager they never went away. It was more that IP based (that is, communications that somehow went over "The Internet") became easier to access, and more popular. There was a thread on this in the past, but amateur radio has been used for yea

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

2012-07-31 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Slightly devil's advocate/contrarian POV) Interesting story, and Adams probably has a case but it never ceases to amaze me when people disconnect their "real world" brains from their "Internet" brains. I would be the first person to complain if s

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

2012-07-31 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
sted private information. The email address he posted, however, > is not private: it is available on NBC.com. That's the entire case. > > -Jillian > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 &g

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

2012-07-31 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
; Twitter's explanation was not that the statement was defamatory, but that > Adams had posted private information. The email address he posted, however, > is not private: it is available on NBC.com. That's the entire case. > > -Jillian > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 201

Re: [liberationtech] Independent UK Critic of NBC has Twitter account suspended after network complains

2012-08-01 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
because Twitter is well within their legal > rights to suspend a user for any reason. While I think that sucks, it is, in > fact, the truth. > > 3. I very much hope that Twitter either rephrases their rules or starts > investigating claims such as this in the future. I also firmly

[liberationtech] TeliaSonera and Azerbaijan, Belarus and Uzbekistan

2012-08-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some wonderful quotes from Mr. Nyberg: "the company itself could not solve the underlying problem that undemocratic governments could abuse their legal right to access and shut down telecoms networks" "We need help from national and international

Re: [liberationtech] RNC activist tracking or evasion of it? who is RNCCTV.COM?

2012-08-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From what I read on Jon Gales' twitter account, and put 1 and 1 together, it seems like he created it https://twitter.com/jonknee/status/236885560696897536 and the video on this link has him talking as the author: http://www.wmnf.org/news_storie

[liberationtech] Cryptoparty London 22 Sept.

2012-09-07 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (NB: Just passing on the info, no way involved) For anyone London based interested in/knowledgable about crypto, you might be interested in the follow. It seems like they are targetting (for the want of a better phrase) to educate journalists, which

Re: [liberationtech] FinFisher is now controlled by UK export controls

2012-09-13 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had to reread the article and the documents a few times, but I think this control is *for the short term* very good news. Congrats to PI and all involved for sticking a well-placed oar in. In the long term the regulation isn't going to stop FinFi

[liberationtech] Ideas for MSc research into HCI, security tools, and privacy.

2012-09-22 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I am currently researching ideas for my masters in human computer systems thesis. I am a mobile telecoms engineer by profession, but am interested in HCI, tools that help maintain your security, secure communications, and privacy concerns.

Re: [liberationtech] Ideas for MSc research into HCI, security tools, and privacy.

2012-09-22 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
ign tools that actually have the properties people > think they have. Do you have any information or resources on this? thanks, Bernard > Cheers, > Michael > > On 22/09/12 16:06, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I am currently researching ideas

[liberationtech] Baghdad Hackerspace

2012-09-23 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I thought this might be interesting to some people: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops See also gemsi.org Baghdad was a hub of art, science & ideas. Inspire that attitude again by sharing ha

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3 Oct 2012, at 10:25, Sam de Silva wrote: > Hi there, > > Can someone help me out - Is http://www.piratepad.net secure? I thought it > was, but I can't seem to access it via SSL. > > It'll also be really useful to know of 'piratepad' type platf

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty Handbook

2012-10-09 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Oct 2012, at 22:35, Brian Conley wrote: > Greg its called orbot and it runs on Android. Secondly I used to agree with > you, but I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that user education, not > simplification, is the more important piece o

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty Handbook

2012-10-09 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8 Oct 2012, at 23:46, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Asher Wolf: >> The argument everyone is politely avoiding - while pondering the >> numerous ways CryptoParty will expose already compromised individuals - >> is whether the masses SHOULD use crypto. >

Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle to publish source code?

2012-10-11 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is this a case of people (lib tech/security community) trusting people of "up-to-now good security community reputation" (Phil Zimmerman and Jon Callas) combined with public statements (to the affect of "we will be releasing the source code") comb

Re: [liberationtech] Large amounts of spam

2012-10-31 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At a risk of receiving the mentioned spam myself (thankfully my mail provider also seems to be killing the spam before it gets to me), and at risk of offering another evidence-less possible scenario - There was recently a "valid" e-mail account tha

[liberationtech] A technologically progressive approach for oppressive regimes to operate.

2012-10-31 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I attended a talk recently in London titled "(Mobile) Money Makes the World Go Around". [1] It was attended by people involved in mobile money (M-Pesa, mobile operators, finance companies, and billing backend people). The conversation was about how

Re: [liberationtech] MJM as Personified Evil Says Spyware Saves Lives Not Kills Them

2012-11-12 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It saddens me that someone who is clearly talented is so delusional, or puts a price on his personal life. 15% of the company, and hefty salary. Either way, he seems to be the company fall-guy. "Muench has put himself forward as Gamma’s point man on

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty in Tunis tomorrow (Saturday, 1st December)

2012-12-01 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From memory (anyone knowing the please correct me if I am wrong) but the London Cryptoparty which was held in the Google Campus also required real names for "health and safety" reasons. This didn't stop people from signing-up with fake e-mail addr

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-01 Thread Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 True - it would be useful for a journalist to make some enquiries as to the outcome of that investigation. My guess would be nothing. It's also interesting that the article says 14 SG9000s made their way to Syria - and there are 8 being used in that

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