Re: [liberationtech] EFF: National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules

2013-03-17 Thread Nicholas Merrill
it doesn't "stick", so to speak. I'd be happy to talk about it, provided I can get completely out of the gag order, which I have not given up on. More news as it becomes available. best, Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street N

Re: [liberationtech] EFF: National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules

2013-03-17 Thread Nicholas Merrill
l, it doesn't "stick", so to speak. I'd be happy to talk about it, provided I can get completely out of the gag order, which I have not given up on. More news as it becomes available. best, Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Stree

Re: [liberationtech] New EIFL-PLIP Innovation Award Empowers Women & Girls through ICT4D

2013-03-19 Thread Nicholas Merrill
Hey Yosem How have you been ? I sent an email to the libtech list about the NSL story but it didn;t' seem to go through.. could it be stuck in a moderation queue somewhere ? best, Nick -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@sta

[liberationtech] Google defies FBI, asks federal judge to challenge National Security Letter

2013-04-05 Thread Nicholas Merrill
In my humble opinion, Google deserves to be commended for taking this action which it did not have to take ! -Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 https://www.calyxinstitute.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, o

Re: [liberationtech] Frei PiratenPartei

2013-05-19 Thread Nicholas Merrill
It isn't that well known yet but there is a pirate party in New York state: http://nypirateparty.org/ -Nick On May 19, 2013, at 5:03 PM, "André Rebentisch" wrote: > Am 18.05.2013 14:56, schrieb Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes: >> >> 2. Areas of the mesh where the saturation becomes "o

[liberationtech] Fundraiser to send 100 4G/LTE hotspots to Public Libraries in Puerto Rico & fund CryptoHarlem for 1 year

2018-04-03 Thread Nicholas Merrill
ic and completely free of charge. Please give your support ( or join the team to recruit other supporters ) at https://www.crowdrise.com/the-calyx-institute <https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/the-calyx-institute> Thanks!! -Nick --  Nicholas Merrill  Executive Director  The Calyx In

Re: [liberationtech] Fundraiser to send 100 4G/LTE hotspots to Public Libraries in Puerto Rico & fund CryptoHarlem for 1 year

2018-04-04 Thread Nicholas Merrill
hat it is not a permanent solution.  I'm sorry if you don't think it's worthwhile because it doesn't last "forever".   Please do let me know if you find some solution that will last forever.  But keep in mind the old saying:  don't let the perfect be the enem

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

2013-08-09 Thread Nicholas Merrill
-30/news/25376716_1_national-security-letters-gag-order-fbi-summons [2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090601438.html -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 -- Liberationtech list is public and arch

[liberationtech] Interview with Lavabit founder Levison on Democracy Now

2013-08-14 Thread Nicholas Merrill
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/exclusive_owner_of_snowdens_email_service also a short follow-up with me: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/former_internet_provider_gagged_by_national -N -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013

[liberationtech] FYI: SXSW proposed panel discussion

2013-08-20 Thread Nicholas Merrill
to protect your business 5. What to expect from the NSA in the future Speakers * Matthew Prince CloudFlare <https://www.cloudflare.com/> * Nicholas Merrill The Calyx Institute <https://calyxinstitute.org/> * Cesar Hidalgo MIT <http://chidalgo.com/index.html> * Brad B

[liberationtech] New public XMPP / Jabber server with Forward Secrecy/DNSSEC/Tor Hidden Service/DANE support - jabber.calyxinstitute.org

2014-01-30 Thread Nicholas Merrill
/public_jabber_xmpp_server If you have any problems connecting or using it, feel free to send me an OTR-encrypted message to n...@calyxinstitute.org best, Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 -- Liberationtech is public & archives

Re: [liberationtech] New public XMPP / Jabber server with Forward Secrecy/DNSSEC/Tor Hidden Service/DANE support - jabber.calyxinstitute.org

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Merrill
ic ? Any prosody devs on the list ? thanks, Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.

Re: [liberationtech] New public XMPP / Jabber server with Forward Secrecy/DNSSEC/Tor Hidden Service/DANE support - jabber.calyxinstitute.org

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Merrill
OK the server should now enforce OTR and reject clear text thanks to Matthew Wild for some very quick work :) Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violation

Re: [liberationtech] mod_require_otr in prosody

2014-01-31 Thread Nicholas Merrill
essage is not popping up, at least in my testing, on any XMPP client I have tried. The server basically silently drops the unencrypted message without notifying the user. So for it to be really more useful that needs to be sorted out. I have tested with Pidgin, Adium and ChatSecure (on Android) be

[liberationtech] Connecting to XMPP servers over Tor hidden services

2014-02-26 Thread Nicholas Merrill
Internet users to connect to services ( other than websites ) over Tor, but we will be releasing some how-to documentation shortly. I'll report back when that's ready for peer review. best, Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 1

Re: [liberationtech] What ideas did you submit to the Knight News Challenge?

2014-03-19 Thread Nicholas Merrill
individuals and organizations to run their own such servers. https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/building-privacy-by-design-into-instant-messaging best, Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 XMPP: n

[liberationtech] PBS Frontline: United States of Secrets ( 2 part series )

2014-05-14 Thread Nicholas Merrill
-- and the lengths it went to try to keep it hidden from the public." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/ http://video.pbs.org/video/2365245528/ Part 2 airs May 20th -Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The Calyx Institute 287 Spring Street New

[liberationtech] Here is a list of TrueCrypt compatible disk encryption tools

2014-05-29 Thread Nicholas Merrill
Here's a list of Truecrypt compatible file encryption software .. some compromises required, but maybe it will suffice for the time being http://www.hacker10.com/encryption-software-2/list-of-truecrypt-compatible-encryption-software/ -Nick -- Nicholas Merrill Executive Director The

[liberationtech] Call for free software projects ( and other types of organizations ) to sign an anti-patent-troll pledge

2015-07-09 Thread Nicholas Merrill
information, and just be sure to do what it says in the confirmation email ( which comes from a totally different domain ) The subject of the email should be something like "OIN license agreement for you" from licensees...@openinventionnetwork.com Thanks! Nick -- Nicholas Merrill

[liberationtech] Job Opportunity: Security-focused web developer for human rights NGO

2015-09-22 Thread Nicholas Merrill
Position Description: Security-focused Web Developer *About Access:* Access (accessnow.org) is a growing organization dedicated to defending and extending the digital rights of users at risk around the world, including on issues of privacy, security, freedom of expression, and transparency. Our p