TP-Link says they use GPL code. http://www.tp-link.us/gpl-code.html They
mention GPL version 3 as well as other versions are in the code. Would
version 3 allow them to do these kind of locks? If not, who will stop them?
It's been discussed here previously. Now I see this:
http://ml.ninux.org/pipermail/battlemesh/2016-February/004379.html
"Yes. Less than 24 hours ago I was given the following information from a
customer service rep from tplink:
Adam Longwill09:10:01 pm downgrading does not work
I get an 18005
GPL peer-to-peer search: http://yacy.net/en/index.html Maybe that can be
folded in somehow?
Excellent discussion. It is great to see the growing intensity of interest on
freeing hardware. A couple of years ago there was a similar sense of many
things being beyond reach but the pot is simmering now instead of being kind
of lukewarm as it was then, which is not all bad.
Good to see things happening beyond software, at the computer level.
Yes, that is correct, the regular ISO. I've always had an internet connection
so I do not know if an internet connection is required or just nice to have
during an install.
I used this text install full disk encryption method on a desktop machine and
on laptops without any problem. Can
Since people are commenting on this I would like to as well.
I do not like these vote type things. I dislike reading a post and then
asking myself why I may not feel as others do. It's tiring and an unnecessary
distraction. I prefer being the judge of which statements I agree with or
Are you trying to do a full disk encryption?
Use Install Trisquel in text mode when installing. It will guide you into
making an encrypted LVM disk.
It is very similar to this:
http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/full-disk-encryption-install
Takes 20-30 minutes.
seems too good to be true.
I had that feeling myself.
Don't know what to make of it. Sounds good, feels bad for some reason.
The Librem 15 will use a Trisquel based operating system.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop
Sounds pretty good, but I don't know...
Haven't seen it mentioned here so I thought I would post something.
Do the sponsors of this not hang around here? Strange they mention Trisquel
From a temporary webpage at http://lessonslearned.org/sniff
We are seeing clear evidence across the country of both consumer and
enterprise devices having network traffic altered through these tracking
beacon headers.
Most importantly, when present, ATT and Verizon tracking beacons persist
Luis,
Great to hear. As to your goal of a free BIOS, when I looked into that almost
a year ago, there were more free options with ARM processors. None were
perfect as I recall, but there is potential and lots of interest in ARM
processors in general--a much larger base of developers.
If Linux Journal attracts extremists to such a degree that ALL people who
visit their website are tagged and filed into some system of suspects, then I
just don't know what to say or think.
Remember what the original quote was: The NSA is also tracking anyone who
visits the popular online
What?
The NSA is also tracking anyone who visits the popular online Linux
publication, Linux Journal, which the NSA refers to as an “extremist
forum” in the [XKeyscore] source code.
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/nsa-targets-users-of-privacy-services/
1.) How much will Thunderbird be affected? Isn't there quite a bit of overlap
with Firefox? Especially plug ins.
2.) Not sure this is related, but...In the past couple of weeks I've started
to get notices from PayPal and Youtube and other websites at the top of the
browser window saying
jodiendo,
I read somewhere (who knows if it is true) that one US government agency had
~1,000 full time analysts who look for bad code to be used for potential
exploits. Assuming other countries have something similar, in numbers alone,
the free (and open) software movements would need
Darksoul71: Due to the sheer amount of code for the Kernel itself, all
applications used and all the libs included it is close to impossible to
validate code for possible implemented weaknesses / back doors.
Yes. It seems many eyes saw the Debian bug, but that was not the end of it,
it
jodiendo: But, what on earth do we do from here?
What are the solutions without compromising and affecting deeper all the
GNU/LINUX OSI source code, farther WHO DO WE TRUST?
As an illustration, imagine a shantytown built by good people, not designed
by architects and not built by licensed
Realizing that I do not understand this stuff, which is why I posted the
question above, I note that Intel's video says uefi secure boot can be
disabled http://youtu.be/eAnlhkbMang?t=20s
I'm not sure that makes any difference to your discussion but I wanted to
mention it.
In late 2010 OpenBSD experienced something similar.
It is interesting to look at the details of that case. Awful lot of
connections but apparently nothing big came of it or so they all say.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129236621626462w=2
A few days later...
I don't know about surveillance. He was speaking on authentication and
security.
In the mid-1970's while he was developing the regular--later to be public
internet, he was also working with the NSA developing a secure internet using
classified encryption methods.
While his colleagues at
I didn't see anything on the Free Software Foundation site on Minnowboard.
http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/29035/Intel-Atom-Processor/embedded
Does anyone know more about how free this is?
Also see that uefi firmware can apparently be developed. I don't understand
this kind of thing, the firmware isn't free is it?
http://uefidk.intel.com/content/minnowboard-uefi-firmware
A father of the internet, Vint Cerf, on TCP/IP security choices made during
the 1970's. Some features didn't make it in. He couldn't talk back then, he
was working on a project for the NSA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17GtmwyvmWEfeature=sharet=23m1s
The Freescale losing employees is true as they've issued a news release on
it.
http://media.freescale.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=196520p=irol-newsArticleID=1907348highlight=
The rest? Who knows.
Interesting news item...
...the people who owned the patent to Freescale Semiconductor’s ARM
microcontroller ‘KL-03′ which is a new improvised version of an older
microcontroller KL-02 were on the MH-370 flight.
The 20 Freescale employees, among 239 people on flight MH370, were mostly
Is there even a (distributed or federated) directory of all projects?
Someway to plug that info together, along with info/directions on how to
donate or help a project?
There probably is something already that can accomplish this but I am not
aware of how I might quickly look at the
I'm using the ThinkPenguin USB N adapter.
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb
It works fine, however being so small, signal strength is not the greatest.
Still, there have been no problems streaming video or whatever on my ThinkPad
yrk,
I have that exact USB and running your 100 packet test to fsf.org ( ping -c
100 fsf.org ) had zero packet loss with only 2 bars of signal strength.
t3g,
You say a community user is often told to fix it himself. Sounds like you
have experienced this yourself here? If so, what is the background. I haven't
noticed such treatment around here.
Also, what is with the urgency of your needing an ASAP new release of
Trisquel as if something
RMS interviewed by Alex Jones covering many of the usual topics on March 11,
2014.
http://youtu.be/G2z6UdUug2c
Not more Stallman, but related...
How the NSA Plans to Infect ‘Millions’ of Computers with Malware
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/12/nsa-plans-infect-millions-computers-malware/
Zancudo,
Check ebay again, they make an adapter card for half size cards to become
full size. Inexpensive.
Beaglebone Black is not free last time I checked.
Trisquel lead developer has mentioned ARM support during a video speech
during the 2013 Libre Planet get together. There must be a copy of it
somewhere.
Have you seen this thread? A free board and now a libre port, but not
Trisquel.
Please see this page: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
Wondering if coreboot removes the digital restrictions on PCIe cards?
I have an Atheros wifi card that doesn't work with the standard BIOS, even
though it is a Lenovo card. Maybe it will work with coreboot? I have an X60s
without coreboot at the moment.
A linux-libre for the board would be great. Please keep us informed.
A paper released earlier this month [December 2013] by a group of security
researchers has outlined the technical details behind a potential Computer
Network Exploitation (CNE) program likely used by the U.K. Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and their American counterpart, the
Enlightening talk. Not a dream. http://youtu.be/b0w36GAyZIA
Interesting and BIOS related.
The specialists at ANT, which presumably stands for Advanced or Access
Network Technology, could be described as master carpenters for the NSA's
department for Tailored Access Operations (TAO). In cases where TAO's usual
hacking and data-skimming methods don't
Latest Linux Action Show does a short segment on the gluglug.
https://youtu.be/08HKcH2GguE?t=26m5s
Overall positive, but they don't seem to get the subtle details and tend to
focus on specs and refurb, but hey, it's a mention of a freedom option going
out to a Linux audience.
The non-free BIOS--which is an issue for the majority of computers now
available--has troubled me too as there are few (almost no) free options. In
general you cannot buy a new modern computer to escape this problem.
But how does that have anything at all to do with Trisquel, or Debian? It's
ZykoticK9, I hear you re: the forum guidelines. True. But arguments aren't
interesting?!! What about Jerry Springer? :)
https://youtu.be/hCL36ogOFDo?t=2m7s
A bit of conflict is good for the soul. So is laughter and lightening up now
and then...
sebelius, Yes. That is how it seems. When a security company is involved in
the following type of activity, where should one go? To another proprietary
vendor? Heck no!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/21/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9BJ1C220131221?type=companyNews
Of course I was joking! Given the subject matter, not much is funny you know.
Needed a break. :)
Article on Gluglug laptop
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Gluglug-Laptops-Get-FSF-Respect-Your-Freedom-Certification
Interesting speech, thanks for the link. It sounds like he is talking about
things that are happening now!
There is a citation to Stallman's story on page 5 of this pdf.
https://irwinlaw.com/sites/default/files/attached/KP21%2001%20Stallman.pdf
Here is the link
Re: Debian and petty political arguments, please note the video mentioned
in this thread:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/rms-2001-talked-about-1999-nsa-backdoor-ms-server-software
It shows how Stallman feels about Linux vs. GNU and why he feels that way.
Maybe watching that video will
I second grimlok's new area idea.
At the edges of any debate, there are things to consider, things to ponder.
It's uncomfortable there for everyone. However the struggle to express ideas
clarifies them.
Even though I see RMS's points, and agree with them, I have benefited from
reading
Seems like they want to focus on an enterprise system.
We will change current Fedora Remix base system for enterprise linux
system like CentOS(or other clones) in next GdNewHat release in order to
become more stable fully free system distribution.
Tried it in a VM and it seems to work pretty well.
Updated the software using their tools. All worked. Uses 3.11 Libre kernel
now.
Very slick interface, gnome 3 out of the box neat and clean. It is very
interesting as others have said.
Stallman knows what he wants and why. More uncommon, he actually follows
up--and uncomfortable or not--does what he needs to do to live consistently
with what he believes.
That isn't fashionable nowadays, most people would not or could not do what
he does. That doesn't make him superior or
This also reinforces the proof that for a FLOSS project to be successful, it
needs a commercial backing (like Canonical, Google, or Red Hat) or be in the
top tier of popularity (jQuery, Linux kernel, Python, Firefox) to be
sustained through personal and corporate donations in a non profit
A similar Olimex board was awfully close to freedom respecting, now they've
released a new one...with a box enclosure for ~USD 47. There is an A20
version coming as well.
Olimex’s OLinuXino Allwinner A10
The documentary isn't entirely about tracking and privacy invasions although
that is what I took from it because I didn't realize all those systems shown
in the film existed. It mostly pointed out ways technology is optimistically
being used as a control mechanism and substitute for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g
This is good. Non-US.
Freedom appears to be gone in so many settings. Tracking and privacy
invasions contrary to UN rules, constitutions, whatever.
It's great trying to have control over my software and computer, but what
about the rest of the
Sorry wrong link, but that was a good (bad) one too! Here is the correct
link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqWXWNhfZQg
I did not know that. What about ARJ? It's supposed to have encryption, but
what kind?
http://www.7-zip.org/
Simple, AES-256 only. Many front ends, drag and drop.
If ultrasonic is being used http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~wiz/ultracom.html
gives some things to ponder.
This is an overview of what is known in general
http://www.securityartwork.es/2013/10/30/badbios-2/?lang=en
Here is a current thread
Yes, that is one article I came across as well. The author is too confident
and is a lone voice at this point. I doubt there is 100% truth or lies to be
found. There is a lot of uncomfortable stuff being revealed and some will
pick at it with interest, others will dismiss it with disbelief.
Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking
capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an
infected machine that had no obvious network connection with -- but was in
close proximity to -- another badBIOS-infected computer. The
Siding with Fernando on this--but not as passionately! :)
Clearly there *are* many scientific studies that find trouble with cell
phones. A recent new one...
http://www.naturalnews.com/042323_brain_cancer_risk_cell_phones_mobile_devices.html
There aren't none or no studies. People may
Nice instructions here...
https://airvpn.org/topic/5586-prevent-leaks-with-linux-firestarter-also-stop-traffic-when-vpn-drops/#entry5642
Habits, activities, and preferences are compiled, registered, and retrieved
to facilitate better adjustment, not to improve the individual’s capacity
to act and to decide. Whatever the original incentive for computerization may
have been, processing increasingly appears as the ideal means to
Most tablets use ARM processors which are heavily Android based. There are
some Ubuntu and Debian versions for ARM that some tablets use. Check ebay and
go from there with the product names you find for further research.
Aliexpress also.
Check the linuxgizmos news site for leads. Many boards there.
Noticed the following from Lembas' links...
Wake-on-LAN support may be changed using a subfunction of the ethtool
command.
In Linux, the real time clock alarm can be set or retrieved using
/proc/acpi/alarm or /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm.[1] Alternatively the
rtcwake utility may be used
In Montevideo, Uruguay this week, the Directors of all the major Internet
organizations – ICANN, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet
Architecture Board, the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Society, all
five of the regional Internet address registries – turned their back
NSA and FBI don't always work well together. I'm not sure who has what
capability. NSA may have the toys but FBI wanted the keys.
Bothers me that Lavabit/Levison suggested even we can't access your email
on their website but later admits how easy it would be to do just that with
the keys
Seconded. Sent my nomination in. Trisquel and its team deserve greater
recognition and thanks.
…So when the feds said they wanted to monitor the email of the target(s)
in real time, and when they asked for Lavabit’s private SSL master key to
do so, Ladar deduced that they’d come up with a way to figure out those
third keys, the session keys. Until now, uncovering a session key was
I wonder what the following means?
Software drivers are a challenge, and we will work on providing some level
of drivers, with the hopes that the community takes them up and pushes them
to new levels and provides problem reports to us.
Some level of drivers?
That seems to be the case way
This is something I do not understand, we start to fall behind the
mainline.
How much of a delay is there in reality? I am not a programmer and do not
understand the implication.
I will go over (read and ponder) in detail your link.
I've read it more than once in the past and I do not understand some parts.
It is not a philosophical break; I do not know the details and the
significance of the choices regarding some items due to my non-engineering
background and
I am not familiar with those details, and not knowledgeable enough in
hardware or software to know how that fits in exactly, however I will add
that the chip itself has something like 6000 pages of open documentation and
the boot is or can be done via u-boot.
Someone brought that up re: WiFi in the comments and other cards are
available and can be changed because the computer is made to easily come
apart.
Initially he doesn't intend to make many units and has suggested that orders
be done via github and code, sort of a hackers only thing.
Every element of the Novena laptop will be open source.
Idea originated here in December 2012:
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686
Novena Info: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
ZDnet Article:
Split this off from my original thread
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/some-current-free-software-friendly-hardware
as this is worth watching on its own.
--
Every element of the Novena laptop will be open source.
Idea originated here in December 2012:
Interesting way to build your own custom boards quickly and inexpensively,
exactly as you want them. Set up fee is waived for now.
http://linuxgizmos.com/crowdfunding-a-custom-linux-sbc-the-easy-way/
I am not sure if there are enough (freedom respecting) options there yet. If
anyone notices
vPro manual from intel
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/3rd-gen-core-vpro-data-protection-paper.html
Good discussion at Wilders Security on this topic as well. Sandy Bridge
background, intesting post...
vPro manual
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/enterprise-security/3rd-gen-core-vpro-data-protection-paper.html
Wanted to add a footnote on the 3g, right from the source. Re-read some
earlier posts...
Jeff Marek, director of business client engineering for Intel, acknowledged
that the company’s Sandy Bridge” microprocessor, which was released in
2011, had “the ability to remotely kill and restore a
The link above from an opinion article published in 2008 contains many
details, a must read...
Same link here below:
http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-opinion/39455-big-brother-potentially-exists-right-now-in-our-pcs-compliments-of-intels-vpr
More on vPro. Excellent article from 2008, has quite a few specifics.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/secret-3g-intel-chip-gives-snoops-backdoor-pc-access#comment-43317
Also, Intel Anti-Theft, doesn't need vPro to work as far as I know. One of
the links has a list of ThinkPads which contain
One is tempted to think well, they would say that, wouldn't they? No one's
going to admit to this and see Government and/or military supply contracts
lost.
Military is different apparently. Go to the bottom of the compatible BIOS
list http://www.absolute.com/en/partners/bios-compatibility
ARM chips (phones, tablets, some computers) also have something similar. I
have not yet found companies supporting those features to the degree of
intel, but I haven't looked much yet either.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/some-current-free-software-friendly-hardware#comment-43157
Such as was noted by the service provider above, This technology is built
into the processor, so this will be activated even before the laptops startup
and *will work even without internet* as it is hardwired and it is completely
tamper proof.
I don't know what that means, but they have
Until recently I would have thought that publicly available code would be
best for such devices too.
This link from lembas
https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-12/bh-us-12-archives.html#Brossard makes
me wonder as the exploit described was quickly built upon coreboot. The
openness of the
MORE
Called absolute persistence technology by one of the providers, they say they
can send an SMS for immediate lock functionality.
http://www.absolute.com/en/partners/alliances/intel
With Intel Anti-Theft, Absolute customers can:
Trigger an Intel Anti-Theft lock using real-time
…highlights the ability for an administrator to shut down PCs remotely
“even if the PC is not connected to the network,” as well as the ability
to bypass hard drive encryption.
“Intel actually embedded the 3G radio chip in order to enable its Anti
Theft 3.0 technology. And since that
A year or so ago (before I bailed for good) when Google changed the way they
collect payment for Google Apps, it took 3 tech people 55 minutes to help me
find out how they could accept my credit card.
Brain implants? Not yet.
A few new things...
1.) ARM processors also have built-in system restriction features available
(DRM).
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzone.php
PDF
It's in the chip.
This video at around the 50 second mark says laptops do not have to be
connected to a network and can still be disabled remotely. How?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S4BUAm68eg
Disable lost or stolen laptops, even if the PC is not connected to the
network. (With a
Excellent! Thanks.
Well, that's bad but there are other things also. Like when timely payments
are not recieved, the car can be remotely disabled.
http://www.mattberkus.com/blog/miss-your-car-payment-car-gets-disabled/
But what if I have paid in full and now own the car? The feature may still
be there. Why
Amazing link, thanks. Hardware backdoors.
Built on top of free software (coreboot) in 4 weeks. Really, really,
really hard to detect as malicious. 230 motherboards affected. Not dependent
on an operating system. So much for free software.
Laws would be nice, except plausible deniability
Thank you everyone for those excellent points. The clarity of my definitions
are not good, too much of doing my own thing I guess. Usually I do not have
to explain things to a high degree of detail. More often I don't have to
explain things at all, because no one cares! haha.
As I've said
Privacy and security concerns became more real for more people with the
revelations of Snowden.
Security is an ongoing and ever-changing thing. Always was. There are new
exploits all the time, security is never fully achieved. Always trade offs.
Online privacy in the form of being
I've gotten that too. I have no idea what it means though.
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