Well, pretty much what everyone has said.
You can wait for Jabber.org to have their servers back online.
You can become a member of Trisquel which will give you (among other things)
an XMPP account.
You can use Riseup.
YOu can use lavabit and have both email and xmpp.
From my personal
Hey everyone.
Great, a Tor discussion =D my favorite topic lol.
So, I will jump the basic stuff, you probably know about that already and if
you don't you can take a look at the tor project homepage (or just send me an
email and I will help if needed).
Fisrt, you are FINE running the tor
Well, Facebook is not the devil, but it certainly does his work. lol
1. They sell your data to advertising companies. (not really so bad)
2. They use the tag feature to collect face data, so they can create a face
recognition spyware. (ok, this one is bad...)
3. They were connected to the
I have been trying to find websites where you can watch videos using html5
AND webm.
I know Trisquel's Abrowser supports html5 in other formats, and I also know
that using viewtube and such addons, we can watch videos on virtually any
website, but:
1. H264, MP3, MOV, and other video
hum that is actually a very important question. I don't have any answer
but I also want to know that.
One of the reasons (maybe the main reason) I chose trisquel was because I
wanted to use a system that would respect me as a user (don't give my
personal info away for example!). It could
Well, it all depends on WHY one uses Trisquel. Some people actually want to
follow the latest fashions and have social networking, apps integrated that
know everything about them, all the whistles and bells, they just want to do
that with free software. For those people there is nothing
THANKS!! =D This is the same as I used to have in TAILS. Sweet.
Too bad I can't make the program run, lol, but I am sure I will get around
that in time xD
HUm it surely looks promising, but as I said in another thread, we should
try to get rid of patented/proprietary/obfuscated stuff on the web. Instead
of trying to promote the use of Adobe Flash files just because we can now
load them, we should promote the move to html5/webm/whatever
Sorry, I can't get it to work. The only thing it did at least for now, was
taking a snapshot of the window I was at.
Could you please try to run it in your Trisquel and tell me if you did so
successfully? THANKS
Yes, another reason adding to the 3 reasons I already gave.
So, for example, I have been testing how much I can use the web without
flash, gnash, etclash. and without any addons on the browser. Just good html5
running native. It's very very smooth. Of course, with Tor Broswer it's not
the
HUm Ok, I realize I had the wrong term there, those formats are patented
no proprietary. I know Trisquel uses free software to play mp3.
HOWEVER: due to patents on software formats/codecs, I still believe we should
use open/free formats/codecs instead of patented ones. Why?
1. You want a
Thanks for all the explanations.
Truth is, I am not saying that GIMP has malicious features built in. I just
thought that it might have a feature (not an evil one) of saving some kind of
metadata into the files that it exported (including geolocation). Which is
why I want to use MAT (it
Thanks for taking the time to read my introduction post =)
Like I said, I have a very personal and different opinion, and yes, it
sometimes is a little bit contradictory. Or at least some people think
so, I belive it is not.
Mainly, I am not against producing proprietary software, because
Ok, first... I won't get into an argument with you. I never said I was clever
than anyone else, so that could be avoided, don't you think? My opinion is
personal because it came from my personal experiences, I never said it was
better. Not that I was hoping people to understand, but at least
I had read that article before but had forgotten about it to be honest. So
thanks for bringing that to the table.
My opinion is this: if the javascript (or some other stuff, but for now lets
focus on javascript) is not obfuscated, it can be analyzed and it is proven
to respect the user AS
Hello.
I agree with you that security should be a top priority. And I believe
Trisquel already has a good security measure: only free software =)
However, I agree with you that SOME minor things could be improved. One other
would be to have ufw installed by default. NOw, I have read some
Ok, thanks for the clarification =)
As I said, I don't think either GIMP or Trisquel are doing anything
suspicious, but I am willing to give up some geographic relevant
information in order to make sure no one is able to locate my computer by
using, for example, a Weather aplication. So I
I might be wrong but I think it's Extended Support Release. ESR are the
releases that Tor Project uses for their browser, so I would assume it has
some security advantage.
I can give you the reasons that brought me here.
Security, Privacy, Freedom, Usability. In that order.
Usablitiy shouldn't be the first concern when you are using a computer.
Because, windows is very convinient, it does a lot of things out of the box
that we like it to do But it has
Startpage is actually better, but duckduckgo is also very good in some
points.
My advice: use Tor Browser, and you can even use duckduckgo as a hidden
service, which will probably keep you private enough.
Any other way, they can still know it is you, and the browser itself gives
away what OS
First things first:
I am first a USER. And as a USER, the software must respect me as a USER! Not
every USER wants or needs or even knows HOW TO CHANGE A SOFTWARE. But the
USER knows that he does not want malicious features on the software that he
is running. The USER knows that he does
Thanks dadix!!! =D
This could also be used when you just want to block all javascript. Sweet...
^_^
onpon4 is right although. It's about javascript and not java.
No I am saying the opposite exactly. This car is secure because it has
brakes, every car has those, now we can make it more secure adding airbags.
I consider that security is a matter that affects all layers of computer. I
would be using a computer if Free BIOS if I could right now, for
Let's be clear here: I TOTALLY DISAGREE WITH WHAT NSA DID!
Just to make sure you understand. That is why I won't allow them to take
people freedom away by spying on people. Same way, I won't take people
freedom away by forbiding them of using proprietary software. I will let them
know that
Hey there.
I have been experimenting with Tor for quite some time now, and I have read
and watched a lot of presentations by the Tor team.
Some information you might find useful:
1. Viewtube won't work (viewtube loads plugins from your OS, that could not
respect your proxy settings, so Tor
I have considered closing some ports on ufw firewall to prevent those
documents from connecting to an external server. Do you happen to know which
ports could be used by those? And also, would it work, closing the ports?
Thanks! So kind of you.
Yep, I don't want to turn fried fish, eheh.
Let me tell you a story
Its about a man, a young man, full of potential, one of the most intelligent
men in the world. He is a part of a small group of programmers, people who
like to create programs and share them with each other. They use a system
called UNIX. UNIX is a free system,
HUm, not sure what happens with you, but when I try to use Tor Broswer
(firefox) it does so without any problems.
Thanks man ;)
No problem with the linking, but, where is the link? I don't see it, so I
can't go to your blog. Sorry.
Also, as for films and music... Let me be clear, I don't see it as a wrong
or bad thing, to go to the cinema or rent a movie in DVD. But given my poor
financial situation,
I know you can use that. However, since you still have the plugin installed,
I am not sure if you won't get flash super cookies anyway, even blocking
flash from playing.
And really, my intention was to try and use Abrowser only with HTML5, no
plugin intervention. So far, I was pretty happy
Well, as I have stated in another post, I don't support the illegal
sharing/piracy of any kind of product. There are many wrong laws, and they
should of course be changed, but attacking and disrespecting the laws that
still protect people is not the best way.
One interesting story happened
Hello all.
Well, like I said in another thread, I don't support the use of piracy
(illegal sharing whatever, it's piracy for me).
So, and seeing as I love to watch a good film, I sometimes watch Public
Domain (internet archive is a invaluable help in this one!), keep an eye out
for
Dear quantumgravity,
I was already missing your negative attitude in response to my comments!
If you had taken the time to read my story post on the thread can someone
give me a compelling reason to use only free software, maybe I wouldn't have
to explain to you the same thing AGAIN
hum I am not sure, but I think youtube will only give access to the webm
file if you access through html5 player.
If you use viewtube script you can actually download and watch webm file.
quantumgravity
1. You are an asshole. Yes, you are. You have been putting me down ever since
I arrived, always distorting things, and you don't even understand basic
concepts like theft. And you are over sensitive, CAPITALS don't always mean
screaming, they might mean EMPHASIZING.
2. I
Hello =)
I am really pleased to read your post =)
I don't know if you like watching amateur films too (they are not licensed
under CC, but they uploaded on youtube by the makers, so, they probably don't
even know they should license it), but here are some links:
Yes, the sea is a pretty safe place compared to the internet, where when you
least expect, someone suggests that illegal uploading and downloading of
software/musics/songs/books, is ok and we should call it sharing.
Want to share? Create something, license it and share it. Bought a DVD or a
Funny, quantumgravity has been acting like an asshole towards me ever since I
arrived. Did you tell him to stop?
That's what I thought.
I like to use words that better convey the meaning of things. Piracy is a
word that nowadays conveys the illegal sharing of something on the internet.
So
Sharing is good, yes. But sharing is when you pick something that's yours,
and give it to someone else. When you pick what is not yours, and use it/give
it to someone else/sell it, you are stealing.
You can play around with the words, but the truth remains the same.
Also, as stated here
Hello friend. Sorry to ask again, but I would like to have the link you
mentioned, for your blog I would love to read what you write on piracy
and CC.
Unfortunately you were one of the few persons who understood the concepts I
was trying to convey. Some people actually have the guts to
PPA is dangerous because you are installing whatever the person who manages
the PPA puts there for you to install. You can't be sure if the software you
are installing is trustworthy, because it's as if you were installing a
binary instead of compiling from source.
OpenShot for example has a
I would like to share (and have other people sharing) content websites that
are built from the efforts of its users/members. Websites that provide what
they provide because the community behind them constantly work to make that a
reality. If possible only websites that use free licenses (so
Hello.
I agree with you that there are many grey areas. And I agree that laws should
change (Public Domain for example, companies try to extend copyrights for too
long, so works don't get into Public Domain). But, I think that if we want a
better system, we should work towards that new
Thanks for the link. I didn't understood that you had published the text on
the blog, now I got it :P
I feel honored that you did this. THANKS =')
As for your the favor I agree with you. Flamewars will never help anyone.
But the truth is, if I can barely take that people support piracy
Yes, it's very difficult. Where I live in, people think there is only
facebook, and refuse to try anything else.
I don't like the concept of social network, but for those who do, it's
important to build alternatives.
I forgot to mention one that I have been using for many years now.
http://www.fanfiction.net/ (original and fan based books, but be careful that
these are not free for commercial use)
For people who like to read, you can CERTAINLY find something on the this
that will suit your tastes =)
Thanks. It's good to see that so much time typing actually helped someone to
get it. If what we want is to share, and if we dislike the current system of
entertainment, then we should share and support those who think like us :)
Also, thanks for the link, I had never heard of Libre.fm, but
I hope you are right, but I am afraid that people who only respect licenses
and freedoms when they are using software, totally disrespecting it when it
comes to music books and movies, might not be very helpful. But again, I hope
you are right (even if hard to believe), because free culture
(why does Trisquel sometimes deletes my comment instead of posting it??)
For the last time, words meanings CHANGE over time. Piracy is a term that
for the last few years has been used to mention illegal sharing of
intelectual/copyrighted property. I will keep using the term because it's
There resides the problem, you believe that sharing is good not matter what
you are sharing. But, if you are sharing something that has a license
that says You are forbid to share me, you are not sharing, you are
illegaly sharing which is no sharing at all, it's a break of the law, and
Just be careful, while viewtube works great, you must be careful if you are
using some anonymity software, because it might expose you. Tor for example
won't even run viewtube, it prevents the browser from loading external
plugins, to make sure you don't lose anonymity.
f you are comfortable
Thanks lembas =)
I didn't know about libregamewiki. It looks really good, and a website one
must have for those who say linux is not for gamers. Although, I would have
to start by teaching them about GNU, not linux ;)
Also, someone told me about hppt://libre.fm which is a good music
Exactly! If we don't care about copyright and disobey it, we will do more
harm than good, because we will break the power of GPL and CC and other free
licenses.
We want changes in copyright laws and Public Domain laws, and we want more
freedom to share We have to fight for those
Like I said, if you want to share, share something that has a license that
says share me. If you share something which has a license that says don't
share me, you are not sharing, you are pirating. And by doing so, you
attack GPL, CC, and other free licenses.
As for the last part, yes, you
It is right. Illegal (today) but right. People should be free to
non-commercially share books. There exist ethical ways to raise money. As I
explained in a previous post, a tax on Internet connections would be fine.
You are no one to decide such things. And clearly you are not thinking
I applaud those artists and I think we should promote and support them.
People who make content available for a larger number of people than just
those who can pay are the people who will build a better future.
So, I believe you will agree with me that we should share those artists
musics
I have not read a lot of that website, but I will tell you this: Free/open
movements have been poisoned by piracy ideas. So, we can't really trust
everything that has a free badge on it's jacket.
Having said that, and as you can read above, I believe that if people can
find a system that
Dude... I almost cry right now Your comment is an inspiration. I
don't know what are your thoughts on piracy and sharing and all of
that... But when I read you comment, I saw the kind of world I want to live
in!
You listen to good music, which is shared by the creators themselves,
You say that everyone should do as they think is right? Well, I agree to a
certain extent, if I think something is right I should be free to express my
idea and maybe even fight to change the law so that what I believe to be
right becomes legal.
But we must also accept that we can't let
We brought DRMs on ourselves when we thought we could keep pirating stuff.
Lucky me, I quit that line of thought years and years ago. You should too.
Next time DRM and laws like SOPA and PIPA might not be so easily destroyed.
I disagree with DRMs, but if I was in their position, I would
I don't want to sound preachy but just as a side note, the fact that a
music is in youtube does not mean it's free. Actually, sometimes youtube is
forced to delete some videos because they have a non authorized soundtrack
and someone noticed it.
If possible, for your own protection, just
Wow amazing *.* never knew this site existed. It really is THE database
for the internet. It's what the internet should look like *.*
All the free content could probably be accesses through those links.
Thanks Arrow. I don't know how one can be pro piracy when he has this
website... So
Dude... you have over 1 million movies in the Internet Archive (from old
silent comedies to animated movies in 4k like Sintel) and you need to watch
pirate movies? -.- you don't know what you are missing, you should spend more
time at the Archive, you would probably find things in there that
Nope, never heard of. Who/what is he/she/it?
Thank you so much! Very good comment and very informative!
Lol, the funny part is that I had actually watched her a few times on youtube
and had NO IDEA who she was xD
Anyway, I wonder... why did Hawk asked me if I had ever heard of her? Lol,
she seems to be type of girl who all nerds try to
Yes, you are right.
However, I am not sure if viewtube loads some external plugin automatically
(before you chose another option, like HTML5). Also, adding addons to a
browser like Tor Browser, makes it easier to identify you.
I was just talking in terms of security and privacy, as for the
They charge 210 dollars for a non profit organization to register with them
and yet they demand another 45 dollars for the room?
That's... a little too much I think =S
Well, it's always good to be upfront with people: what is supposed to be
like, in each get together of the club. If you
Well, this is indeed a very important issue, and we should all look at it as
a priority.
I don't have Java installed (any kind of it, free or not), and I don't have
flash either (gnash or flash or whatever). And for people who don't need
them, I would suggest you uninstall them.
Another
Hello all.
So, I was thinking, since Trisquel is installed without UFW, and because UFW
always says it's not verified or something when trying to install (even if
it does, the warning causes me to think if everything is alright), I have
came to think, how can I close ports without UFW
Hooray! That's great news!
Trisquel is once again keeping up with the needs of the users. Still the best
operating system that I could use right now ;)
Unfortunately no. I tested the ports condition and there were a couple of
them opened (22 and a couple of others). Like, OPENED! In the RED! That just
made me angry ya know, because all my ISP has to do is just have a bot
waiting ffor any connection to happen and attack those ports.
I have
While I don't agree with everything vPro said, I would agree that you should
avoid that new Intel technology. VPRO is a backdoor at the hardware level,
you can't trust it.
Please, calm down C'mon man, breath slowly That's good...
Now that you are at peace with the universe, please, explain, what is the
matter with those two ports you mentioned? If it is VPRO technology, my
computer has no such thing.
Could you please explain in more detail please?
I guess one solution would be to stick with older machines for as long as
possible. If you can, avoid laptops, and use a tower with free software only
friend hardware.
It's not perfect but is a solution.
As for laptops, if you can get one from a trusted friend (someone who you
know didn't
Hushmail has admitted to providing information to governments before.
You have some alternatives, and while none is perfect, you should analyze
each one carefully, one will serve you well.
1. Setup your own mail server. Not easy to do, but not impossible. You will
spend more electricity but
Could you please explain in more detail how does that happen (the 3g thing).
Maybe provide some links. I would like to know more about that.
Unless you are refering to TEMPEST attacks, which are dangerous but don't
work the way you mentioned. Are you talking about TEMPEST attacks?
I totally agree with you, and I forgot to mention yeeloong. But as far as I
know, yeeloong won't run trisquel. =S
What are those nanonote?
No unfortunately I don't use a router. But still, yes, deactivating the
service is one way to do it, BUT i guess the port itself remains open.
Someone suggested to me to use Firestarter, well that's like using UFW or
GUFW, all the same thing. I can use both GUI and terminal commands, however,
I went to read about Nano, it seems interesting, but yes, still can't think
of a use for it. Maybe soon I hope.
As for the Yeeloong, I don't really think I would change from Trisquel to
GNewSense. Just no comparison. Trisquel is more or less updated, it has a
solid users community, I
Some extra thoughts:
1. delete an email once you read it. Download if you want to keep it, but
delete. It won't protect you against the SERVER but it will protect you
against SOMEONE who gets access to you email account (no past messages for
him to read).
2. If you send and receive
Hey, he actually picked the right name for himself vPro, a pain in the back,
no matter if it's a user or a technology. xD
Well, I have to agree. Unless you use some specific websites that need flash
AND work with gnash/lightspark, it makes no sense to have it installed.
More and more websites work with html5 these days, and html5 has not shown
(yet) to be half a pain in terms of security/privacy issues as flash.
Not phoning home? A friend in my book :P But honestly, if I wanted a music
player and a calculator... I would buy a music player and a calculator :P
As for gnewsense, well, their latest stable was 2009 and ever since they
released 2 betas... Not what I call a solid development and support.
First, thank you very much for your comments. Much appreciated =)
However, I fail to see how copying /home/ directory would help me... I am not
afraid people taking a look at my files (the first thing i do is install
firewall, so there are still no files there), I worry about an attack that
You suggest I download the .deb file of ufw (from debian for example) and use
it to install, is that it?
I thought of that, but it seems ufw has dependencies, and even if I was to
install those dependencies deb files too, they TOO have dependencies
themselves.
I think the only way to install
Well, Evolution is as much safe as any other... You still have the passwords
and emails stored in your system in a way that they can be compromised. But,
evolution is not a bad choice of course.
Actually, I appreciate the way Trisquel comes prepared for social
interaction on the web. If I
Thank you very much for your help.
I will maybe try doing that, downloading all the deb files needed. Do you
have any idea which ones I would have to download (meaning ones that are not
already installed in Trisquel) ?
I wouldn't think that was the reason, I remember reading an old thread
Html5 is still way better than flash ;)
Flash is unsecure and a real pain in the back. Html5 sometimes loads non
free javascript as in license. The actual code is not obfuscated in any way,
so I don't really think of that as such a bad thing.
I just think it's stupid that so many websites
Thanks for the link!
From what I read, the beagle board can actually use a free bios and can
work without proprietary drivers except for 3d acceleration. Let's face it,
it's the same problem we have in most laptops (graphics cards usually won't
have free drivers providing 3d acceleration)
Agreed Lembas.
As if Unity was not bad enough, now they spy on us... xD
Thanks Lembas. But, I know that I need to install that and I know how to dot
it. It's just that in order to keep my system safe I don't go around
installing anything just because some website says me trust me, install this
and dive in!
But yeah, If I need to actually take a look at
Lol, yeah, I was just making a joke :P
Already explained the certificate thing in above comment, and as for the last
statement =( damn! I was really getting excited (thinking that if Ubuntu
ran there, Trisquel would run too) and now, it all comes down to this.
Hum well, I will hardly
Thanks for the reply and man I am so sorry you have to put up with UEFI
=S
Hope you recover fast and can ever speak again =S
Ok, jokes aside, thanks for the link ;)
I don't think I will venture myself into installing all of that on my own =S
I would get mad before I ended and would
HUm, I never actually tried it, but in theory, it should. Because if you have
noscript set to block ALL javascript, then it should block your own scripts.
Problem is, when you use flash/gnash/lightspark/whatever_flash_plugin, you
are actually activating the flash on the website. It might not
Linux as you probably know has blobs, parts that are not free and their
source code not available.
Linux-libre projects usually clean those out. Trisquel uses a linux-libre
maintained by Ruben I believe, which is not always as much up to date as we
would like.
jxself kernel is one kernel
Thanks for the clarification. Never tried that myself.
Yes, it's really a broken system by this point.
There are two alternatives to someone who wants to be a little bit safer:
1. Use something like Web of Trust. At least you have the power of community
to back you up.
2. Test the site fingerprint manually in
It means that Noscript will block all javascript, making it almost impossible
to use the web with it turned on (you have to click in a few dozen
permissions for some websites to run). So, yeah, it's annoying. BUT it
protects you. So it's a very good friend.
Actually, when using the Tor
Agreed!
If Abrowser should come with noscript, it should be in allow all mode, so
that it would only protect against cross-site attacks and such.
Now, of course, as I have said before in the forum, I don't have gnash or
anything running, I prefer to use the bare minimum, but it was my
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