Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread nathan nolast
i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.netwrote: On 07/06/2011 02:43 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: Obviously a keysigning party is not appropriate for people who want to be anonymous. But

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Updated home page

2011-07-07 Thread Robert Martinez
On 07/07/2011 02:46 AM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: BTW, if there is a way to include subtitles in html5 let me know. i never used it, but it may interest you http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/ Feedback and code appreciated http://freedomboxfoundation.org /stef adding a poster image

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Updated home page

2011-07-07 Thread John Walsh
s.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli Feedback and code appreciated http://freedomboxfoundation.org /stef I have to scroll horizontally to see the home page on my netbook :( ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/07/2011 02:41 AM, nathan nolast wrote: i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use I agree that current keysigning methods are cumbersome, primarily due to the requirement that human beings have to cognitively process long hexadecimal strings (large numbers). I recommend reviewing the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communicationbetween Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
Hello all! On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:39 AM, John Walsh fiftyf...@waldevin.com wrote: I just realised that the FreedomBox Foundation will have to offer a centralised DynamicDNS service for those FreedomBox users with an ISP provided Dynamic IP address. I am a user, but is this a reasonable

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Updated home page

2011-07-07 Thread Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Stefano Maffulli stef...@maffulli.netwrote: On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:20 +0200, Robert Martinez wrote: adding a poster image attribute to the html5 video on the front page would be great. I added the poster image and the universalsubtitles. I can't find a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communication between Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/07/2011 12:43 PM, i...@churchkey.org wrote: If the Dynamic DNS based public directory I proposed is particularly troubling to you, perhaps we could focus on how that is different from DNS itself, the gpg keyservers OpenPGP keyservers have no authority in and of themselves; the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communication between Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Marc Manthey
On Jul 7, 2011, at 6:43 PM, i...@churchkey.org wrote: On 07/07/2011 11:39 AM, Ted Smith wrote: As such, I don't see why a fully distributed system, where each node detects spam and does not relay it, wouldn't suffice in any case. There is no reason for the power of deciding which messages

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communicationbetween Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/07/2011 01:27 PM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: Contrasting this with the GPG/keyserver idea, I'd like to point out that DNS is already a highly distributed scalable system with a global selection of providers already in place. The keyservers are relatively centralized and fragile by

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2011 02:43 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: anonymous. But I don't see why, if you've verified a claimed identity in some other reasonable sense you cannot sign someone's key even if its pseudonymous. You can sign a pseudanonymous key and

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communicationbetween Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread bertagaz
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:43:06PM +, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.netwrote: OpenPGP keyservers act as a gossiping cloud -- no one keyserver is the most up-to-date at any point. The only way that they're

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/07/2011 02:36 PM, The Doctor wrote: You can sign a pseudanonymous key and publish it. What you have to be cognizant of, however, is the trust level of the pseudanonymous key (set when the public key is signed), which ranges from 0 (no trust at all) to 5 (trust fully). Urgh, this is not

[Freedombox-discuss] Open Internet Meetup

2011-07-07 Thread James Vasile
Hey NYC FreedomBoxers, Shane Reustle is organizing an Open Internet meetup next Thursday the 14th. 7pm in the North East corner of Bryant Park. See you there! http://www.meetup.com/openinternet/ ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communicationbetween Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Marc Manthey
On Jul 8, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 07/07/2011 05:34 PM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: Those seizures all took place on .com/.net/... domains, right? I don't think the Americans have had the audacity to go after domains under TLDs nominally belonging to foreign

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communicationbetween Freedomboxes

2011-07-07 Thread Clint Adams
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 02:33:37PM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: Is Tor centralized this way? The Tor directory authorities are centralized, but the effect of compromising a DNS root server is probably worse than compromising a Tor directory authority. If all the Tor directory authorities are

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, nathan nolast nathan1...@gmail.com wrote: i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . Is it enough if people just sign their grandmas' keys? ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread John Walsh
Hi Mike and Everybody Friendika was mentioned in this thread but in a different context, so I wanted to point out what we do for profile personas. There may be some ideas you can use. It's a distributed system, but has multiple profiles. You can tailor any profile for any person or