Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-22 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 07/21/2011 02:22 PM, berta...@ptitcanardnoir.org wrote: I'm currently drafting a way to handle this registration though some monkeysphere alike gnupg signature : https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/2284. That's awesome. I think you're right that the authentication mechanism is the biggest

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-21 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 07/21/2011 12:32 PM, Wookey wrote: +++ Abhishek Dasgupta [2011-07-20 20:52 +0530]: On 20 July 2011 19:14, berta...@ptitcanardnoir.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:46:38AM -0400, James Vasile wrote: [...] Dynamic DNS run by a freedom loving group sounds great. I'd use it. Why not

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communication between Freedomboxes

2011-07-02 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 07/02/2011 11:22 AM, Marc Manthey wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Lukas Nagl wrote: There are various ways to do this. Some centralized, some decentralized, some require people meeting each other and some don't. What possibilities do you see, and what do you propose? an idea.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox threat model

2011-07-01 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/30/2011 01:27 PM, Mike Warren wrote: I think one of the gold nuggets of information is the social graph itself: who you know and how much you communicate with these people, which is quite valuable even if the contents are encrypted. So, it would seem to make sense to me to use Tor for

[Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox threat model

2011-06-28 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/28/2011 08:55 AM, berta...@ptitcanardnoir.org wrote: First, there is no real central logging, no unique big brother that the freedombox might want to defeat, but a lot of different (from size to content) logging databases out there, maintained by a lot of different actors. . . .

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox threat model

2011-06-28 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/28/2011 12:44 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 06/28/2011 12:23 PM, i...@churchkey.org wrote: There is a scale, it goes from the worse case scenario where everyone you interact with online knows everything else you do online, to the best case scenario, where no one you interact

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Lessons from a FreedomBox alternative - Tonido

2011-06-27 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/27/2011 06:15 AM, Bob Mottram wrote: For an initial release trying to replace routers may not be the best option. In my experience routers are often supplied pre-configured by the ISP, and replacing that with a freedombox could result in many problems, because there are a wide diversity

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 'bump/hi-five' challenge

2011-06-25 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/25/2011 06:49 AM, berta...@ptitcanardnoir.org wrote: Still even without encryption, having just a QR code image, and not the key itself stored on the phone might be enough to be able to deny being the owner of this identity. OTOH it would at least be a proof that you did at some point

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] public certifications and petnames [was: Re: FreedomBox 'bump/hi-five' challenge]

2011-06-24 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/24/2011 03:58 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 06/24/2011 04:25 AM, John Gilmore wrote: Not automatically tying a key to a self-claimed identity, nor a government-issued identity, nor even a photo, will help freedom fighters stay free when the government grabs somebody and tries to

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 'bump/hi-five' challenge

2011-06-24 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 06/24/2011 05:25 PM, Erik Harmon wrote: Color coding keys is good, but even the presence of a particular public key on one's keyring could be incriminating or suspicious. Even if the same person wants to do secret and casual communication, it's probably a good idea to more strongly

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Sharebox and tools for generating FreedomBox images

2011-05-31 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 05/30/2011 02:20 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: Back in August, I outlined a series of milestones for FreedomBox development, labeled alpha 0, 1, 2, etc. The purpose of alpha 0 was to find or develop a set of tools to generate system (disk) images, which seems to me an essential step. Hi

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Harddrive + Excito B3

2011-05-09 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 05/09/2011 02:40 PM, The Doctor wrote: The utility would have to ensure that any running processes which kept files open (like a database server) would be shut down prior to the backup run, and then started back up when it was complete. Would this be a useful place for something like LVM

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedom out of the box

2011-04-19 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 04/18/2011 04:22 AM, Christian Staudt wrote: freedom out of the box It's hard for me to imagine that nobody else has already thought of this as a motto/tagline/subtitle for the project. But I like it, and now that the discussion revolves about logos, design identity, and t-shirt designs,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] distributed DNS

2011-03-15 Thread i...@churchkey.org
On 03/15/2011 09:45 AM, Bjarni RĂșnar Einarsson wrote: Again, what problem are you trying to solve? I am going to assume you aren't being anti-business just for the sake of being anti-business. :-) I've wondered about running our own dynamic DNS system for a while and I think there are

[Freedombox-discuss] Video from Eben's Keynote on the 25th

2011-03-07 Thread i...@churchkey.org
For those of you who have been waiting to see Eben's speech at Columbia's Navigating the Age of Democratized Media conference from two weeks ago, video is finally available and posted on the Internet Archive: