Re: [liberationtech] Chaos Communication Congress
Hi, Actually this year there are some translations into other languages, including French. Not all talks will be translated into French (or Spanish, or Russian), but some are/will. axel On 27 December 2016 16:02:32 CET, Yosem Companyswrote: >From: Renata Avila Pinto via >fastafr...@lists.riseup.net > >The Chaos Communication Congress (largest non corporate gathering of >computer hackers and digital experts) starts today in Hamburg, the >program is fascinating, you can watch it online or catch up with the >talks later. > >Sadly only in English. > >https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/schedule.html > > >All the best and enjoy the holidays. > > > > >-- >Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. >Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: >https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. >Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator >at compa...@stanford.edu. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Mapping out physical surveillance across a city
On 25/06/14 19:03, Blibbet wrote: How would one map an entire city's surveillance anyway? Are the location of police cameras available? And even if they are, how does one map out all the private cameras watching? To the OP, Seattle Privacy http://seattleprivacy.org/ has a map of Seattle.gov's mesh network, at least parts of it. (didn't see this message go through, sending it again, sorry if it did go through the first time!) Hi everyone, There have been a few projects in France on this issue, the most active I know of is www.sous-surveillance.net, which has specific subdomains for each city (and pretty cool stickers): http://paris.sous-surveillance.net http://lyon.sous-surveillance.net etc. People can add cameras and different details : location, type, who operates them, etc. There is also a similar project on OpenStreetMap and quite a few cameras are in the OSM database. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:Surveillance http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/surveillance#map I think in time, the plan was to merge the sous-surveillance data with the general OSM one, but I have no idea where that plan currently stands. I also recall seeing a similar project on Berlin a while back, but I can't find it right now. One question, when you say physical surveillance, are you thinking of anything beyond surveillance cameras? Guards? One last thing, you can sometimes find the location of city/state cameras in open data programmes. It's the case for Paris. Cheers axel -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] A guide to Email Self-Defense, from the Free Software Foundation
On 06/06/14 06:36, Nick wrote: Hi Zak, Quoth Zak Rogoff: We just released this guide to GnuPG with Enigmail and are quite happy with it. Thanks to all of you who gave feedback on the draft. More is welcome :). This looks really great, good job! I haven't found a guide that's anywhere near this approachable for people scared of technology, and the infographic is also ace. One thing that confuses me is that you say your email program without, as far as I can see, mentioning that it's thunderbird specific. If people use outlook, they aren't going to get far. Download and install thunderbird if you don't already have it seems like a reasonable step 0 to me. Nick Hi, While I really like the idea and find it great to see the FSF doing this kind of work, I have to say I have a few issues with this guide. First, it tells you to “set up your email program” as if this was obvious. Might I remind you that many, many people now only know email as a webapp? Also, it tells about Thunderbird but doesn't even link to it. Why? The least we can do is tell people where to get this fancy software we're trying to get them to install on their computers. Section 3 with Adele was confusing to me. Maybe I was simply expecting the actual address to which the encrypted test email is being sent to be brought up in the first paragraph, given that I could see where this bit of the guide was going. Maybe explain “In this step, we will send a test email to a friendly robot (adele...@gnupp.de) to check encryption is working properly. This is a special step that you won't have to do when corresponding with real people.” Here in particular (and in general), I think this guide needs more newlines/carriage returns and bullet points as it makes it easier to follow the steps, ie: - In your email program's menu, go to OpenPGP → Key Management. You should see your key in the list that pops up. - Right click on your key and select Send Public Keys by Email. This will create a new draft message, as if you had just hit the Write button. - Address the message to adele...@gnupp.de. Put at least one word (whatever you want) in the subject and body of the email, then hit send. Anyway, I'll stop for now, I hope this helps. Thanks for the work! Cheers axel -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] A Digital Random Bit Generator
M Knight mknight@bitmessage.ch wrote: Sirs, Please do not automatically assume everyone on the list is male. Otherwise thanks for sharing, it looks interesting. axel I hope this information is useful - MKRAND - A Quantum Cellular Randomness Well This is an engineering beta of a non-deterministic Digital Random Bit Generator. (…)-- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
[liberationtech] From Sotchi with Love: a crypto party for journalists
Hi all, You might be interested to know that a few activists, journalists and RSF (Reporters Without Borders) are organizing a short cycle of crypto parties in Paris billed “Bons Baisers de Sotchi” (From Sotchi with Love) to help journalists protect themselves when they travel to Russia for the next Winter Olympics. http://fr.rsf.org/bons-baisers-de-sotchi-13-11-2013,45448.html The first one is planned for Saturday 23rd of November. According to the Guardian[1], “Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games”. The FSB is keen on not letting any communications escape its surveillance it seems, and so we will be attempting to share a few good practices to all those going to Sotchi who are interested. Several workshops will cover things like using VPNs, encrypting your data at rest and in transit, (attempting to) secure your smartphone (spoiler alert, it can't really be done) as well as some OpSec and general advice (travel with a clean laptop, etc.). The workshops will be in French, but I'm sure we will happilly welcome any English speakers too. I welcome any advice, criticism or warnings about these events as well as your help in sharing this news with people who need it. Take care, axel 1: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/06/russia-monitor-communications-sochi-winter-olympics -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] ChatSecure (Gibberbot!) v12 for Android is out
On 2013-10-24 12:01, Ben Laurie wrote: On 24 October 2013 08:01, Nathan of Guardian nat...@guardianproject.info wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Guardian Project’s award-winning open-source app “Gibberbot” for Android, has been rebranded to “ChatSecure” for its version 12 release, unifying the branding with the iPhone and iPad apps, while offering major updates in security from the device through the network. Can you explain why it needs these permissions: use accounts on the device find accounts on the device view configured accounts add or remove accounts ? I believe it is because ChatSecure adds its own account on the device, likely to enable linking with people in your usual address book. But I'll let Nathan answer that in more detail. :) Great stuff otherwise, congratulations to the Guardian Project! Any chance it will appear soon in the Guardian Project f-droid repo? It doesn't seem to be there now: gibberbot-latest.apk 19-Aug-2013 12:33 4.0M at https://guardianproject.info/repo/ Cheers axel -- Axel Simon -- mail/jabber/gtalk: axelsi...@axelsimon.net twitter / identi.ca: @AxelSimon -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Meet the 'cowboy' in charge of the NSA
Hi, Am I the only one for whom the page is hidden behind an annoying sign up overlay? axel Le 2013-09-09 05:12, Shava Nerad a écrit : As far as I am concerned it is not. I might have posted the link if you had not brought it to our attention. Thank you. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Noah Shachtman noah.shacht...@gmail.com [6] wrote: All: Sorry if this is considered spamming the list - if it is, it won't happen again. At Foreign Policy, we just published what I believe is the first major profile of NSA chief Keith Alexander. It is not a particularly flattering one. One scooplet among many in Shane Harris' nearly 6,000-word story: Even his fellow spies consider Keith Alexander to be a cowboy who's barely concerned with law. Anyway, take a look. Let me know what you think. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ articles/2013/09/08/the_ cowboy_of_the_nsa_keith_ alexander [1] All the best, nms -- Noah Shachtman Executive Editor for News | Foreign Policy 917-690-0716 noah.shacht...@gmail.com [2] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/author/NoahShachtman [3] encrypted phone: 415-463-4956 -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech [4]. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu [5]. -- Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com [7] Links: -- [1] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/09/08/the_cowboy_of_the_nsa_keith_alexander [2] mailto:noah.shacht...@gmail.com [3] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/author/NoahShachtman [4] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech [5] mailto:compa...@stanford.edu [6] mailto:noah.shacht...@gmail.com [7] mailto:shav...@gmail.com -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger
In TextSecure, the password unlocks the local db of encrypted SMS messages. Lose the password, lose the messages. Also, the point of TextSecure is that it uses text (SMS) messages as a transport, which often work when Internet access (or even plain phone calls) do(es)n't. axel Wasabee wasabe...@gmail.com wrote: hi thank for your answer. what is the role of the password? is it used to access the TextSecure app? is it a shared password with the recipient? On 10/07/2013 15:29, Albert López wrote: Hello Wasabee, I've used TextSecure but I found that it's like sending encrypted SMS, therefore you have the consequent cost associated to it. I don't know if Heml.is will be a kind of secure whatsapp or if it will have the same approach of TextSecure. Correct me if I'm wrong with the SMS stuff. It was what I thought once I received my bill. gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-keys EEE5A447 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xEEE5A447op=vindex Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:31:53 +0100 From: wasabe...@gmail.com To: liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - The Beautiful Secure Messenger https://whispersystems.org/ already has an open-source secure messaging, voice and more. Has anyone reviewed their code? Does anyone use it? Why not build on top of it? On 10/07/13 14:07, Nick wrote: noone said it would be closed source. That's peoples guess. Like, your guess, I guess. According to their twitter account, the answer is maybe: https://twitter.com/HemlisMessenger/statuses/354927721337470976 Peter Sunde (one of the people behind it) said eventually, but in my experience promises like that tend to be broken: https://twitter.com/brokep/status/354608029242626048 and the feature 'unlocking' aspect of the project - to be indication of a proprietary code base. Frankly I can't see how they could get the feature unlock funding stuff to work well if it's proper open source. As I'd expect people to fork it to remove such antifeatures. It's a pity, as several new funding models have been successful recently which are compatible with free software, but this doesn't look to be one of them. -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator atcompa...@stanford.edu mailto:compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings athttps://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Axel Simon mail / jabber / gtalk: axelsimon@ axelsimon.net twitter / identi.ca: @axelsimon-- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app
2013-07-12 08:54, Brian Conley: +1 On Jul 11, 2013 11:48 PM, Douglas Lucas d...@riseup.net [2] wrote: I can't wait until S̶i̶l̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶C̶i̶r̶c̶l̶e̶ Heml.is is open source! On 07/12/2013 01:29 AM, phryk wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:09:04 -0700 Brian Conley bri...@smallworldnews.tv [1] wrote: If it's not open source we aren't trusting it, so wait and see. My thought exactly. The companies involved in PRISM denied giving the feds access to their data, so why won't some guys I've never even heard of before not do the same? […] The Aljazeera post also hails it as the first secure mobile messaging system.. Did I miss something there? What about XMPP+OTR? What about Whispers' TextSecure? Another simple question is: how many of these secure apps do we need? I understand the need for diversity, really, but when we already have a bunch of different solutions (TextSecure, XMPP+OTR, mail+PGP), can't we build on something pre-existing rather than start from scratch everytime? Doesn't that add a risk of baking more homemade crypto and all the possible errors that come with that? It's obviously a hard line to tread between diversity and fragmentation, but it feels like more apps are being announced every other week. The situation gives me this feeling that this is the moment to sell your new super-privacy-enhanced app now the market is sensitive to the argument and everyone is coming out of the woods to do so. Or maybe I'm just a bit cynical today. axel Links: -- [1] mailto:bri...@smallworldnews.tv [2] mailto:d...@riseup.net -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]
On 27/06/13 01:02, Mike Perry wrote: The Doctor: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/24/2013 09:16 PM, Daniel Sieradski wrote: Has there ever been any effort to create an open source search engine that is entirely transparent in both its software and practices? (dmoz.org doesn't count!) ...YaCY? http://yacy.de/ YaCY and other FOSS engines (in a sibling thread someone mentioned another that I already forgot) are also something that I will accept search plugins for the Omnibox, but their result quality, index depth, and crawl frequency are no match for either StartPage or DDG. There's also Seeks. http://www.seeks-project.info It's “An Open Decentralized Platform for Collaborative Search, Filtering and content Curation”. From what I understand, Seeks tries to do several things at once: - Provide search results by aggregating them from different sources such as Google, Bing and other seeks nodes. To jumpstart the available results and achieve good quality, they decided the best thing to do was just to grab good results where they were, so by default nodes will ask Google for results. But more backends can and are being developed. - Keep things decentralised. The nodes share results with each other, this is the basis for the general Seeks network's crawler, if I understand correctly. - Enable users on a node to express their like or dislike for the result of a search. This means over time the node learns and will curate results for a given user. Dislikes are kept to a node while positive search results are shared between nodes to build up the general search engine's results. In terms of pure privacy, this does sound like only half a solution : if you run the node on your laptop, seeks is just querying Google for you really. But one can share a node with more people or even use a public node. There are several listed at: http://seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/List_of_Web_Seeks_nodes In this case, a public seeks node acts like a proxy for new search requests. And for requests that have already been asked, it will give answers on its own without querying external engines. There are also instruction on how to anonymize a Seeks node on the wiki. The project is really interesting, even if a little less active today than it was 18 months ago. But it works and you run it on your server. You could probably set it up as a hidden tor service too. I've cc'd Beniz, who runs the project, he probably has far smarter things to say on the question. :) Cheers axel -- Axel Simon -- mail/jabber/gtalk: axelsi...@axelsimon.net twitter / identi.ca: @AxelSimon -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] No Disconnect
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Jill, I would imagine people from the European digital rights group are attending (I'm talking here about both EDRi per se and European activists such as Bits of Freedom, Digitalle Geselschaft and La Quadrature). You should get in touch with EDRi, they have been following No Disconnect for a while. Cheers, axel - -- Axel Simon - -- mail/Jabber/Gtalk: axelsi...@axelsimon.net twitter/identi.ca: @AxelSimon Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.org wrote: Hi Jill, I'm not sure there'll be any announcement, unless you were one of the applicants who submitted a concept note in July. I don't know anything about the workshop. I'll inquire. Best, Eric http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2 PGP From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Jill Moss Sent: Wednesday, 07 November 2012 22:15 To: liberationtech Subject: Re: [liberationtech] No Disconnect Thanks Eric. I'll keep my eyes open for an announcement. As much, I wonder who may be attending the workshop later this month in Brussels? jill From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Eric S Johnson Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:04 PM To: 'liberationtech' Subject: Re: [liberationtech] No Disconnect Hi Jill, No Disconnect Strategy is the name for the EC's internet freedom grants program (mentioned by Commissioner Kroes at the December 2011 Freedom Online conference in Den Haag). This summer the invitation to submit concept notes was issued in June, deadline mid-July. The EUR3M invitation was lot three of the more-or-less annual EIDHR call for proposals. If I had to guess, I would suppose the ratio will be something like it was for DRL-~30% of the concept notes are invited to submit full proposals, and ~30% of those get funded. I think the first cut will be announced shortly. Best, Eric http://keyserver.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0xE0F58E0F1AF7E6F2 PGP From: liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu [mailto:liberationtech-boun...@lists.stanford.edu] On Behalf Of Jill Moss Sent: Wednesday, 07 November 2012 19:36 To: Liberation Technologies Subject: [liberationtech] No Disconnect All: Anyone have information about the EU initiative, No Disconnect? http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/06/european_capability_for_s ituation_awareness_program_to_monitor_internet.html -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: APG v1.0.8 iQJCBAEBCgAsBQJQmrOMJRxBeGVsIFNpbW9uIDxheGVsc2ltb25AYXhlbHNpbW9u Lm5ldD4ACgkQ94LtC1k/WHaEwg/+K/qL08lyOuEad9Qv6+muaqAV4QIS4bPJhcJR sFXzsZdDDWv+zNftzAI05qONgiUcWS0bOQt1QVkDOHd5mdGu5QJDunNizxEiNwTo rRKV+I0jKcbfknA+kHM0iKb6rqKhwTct/JW1cT1CHn3CVkovrFi5K8MpgbOttN/I 1FSBL/e8MX/E4GGRqv16heHGGu3uOsckhEAKVlQW3+XbZg4KNa9Iet4OSeNayew4 2vHrSNHRxMBqy+CSFYr06uBDgKZoxdrbtjzsHxoeLkPAQRP+gxQEy6EUlLroXPDb G8yi23czxGMsYh1DX54SYrw49jPU3udXk59veB4nAfaSq494cQZslF1ix5tXmAZh VV2DxFkKc/eKzKe6xAvX/bTJzZLvV5uD6uw779ZZwu4liUB2HucdpOpf1aH/JCh+ Du+aH/1tLuq8O7vReDw3GGHF3QYpSRiDdzC2Cnjyx5Nb9u+wLS13jp+/gpEWjlQn jmfYlhwj1PcUJNxKnEfZdiKTEC4nf7x3nek9d7UcbMt2pE1qP8Dlwh2KyjwdHdra MJwS6I23H/jekCPOe2iDV8dY7hjRJdGTznWfImFUoel2XEm1bGn3Vcdk1xMBfMj4 +WVL/KUKR4mIgs94F7/yab/jLRh8XcGkyqGxpA1bdMVC8cCikKUMMOAPEQ7ijtrC d5zR4xg= =Tui6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech