[liberationtech] CfP: Being Muslim in the Age of Facebook, Twitter & YouTube (Symposium Leuven, April 18-19 2013)

2013-01-27 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Katrien Pype “Being a Muslim in the Age of Facebook, Youtube and Twitter. Anthropological Reflections on Media and Religion in Bamako, Cairo and Dar-Es-Salam” Symposium, April 18-19th, 2013, KU Leuven With Kelly Askew (UMichigan) Charles Hirschkind (UCBerkeley) Dorothea Schulz (University

Re: [liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-01-27 Thread Joseph Mornin
Apple publishes a security configuration guide for OS X: https://ssl.apple.com/support/security/guides/ The NSA also publishes hardening tips: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/factsheets/macosx_10_6_hardeningtips.pdf Cheers, Joe -- Joseph Mornin http://www.mornin.org/ On 1/27/13 4:52 PM, sam de

[liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-01-27 Thread sam de silva
Hi there, Are there any guides that tell me how to make a new computer secure, for both use and connecting and communicating via the net? My set up is as follows: - Macbook Pro, running Mac OS 10.6.8 My requirements are as follows: - I am almost always connected to the net, and need fast acce

[liberationtech] Whonix ALPHA 0.4.5 - Anonymous Operating System

2013-01-27 Thread adrelanos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi everyone, Whonix hasn't been mentioned or discussed on this list. It looks like a great list, providing lots of feedback and discussion. Therefore I re-post an updated version of the original release announcement. Whonix (called TorBOX or aos in

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2013-01-27 Thread Ralph Holz
Hi, > But now that I think, fidonet would also be easy for spam. Or (about > my first idea) attacker could make many mails with huge attachments > to destroy efficiency. I don't know SplinterNet - but good old FIDO was not spam-ridden. You had to have BBS access to post to groups or send PMs - an

Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 02:03:37AM -0800, Brad Beckett wrote: > Mega needs an optional Chrome and Firefox plugin -- what Crypto.cat did, > but it could be optional. > > They also need a desktop client like Dropbox so I can encrypt my files > automatically prior to uploading. No. What they, and e

Re: [liberationtech] Android and iOS security document

2013-01-27 Thread Amin Sabeti
Thanks a lot. Please keep me updated if you find the new resources. Cheers, A On 25 January 2013 19:15, Cooper Quintin wrote: > Hi Amin, > I did a presentation on mobile device security a while ago. IT mostly > focuses on Android, but there is some IOS stuff in there as well. I > have been c

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2013-01-27 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On 01/27/2013 04:48 PM, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote: > Who have tried SplinterNet? It sounds like very strong activist tool and > maybe works like as described. Unfortunately, it hasn't been touched in a year. Not a good sign. I think the idea is sound (using personal/local area network communications t

Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-27 Thread Brad Beckett
Yes exactly what I was thinking, but MegaUpload needs to come up with Mac, PC, and Linuxdesktop clients -- stat. On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 2:20 AM, scarp wrote: > Randolph D.: > > *www.cloudfogger.com* > > > > or: http://retroshare.sf.net > > > > 2013/1/27 Brad Beckett > > > >> Mega needs > >> >

Re: [liberationtech] [HacDC:Byzantium] Request from a Researcher

2013-01-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from The Doctor - From: The Doctor Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:08:00 -0500 To: byzant...@hacdc.org Subject: Re: [HacDC:Byzantium] Request from a Researcher Reply-To: byzant...@hacdc.org Organization: Virtual Adept Networks, Unlimited User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux

Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-27 Thread scarp
Randolph D.: > *www.cloudfogger.com* > > or: http://retroshare.sf.net > > 2013/1/27 Brad Beckett > >> Mega needs >> >> They also need a desktop client like Dropbox so I can encrypt my files >> automatically prior to uploading. >> I believe Cyphertite will encrypt your files prior to uploading.

[liberationtech] Reminder: ESA 2013 RN18 Call: "Communication, Crisis, Critique and Change"

2013-01-27 Thread Christian Fuchs
http://esa11thconference.eu/call-for-papers/research-networks/RN18 Deadline: FEBRUARY 1st European Sociological Association 2013 Conference "Communication, Crisis and Change" University of Torino, Italy August 28-31, 2013 The ESA 2013 conference asks the overall questions: What is behind the cr

Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-27 Thread Brad Beckett
Mega needs an optional Chrome and Firefox plugin -- what Crypto.cat did, but it could be optional. They also need a desktop client like Dropbox so I can encrypt my files automatically prior to uploading. On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote: > More danger with Mega because more

Re: [liberationtech] Mega

2013-01-27 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
More danger with Mega because more users. A hot subject means security researcher also get noticed by bloggers and newspaper :-) -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu On Jan 21, 2013, at 11:52 PM, micah anderson wrote: > I've always wondered why something like Mega gets a lot of attention and

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2013-01-27 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
Also is easy for spam :( But now that I think, fidonet would also be easy for spam. Or (about my first idea) attacker could make many mails with huge attachments to destroy efficiency. -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu On Jan 6, 2013, at 10:57 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > I'll second this.

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2013-01-27 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
Who have tried SplinterNet? It sounds like very strong activist tool and maybe works like as described. https://github.com/megamattron/SplinterNet#readme -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinf