Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-20 Thread micah anderson
Maxim Kammerer m...@dee.su writes: I have sent a patch to the author of HTPdate, and he wrote back that a “Debian security administrator” already went over the code with him line-by-line. There is no such thing as a Debian security administrator, and HTPdate is not in Debian, so I'm not sure

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-20 Thread micah anderson
danimoth danim...@cryptolab.net writes: On 20/02/13 at 10:49am, micah anderson wrote: Developers never made a mistake leading to a security problem, so Debian's one mistake in 2006 should be forever trotted out as an example of how Debian sucks, good point. Sorry, but this distinction

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-07 Thread micah anderson
Brian Conley bri...@smallworldnews.tv writes: Perhaps you can tell us the secret to convince all family members and colleagues to become Linux hackers able to be completely self-sufficient managing their own upgrades and modifications indefinitely? I never suggested that all family members

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-06 Thread micah anderson
Tom Ritter t...@ritter.vg writes: On 6 February 2013 07:12, Andreas Bader noergelpi...@hotmail.de wrote: Why don't you use an old thinkpad or something with Linux, you have the same price like a Chromebook but more control over the system. And you don't depend on the 3G and Wifi net. - The

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-06 Thread micah anderson
T N trr...@gmail.com writes: The word Linux doesn't refer to anything, other than maybe the kernel. Chrome OS is linux. But it's a massively stripped down distribution that has a radical design, including the fact that it will ONLY run if all of the cryptographic checks are verified from

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-06 Thread micah anderson
Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org writes: On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 10:52:23AM -0500, micah anderson wrote: - ChromeOS's update mechanism is automatic, transparent, and basically foolproof. Having bricked Ubuntu and Gentoo systems, the same is not true of Linux. I would be surprised

Re: [liberationtech] encryption of data at rest

2012-11-07 Thread micah anderson
Eric S Johnson cra...@oneotaslopes.org writes: Had the opportunity to test out Windows 8's whole-hard-drive encryption the other day and was impressed: ... .allows user to back up private key online to Microsoft account (analogous to that offered by the FileVault2 in Mac OS 10.7+)

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-07 Thread micah anderson
Alex Comninos alex.comni...@gmail.com writes: On 7 November 2012 19:43, micah anderson mi...@riseup.net wrote: Frankly, both of those reactions are embarassing. Are you unaware of the most important tool that has been used for the most recent Spanish mobilizations, not to mention many occupy

Re: [liberationtech] OkayFreedom

2012-10-25 Thread micah anderson
Amin Sabeti aminsab...@gmail.com writes: There are lots of reasons. For example one of them is it's FREE and another one is sometimes some VPNs are working in Iran and some of them not. Also, the Iranian people have trust to the foreign VPNs more than the reseller inside Iran. Are there good

Re: [liberationtech] secure text collaboration platforms

2012-10-03 Thread micah anderson
Alex Comninos alex.comni...@gmail.com writes: Why not just use Google docs? I'd turn that around and instead ask you why just use Google docs? Does not really seem like a tool built for security, rather it is designed for public pastes/publishing/cooperation It depends on what you are