Re: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit
On 12/28/2012 12:46 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Julian Oliver > wrote: >> I've been extensively questioned at the border on a few occassions over the >> years /because/ my laptops don't have a Desktop as such, no icons either. >> Both >> my arms were grabbed at the Australian border as I reached to type 'firefox' >> in >> a terminal, to start the browser in an attempt to show them a normal looking >> environment. > I think that in such a discussion, it is necessary to distinguish > between border guards wanting to look at your data, and border guards > wanting to make sure that your laptop is not a bomb (given the limited > training they receive on the subject). The situation that you describe > looks more like the latter than the former (although clearly there > might be omitted details). > For the case of Border guards that want to have a look at your data there's an article from schneier: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/crossing_border.html You can also use a normal (fake | Windows) OS on your standart HDD and a hidden OS on a mSATA SSD, you can use a 16 GB disk with a small and encryted Ubuntu distribution. If you set the boot standart to your standart HDD then you have a good chance to get through the control. Another possibility is to combine this with a hidden truecrypt container, no one can force you to write down a password to a container that is probably not even existing. You can't prove that. If this is to complicated for you, you can still install a OS on a small USB stick. Or a SDHC card. It's not that expensive and if you have an USB stick fixed at your keyring I think no one will notice. The most secure thing would be a Live CD and a hidden container on an USB / SDHC device. So they can't infiltrate a system that is not even installed (backtrack and stuff have truecrypt onboard) and they can't force you to open that hidden container (because you only know if there is a container when you hit the right password. When nobody performs a hardware hack on your SATA or something then nothing can happen. If they keep your notebook for some minutes | hours | days then you should examine it before use.. It's also helpful to check the md5 checksum of the boot partition; you can have a virus / keylogger in there. -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote
Wow. It's nice to see some validation of things I have been saying privately, but afraid to admit publicly. I seen this meme around a few times in the past ten years, and I tend to like it. Despite being a downer-trip, it can motivate activists. "We have Lost the War". The 'war' is not a metaphorical one. There have been casualties. It is important. 'We' are a majestic plural, a plurality of majesty, encompassing. And 'Lost' is not reversible. The time has past and our best attempts were not enough. I also really enjoyed gonggri's follow up blog post: "We are all German now", http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=66 as if to say, someday we will all feel the guilt of our unavoidable culpability in this societal shift. My response would be "The war is over? finally! We may have lost something special, but maybe now we can get back to some positive envisioning of the future. Those seem to have disappeared when Bush took office. This apocalypse thread is running a bit bare." My .02, Bishop Z On Dec 30, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Gregory Foster wrote: > On 12/28/2012 05:10 AM, Gregory Foster wrote: >> YouTube (Dec 27) - "Jacob Appelbaum 29C3 Keynote: Not My Department": >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNsePZj_Yks >> >> Livestream recordings from the 29th Chaos Communication Congress >> (Hamburg, Germany: Dec 27-30) are being published quickly. There's >> something intriguing here for everyone: >> https://www.youtube.com/user/cccen >> https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/wiki/Main_Page >> >> HT the always well-informed @nigroeneveld >> http://twitter.com/nigroeneveld/status/284507391628828672 > > > ~6:30 - Jacob asks for a show of hands of those who had seen Frank Rieger and > Rop Gonggrijp's talks. I couldn't count myself among those who had, so > here's that information. > > 22nd Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin: Dec 27-30, 2005) - "Frank Rieger > and Rop Gonggrijp - We Lost The War": > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bulE9vErfg > https://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/920.en.html > http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/static/t/r/a/Transcribe_We_Lost_The_War_1de1.html > > Rop Gonggrijp > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rop_Gonggrijp > > Here's Rop's blog posts on the themes of their talk: > http://rop.gonggri.jp/?cat=3 > > Try this for a view into the Dutch hacking culture which Rop helped create: > http://thesprawl.org/simstim/hippies-hell/ > > + lots of other very informative films to be found while navigating The > Sprawl... > > Frank Rieger "We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow." > http://frank.geekheim.de/?page_id=128 > > First published in "die datenschleuder," which Rieger describes as "the > scientific journal for data travelers, published quarterly by the Chaos > Computer Club, Germany since 1984," volume 89 (2005); downloads weren't > working when I tried, but a copy was available elsewhere: > http://ds.ccc.de/download.html > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72732917/die_datenschleuder-089-2005.pdf > https://www.virustotal.com/file/0d6f75300c3cf6049e6ea8cd3c138100a0c9150a45661f1aca8e8840ff9d4087/analysis/1356901000/ > > ~ > > Following up, Rop Gonggrijp's 27C3 keynote (Berlin: Dec 27-30, 2010), "We > come in Peace": > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALNovMk3fC8 > http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4302.en.html > http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=438 > > > On 12/30/12 9:33 AM, Andreas Bader wrote: >> By the way: >> You have to say that Jakes Speech was more about "It IS our Department".. > > Agreed. > > gf > > -- > Gregory Foster || gfos...@entersection.org > @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ > > ___ > occupyaustin-it mailing list > occupyaustin...@foojutsu.org > http://foojutsu.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyaustin-it DesignAfterNext.com Design Technology for Generation Z -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote
Am 01.01.2013 01:09, schrieb Bishop Zareh: > I also really enjoyed gonggri's follow up blog post: "We are all > German now", http://rop.gonggri.jp/?p=66 > as if to say, someday we will all feel the guilt of our unavoidable > culpability in this societal shift. Look, to open the eyes a bit, the EU privacy laws are currently undergoing reforms: DPR proposal http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_11_en.pdf DPD proposal http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/document/review2012/com_2012_10_en.pdf See EDRI's impressive site: http://protectmydata.eu/ It is easier to amend the law than to wait for constitutional courts. EDRI alone proposed 186 amendments to the DPR proposal. Ideally the whole EU will be brought in line with German data protection standards (http://www.bfdi.bund.de/EN/DataProtectionActs/Artikel/BDSG_idFv01092009.pdf?__blob=publicationFile) or even more advanced. The EU is able to create a legal gravitation field for third nations. DPR dl for tabling amendments in the Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE): 27 Feb 2013 12h See also the 29C3 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldHNrVGI9OY Best, André -- FFII e.V. Office Berlin Malmöer Str. 6 10439 Berlin Germany Tel: +49 30 417 22 597 Fax service: +49 721 509663769 eMail: off...@ffii.org IRC: #ffii @ irc.freenode.net http://www.ffii.org IBAN: DE7870150031112097 BIC: SSKM DE MM Association registered in Munich, Amtsgericht München VR 16460 Tax ID: 143/214/80285 at the German tax office in Munich. Board: Benjamin Henrion (BE), René Mages (FR), Hartmut Pilch (DE), André Rebentisch (DE), Stephan Uhlmann (DE) -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
Re: [liberationtech] How secure is Bitlbee?
Uncle Zzzen: Lately I've discovered http://www.bitlbee.org/ and I feel a lot more comfy with it. My question is, how secure is Bitlbee compared to Jitsi or Pidgin? I reached out to the author and according to him, there have been a few people looking at the code, but AFAICT there was no systematic code audit from scratch. But the code base is not that big, so if anyone wants to do this, the BitlBee community and users would love that! :) -- ilf Über 80 Millionen Deutsche benutzen keine Konsole. Klick dich nicht weg! -- Eine Initiative des Bundesamtes für Tastaturbenutzung -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
[liberationtech] 29C3 whistleblower panel: Radack, Drake, Binney
In Jacob's keynote (~29:50), he encourages participants to attend the whistleblower panel later in the day. 29th Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin: Dec 27-30, 2012) - "Enemies of the State: What happens when telling the truth about secret US government power becomes a crime" by Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, and William Binney: http://youtu.be/nc5i8aROQkk?t=34m36s http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5338.en.html Radack, Drake, and Binney take thirty minutes each to present their respective stories - powerful stuff. Kevin Gosztola's write up gives a sense: http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/12/29/us-whistleblowers-on-being-targeted-by-the-secret-security-state/ http://twitter.com/kgosztola Within the first minute of his talk (~1:28:36), William Binney describes the legal and intellectual property guidance he received when retiring from the NSA to set the scene for an announcement that he has created a "commercial product" which describes a software architecture akin to ThinThread: so I have that technology, it's on file, basically, with the Library of Congress, we have a copyright on it, so it's open to anybody for $45 you can get a copy, or you can go to the people here at the conference, they have, I gave them copies, you can get copies from them. So it lays out an architectural framework the entire process for how to automate an analysis business process across the entire process, whatever you're looking at, whatever kind of data you're doing because this applies to everything: stock market exchange, money exchange, you know, travel, phone calls, emails, Twitter, cloud, Facebook, whatever! So the point is, that this is the kind of, this whole process will give you an idea of what's really going on and the scale of what's happening. The Library of Congress defied my search queries. I didn't find mention on the CCC website, wiki, Twitter feeds, etc. Is this document(?) in digital form yet? Seems like it might be rather interesting. gf -- Gregory Foster || gfos...@entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
