Re: [liberationtech] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate
Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org writes: Fourth, the simultaneous requirement that systems be backdoored and searchable while their disks are encrypted strongly suggests that they intend to have a central repository of encryption keys. Fifth, the requirement for use of centralized backup also provides one-stop shopping to an attacker. Thank you for your reply. The fact that you have this environment of pervasive searching personal property, coupled with incremental backups, means that people can be targeted due to having objectionable material at some time in the past. It creates a stifling environment where people will be afraid to express themselves, least it becomes a future liability. My $0.02, ~Tomer -- 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] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate
Thank you for your reply Michele, I think I should point out that their interpretation of 'employee' includes faculty and students. As an example, here is the implementation page for the School of Medicine: https://med.stanford.edu/datasecurity/ Notice the flow-chart of who must adhere to the new policy. It explicitly mentions faculty and students. All School of Medicine affiliates (faculty, employees, students, etc.) are being forced to fill out a device attestation that provides information on whether people access PHI/PII, what kind of devices they use (whether Stanford owns them or not), external hard drives, thumb drives, etc. I tried to fill out the form, claiming that I was exempt. The form said that my answers were not correct, and that I faced administrative action if I didn't fix them. Technically I can apply for a variance, which I have. I have not received any reply in a week. Even if the official instructions make this sound like it only applies to employees that work with PHI/PII, don't be fooled. *Everyone* is being asked to do this, receiving emails from the administration to make sure that our attestations are up-to-date, and then sending follow-up emails to get our attested machines into compliance. As an engineer, my reaction to needing tighter security around PHI/PII would be to create a separate network for personnel which have a need-to-know. Tight security protocols like installing MDM and BigFix could be implemented on that restricted network only. Taking the entire university's network and enforcing that level of security, when the vast majority of the affected machines will never touch PHI/PII, is just ludicrous. Saying that those wanting to avoid these kinds of invasions of privacy can just go on to the guest network is like being forced off the interstate and only being allowed on side roads. I am all for Stanford improving its security practices. They are definitely justified in tightening controls on employees and their own equipment. But personal property of faculty and students should be left alone. That crosses the line. My $0.02, ~Tomer Mrs. Y. networksecurityprinc...@gmail.com writes: I worked in academia for 13 years. We were already doing most of this in 2010. We were one of the universities that proactively removed SSNs from general use and every administrative system except where necessary. Please note that the following provisions apply in the new policy: 1. requirement applies to university employees 2. equipment is university-owned 3. OR personal equipment touching PII/PHI I applaud Standford's efforts toward protecting students' private data: their customers. This is probably a reaction to the reported breach this past summer: http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/09/23/online-security-breach-prompts-further-security-measures-amidst-uncertain-details/ They're actually being pretty fair, by allowing BYOD at all for employees and a guest network for personal devices. Many non-profits don't. There's also no requirement to meet these mandates if the personal device only uses the guest network, which is probably sandboxed with no access to PII/PHI and other confidential data. In the past, universities have been notoriously poor in protecting customer data and in the current climate could face large HIPAA or PCI-DSS fines/penalties if customer data is breached. Considering they also administer an FFRDC, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, I'm surprised they haven't been stricter prior to this. The answer is pretty simple. If you feel these measures could violate your privacy, then don't use your personal equipment to access Stanford-classified PII/PHI. And don't put your personal data on university-owned equipment. As an employee using Stanford's equipment or accessing customer data, you do not have the same expectation of privacy as a student. Michele Chubirka On 1/26/14 5:36 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 01:20:20AM -0800, Tomer Altman wrote: To Liberation Tech: Stanford is implementing a new security policy detailed here: http://ucomm.stanford.edu/computersecurity/ First, if they were serious about security, they wouldn't be using Microsoft products. Second, backdooring end-user systems en masse provides one-stop shopping to an attacker. Third, locating PII on systems is not a solved problem in computing, and for anyone to pretend otherwise is, at best, disengenuous. Not only that, but anyone who's been paying attention to the re-identification problem knows that non-PII is quite often just as sensitive. Fourth, the simultaneous requirement that systems be backdoored and searchable while their disks are encrypted strongly suggests that they intend to have a central repository of encryption keys. Fifth, the requirement for use of centralized backup also provides one-stop shopping to an attacker. Bottom line: this isn't about security, it's about control and
Re: [liberationtech] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate
Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com writes: Remember: Employee prescriptive measures are different that non-employee measures. This is being forced on faculty and students as well (their interpretation of employee). ~Tomer - ferg -- Paul Ferguson PGP Public Key ID: 0x54DC85B2 -- 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] Concerns with new Stanford University security mandate
Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl writes: snip Dear mr Altman, From the link: No more Windows XP: Good riddance. BigFix: the missing package manager for Windows. What every self respecting unix/linux/bsd/etc system already has. Good. Identity Finder: It gives a baseline scan for all files that contain personal identifiable information, like credit card numbers (that should never be on anyones computer at all, not even your own credit card number) and SSN (likewise). Good. Encryption: Good. Central file backup: Good. Anything in that document shows the intention of solving many IT-problems that PC-users face all the time, whether they realise it or not. I fully acknowledge that they are providing a lot of good here. But in some places they have crossed the line. And the university does not make it mandatory for private devices. They are making it mandatory, trust me. I attested that I have two private laptops, and they continue to hound me to get them into compliance. By taking these measures the university take responsibility for any breaches that happen from now. My thoughts are that if 10% of the campus deals with sensitive information, then by all means isolate and secure that 10%. Why lock down and spy on the rest of the campus; faculty, students, and all? There is one question remaining: do you trust the university to handle this responsibility? Only if faculty and students have a voice in how the system is designed, implemented, and maintained, with transparency and oversight. Otherwise there is no basis for trust. The answers to that will become clear with how they react when they find unneccesary PII on a computer. To whom go the reports of Identity-finder? How are they going to deal with it. The intentions may be good, it's all about the actions. Good luck with it. Guido. Thank you for your reply. -- 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] OPC - Special Report to Parliament, Jan 2014sr_cic_e.pdf
Dear LibTech colleagues, Attached is a report from Canada's privacy Commissioner addressing the issue of privacy and oversight in the era of cyber surveillance. Rafal -- 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] OPC - Special Report to Parliament, Jan 2014sr_cic_e.pdf
Apologies, I forgot this list scrubs attachments. Here is the link to the report on the office of the privacy Commissioner's website. http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2014/nr-c_140128_e.asp Sent by SecDev secure mobile. Please excuse typos or other oddities. On Jan 28, 2014, at 13:30, Rafal Rohozinski r.rohozin...@secdev.com wrote: Dear LibTech colleagues, Attached is a report from Canada's privacy Commissioner addressing the issue of privacy and oversight in the era of cyber surveillance. Rafal OPC - Special Report to Parliament, Jan 2014sr_cic_e.pdf -- 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] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated
Friends Colleagues -In less than a month, my new book - "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens" (see:http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/) - will be published. This is the product of ten years worth of research into how social media has inflected American teen life. I'm writing today in the hopes that you might consider pre-ordering a copy (or two grin). This book (published by Yale University Press) is a cross trade/academic book. Pre-sales and first week sales significantly affect how a trade book is marketed and distributed. Even though this book is based on grounded data, I've written it to be publicly accessible in the hopes that parents, educators, journalists, and policy makers will read it and reconsider their attitude towards technology and teen practices. The book covers everything from addiction, bullying, and online safety to privacy, inequality, and the digital natives debate. I suspect that the chapter on privacy might be of particular interest to the folks on this list.If you have the financial wherewithal to buy a copy, I'd be super grateful. If you don't, I *totally* understand. Either way, I'd be super super super appreciative if you could help me get the word out about the book. I'm really hoping that this book will alter the public dialogue about teen use of social media.You can pre-order it at:- Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook):http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300166311/apophenia-20- Powell's:http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780300166316-0- Yale University Press:http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting. {{hug}}danah--
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Re: [liberationtech] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated
Congratulations. I just ordered it.
Best,elham gheytanchi
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Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:12:23 -0500
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Subject: [liberationtech] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated
Friends Colleagues -
In less than a month, my new book - It's Complicated: The Social Lives of
Networked Teens (see: http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/ ) - will be
published. This is the product of ten years worth of research into how social
media has inflected American teen life. I'm writing today in the hopes that
you might consider pre-ordering a copy (or two grin). This book (published
by Yale University Press) is a cross trade/academic book. Pre-sales and first
week sales significantly affect how a trade book is marketed and distributed.
Even though this book is based on grounded data, I've written it to be publicly
accessible in the hopes that parents, educators, journalists, and policy makers
will read it and reconsider their attitude towards technology and teen
practices. The book covers everything from addiction, bullying, and online
safety to privacy, inequality, and the digital natives debate. I suspect that
the chapter on privacy might be of particular interest to the folks on this
list.
If you have the financial wherewithal to buy a copy, I'd be super grateful. If
you don't, I *totally* understand. Either way, I'd be super super super
appreciative if you could help me get the word out about the book. I'm really
hoping that this book will alter the public dialogue about teen use of social
media.
You can pre-order it at:- Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300166311/apophenia-20- Powell's:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780300166316-0- Yale University Press:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316
Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting.
{{hug}}
danah
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[liberationtech] Shameless promotion: The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook
I see Danah's blatant groveling and raise to shameless promotion. MY book, The LAST Virtual Volunteering Guidebook, was just published last week. It's available through Energize, Inc., the largest publisher of volunteerism-related books. http://www.energizeinc.com/store/1-222-E-1 My co-author and I wrote it not only to help introduce the concept of virtual volunteering, in all its forms - crowdsourcing, micro volunteering, ementoring, etc. - to organizations, but also, to help organizations already engaging with online volunteers, to improve and expand their virtual volunteering activities, including activities related to Liberationtech's focus on tech, democracy, freedom, human rights and development. In conjunction with the revised guidebook is the Virtual Volunteering Wiki, a free online resource and collaborative space for sharing resources regarding virtual volunteering. http://virtualvolunteering.wikispaces.com Even if you don't buy the book, have a look at the wiki - I've toyed with the idea of creating a section specifically on online volunteers in advocacy work - even if it just links to what's already out there. So if you have suggestions, lay them on me. Danah said Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting. Same for me. (And Danah, I'll be buying your book, FYI, because teen use of the Internet is of huge interest to me). And I see Danah's hug and I give a KISS. On the MOUTH. -- Ms. Jayne Cravens MSc Portland, Oregon, USA The web site - http://www.coyotecommunications.com The email - j...@coyotecommunications.com Me on Twitter, other social networks, my blog: http://www.coyotecommunications.com/me/jayneonline.shtml -- 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] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated
Looks great - will order it, and tweet about it.
Paul
Dr Paul Bernal
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UEA Law School
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich NR4 7TJ
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On 28 Jan 2014, at 19:12, danah boyd
danah-t...@danah.orgmailto:danah-t...@danah.org wrote:
Friends Colleagues -
In less than a month, my new book - It's Complicated: The Social Lives of
Networked Teens (see: http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/ ) - will be
published. This is the product of ten years worth of research into how social
media has inflected American teen life. I'm writing today in the hopes that
you might consider pre-ordering a copy (or two grin). This book (published
by Yale University Press) is a cross trade/academic book. Pre-sales and first
week sales significantly affect how a trade book is marketed and distributed.
Even though this book is based on grounded data, I've written it to be publicly
accessible in the hopes that parents, educators, journalists, and policy makers
will read it and reconsider their attitude towards technology and teen
practices. The book covers everything from addiction, bullying, and online
safety to privacy, inequality, and the digital natives debate. I suspect that
the chapter on privacy might be of particular interest to the folks on this
list.
If you have the financial wherewithal to buy a copy, I'd be super grateful. If
you don't, I *totally* understand. Either way, I'd be super super super
appreciative if you could help me get the word out about the book. I'm really
hoping that this book will alter the public dialogue about teen use of social
media.
You can pre-order it at:
- Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300166311/apophenia-20
- Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780300166316-0
- Yale University Press:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316
Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting.
{{hug}}
danah
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Re: [liberationtech] OPC - Special Report to Parliament, Jan 2014sr_cic_e.pdf
Also, the NDP (Canada’s federal opposition party) tabled questions to the government today. The NDP is requesting information about why, how often, and on what terms government agencies request information from Canadian telecommunications service providers. See Q-233 at http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=EMode=1Parl=41Ses=2DocId=6391359File=11 (A slightly easier to read version of the NDP’s questions are here: http://www.christopher-parsons.com/more-voices-call-for-transparency-in-canadian-telecommunications/) ~Chris -- * Christopher Parsons Postdoctoral Fellow Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs http://www.christopher-parsons.com * On January 28, 2014 at 2:00:22 PM, Rafal Rohozinski (r.rohozin...@secdev.com) wrote: Apologies, I forgot this list scrubs attachments. Here is the link to the report on the office of the privacy Commissioner's website. http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2014/nr-c_140128_e.asp Sent by SecDev secure mobile. Please excuse typos or other oddities. On Jan 28, 2014, at 13:30, Rafal Rohozinski r.rohozin...@secdev.com wrote: Dear LibTech colleagues, Attached is a report from Canada's privacy Commissioner addressing the issue of privacy and oversight in the era of cyber surveillance. Rafal OPC - Special Report to Parliament, Jan 2014sr_cic_e.pdf -- 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.
[liberationtech] OTRon: Chrome extension for end-to-end FB chat encryption
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 (WARNING: this is an experiment, please don't use for anything serious. treat OTRon-ed chats as normal FB chats in security/trustedness for now) Hey libtech! Today seems like a self-promotion day. I'm ready to share a new open-source side project of mine; it OTR-encrypts Facebook.com chats with one click (think Mailvelope for FB chat): https://github.com/osnr/otron Haven't spread it widely yet or made it easy to install, I'm looking for feedback both on how well it works (it needs some more testing and does have some functionality bugs -- you may be blocked from FB chat for a few minutes if it goes wrong!), how easy it is to use, and on the general approach. This is really a stopgap, meant to give the ordinary person some weapons against dragnet surveillance that don't require serious routine changes (changing IM network, IM client). But I think it has value. My ideal is to make it automatically transparently encrypt with other OTRon users. Problems might include: - - Bugs and vulnerabilities (as I said, not well-tested) - - Brittleness (as an extension w/ userscript, we depend on a lot of properties of Facebook.com which they could change easily -- thinking about more general DOM-based approaches which could scale to Gmail and others) - - the why encourage people to use FB?? argument, but I don't want to get into this Some thoughts about security: https://github.com/osnr/otron/blob/master/doc/threat-model.md Please let me know what you think! Omar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJS6CROAAoJEJSwN2DbcGvXSrIH/06zWO+9ZjwxRuAyQosKJoOM hDeD+EBivJCMPStwWT+ZAvN7jaSil7R1jnfkR3YuiqWNERtMOlqXBCUcNi8eJhud VeuWkAGuiX9DerJ3ZFADt9FlLikmjTJlkUrs4CKP4y5T/NcSB+ghribSyLVTtAHG YCzp0kOxla/ahvgiuKUDMuY9W+RNGQb12Ok8NwTDdXSo3/gmaq99YcvCTF+wOsR4 s4K9h+6disXQZ9l+LvDG6lcuWC7Co3BtvDJXfF0WGvZG2uE12JTsgAVEix+XByGT y6Pr9UAHOeMBriWQPKxISj6C7JaXsUxL993a+uXYG8oXQOnKF8JYqANI1r5OW54= =5j6b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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] blatant groveling: my book It's Complicated
Hi,
It looks interesting :) I'll order it.
Cheers,
A
On 28 January 2014 19:40, Paul Bernal (LAW) paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk wrote:
Looks great - will order it, and tweet about it.
Paul
Dr Paul Bernal
Lecturer
UEA Law School
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich NR4 7TJ
email: paul.ber...@uea.ac.uk
Web: http://www.paulbernal.co.uk/
Blog: http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @paulbernalUK
On 28 Jan 2014, at 19:12, danah boyd danah-t...@danah.org wrote:
Friends Colleagues -
In less than a month, my new book - *It's Complicated: The Social Lives
of Networked Teens *(see: http://www.danah.org/itscomplicated/ ) - will
be published. This is the product of ten years worth of research into how
social media has inflected American teen life. I'm writing today in the
hopes that you might consider pre-ordering a copy (or two grin). This
book (published by Yale University Press) is a cross trade/academic book.
Pre-sales and first week sales significantly affect how a trade book is
marketed and distributed. Even though this book is based on grounded data,
I've written it to be publicly accessible in the hopes that parents,
educators, journalists, and policy makers will read it and reconsider their
attitude towards technology and teen practices. The book covers everything
from addiction, bullying, and online safety to privacy, inequality, and the
digital natives debate. I suspect that the chapter on privacy might be of
particular interest to the folks on this list.
If you have the financial wherewithal to buy a copy, I'd be super
grateful. If you don't, I *totally* understand. Either way, I'd be super
super super appreciative if you could help me get the word out about the
book. I'm really hoping that this book will alter the public dialogue about
teen use of social media.
*You can pre-order it at:*
- Amazon (Hardcover, Kindle, Audiobook):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300166311/apophenia-20
- Powell's: http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780300166316-0
- Yale University Press:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300166316
Fingers crossed that y'all will find it useful and interesting.
{{hug}}
danah
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[liberationtech] Univ of Westminster: MA in Social Media
If you have 3rd year bachelor students interested in Social Media and studying in London, please point them towards the MA in Social Media at the University of Westminster. The programme focuses on the theoretical, critical and practical skills of social media research and use. Thank you. Christian Fuchs The MA in Social Media offers a flexible interdisciplinary exploration of key contemporary developments in the networked digital media environment. It will benefit those seeking to develop their understanding of contemporary communication and its societal, political, regulatory, industrial and cultural contexts. The MA in Social Media provides students with the opportunity to focus at postgraduate level on: * Studying the ways in which social media and the Internet shape and are shaped by social, economic, political, technological and cultural factors, in order to equip students to become critical research-oriented social media experts. * Developing reflective and critical insights into how social media and the Internet are used in multiple contexts in society, and into which roles social media can play in various forms of organisations that are situated in these societal contexts. The aim is that students are equipped to become reflective and critical social media practitioners. * Gaining in-depth knowledge and understanding of the major debates about the social and cultural roles of social media and the Internet. * Acquiring advanced knowledge and understanding of the key categories, theories, approaches and models of social media's and the Internet's roles in and impacts on society and human practices. * Obtaining advanced insights into practical activity and practice-based work that relate to how social media and the Internet work and which implications they have for social and cultural practices. More information: Full time (1 year): http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/journalism-and-mass-communication/postgraduate-courses/full-time/p09fpsom-social-media-ma Part time (2 years): http://www.westminster.ac.uk/courses/subjects/journalism-and-mass-communication/postgraduate-courses/part-time-day/p09ppsom-social-media-ma -- Christian Fuchs Professor of Social Media University of Westminster, Communication and Media Research Institute, Centre for Social Media Research http://fuchs.uti.at, http://www.triple-c.at http://www.westminster.ac.uk/csmr @fuchschristian c.fu...@westminster.ac.uk +44 (0) 20 7911 5000 ext 67380 -- 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.
