Re: [liberationtech] [drone-list] How Not to Think About Drones, or Goliath Died for Your Sins

[Christian Huldt]

Don't think that the story of David and Goliath had made the bible if
Goliath had had the slingshot.

Eugen Leitl skrev 2013-08-26 21:35:
> - Forwarded message from Yosem Companys  -
> 
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:32:58 -0700
> From: Yosem Companys 
> To: Drones 
> Subject: [drone-list] How Not to Think About Drones, or Goliath Died for Your 
> Sins
> Reply-To: drone-list 
> 
> How Not to Think About Drones, or Goliath Died for Your Sins
> 
> By Brian Terrell
> 
> The latest defense of remote control killing by the U.S. appears in
> the September issue of The Atlantic, “The Killing Machines”
> (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/09/the-killing-machines-how-to-think-about-drones/309434/)
> in which author Mark Bowden tells us “how to think about drones.”
> Known for his bestselling book, Black Hawk Down and for his curiously
> twisted justification of torture in the same magazine in October 2003
> (“The Bush Administration has adopted exactly the right posture on the
> matter. Candor and consistency are not always public virtues. Torture
> is a crime against humanity, but coercion is an issue that is rightly
> handled with a wink, or even a touch of hypocrisy; it should be banned
> but also quietly practiced.”) Bowden continues in this latest article
> to collect the facts that ought to lead to unequivocal condemnation of
> certain U.S. policies but cleverly presenting them in the end as
> ringing endorsements.
> 
> “The Killing Machines” opens by asking us to “consider David,” and so
> Bowden initiates his attack on history by misrepresenting its earliest
> written records. “The shepherd lad steps up to face in single combat
> the Philistine giant Goliath. Armed with only a slender staff and a
> slingshot, he confronts a fearsome warrior clad in a brass helmet and
> chain mail, wielding a spear with a head as heavy as a sledge and a
> staff ‘like a weaver’s beam.’ Goliath scorns the approaching youth:
> ‘Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?’ (1 Samuel 17)
> 
> “Technology has been tilting the balance of battles since Goliath
> fell,” asserts Bowden, supporting this theory by misremembering that
> “David then famously slays the boastful giant with a single smooth
> stone from his slingshot.”
> 
> “What you have is a parable about technology,” says Bowden who
> describes David’s slingshot as “a small, lightweight weapon that
> employs simple physics to launch a missile with lethal force from a
> distance, was an innovation that rendered all the giant’s advantages
> moot.”
> 
> The story of David and Goliath is a “parable about technology,” but
> the problems with Bowden’s telling of it begin with the fact that
> there is no slingshot in 1 Samuel 17 nor, actually, was a slingshot to
> be found anywhere on the planet in David’s day. To place one in
> David’s hands when he met Goliath 10 centuries before the Common Era
> is a wild anachronism at best. The “small, lightweight weapon that
> employs simple physics to launch a missile with lethal force from a
> distance” cited as a biblical game changer did not exist before the
> invention of vulcanized rubber by Charles Goodyear, patented in 1884.
> The slingshot is an innovation of the 19th century and Bowden might
> just as well have had David slay Goliath with a Hellfire missile or
> with Luke Skywalker’s light-saber as give him a slingshot.
> 
> David’s weapon in 1 Samuel 17 was not a slingshot but a sling. Hardly
> an innovation, the sling had already been around for a long time and
> is thought to have been invented in the Upper Paleolithic, or Old
> Stone Age, about the same time as the bow and arrow. David’s sling was
> a primitive device for flinging stones. It was widely used by
> shepherds to ward off predators, a weapon of low prestige that
> justified Goliath’s disdain.
> 
> It was Goliath, not David, who with his bronze armor and iron tipped
> spear brought the latest technological innovations to his last and
> fatal conflict. David himself is recorded in 1 Samuel 17 as saying
> “All those who are gathered here shall see that the Lord saves neither
> by sword or spear,” and the message of this story is the reverse of
> the lesson Bowden offers.
> 
> The story of David’s victory over Goliath is one of many in the pre
> and early monarchial biblical history wherein the latest military
> innovations are defeated by simple men, women and children improvising
> crude household and agricultural implements for use as weapons. Judges
> 4 tells of Jael, a Hebrew woman who killed Sisera, commander of “nine
> hundred chariots of iron” with a tent peg and wooden mallet. Sampson
> slaughtered a thousand armed Philistine soldiers with the jaw bone of
> a donkey (Judges 15). “When war broke out (between the Hebrews and the
> Philistines) none of the followers of Saul and Jonathan had either
> sword or spear,” we read in 1 Samuel 13, yet these insurgents armed
> with hoes, axes and shovels routed the most technically advanced army
> 

Re: [liberationtech] Iraq block Social media

[Christian Huldt]

so should we promote the use of 173.252.110.27 or tor?

2014-06-14 20:59, Collin Anderson skrev:
> Anyone who wants to verify this assertion can query in-country resolvers
>
> filternet$ dig facebook.com  @ns1.itc.iq
> 
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> facebook.com 
> @ns1.itc.iq 
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 13340
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;facebook.com .INA
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> facebook.com .86400INA185.23.153.235
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> facebook.com .86400INNSns1.itc.iq
> .
>
> ;; Query time: 1250 msec
> ;; SERVER: 185.23.153.242#53(185.23.153.242)
> ;; WHEN: Sat Jun 14 14:44:58 2014
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 70
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Collin Anderson
> mailto:col...@averysmallbird.com>> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 12:31 PM, David Gessel
> mailto:ges...@blackrosetech.com>> wrote:
>
> I tested Facebook, youtube, google, and twitter and all loaded
> normally.   Traceroute showed no anomalies.
>
>
> I believe that your testing is a bit off -- as of yesterday
> Earthlink was blocking social media, primarily (or entirely)
> through local DNS manipulation. This could account for the
> difference of your experience, and why users with foreign DNSs can
> still browse without other tools.
>
> Yesterday I ran Alexa's top 100k through a DNS resolver in country
> and found aberrant results for the following domains:
>
> facebook.com 
> youtube.com 
> twitter.com 
> xnxx.com 
> whatsapp.com 
> viber.com 
> youtu.be 
> hanein.info 
>
>
> The returned address for these domains briefly attributed the
> filtering to the security situation in country, until it was
> modified within a couple of
> hours: https://twitter.com/CDA/status/477488959044321280
>
> If you have an Earthlink VPN, it might be interesting to see if
> you can browse to the RFC1918 address 192.168.222.66, I think it's
> the block page for that ISP.
>
> (Bonus points for a sending the domain of a porn site to Libtech)
>
> -- 
> *Collin David Anderson*
> averysmallbird.com  | @cda
> | Washington, D.C.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> *Collin David Anderson*
> averysmallbird.com  | @cda | Washington, D.C.
>
>

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Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

[Christian Huldt]

Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them?
(providing a name is enhancing trust, but I don't personally know Ben 
Chestnut)


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Re: [liberationtech] Curious about tech in Cuba?

[Christian Huldt]

Any chance to stream or record this?

(I won't get a visa in time...)

Yosem Companys skrev den 2015-04-23 20:18:
> From: Stephanie Maria Nevel 
> 
> Cuba + Silicon Valley Connect
> 
> Curious about Cuba?
> 
> Meet Eliecer Avila - engineering student at Universidad de la Habana
> and founder of SOMOS+, a network of Cubans working to build a modern,
> prosperous, and free country.
> 
> Friday 4.24.15 at 1 pm in Kehillah Hall at Stanford University.
> Traditional Cuban food will be served.
> 
> RSVP here: http://is.gd/NgT43j
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Re: [liberationtech] Free or Cheap VPN for OS X?

[Christian Huldt]

So what is the known status of the native clients?
I tend to like ipsec...

On 05/05/2015 04:49 PM, Julian Oliver wrote:
> ..on Tue, May 05, 2015 at 05:08:25PM +0300, anonymous2...@nym.hush.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Can anyone recommend a free or cheap VPN for OS X (a Psiphon 3
>> equivalent)? 
>> Before anyone says it, I'm well aware of the various dangers related
>> to VPNs and the availability of TOR etc but I'm just looking for
>> something for low risk stuff when travelling etc. 
> I don't use OS X myself (Linux on the road) but recommend students w/OS X to 
> use
> TunnelBlick, an OpenVPN client:
>
> https://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
>
> For low-volatile content, where you just need to get over the border and/or 
> off
> the SP, VPNBook's OpenVPN server is great as it also offers a tunnel over 443,
> 80 and 53 - useful when on a non-net-neutral pipe with prejudice against VPN
> traffic:
>
> http://www.vpnbook.com/
>
> For all else, I run my own OpenVPN servers. Very easy to set up.
>
> FYI never use a closed source VPN client, even if the content is non-volatile.
> It might be FedWare or simply dodgy; VPN clients generally need to exec with
> root privileges. OpenVPN clients (like TunnelBlick) are your best bet.
>
> HTH,
>


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Re: [liberationtech] Github special discount: $5 Yubikey U2F key

[Christian Huldt]

"Manufactured in USA and Sweden."
That means that NSA get a copy of each purchase?


Den 2015-10-03 kl. 14:11, skrev Moritz Bartl:
> Github introduced U2F support and is partnering with Yubikey for quite a
> discount on their U2F keys ($5 instead of $18 not including shipping).
>
> https://www.yubico.com/github-special-offer/
>
> Limited to 2 keys per order. The simple U2F key does not support OTP or
> OpenPGP or the static passphrase mode.


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Re: [liberationtech] Setting up an experimental testbed for wireless mesh network

[Christian Huldt]

I believe http://battlemesh.org has documentation for babel, batman-adv,
bmx6, olsr and a few more

Or perhaps it is at https://github.com/battlemesh

Den 2015-10-14 kl. 18:57, skrev Yosem Companys:
> From: *Sailash Moirangthem*  >
>
> I am a student studying Digital Communications in India. I am trying
> to set up a wireless mesh network covering the whole campus of our
> college.
>
> I have currently 10 routers (TPLINK WN1043ND) updated with openwrt.
>
> I have been trying to run the BATMAN-ADV and 802.11s protocols in
> these routers, but unable to do so. Once set-up, my objective is to
> use it for video-surveillance system.
>
> The following configuration is what I want:
>
> Node1: 192.168.99.25
>
> Node2: 192.168.99.26
>
> and so on..till Node15
>
> I have followed the steps in
> http://www.radiusdesk.com/technical_discussions/batman_basic
> completely, but it still doesn't work.
>
> Please help. It would be helpful if the configuration files for
> setting up mesh with 802.11s (HWMN) can be given.
>
>

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Re: [liberationtech] Setting up an experimental testbed for wireless mesh network

[Christian Huldt]

You might get better answers on the openwrt mailing list...

However, my 2 cents:
1) you could set up a linux virtual machine on your laptop, or ssh into
one of the nodes
2) between to laptops connected to the mesh? using e.g. vlc?
3) I have to direct you to the test results at http://battlemesh.org or
their mailing list.

On 10/15/2015 01:25 PM, saila...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi team,
>
> I am able to configure 3 nodes with BATMAN-adv and they are performing as 
> expected. But I have a few problems which need your help. And also if there 
> are better equipments which I can buy to improve the performance, please let 
> me know. 
> 1) I am unable to run iperf in my windows 10 laptop.
> 2) How can I go for video streaming through this mesh network?
> 3) Are there better open source protocols apart from BATMAN, OLSR, BABEL ? I 
> am trying to use HWMN but unable to do so. Kindly help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Sailash M
>
>> On 14-Oct-2015, at 11:09 PM, Christian Huldt  wrote:
>>
>> I believe http://battlemesh.org has documentation for babel, batman-adv,
>> bmx6, olsr and a few more
>>
>> Or perhaps it is at https://github.com/battlemesh
>>
>>> Den 2015-10-14 kl. 18:57, skrev Yosem Companys:
>>> From: *Sailash Moirangthem* >> <mailto:saila...@gmail.com>>
>>>
>>> I am a student studying Digital Communications in India. I am trying
>>> to set up a wireless mesh network covering the whole campus of our
>>> college.
>>>
>>> I have currently 10 routers (TPLINK WN1043ND) updated with openwrt.
>>>
>>> I have been trying to run the BATMAN-ADV and 802.11s protocols in
>>> these routers, but unable to do so. Once set-up, my objective is to
>>> use it for video-surveillance system.
>>>
>>> The following configuration is what I want:
>>>
>>> Node1: 192.168.99.25
>>>
>>> Node2: 192.168.99.26
>>>
>>> and so on..till Node15
>>>
>>> I have followed the steps in
>>> http://www.radiusdesk.com/technical_discussions/batman_basic
>>> completely, but it still doesn't work.
>>>
>>> Please help. It would be helpful if the configuration files for
>>> setting up mesh with 802.11s (HWMN) can be given.
>> <0x82663443.asc>


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