Re: [liberationtech] Blockchain Revolution | Social network | Decentralized web | Smart Contracts

2015-08-08 Thread hellekin
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On 08/07/2015 11:50 PM, crypto vrontis wrote:
 Hello
 
 I'm a software developer from Greece and I am writing to inform you
 about a project that has progress made by a small team of developers
 including me.Is a digital currency named Qora.

 The achievements that the Qora platform has introduced the last months
 on the cryptocurrencies scene is by far the most innovative in the
 tech world.


Hello Crypto Vrontis, you seem to like wild claims, like your confessed
inspiration Gerald Celente.  Last July 25th you said[0]:

We are living in a world which also happens to be a digital world.
Besides the fact that, you know everyone is working with their own
mobile, everyone post their own status or photo on instagram or on
Facebook. We are a generation that has become a more tech friendly. And
we do admire technology, we do know what technology will give us. It
will give us a comfortable life, it will give us profit, it will give us
everything. We all know what technology is.

As you happen to be in Greece, where the Faircoin summit is going on in
Crete[5], I was wondering about the relations between the two projects
and found three interesting points that I'd like you to clarify: I saw
an anarcho-capitalist (sic) flag on your social network[1], which is not
uncommon in the crypto-currency world; another account[2] seems to
emphasize transhumanist belief (H+); finally, you praise proof-of-stake
and polling with weighted voting[0], a strategy also chosen by Bitshare,
which Faircoin is working on eliminating to prevent the formation of
oligarchy in their network[3].

How would you define your political orientation, and how do you envision
the role of Qora in the context of Greece? Do you believe in H+
principles? What's your understanding of the relation between economics
and politics?

Another point I'm concerned with: AT seems to be an acronym for
Automated Transactions, but I've seen it expanded as Arbitrary
Transactions[4]: I believe it's a typo, as using a single acronym for
two meanings in the same context would simply lead to confusion.

Thank you for your attention,

==
hk

[0]: https://beyondbitcoin.org/bonus-hangout-qora-vrontis-ciyam/
[1]: http://qora.co.in:9090/index/blog.html?blogname=tuckfheman.com
[2]: http://qora.co.in:9090/index/blog.html?blogname=cyborg
[3]: https://fair-coin.org/faircoin2.html
[4]:
https://medium.com/qora-world/overview-of-qora-smart-contracts-and-decen
tralized-web-3987dc28e064
[5]: https://fair.coop/summer-camp-on/
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Re: [liberationtech] Blockchain Revolution | Social network | Decentralized web | Smart Contracts

2015-08-08 Thread hellekin
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On 08/09/2015 12:32 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
 Hi hellekin,In which file are you seeing that flag?


File?  I provided a link.  I'm not sure what you're talking about.

 
 In general I do agree that it is _imperative_ to get the economics
 and politics exactly right before releasing.


This is not what I meant either.  I'm waiting for Vrontis' response.

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hk

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Re: [liberationtech] Can anyone help me get my account unblocked on Facebook?!

2015-07-05 Thread hellekin
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On 07/04/2015 03:30 PM, Heather Akers-Healy wrote:
 Facebook has 1.19 billion monthly active users, making it the largest
 community on Earth. Activists will need to use it

*** I'm sorry but I think the opposite: first Facebook is not a
community but a large collection of people, unless you consider a
community as a dead society: one that cannot evolve on its own;

second, matching online persona with govern-mental ID is Facebook's
business: this is how they're valued so much--and that's an
anti-privacy feature;

third, if activists would be serious about preserving their privacy,
they would support the activists making privacy-by-design online social
software instead of begging a private surveillance company to help them.
When activists prefer accepting privacy policies that denies them
their privacy, to supporting decentralized and distributed alternatives
to Facebook, they should be conscious of the consequences of their
choice: unfortunately this seems to be happening in tragic circumstances
.

Now that your network has been compromised, Inna, you can only trust
that your ID won't fall into the hands of your opponents when you
transmit it to Facebook, or that Facebook will make an exception for
you, which would jeopardize their future claim for Real Names.

By accepting their conditions, you accepted to relinquish your privacy,
and the privacy of all the people in contact with you. No matter what
privacy activists do, people prefer easy to prudent. That's what happens
.

Steve Weis' response, if he's really working at Facebook, demonstrates
the inanity of Facebook to support activism: the mail should have come
from a Facebook domain, be signed with a PGP key, and not ask for a
membership card. This person, besides its alleged good intention, has
no clue what he's talking about.

In your situation Inna, I would send a private message to known Facebook
employees working in the security department using encrypted messages.
If you can prove to them that you own the account, it should work,
bypassing the stupid company policy: that would be an acceptable way for
Facebook to have it without making official statements about
contradicting their own reason of being.

Whatever lawsuit you're thinking about (please be my guest), it won't
solve your current issue fast enough for your immediate need.

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hk

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Re: [liberationtech] Ghostery, NoScript.. add-ons frequently phone home

2015-04-25 Thread hellekin
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On 04/25/2015 08:13 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 What is the Richard Stallman and FSF approved browser?

*** For FSF, that would be rebranded firefox (iceape), and qupzilla.
For rms, I guess wget, or Emacs-w3m :)

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] China's Great Cannon

2015-04-14 Thread hellekin
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On 04/10/2015 08:28 AM, Ronald Deibert wrote:
 
 The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign
 jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country's
 national priorities is a dangerous precedent -- contrary to
 international norms and in violation of widespread domestic laws
 prohibiting the unauthorized use of computing and networked
 systems.

*** How exactly is that a precedent?  Isn't it leveling with common
usage of the Western secret services?

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-14 Thread hellekin
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On 02/12/2015 01:45 PM, Tim Libert wrote:

 to have a secure voice conversation with persons located in mainland china
 
*** Here is something I'm looking at: Tox (https://tox.im/)

The project is APLHA software aiming at replacing Skype.

It probably has its burden of bugs and certainly lacks proper security
at this point.  It would certainly benefit from scrutiny.  On the crypto
side, they chose NaCL, not a bad choice. ;o)  It also support going
through Tor.

The functionality is awesome, especially considering its *alpha* status
(I repeat to insist on the fact that it's a potential solution, and
probably one that needs to be audited, because as people discover it,
they tend to use it).  It provides voice, video (including desktop
view), file sharing, chat with UTF-8 support.  It runs from the terminal
with Toxic, or in GUI with qTox and uTox, on GNU/Linux 32 and 64 bit,
Android, Windows, and MacOSX.  The Windows port is more alpha than the
*nix ports.

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] #BioCitationNeeded Contribs are welcome

2015-02-06 Thread hellekin
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On 02/06/2015 02:10 PM, Uncle Zzzen wrote:
 with spins insinuating that there are compulsory national biometric
 databases in most of the civilized world.

 *** Terrorism, shootings, and bombings are on the rise in most of the
 civilized world.  Does that preclude their desirability?


 No, but unlike biometric databases - one could perhaps say we're not worse
 than other countries and be right ;)
 
*** Argh! :)

==
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Re: [liberationtech] #BioCitationNeeded Contribs are welcome

2015-02-06 Thread hellekin
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On 02/06/2015 09:44 AM, Uncle Zzzen wrote:
 Israeli no2bio http://english.no2bio.org activists often have to deal
 with spins insinuating that there are compulsory national biometric
 databases in most of the civilized world.
 
*** Terrorism, shootings, and bombings are on the rise in most of the
civilized world.  Does that preclude their desirability?

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] The Future of Security Journalism

2015-01-30 Thread hellekin
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On 01/30/2015 08:03 AM, coderman wrote:
 
 your threat model is:
  securing yourself and your sources against
   nation state dragnet and targeted attacks,
including tailored access and special collection.

*** Unfortunately the problem goes further than that.

The recent murder of Charlie Hebdo staff generated a government frenzy
that triggered censorship at levels rarely attained in France.  People
get arrested for using sarcasm, and that is deemed apology of
terrorism.  There are numerous instances of artwork, notably cinema or
literature that would now be considered apology of terrorism under
such criteria.  (in NYC, emojis showing a cop and two guns got a
teenager arrested for the same reason, and facing 7 years in jail.)

Recently, armed rebellion in Paraguay kidnapped two German people in an
attempt to draw attention to the situation there: the elected democracy
was overthrown in the general indifference by a CIA-sponsored coup two
years ago.  Since then, the country has been in the hands of US
corporations, CIA and FBI, and that has moved cocaine production towards
Argentina, although the industrial scale Marijuana production of
mediocre quality or the counterfeit industry were not affected,
interestingly.

Mentioning all this can now be considered apology of terrorism.
Recently the power in Turkey was announcing the fall of Kobane, an
enclave of resistance to ISIS, which also happens to be organized
democratically without a centralized State, and supported by an
organization that is considered terrorist by the Turkish government.
Everywhere the war on terrorism is creating terrorists whenever
authoritarian governments and corporations need to crush the resistance
to their progress.

The same powers that claim to be upholding the Rule of Law
systematically break it whenever they like in order to advance their
agenda, including using secret trade treaties to remove the barrier of
national law to private corporations, granting them the power to ignore,
influence, or destroy national law when they want to plunder a country.

To me it seems that the threat model is a bit harder than just securing
yourself and your sources against surveillance: corporate-states beyond
nation-states are--have been--removing self-determination of people and
deem it terrorism, and the freedoms, rights, and responsibilities of
individuals and communities around the world.  This situation is far
worse than anything we've seen before for its global scale and the
inevitability of running into its consequences.

In the light of this analysis, security is a bit understated and
vague, don't you think?

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Re: [liberationtech] Open Source Videoconference platform

2015-01-18 Thread hellekin
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On 01/18/2015 11:16 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote:
 Is there such a thing? Reliable? Skype sucks, and it is a Microsoft product
 now (too flickery, etc.), and I don't know of others..
 
*** Tox (https://tox.im/) is a promising alternative to Jitsi and
XMPP/SIP.  It specifically aims at replacing Skype.  Still early, but
already impressive.

==
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Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-17 Thread hellekin
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On 01/16/2015 03:19 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 
 The problem is that I am a practical person who lives in the real world.
 
*** The real world is something that belongs to the Past, before the
discovery of the Quantum, Max Planck's Constant, and the Principle of
Uncertainty of Heisenberg.  Your religious belief has nothing to do with
reality.  Before the car was invented there were people who believed the
human body would not resist speeding at 40 mph.  Before the plane was
invented, there were people who said flying was reserved to things
lighter-than-air.  Your real world argument belongs to that category of
thought, that dismisses reality for the (bad) current state of
affairs.  According to that logic, Mozilla should implement DRM and
provide backdoors to the NSA, because that's what those people are doing
in the real world, and heck, why would you change it?

You're rationalizing your position instead of being rational about it.
Yes people should throw away their Apple and Microsoft, and yes they
should abandon the idea that global surveillance is acceptable and that
security is made by corporations with trade secrets and non-disclosure
agreements, and yes they should throw away their cars powered with
inefficient fossil fuel engines.  That's impractical, but nonetheless
true and necessary.

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that's a
really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would
actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them
again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should,
because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it
happens every day. -- Carl Sagan

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[liberationtech] What happened to Prism? (was Re: Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?)

2015-01-17 Thread hellekin
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On 01/17/2015 08:08 AM, Aymeric Vitte wrote:

 
 But you still need to trust: the browsers, the OS, the hw... which is
 quite a lot...
 
*** The browser is problematic with javascript because of the global
context.  I wonder why the Mozilla Prism project was abandoned.  I
allowed to isolate a single site or application, and that certainly
sounds a lot saner than running the whole world in the same place.

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Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-17 Thread hellekin
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On 01/17/2015 02:24 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Why would anyone bother to change your Twitter image? What do they gain
 from that?

*** Confusion, diversion of attention.  That's enough.  If one spends 5
seconds doing it and 3 spend 5 minutes chatting about it, that's already
valuable, isn't it?

==
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Re: [liberationtech] Why are we leaving mesh networking to FireChat?

2015-01-17 Thread hellekin
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Al, you keep attacking people and mixing topics.  Yet, as you mentioned,
you've been working for a prominent open source project for seven years.
 Can you tell us about the incentives of adding built-in DRM support
into Firefox, use Google Search instead of say, DuckDuckGo as the
default search engine, or favor Facebook as the prime partner for the
Social API?  Let me guess, ethics?  Oh, no, am I distracted!  Money!
Surely there's no money to include native support for Tor--oh yes,
actually there is, and it's coming, right?  So...  Maybe things are a
bit more complex that you keep describing them.

For some years the people with ethics and no money have been trying hard
to counter the deluge of sponsoring of the surveillance and control
machine over networked computing.  We're probably not very good at
marketing, but I think we're getting better, and thanks to the Snowden
Apocalypse people actually start listening, and there are plans to ramp
up funding.  I'm very glad people like lynX keep kicking the anthill of
accepted status quo, simply because the dominant system is so simple:
if it works, it's because it's good (thanks to IBM FUD and decades of
consistent Microsoft and Apple /innervation/ in software). Yet somehow,
someday, people wake up and realize that countless billions of tax
dollars went into such things as setting up global surveillance and
thwarting cryptography on a planetary scale.

Still you have the balls to come and say that the free software and P2P
people are a bunch of nuts.  Well, let me remind you that dominant
technology is not necessarily the best technology.  Check your history, sir.

Now yes, there's a problem for P2P to get support.  I mean, strong,
dedicated, long term support to make it happen.  Why is that?  Because
there are billion dollar industries that will simply vanish, unable to
keep with autonomous people.  That's a certainty.  Other billion dollar
industries will appear, but they would not be in the hands of a few rich
industrialists, because they would be so diffuse and local and based on
affinity and peer interdependence rather than some monstrous propaganda
machines.  The P2P era is coming anyway.  Drying its financial source
only makes it slower to come, and hopefully it will happen globally
before our civilization's collapse, which is getting more unlikely as
global issues are not being addressed and situations like the shooting
of a journal's entire redaction team bubbles up into a pro-surveillance,
anti-terrorist, hypocrite support system for the anti-muslim tension
that allows the power that be to keep spoon-feeding clash of
civilization bullshit to hypnotized populations, while the
lobbying-legislative war machine is rolling up its guillotine law across
oceans (TPP, TTIP, TAFTA, CISPA, CISA, LALALA, PIPPIP...).

So yes, you're welcome to dismiss criticism as lunacy or critics as
pedantic arrogant people.  Be my guest.  Just don't spit on any
plugged-in electronics, you might hurt somebody.

==
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Re: [liberationtech] What happened to Prism? (was Re: Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?)

2015-01-17 Thread hellekin
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On 01/17/2015 04:39 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 
 On Jan 17, 2015, at 5:57 AM, hellekin helle...@gnu.org wrote:

  I wonder why the Mozilla Prism project was abandoned.
 
 I’m pretty sure it was because a single person worked on it and there was 
 not a lot of impetus to continue. Anyone here could pick it up again since
 it is an open source project...
 
*** Yet there's not much interest either in the Mozilla Foundation,
otherwise it wouldn't have been abandoned.  Am I the only one who kind
of misses it, or did I miss some important drawback that would explain
why having a specific process run to a specific site in full-screen a
bad idea?

==
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Re: [liberationtech] What happened to Prism? (was Re: Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?)

2015-01-17 Thread hellekin
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On 01/17/2015 06:36 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 
 Certainly, no one would interfere, and some might even help, if you revived 
 the Prism efforts. It is an open source project after all.
 
*** I wouldn't mind either if someone would.  I'm happy with Surf at the
moment for that kind of usage.  Thank you though for confirming it's
simply a matter of workforce and interest.

==
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Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-16 Thread hellekin
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On 01/15/2015 09:07 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 You said that I was a “compatriot of that service”

*** Oh, sorry, I thought you were an U.S. citizen.

==
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Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-15 Thread hellekin
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On 01/15/2015 02:35 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 Pull that tinfoil hat a little tighter.
 
*** Aren't the Snowden leaks enough?  What else do you need really?
Then go visit the GNU.org section on Malware.

Deflecting legitimate criticism with such a tongue-in-cheek comment is
not going to change the fact that the USA have been led by tricksters
doing whatever in their power to confuse their and other countries
citizens in order to serve the short term and strategic interests of the
military industrial complex, with impunity and a complete lack of touch
with reality and ethics.

If by now this is not clear to you, you're delusional or a part of that
system.  You can certainly criticize lynX's hard position if you like,
but dismissing its criticism as lunatic is entirely on you.  Frankly,
having a security person from Mozilla do this is a bit staggering.

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-15 Thread hellekin
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On 01/15/2015 04:44 PM, Al Billings wrote:
 
 So, since you can’t trust any software (so you say) produced in the USA

*** Not any software: non-free software, and software running on
servers subjected to gag orders, as you well know for being a compatriot
of the late Lavabit service.

Since when the LiberationTech mailing list discusses non-free software?
 I thought software freedom and access to the source code was considered
a requirement for considering a system secure.

As you also well know, there's no way to either escape NSA's tentacles,
nor leave the planet.  When you're not subjected to forced silence by
terrorist laws of the USA, you're subjected to illegal cracking of
machines by the FVEY, as revealed by the FBI's right to consider any
foreign system as a potential target.

It's very damageable to think that because the reach of NSA and foes is
unlimited, although illegal, we cannot criticize the claims to offer am
allegedly secure solution to hundreds of millions of people by merging
well-intended and paladin code of trusted people with an inherently
insecure proprietary system.  It's certainly better than nothing at all,
but from this to uphold it as an acceptable solution is understating if
not dismissing the need to provide technical solutions to effectively
thwart global surveillance.

Most people don't understand the extent of the compromise and will
happily use whatever the experts say is good enough.  There's a social
responsibility of technicians towards we, the people, that cannot simply
be dismissed as lunacy.  I applaud what Moxie has been doing, as it
provides better-than-nothing for an immediate need of many.  But it's
patching a sieve with tape: it will slow down the catastrophe but won't
solve the bigger issue.

And no, there's no nation on Earth that can solve that problem either:
global surveillance knows no border, although legally it should.  Global
surveillance is totalitarianism justified by the conviction the
watchers are the good guys defending our values; they decided
unilaterally that because it's technically feasible, they can do it,
regardless of the rule of Law and ethics.  Therefore no technical
solution alone can remove their power, but what serious technical
solutions can do is to remove the support for such power: centralized
services, reliance on servers and proprietary software.

Cloud providers in the USA know very well the cost of NSA's abuse of
power as foreigners prefer using cloud services outside of the Empire's
jurisdiction.  But that is not enough, as TPP, TTIP and other upcoming
legislations crafted in secret by corporate U.S. and transnational
interests of the Northern Hemisphere demonstrate, which are leading to,
or more precisely aiming at removing national sovereignty everywhere.

If we start taking a beaver's dam for a polder, we're not going anywhere.

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] confused by the Sony hack

2014-12-21 Thread hellekin
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On 12/21/2014 03:33 PM, Erich M. wrote:

 a really powerful 0day warhead

*** Oh no, more lemmings!  I want a tee-shirt^W^Wboxer short with that
printed on it.  For a male friend.

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] Seeking comments - [ALPHA] List of digital security list of services, tools and resources of interest

2014-11-27 Thread hellekin
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On 11/27/2014 10:53 AM, Robert Guerra wrote:
 
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YQFfwEypPsiIWbogosQslBlccYEgfr-mlDLHXPhMoRA/edit?usp=sharing

*** Hello Robert,

thank you for making this list.

I think the notion of free/paid is not only useless, but nocive.  It
does not matter whether the system is available at a fee or not.  What
matters is that the source code is available for review or not.

Another important matter is whether the system is proprietary or free
software: in the former case, users are totally dependent on the trust
of the proprietor of the software, and unable to detect or correct any
flaws they might discover, nor to adapt the software to their own
specific needs, nor to share that software, modified or not, with other
people who might need it--including security fixes, and including for a fee.

Therefore, I would change this column to Gratis/Paid to avoid any
confusion, and move it to the end.  In its place I would indicate
whether it's free software (guarantees the four freedoms describes in
the previous paragraph), open source (code is reviewable by the users
and independent parties), or proprietary (code is not available, or only
under NDA).

In a post-Snowden world, not taking this into account amounts to fraud.

Note that software freedom does not apply to services[0].

The Android system uses Linux as its kernel, so it is improper to say
Android and Linux: you should use Android and GNU/Linux instead
to differenciate the two[1].

Finally, I think you may contribute this (corrected) information to the
Prism-Break project[2].  If you license it under free terms, then other
people would be able to include it in their own derivative works.

==
hk

[0]
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html
[1] http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html
[2] http://prism-break.org/
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Re: [liberationtech] Deep Web Intellectual Property Due Diligence

2014-11-17 Thread hellekin
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On 11/17/2014 08:15 PM, Lisa M. Brownlee wrote:
 
 I am writing to request your intelligence regarding Deep Web
 intellectual property due diligence

*** Hi Lisa,

you may want to avoid using the Deep Web term.  It's not like it means
anything but conveys some sort of Deep Water Horizon feeling, or Nemo if
you're optimist.

 
 What, specifically, are the security issues associated with Deep Web
 “vanity” addresses (e.g. https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/  - with or
 without SSL cert; http://silkroad6ownowfk.onion/welcomeetc.).
  
*** I think vanity addresses for onion sites, being easier to remember,
can be harder to forge.  I bet you typed the facebook one from memory.
That's a very good point for them, because then facebookcarewwwi.onion
might not trick you, if someone has the sheer luck of finding a private
key for that one.  So that may come as a positive security point.

Nevertheless, silkroad* has had more variants, and less memorable than
the exceptional facebook one, so unless you're very careful about the
original address you've visited, you might be phished into visiting a
fake onion site.

TLS certificates should not be issued to non-DNS entities, such as onion
services, because the client may verify the validity of that certificate
by contacting one or more external URLs, especially URLs outside of the
onion space, and that may lead to a breach of privacy, also because
looking up the .onion in the DNS is not supposed to happen.

So self-signed certificates add a layer of encryption on top of Tor's,
but the recent official grant of a certificate to facebookcorewwwi.onion
is actually a mistake, as TLS certificates belong to DNS, while .onion
domains are not resolvable by DNS mechanisms.  This has been a concern
for a while, and some people are working on having this issue recognized
by IETF and sanctioned by IANA to instruct ICANN to reserve the .onion
pseudo-TLD out of the DNS TLDs. [0]

 What types of due diligence data can be found on the Deep Web (please
 provide specific .onion URLs) and what service do you use to access it
 (e.g. search engine, BrightPlanet, etc.) – regarding:

*** I cannot answer that question.

==
hk

[0] I-D. Special-Use Domain Names of Peer-to-Peer Systems, currently
expired, latest draft at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names/,
soon to be updated with new information relevant to the above-mentioned
case.

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Re: [liberationtech] Tech: Problem or Solution? (Saturday at Stanford at 7pm)

2014-11-15 Thread hellekin
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On 11/14/2014 06:30 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
 From: *Stanford Transhumanist Association*
 transhuman...@lists.stanford.edu mailto:transhuman...@lists.stanford.edu
 
 The Stanford Transhumanist Associationis excited to announce our first
 event of the year:
 
 
 Zoltan vs. Zerzan https://www.facebook.com/events/832564993462598/:
 Transhumanism and Primitivism.
 
 
 We’re hosting a debate between two individuals with radically different
 views about the future of humanity.
 
 
 Zoltan Istvan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltan_Istvanis a futurist,
 journalist (HuffPo, Psychology Today), and bestselling author who writes
 about politics, atheism, and transhumanism. He strongly defends the view
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zoltan-istvan/some-futurists-arent-worried_b_4786325.htmlthat
 technology has the potential to fundamentally transform human existence
 in positive ways, such as the elimination of involuntary aging and disease.
 
 
 John Zerzan http://johnzerzan.net/articles/(class of ‘66) holds the
 opposite view: technology (and civilization) is to blame for all of
 humanity’s suffering. He gained prominence in 1995 as a confidant to the
 Unabomber
 http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/07/us/prominent-anarchist-finds-unsought-ally-in-serial-bomber.html,
 embracing his philosophy (but condemning his violent actions). He argues
 that we need to abandon our pursuit of technology and return to the
 positive principles found in primitive societies if we are ever to be
 satisfied and live in harmony.
 
 
 Join us this Saturday, November 15th at 7 PMin the Geology Corner
 Auditorium(320-105) to witness Zoltan and Zerzan debate the issues at
 the core of their disagreement. After the debate (around 8:15pm), you
 will have the chance to meet Zoltan and Zerzan, as well as the
 transhumanists and green anarcho-primitivists that inhabit Stanford. The
 authors will have signed copies of their books for sale.
 
 
 tl;dr debate re: tech vs. anti-tech saturday 11/15 @ 7pm
 
 
 Nanobots vs. Hunter-gatherers!
 
 Cyborgs vs. Dinosaurs!
 
 Zoltan vs. Zerzan!

*** This is a stupid way to frame the debate.  Technology is not about
either you're with us or you're against us, that is a childish and
imbecile statement.

The problem of technology is framed in terms of availability of
resources, feasability, desirability.  I don't think people would like
surgery to disappear.  However, there's a lot of techonology that does
not bring anything good to humanity or life on Earth.  The extractivist
model of governance is essentially destructive, and yet all modern
technology heavily relies on it.  That is the real debate to have: how
to make technology that can allow 10-billion human population to thrive
without destroying the balance that supports life in the biosphere.

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Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread hellekin
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On 11/11/2014 09:00 AM, J.M. Porup wrote:
 If it helps, think of it as a Venn diagram. There is one set, that of
 profitable scalable innovation. There is another set, that of F/LOSS
 that give users digital freedom. Is there an intersection between
 these two sets? What will we find if look?

*** Underpaid knowledge workers?  How do you reconcile profit with
decent work conditions?  In a world where competition and cutting costs
at any price are the norm to commit to growth, how do you make the switch?

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Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread hellekin
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On 11/11/2014 10:58 AM, J.M. Porup wrote:
 
 It's been said the hardest part of solving any problem is to state the
 problem clearly. I cannot offer any answers.
 
 At least not yet.
 
*** Thank you very much for tackling it though.  It's a hard problem.

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Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-10 Thread hellekin
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On 11/10/2014 02:12 PM, Jesse Krembs wrote:
 I believe there is a distinct motivational conflict of interest for
 Angel/VC folks, and liberation tech related ideas. 
 VC want a 100 mill return, lib-techers don't care, they want to change
 the world. 
 
 This isn't to say such things don't exist to certain degree, but either
 party ends of making some serious core compromises to achieve closure..

*** Indeed, there's an inherent conflict of interest.  But free
software, free hardware, and liberation technologies suffer a systematic
lack of resources.  If the only alternative to capital investment is
either to rely on crowdfunding (i.e. pre-sales) or on DARPA/DoD/NSA/CIA
funding, or EU funding, we cannot go much further: we're working with
blood money.

You're not alone thinking about how to turn existing financial resources
into community-empowering investments.  There's a complete misalignment
of values between profit-making ventures (supposed to be evil) and
care-taking endeavors (supposed to be non-profitable).  This needs to
change, one way or another, because the profit motive is not going to
take us off course of smashing against the solid wall of reality:
infinite growth fueled by quantum jumps in technological progress won't
prevent progress and growth from self-destroying our species.  In
science, when the theory do not match the experimental results, you
change the theory, you don't insist on reproducing the same failing
experiments over and over.  But in business, apparent success (short
term, revenue intensive market approval) seldom comes with actual
sustainability (long term, reproducible and renewable,
community-empowering, ecosystem-rich approval).

So if investors actually care for their children's children, and other
people's children, and the success of humanity on Earth as a species,
they will realize that there's no exit strategy to this planet except
death.  Is growing capital now profitable?  Yes.  Is it profitable in
the long run?  Probably not.  Is care-taking profitable?  No.  Can we
make it profitable?  That is the question.

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Re: [liberationtech] Jobs at Aggrigator

2014-11-03 Thread hellekin
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On 11/03/2014 07:01 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
 
 A quick summary below. Aggrigator Inc. - Priceline meets Uber of
 Fruits  Vegetables.Market: India and North America 2015,
 2016-17 – China, London  Africa
 
 [snip]
 
 We also have a $4B agri strategic investor with a supplyside base of over 1m+ 
 farmers.
 
*** Let me guess... It's not liberation technology.

Oh, Syngenta!  Helping destroy millenia of perfectly sound agriculture.

No, thank you.

==
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Re: [liberationtech] FYI: Making Connections to Facebook more Secure

2014-10-31 Thread hellekin
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On 10/31/2014 09:39 AM, Nariman Gharib wrote:
 
 https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
 
*** That is an experiment.  Tor usage is likely to remain marginal on
Facebook.  But what if it doesn't?  Absorbing the traffic of Facebook
users into the Tor network would likely disrupt the assumptions of
anonymity of all users: obviously Facebook users would not be anonymous,
although their origin would--but it's probably marginal in the way FB
identifies its users.

When AOL put a server on IRC, suddenly the stable population of IRC
Undernet was invaded, like central Chinese by the Han to trump
rebellion: one day you're a solid majority, the next day you're a loud
minority.

Would Facebook account for the increased bandwidth?  Would they give a
billion dollars contribution to TorServers.net or would they rather
setup their own relays?  What happens to my anonymity if a major player
does lift the anonymity of the majority of users?

==
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Re: [liberationtech] China Internet Network Information Center is a trusted root CA

2014-10-28 Thread hellekin
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FYI, a couple hours after receiving your email, DNSOP announced an IETF
session in Hong-Kong sponsored by CNNIC (Quoting):

Subject: [DNSOP] Workshop on DNS Future Root Service Architecture, Hong
Kong, December 8-9, 2014 (SAVE THE DATE)

This two day workshop will focus on the DNS root service architecture
issues raised by two current Internet Drafts:

1. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dnsop-root-loopback-00
   Decreasing Access Time to Root Servers by Running One on Loopback
   W. Kumari, Ed.; P. Hoffman

2. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lee-dnsop-scalingroot-00
   How to scale the DNS root system?
   Xiaodong Lee; Paul Vixie; Zhiwei Yan

These two drafts take very different approaches to the problem of
increasing root zone availability to recursive name servers. In this
workshop we will explore the differences and similarities, with an eye
towards revising both drafts and clarifying their roles in the DNS root
service architecture.

(End quote)

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Re: [liberationtech] Something wrong with Riseup

2014-08-07 Thread hellekin
On 08/07/2014 12:34 PM, Amin Sabeti wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I tried to login to https://mail.riseup.net but it shows me this message: 
 
 Hello - you are visiting fulvetta.riseup.net
 http://fulvetta.riseup.net, this host is no longer available. Please
 go to https://mail.riseup.net instead, please update your bookmarks!
 
 Do you have any idea?
 
*** You must have hit the site while the last line of this question of
the FAQ was being implemented:

*

Webmail options

Currently, Riseup offers two options for webmail:

SquirrelMail: squirrelmail is more simple and does not require
javascript.
IMP: if you don’t like squirrelmail, maybe try IMP.

In the future, we plan to migrate to using RoundCube for webmail.

*

cf. https://mail.riseup.net/rc/ (Old webmail (squirrelmail only) and
Where did Horde/imp go?)

Cheers,

==
hk


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Re: [liberationtech] Ecuador towards the pos-capitalism: copyleft politics

2014-06-10 Thread hellekin
On 06/09/2014 08:00 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote:
 Bernardo,
 
 This and other news from Flok Society is inspiring. But I find it useful to 
 force a critical perspective. Thus
   * What actual policies is the national government of Ecuador taking 
 that adopt Free/Libre Open Knowledge recommendations arising from this (and 
 other, some continuing) process?
 
   * Nations are complicated, and they do not really speak with one voice 
 expressing one single interest. Ecuador has not shown itself to be exempt 
 from this. Even as it allows for community enterprise, it also works to 
 exploit its oil wealth. This raises the question: How are these economic and 
 social forces to be reconciled? Is there to be more transparency and 
 accountability for the oil industry's actions in the country? (Accountability 
 could mean here something more than just announcing it. It could mean being 
 subject to the popular will, and especially the will of those most affected. 
 That will could be made manifest via modern means.)
 
 Thanks
 louis
 
*** Here comes some critical perspective from Gordon Cook:
http://www.cookreport.com/pdfs/July-augCRecuadorfinal.pdf

Disclaimer: I was interviewed regarding my attempt and early failure at
participating in the project.  I recommend reading the report, but also
with some distance.  The ethical failure of several people involved do
not mean the whole project is to throw away.  Nevertheless, it seems
clear to me that the path chosen to reach the ends tell a lot about the
failure to embrace a critical perspective.

One thing that I find important in that respect is the naive approach of
FLOK regarding the Latin American way of government: populism walks hand
in hand with northern corporations to ensure Western control (read:
plunder) of natural resources.  Lately, this tactics has seen the
sweeping rise of Chinese influence, as demonstrated by the pre-sale of
Ecuador's underground resources, e.g. in the Yasuni National Park, to
foment progress.

==
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Re: [liberationtech] Sign the Freedom of Information and Expression-Declaration!

2014-04-03 Thread hellekin
On 04/03/2014 03:36 PM, Christian Fuchs wrote:
 Thanks for the collection.

*** Indeed, thanks a lot.

 On the one hand I do not see why one should stop declaring and
 petitioning as long as the world is bad and the Internet endangered.

*** Indeed, and that's part of the problem of unity through diversity.
 There's no single source of knowledge, and it's hard to keep track of
everything, let alone read or agree to everything.

 On the other hand there is a qualitative difference between neoliberal
 declarations that want to fully open up the Internet to corporate
 domination (e.g. Toffler...) and others that try to save it from such
 control...

*** Seconded.  There's an awful lot of literature referring to The
Future, as if the godlike position of the objective observer had not
been shattered by the General Relativity more than a Century ago.

Yet, we can read in all corporate media that we'd better get used to
technology as it happens faster than we can think about it, it's
unstoppable, and There Is No Alternative, etc.  Well sorry, technology
is not an object, and less of a commodity. It's part of humanity, and
its neutrality is entirely illusory and propagandist.  Instead it's
highly political and ethical, and the neoliberal version of it all is
not only a ridiculous fraction of humanity's timeline, it's also one of
the most reactionary, suicidal, and irrational of all.  But that's my
opinion.

That unique vision of technological-progress-through-free-markets became
so pervasive and undisputed that even a supposedly radically
emancipatory and anti-capitalist project such as the FLOK Society in
Ecuador promotes a confusing discourse where Ecuadorians express the
social knowledge economy in terms of victimization of their own
culture having been deprived of access to Occidental knowledge and must
get out of mediocrity.  The absolute colonization of the technophile
human thought perspires through all its pores.

It's unthinkable nowadays to criticize the Californian ideology without
being pointed at as a luddite or an anti-American or as a technophobe.
Well, that's it.  I needed to vent it out.

==
hk

P.S.: the Avaaz site is not Tor-friendly or there's a growing number of
Tor exit nodes abused so that webmasters will block them.


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Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread hellekin
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On 02/25/2014 09:05 AM, David Berry wrote:
 
 Hi
 
 I hope you don’t mind my announcing my new book
 
*** I gather the AIR-L[0] would be a better place for this.

The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association
dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field of
Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting
critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional
disciplines and existing cross academic borders. The association is
international in scope.

 critical theory in light of current questions over cryptography,
 
*** You may have seen my recent critique[1] about exactly that point
on the Unlike-Us mailing-list, that ended with: I thought the role of
intellectuals was to anticipate change and not to follow trends, open
ways, and not fill gaps.  If you didn't, I'll be happy to share it
with you (the list archives are not public).

Regards,

==
hk

[0] http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
[1] http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/unlike-us_listcultures.org

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Re: [liberationtech] New Book: Critical Theory and the Digital

2014-02-25 Thread hellekin
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On 02/25/2014 08:31 PM, David Berry wrote:
 
 Books want to be free. They may be costly to make, edit, proofread
 and copyedit, distribute, etc. but it only takes a visit to the
 library with a smartphone and an app or someone able to hack the
 DRM in the ePub to change the situation. This is the argument of
 this book, and I think the point of liberation tech too.
 
*** The author calling for piracy reminds me of a software company...
Ah, yes, Microshaft.  It would be so much better if the author would
provide a way for himself and others to not have to break the law in
order to access his argument promoting cracking DRM to change the
situation.

Some authors are very successful selling books online for a dollar
fifty, while providing a gratis download as well (on-line is the new
library) and nourishing the Creative Commons without using nor
encouraging the use of bad technology that works against the culture
they're willing to promote. How much does the DRM cost in the process
of delivering books at 44 cents a page?

Then again, what is liberating in pirating copyrighted materials?

If the argument of the book is to pirate it, then how do you want the
people who make, edit, proofread and copyedit, distribute, etc. make a
living out of their--your work?

Of course, if you're already paid by the University, it's another
story, but I doubt the whole chain is thriving on taxpayers' money.

The point of LiberationTech, as far as I understood it, is not to
pirate proprietary systems, but to create free systems. One of the
arguments that has been repeated many times on this list is that any
proprietary software making it to the list is not worth mentioning,
because, not being free, it's not secure, and therefore cannot be
considered a part of the liberating toolset.

Cheers,

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] Hacking Team and the Targeting of Ethiopian Journalists

2014-02-14 Thread hellekin
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On 02/14/2014 02:30 PM, Morgan Marquis-Boire wrote:
 Thanks Frank,
 
 Thanks for the kind words. The ubiquitous targeting of journalists
  is very concerning.
 
*** Indeed it is. Thank you for this report. I find troubling though
that an actor is singled out in a mess of complex interactions. I
don't think a Virginia-based satellite company is more recommendable
than a Milan-based government-only surveillance company.

There seems to be a general trend, not just in your paper, to
systematically attack governments and polarize the discourse towards
their bad practice, and the lackey private companies that serve them.
I find it troubling because it promotes simple, polarized views and
scapegoating, and proves counter-productive as far as the resistance
to surveillance is concerned.

It's a pity that the general *reaction* to the Snowden Apocalypse is
total war on government, as it serves the very corporate interests
that avoid paying taxes and keeps expanding their control over minds
and resources all over the planet. If even Noam Chomsky raises the
flag of government, one can legitimately ponder any decision that
undermines any single actor and use that tree to hide the forest.
Beware of disinformation.

As far as Hacking Team, and the targeting of Ethiopian journalists are
concerned, I see that this company is selling a product to
institutions that use it for their own interest. What's the surprise
there? Looking anywhere for issues works: there are issues everywhere.
Assessing them is important, but there is a limit as to what to
target. I think Hacking Team is just one of the many actors in a very
damageable industry. Just one.

Such an industry would certainly be limited if citizens were
controlling their government. Political apathy is more troubling to me
than a company taking advantage of their technical know-how to make a
profit. And again, a VA-based satellite company operating in Ethiopia
sounds as suspect to me as your scapegoat.

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] [SocialSwarm-D] In Memoriam Aaron Swartz

2014-01-12 Thread hellekin
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On 01/12/2014 04:15 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
 
 It is true that Ted Nelson once described the web as packaging.
 The reason for this was that the browser existed already, as did
 forms of HTML.  HTTP was new as was the browser connected to the
 internet.  Also the first browser worldwideweb was an editor,
 functionality that was removed later.
 
 Aaron was a big believer in making the web better, and was a
 regular attendee at the Linked Data meetups in Boston.
 
 By all means honor his memory, we should all do this, but please
 try not to use tragedy to reflect your own personal views, which
 he may not have shared.
 
*** Your interpretation is paranoid. As you're the one mentioning the
Web and Linked Data, are you not the one who is abusing my genuine
remembrance to serve your own agenda?

In addition to explaining what Ted Nelson understands as packaging
vs. technology into a simplistic form, pushing meaning and intention
into my words that were never there, you're suggesting that you know
better what Aaron Swartz
would-have-thought-if-he-was-still-alive-one-year-later! Really, you
could have abstained from throwing such an abject comment, especially
sweetened from the attack you sent privately, accusing me of tacit
attack on the Web and telling me what to do or what not to do.

Stop projecting onto others your frustrations, Melvin. If you keep
seeing me as anti-Web, it's your problem, not mine. That does not
serve anything, and certainly not to respect anyone's memory.

==
hk
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[liberationtech] In Memoriam Aaron Swartz

2014-01-11 Thread hellekin
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One year ago, on January 11th, 2013, a young hacker dedicated to the
advancement of freedom, knowledge, and convinced of the power of
individuals and collectives to bring forth humane values for a more
egalitarian world, decided that he could not win the legitimate
struggle he had been fighting for since he was a child, and chose to
remove himself from our world, to comply with the corrupt order that
suppresses life where it flourishes, and punishes the just for wishing
to abide by the Constitution and general interest rather than the rule
of the powerful criminal few and their particular interests.

His shock at being excruciated for liberating knowledge that should be
public given the sources of its funding, and the purpose of its
creation, and to be persecuted for doing what is right according to
the spirit of his own country, and the narrative of the so-called free
world, cornered him into a dead end. It came as a hard deadline for
many of us, especially those close to him, for they knew the human
becoming that he was, where most of us could only recognize his genius
through his inspiring words and actions.

With his life, Aaron Swartz took for shroud the veil of the illusion
of the free world's narrative. Along with other suppressed freedom
fighters, Julian Assange, Barret Brown, Chelsea Manning, Edward
Snowden, etc., he contributed to demonstrate that however hard we want
to think about freedom, democracy, humanity, we're not there anymore:
that path and dream were stolen from us and we're like insects
following a light in the dark, taking it for the Sun, only to discover
when it's too late, that we've been lured into a death trap.

Repeating I knew, I knew won't do it this time.  It's time to
recover from the shock, and plant a new path, a new dreamscape, and
that must be one of caring and sharing, one of humane and human spirit
and community, and a path that can only be taken one by one, by each
of us, to become the drops that will grow into a rain and wash away
the nightmare that paranoid punishers want to impose on us.  Whatever
their narrative, we all know their ethics do not match their words,
however beautiful and inspiring they can be: their time is done, as
much as the time of kings and awe-inspired rulers was half-a-millenium
ago.  Our narrative must be complex, multiple, planetary, far-seeing,
and will impose itself by the numbers, and not by force.

Hackers can only act so far as to constrain the technology to embed
this ethics and this dreamscape into code, and choose to orient the
politics of the technique towards personal empowerment, and collective
freedom.  There's no technological solution to mental slavery, but
indeed there's a tension built-in the tools we make, that can help
anyone to make choices for themselves and the rest of us.

If the Nasty Stooges of America founded its cosmogony on George
Orwell's 1984, we must stick to our fundamentals, and see how the
military machine of the Listeners has in the 20th Century been
subverted, appropriated, and expanded by the likes of Alan Turing,
Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart, John C. Licklider, and many more to build
the Internet, this revolutionary expansion of the individual mind,
into a reflection of a collective mind, and an enabler of collective
intelligence that is revealing the complexity of our social agency.

We must use it as a tool not to build more technology, that most of it
would be qualified by Ted Nelson as packaging, but to bring
ourselves together into solving the most pressing and global
challenges that humanity has been facing in its recorded history:
world hunger, unleashing of fanaticisms, proliferation of nuclear
weapons, degradation of the biosphere[0], etc. for humanity to succeed
despite the obvious will or suicidal panic of a few.

This is an omni-directional endeavor of unprecedented proportions and
not one single individual can understand all the keys to make it
happen--neither will any single non-human institution such as a
nation-state nor a corporation. But together, given the right
narrative, the will to succeed, the tools to facilitate our will, and
the tools to make it difficult and fastidious to oppose us, we shall
prevail[1].

Nobody should be able to cut the wings of another Aaron Swartz, and
the Aaron Swartz that still lives in each of us should be another
shield against arbitrary, uninformed, fanatic, cruel, and idiotic
decisions that wish to punish instead of educating.  When society
turns against its own subjects, we can diagnose metastasis.  It's time
for a cure.

==
hk

[0] In the words of Edgard Morin
[1] In the purity of essence of our bodily fluids.
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Re: [liberationtech] Twister: P2P Decentralized Microblogging

2014-01-10 Thread hellekin
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On 01/10/2014 05:18 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
 
 But if you've got GNS up and running why do you need Namecoin?
 
*** Indeed, you don't, but the probable scenario is co-existence of
various systems. Already the Namecoin specs supports resource records
for Tor and I2P in addition to .bit and regular DNS.

I had a discussion with zzz from I2P about the possibility to run I2P
and Gnunet on the same host, and have mechanisms to make it
transparent for the user to jump from one network to the other. Just
brainstorming really, but IMO the one ring to rule them all solution
is a bit 20th Century. Fragmentation of the online self sounds safer
anyway.

That said, I'm curious of hearing about various P2P microblogging
systems. And happy new year.

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] NSA: The Game!

2013-12-03 Thread hellekin
On 12/02/2013 01:51 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote:
 From the brightest minds on the Cypherpunks list comes an NSA game
 you can play with your friends :3
 
*** Awesome!  Definitely want to play that game during 30C3.  Maybe
with actual NSA agents? grin

Maybe with a few amendments though:

1. Spanking instead of killing NSA agents.  After all, they're not CIA
nor JSOC, and they'd better be ashamed of what they're doing, than
innocent Internet users becoming evil.

2. Handle defection: an NSA agent can choose to defect, and become a
Snowden.  In order to do this, he has to identify an EFF member, and get
their protection, without the other NSA agents noticing.  That can
happen during the day phase via secret messages.  Once the EFF member
protects the defecting NSA agent, the agent becomes a declared Snowden
immediately.  That means the defecting NSA agent automatically requires
EFF protection from now on, and other Snowdens can thus not be protected
anymore by that EFF member (unless the NSA choses not to kill that
Snowden, while the EFF member choses not to protect him).  In the event
the defecting NSA agent failed to identify an EFF member correctly, he's
automatically eliminated from the game (and does not count as a move for
other NSA agents for this turn).

3. NSA reinforcement: to balance the game and not make it too
interesting for NSA agents to defect, NSA can choose to subvert an
innocent Internet user instead of putting her aside.  The subverted
player becomes an FBI informant. Her role is to divert an EFF member
from protecting a Snowden, or to confuse a Snowden about an NSA agent's
identity.  Before Snowden's turn, the FBI informant chooses a player: if
that player is a Snowden, his upcoming move against an NSA agent is
neutralized (i.e. the moderator will not tell that Snowden whether his
chosen target for this turn is an NSA agent or not: but the Snowden will
know they have been subjected to FBI interference, without knowing the
origin) ; if that player is an EFF member, they will not be able to
protect a Snowden for this turn. Instead, they will be able to expose
the FBI informant, and give the opportunity to an innocent Internet user
to join the cause and become an EFF member. At this point, the FBI
informant is lost, and the player becomes an EFF member instead.

4. Cascading-Style Shit (happens) Optionally, If more than one NSA
agent is defecting at a time, both are lost (and the players out of the
game), and NSA gets a free kill.  If that kill puts out an innocent
Internet user, the player is turned into an EFF member instead.  But if
that kill gets a Snowden, the NSA agents are back in the game, and EFF
loses a member (that is, roles are redistributed by the moderator among
non-declared players using shuffled cards, with one more NSA card, and
one less EFF card--that means, the NSA agents playing that dangerous
option are not certain to keep playing on that side).

==
hk

[0] https://events.ccc.de/congress/2013/wiki/Session:Board/Card_games
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Re: [liberationtech] Special-Use Domain Names of Peer-to-Peer Systems

2013-11-15 Thread hellekin
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On 11/15/2013 05:44 PM, Hieroph4nt wrote:
 It says: Status of the submission: Cancelled.
 
*** Yes sorry, that's confusing.  The actual status page moved to:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names/

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[liberationtech] Special-Use Domain Names of Peer-to-Peer Systems

2013-11-13 Thread hellekin
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Hello,

in the last weeks, we've been working with Christian Grotthoff,
Matthias Wachs, Jacob Appelbaum, and the Tor and I2P developers to
publish an IESG Approval document for the reservation by IANA of five
special-use domain names [RFC6761] for p2p systems.

The document was just submitted to the IETF datatracker. [0]

It comes at the same time of the Wikileaks TPP draft that states:
Each party shall adopt or maintain a system for the management of its
country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) that provides: ... (b) online
public access to a reliable and accurate database of contact
information concerning domain-name registrants. [1]

Regards,

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hk

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/submit/status/55784/
[1] https://wikileaks.org/tpp/
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Re: [liberationtech] Snowden masks for Holloween?

2013-09-03 Thread hellekin
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On 09/03/2013 09:47 AM, ale fernandez wrote:
 maybe stick your head in a photocopier/scanner, or photograph
 yourself looking snowden-like, and print out a mask of your own
 face.
 
*** Beats the idea of being anonymous though. Guy Fawkes, besides
being romanticized by Alan Moore, was recuperated by Hollywood, and
the GF-mask-market probably contributed its fair share to finance the
struggle of the MPAA vs. the people to ensure that everyone is a
pirate, everyone is a criminal, everyone is a terrorist.

In that sense, shifting from Guy Fawkes masks (TM) to Ed. Snowden
masks would simply reaffirm the original intent of Alan Moore, and
Anonymous, and re-appropriate the myth with our own memes, and not one
imposed by marketing, and the very power machine that we are
denouncing and opposing.

Wearing a Guy Fawkes mask is like saying: I recognize myself as a
bomber against a corrupted establishment, I support
propaganda-by-the-fact, hence you are right to oppose violence to me;
while wearing a Snowden mask is more akin to: you-in-a-power-position
are telling me I'm a terrorist, a liar, a defector, a traitor, and
you're treating me like a criminal. But I'm no criminal. I'm a
citizen, a honest citizen. My only crime is telling the truth, and
exposing your crimes. You're the criminal, you're the one who's using
violence against the truthful force of my integrity.

==
hk

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[liberationtech] Lockbox receives $2.5m to encrypt the cloud

2013-08-30 Thread hellekin
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Why don't investors ask LibTech first?

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/lockbox-aims-to-nsa-proof-the-cloud

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Re: [liberationtech] In his own words: Confessions of a cyber warrior

2013-07-10 Thread hellekin
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On 07/10/2013 08:08 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
 
 See http://blog.fefe.de/
 
*** Agreed, that seems to be a PsyOp to scare hackers away from the US
State secrets, or hire young kids.  Very badly done though.

If that super elite guy is so meticulous about keeping his
anonymity, and never got caught bypassing security systems, he
certainly does not care about remaining anonymous to his employer: how
many cyber warriors are there
  - among 5000,
  - stationed in Northern Virginia,
  - a foreigner from a country where Radio Shack operates,
  - a drop out at 15,
  - a musician in a hardcore rap/EDM band,
  - who went to Florida in the last month.

C'm'on. If that is not sanctioned by his hierarchy, the smart guy
just put himself in trouble (or maybe he wanted to be able to retire
earlier).

All that is certain about this piece is that Cyber Command hires
people looking for money, without ethics, and who prefer toying with
great technology rather than caring about the world in which they're
supposed to live. Who's the advertising company?

==
hk

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[liberationtech] PRISM and an Agenda for European Network

2013-07-04 Thread hellekin
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I want to thank Christian Grothoff and his team(s) for the exceptional
work they're doing on GNUnet. Christian gave an awesome presentation
at the Free University of Amsterdam a couple of days ago, and the
slides are available as a PDF file. [1]

PRISM and an Agenda for European Network
Security Research
Another Turn of the Wheel: Mainframe, Desktop, Cloud, Peer

introduces the European situation in the light of the PRISM
surveillance program of the NSA, with good insight on its dimensions,
and goes on to describe how the GNUnet framework is offering a viable
solution to the decentralization problem.

Highlights (with personal comments):

* Current practice of encryption on the Internet: send everything to
the USA in plaintext

* NSA's upcoming Bluffdale datacenter is estimated to suck 65 MW power
consumption. Compare with the new super-computer of the Leibniz
Supercomputing Centre, SuperMuc:  3 MW, 155,656 cores, ≈ 3 Peta FLOPS

* US companies trade unpatched software vulnerabilities in exchange
for access to intelligence gathered from the NSA: i.e., there's a
vicious circle where NSA acquires more intelligence capability with
the help of businesses. Does that sound like fair trade, free
competition, ethical practice? Or collusion between big business and
government?

* US controls Internet infrastructure: IANA, DNS roots, DNSSec root
certificate, x509 Certificate authorities, i.e. it's compromised!

* Decentralize data and trust: end-to-end encryption, decentralized
PKI, decentralized data storage, no servers, no authorities

* current decentralized solutions are slower, more complex to use and
develop, do not benefit from economies of scale, and are harder to
secure and evolve

* in comparison, centralized solutions are... COMPROMISED!

* GNUnet seeks to make decentralized systems: faster, more scalable;
easier to develop, deploy, and use; easier to evolve and extend;
privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant, available, etc., AKA: secure.

I leave you the pleasure of discovering the details of GADS, RegEx
search, and PSYC.

Thank you grothoff and the GNUnet / Secushare teams!

==
hk

[1] http://grothoff.org/christian/uva2013.pdf
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[liberationtech] Is Ecuador the Safe Haven We Want to Believe In?

2013-06-26 Thread hellekin
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Ecuador won a huge credibility bump in hackerdom when it offered
political asylum to Julian Assange.  That is confirmed with Edward
Snowden jumping from HK to Ecuador via the Red Block to evade the
Angry Murder of U.S. crows. There is a pattern here: if you leak U.S.
secrets, you can go to Ecuador. How cool is that?

Unfortunately, the flip side of the Ecuadorian coin might not be as
bright as it seems. This BuzzFeed article [1] states that it received
exclusive leaks from Ecuador, and backs the documents with some
interesting records: first country to implement nationwide
facial+voice recognition, buyer of GSM Interceptor Israeli
surveillance gear, a series of press-controlling laws, etc.

Info? Intox? How relevant is nationwide for such a small country?
How much cocaine money went into building this up? [2] Should hackers
and whistleblowers praise Ecuador, or stay away from it? [3]

Note the update on June 26th, quoted from the article [1]:

The people who provided BuzzFeed with these documents say that they
attempted to leak them to WikiLeaks three days ago, but were
unsuccessful. WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson called this claim
?false? and said ?No one in our team recognises having been approached
with such material as you describe.?

==
hk

[1]
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/exclusive-documents-illuminate-ecuadors-spying-practices
[2] http://wlcentral.org/node/2811
[3] http://wlcentral.org/node/2829
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Re: [liberationtech] Call for Participants @ Noisy Square - Putting the Resistance back in OHM

2013-06-24 Thread hellekin
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On 06/24/2013 08:39 PM, Jurre andmore wrote:
 
 I don't see how this stands-up. Next to that, the AIVD/MIVD hasn't
 deployed a nationwide eavesdropping setup for internet unlike the
 Swedes, Germans and Americans.
 
*** Does anyone remember the low altitude AWACS stunt at HAL2001?

Do not be fooled. Cops are cops. They work for the politico-legal
system, and the system tells that hackers are terrorists.

Surely, there won't be any arrest, and there will be clueless cops
asking for tips to download illegal music. And there will be more
smoke to throw at your eyes to catch you off-guard, sooner or later.

First thing, as nothing special will happen, many attendants will look
at Eleanor, Jake, and other voices as paranoids the next time they
tell the truth.

Of course, there's nothing different between OHM nor other
conferences: cops are present, they're watching, they're learning.
They surely even learn a lot of bullshit from their paranoid point of
view. And they can make that bullshit into a case that might even lead
them to some special.

The huge difference, and now it's not even related to OHM per se, is
the outlook people will take on the scene. Between those who will
consider police harmless, or dumb, or those who will take them as
friendly, or heroic, there we have a problem. The problem is not
police, it's not us vs. them. The problem is blurring the lines
between resistance to the society of control, and collaboration to
keep that corrupted system running.

Everyone wants to love the mayor on election day.

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] Call for Participants @ Noisy Square - Putting the Resistance back in OHM

2013-06-24 Thread hellekin
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On 06/24/2013 09:06 PM, Jurre andmore wrote:
 
 They are ramping such a system up but it isn't in place yet,
 remember, they are firing 600 people in the following years.
 
*** I guess you mean: outsourcing to the private sector.

==
hk

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Re: [liberationtech] Google defies FBI, asks federal judge to challenge National Security Letter

2013-04-05 Thread hellekin
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On 04/05/2013 01:20 PM, Nicholas Merrill wrote:
 
 In my humble opinion, Google deserves to be commended for taking
 this action which it did not have to take !
 
*** Isn't the FBI is getting for free what they usually sell? Isn't
that a good enough incentive? Sure they're doing the right thing, this
time.

But I smell a trend in the last few weeks of enthusiastic
announcements for progress of this, and leaks of that. But there are
*details* that really look suspicious to me:

- - Google wants your information, it's their plan, and their business.
That they don't want to share it with the FBI is probably a good
thing, but it doesn't change their plan.

- - The recent OffshoreLeaks sound great, and are important, but I'm
(not) very surprised there's nobody really important there, just some
adequate puppets, so far. The real beneficiaries of offshore banking
are still hiding. Is that because the British Virgin Islands were
deemed expandable, or because we don't have the whole picture yet?

- - The shortlist of State Enemies of the Internet given by the
Reporters Without Borders is the most suspicious of all: Bahrain,
China, Iran, Syria, Vietnam. To everybody else, the actual enemies
would be the ones sitting on the UN Security Council, and another for
good measure: USA (ACTA? CISPA? NSL? NSA Bunker? StuxNet? Aaron
Swartz?), Israel (Stuxnet?), Russia, UK, France (Amesys, wow!), the
entire EU, Myanmar/Burma (hey, need to remember those racist buddhists
oppressing poor Muslims sometimes, unless it's politically incorrect
to do so?), etc. but no: instead they're pointing at the designated
enemies of U.S. interests. (http://surveillance.rsf.org/en/)

It's become so difficult not to lose one's mind over paranoia, nor to
abandon all hope of seeing the light. The media landscape looks more
and more like a polarized lens to demonize the enemy (hint: you're
part of it) and sneak war propaganda everywhere. If I were in London,
I would bet on the declaration of war on Iran before Spring 2014.

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] skype

2013-03-30 Thread hellekin
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On 03/30/2013 11:04 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
 
 Microsoft, like many corporations, employs professional spokesliars
 who are very, very good at crafting wording that can be defended
 (should it come to that) but which doesn't present the truth in a
 straightforward fashion.  That's their JOB.  After all: anyone
 there could tell the truth -- it's not hard.  But it takes a
 trained and practiced professional to evade it, obscure it, conceal
 it, dance around it in convincing fashion -- and even use it in
 limited ways when it serves the purpose.
 
*** Too long for a tweet; awesome prose!

 
 That said, though, even if I'm right on all those points, that's
 not going to stop people from using it.  And that's where *you're*
 right: I wish you weren't, but you are, and I don't know how to fix
 that situation.
 
*** I don't know either, but Jitsi provides such a good alternative to
Skype that the only blocking feature is the social network: when
people using skype intensively decide to switch to Jitsi (or other
SIP-compatible clients), it's done. Is it merely a matter of marketing
and network effect? Is it a matter of promoting SIP services at ISP
level? How to beat the inertia of a bad habit?

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] What's wrong with the kids these days? - On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene

2013-03-28 Thread hellekin
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On 03/26/2013 04:03 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
 
 I find the observations in the article extremely grim and
 depressing - it is largely as a matter of agreement, I might add.
 
*** +1

 Consider this as a threat not only to the Dutch democratic
 processes but also to the notion that the Netherlands is somehow
 independent in terms of law-enforcement and intelligence. Surely,
 one would not jest that the FBI deployed with the Dutch police
 would serve the Dutch police first, right?
 
*** Last year, I met Rick van Buro [1] at an event organized by the
squatter group Schijnheilig [2] in Amsterdam. Rick and his group have
been spending the last 25 years researching Dutch law enforcement and
documenting the extension of power and repressive legislation in the
country.

He mentioned the increasing influence of the Mossad--Israel secret
service--in the Netherlands: he estimated that Mossad gets all of the
intelligence gathered, while 80% goes to the USA, and only 60% go to
the local law enforcement agencies.

- From other sources, it's easy to find that the Mossad has been
training European police forces in Commando Krav Maga (deadly hand
combat technique used in the Israeli military) and crowd control
techniques. The militarization of police forces around the world is an
obvious fact to those curious enough to look at it.

The issue at hand is certainly not increasing crime--although crime
related to poverty rises with it, but rather an increased
criminalization of regular citizens. Just look at the systematic
repression of peaceful social movements over the world in the last
couple of years.

 
 With that said, the complicity of hackers in these kinds of actions
 is beyond loathsome. Rather than helping to actually secure our
 systems, we see compromises that undermine the very core of our
 modern world. [snip] Hackers and those who are technically literate
 have a responsibility to consider the larger issues at stake. Those
 who don't, who just follow orders, who use simplistic self-serving
 reasoning in place of thoughtful ethics - those people are building
 a world where most of humanity will be subservient to such
 architecture.
 
*** Ditto.

==
hk

[1] http://www.burojansen.nl/
[2]
http://schijnheilig.org/2012/02/0803-politiedossier-opvragen-met-buro-jansen-en-janssen-2100/
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Re: [liberationtech] What's wrong with the kids these days? - On the moral decay of the Dutch hacker scene

2013-03-28 Thread hellekin
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On 03/28/2013 10:51 AM, Lex van Roon wrote:
 
 Without any factual evidence this is just speculation imho. Do you
 have some publicly accessible sources that can confirm these
 facts?
 
*** Please define this and these. I suppose you're referring to the
mention of Mossad. You might be right, and it's probably a slip on my
part to generalize their influence--besides the fact they won't
advertise doing it. I've got that information from word of mouth while
in Amsterdam, so it might just be a rumor.

But that rumor has some truth in it, and that's the militarization of
police forces around the world, that is well documented and
self-evident given the evolution of their gear.

For the part concerning the research of Jansen  Jansen, I guess
you're more able as a Dutch to figure this out for yourself, using the
link I already provided.

Regards,

==
hk
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Re: [liberationtech] Crypho

2013-03-26 Thread hellekin
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On 03/26/2013 05:24 AM, Yiorgis Gozadinos wrote:
 
 Is the js I am running in my browser the same as the js that
 everybody else is?.
 
*** The LibreJS project [1] tries to solve that issue to ensure the
code is unmodified free software. There's probably room for cooperation.

Assuming Javascript code does not call other sources that will run in
the same space as the rest of it, and bypass the checks.

==
hk

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/
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Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread hellekin
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I'm also interested in a list in Spanish.

On 03/06/2013 07:03 PM, Robert Guerra wrote:
 Ya existe una lista con enfoque en LAC. Aqui los detalles -
 
 RedLatAm mailing list redla...@lists.accessnow.org
 mailto:redla...@lists.accessnow.org 
 https://lists.accessnow.org/listinfo/redlatam
 
*** Should we use that one, or start fresh?

Does it make sense to have the list hosted at Stanford?
Is Stanford providing some service than the Spanish-speaking list
would benefit from?

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Re: [liberationtech] Hispanohablantes / Spanish-Speaking LibTech Community

2013-03-07 Thread hellekin
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On 03/07/2013 05:12 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
 The list is not at Stanford.  It's at OTP.
 
*** Liberationtech is at Stanford, isn't it?

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Re: [liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote

2012-12-31 Thread hellekin
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On 12/30/2012 10:33 PM, André Rebentisch wrote:
 Am 30.12.2012 22:31, schrieb Gregory Foster:
 ~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.
 
 I remember that I was quite a bit annoyed by their defaitism.
 
*** Thank you Gregory for that useful compilation.

Yes André, and Jake's speech was very inspiring. I felt very confident
in the work I've been doing over the last year, trying to enable a
critical mass of free software developers in the field of social
networking. (Shameless self-promotion:) It gave birth to the
GNU/consensus project[1], which was launched yesterday, after a
two-months hickup.

I'm looking forward to work with like-minded initiative from NLnet
Foundation's Michiel Leenaars that was also announced at 29C3, during
a lightning talk: http://NetworkEffectAlliance.org/

In the same vein of optimist projects, http://movecommons.org/ seems
interesting.

Jake, did you get any hugs? I asked around to give you some on my
behalf. I'm your fanboy :)

Happy GNU year,

==
hk

[1] Toward a GNU Consensus on Free Software for Social Networking
https://gnu.org/consensus
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Re: [liberationtech] Jacob Appelbaum's 29C3 keynote

2012-12-31 Thread hellekin
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On 12/31/2012 08:41 PM, André Rebentisch wrote:
 
 What do you think about F2F networking models?
 
*** In the GNU/consensus Manifesto[1], I wrote the following:

Social Networking

Some people conflate social networks, which are the aggregate of
relationships that humans have, with online social network services
such as Facebook and, arguably, G+
? Howard Rheingold

Too often, the term social network is used interchangeably with social
network services, implying that the services themselves provide the
social network. But that's plain wrong: the social network is a human
cultural phenomenon, and a network service can at best facilitate it.

Cheers,

==
hk

[1] https://gnu.org/consensus/manifesto
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Re: [liberationtech] Mailvelope: OpenPGP Encryption for Webmail

2012-12-13 Thread hellekin
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On 12/11/2012 05:29 AM, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
 
 I'm interested whether there is any comparison (code-base wise or 
 feature wise) with the (unfortunately discontinued) FireGPG 
 (http://getfiregpg.org)
 
*** WebPG was created after FireGPG was discontinued. Did anyone on
this list already reviewed it? http://webpg.org/

==
hk
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