Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On > Behalf Of Rich Braun > > Please, flippant answers like that aren't helpful. No, Rich. Gordon is right. Your argument was "thug gets bank statement, holds gun to head," and you want plausible deniability, which you lost at

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Bill Horne
On 2/19/2015 7:07 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun Please, flippant answers like that aren't helpful. No, Rich. Gordon is right. Your argument was "thug gets bank statement, holds gun to head," and you

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Doug
Hello Rich: 1. I would make remembering a strong master password a condition for employment. Show them a video on choosing a good password. One way is to make a little non-sense sentence that can be visualized, sprinkling in numbers for words and punctuation. Explain calmly that they can be fir

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Gordon Marx
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Doug wrote: > 2. I would like to hear more about " tools for plausible-deniability of the > existence of secondary access codes". I don't quite know what that means. I think the idea is to give the ability to communicate to the system "Yes, I'm logging in, but I

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Eric Chadbourne
> On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Gordon Marx wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Doug wrote: >> 2. I would like to hear more about " tools for plausible-deniability of the >> existence of secondary access codes". I don't quite know what that means. > > I think the idea is to give the

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Doug
Say the thug Bob has a fidelity statement of Carl. It says there is $434,211.12 in Carl's account (this is certainly not my situation). Bob is going to keep Carl kidnapped for a week, so long as the money gets transferred to Bob's island account. Carl has been worried about this type of situatio

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread Rich Braun
Ned Harvey said thus: > The tiny grain of truth in your argument was that by forcing you > to log into *any* password manager, they've gained access to *all* > your stuff. Which is an argument against using any password > manager... > Plausible deniability is important in some cases. Not compatib

[Discuss] Does anyone here know someone who's been victimized?

2015-02-19 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
I have spoken with two IT people, whose servers had been compromised and used to deliver some sort of illegal content, presumably sold from malicious person 1 to malicious person 2 on the black market (silk road or whatever). Of course it's also possible to have things like a hacked dropbox or g

[Discuss] [JOB] Linux AWS Sys Admin - 100% Telecommute

2015-02-19 Thread Daniel Swift
My client is a rapidly growing technology company looking for the best and brightest technology talent to support our software development and client portfolio. They are currently looking for a Systems Admin within the United States to join the team. They are looking for a 100% telecommute Linux

Re: [Discuss] Most common (or Most important) privacy leaks

2015-02-19 Thread John Hall
I have not checked in on the conversation for some time so I'm sorry if this message is no longer relevant /redundant. Malware is a huge threat. The employees are your front line troops. Training is #1. If you start with how to secure themselves personally. Any hack of an employee secondarily expos