Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-14 Thread Stefan Claas
Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote: > CIA Agent 1: Swap out that NFC tag with the malicious one. > CIA Agent 2: But he put a little sticker on it! > CIA Agent 1: My God, all hope is lost Slightly OT, Germany's BSI just send out a couple of days ago *postal* mail to companies and organisations a

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-14 Thread Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users
CIA Agent 1: Swap out that NFC tag with the malicious one. CIA Agent 2: But he put a little sticker on it! CIA Agent 1: My God, all hope is lost On 10/14/20 2:09 AM, Stefan Claas wrote: > Ángel wrote: > >> On 2020-10-11 at 17:41 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: >>> I had not set a password, so that the

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-14 Thread Stefan Claas
MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Wednesday 14 October 2020 at 8:09:56 AM, in > , Stefan Claas wrote:- > > > > Alice can purchase tamper proof NFC stickers which > > when stripped off get > > destroyed. :-) > > And Eve's replacement sticker added over the top of the destroyed sticker. But this woul

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-14 Thread MFPA via Gnupg-users
Hi On Wednesday 14 October 2020 at 8:09:56 AM, in , Stefan Claas wrote:- > Alice can purchase tamper proof NFC stickers which > when stripped off get > destroyed. :-) And Eve's replacement sticker added over the top of the destroyed sticker. -- Best regards MFPA

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-14 Thread Stefan Claas
Ángel wrote: > On 2020-10-11 at 17:41 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > > I had not set a password, so that the recipients can play with it. > > With a password set the NFC tag can not be written to. > > > > Bob may be expecting to receive the safe, read-only NFC tag from Alice, > but Eve might

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-13 Thread Ángel
On 2020-10-11 at 17:41 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > > I had not set a password, so that the recipients can play with it. > With a password set the NFC tag can not be written to. > Bob may be expecting to receive the safe, read-only NFC tag from Alice, but Eve might have replaced it with a malici

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-12 Thread Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users
Probably a bit outside the scope of the list, but in my experience most users underestimate the risks involved in running their own servers.  Probably not anyone reading a GPG mailing list, but I only mention it because of the discussion of no-ip and DDNS stuff -- usually only tools used by non-com

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-11 Thread Stefan Claas
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día domingo, octubre 11, 2020 a las 03:55:25p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas > escribió: > > > > I haven't tested it, but it is wiely known, for example: > > > > > > https://gototags.com/blog/understanding-nfc-shortcuts-iphone > > > > Thanks, nice way to automate things wi

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día domingo, octubre 11, 2020 a las 03:55:25p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas escribió: > > I haven't tested it, but it is wiely known, for example: > > > > https://gototags.com/blog/understanding-nfc-shortcuts-iphone > > Thanks, nice way to automate things with iOS. Hmm, nice that others can rewri

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-11 Thread Stefan Claas
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día sábado, octubre 10, 2020 a las 09:04:18p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas > escribió: > > > > As one of the testers: Using an iOS system is not a real world option for > > > me > > > because the iOS can execute commands stored on the NFC tag and getting a > > > plain file

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, octubre 10, 2020 a las 09:04:18p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas escribió: > > As one of the testers: Using an iOS system is not a real world option for me > > because the iOS can execute commands stored on the NFC tag and getting a > > plain file out of the tag over to some UNIX laptop is

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-11 Thread John A. Leuenhagen via Gnupg-users
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:48:37AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > John A. Leuenhagen via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:27:24AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > Regarding the Internet as of today and Al Gores vision and the Internet > > > commerce etc. > > > > > > I always won

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-11 Thread Stefan Claas
John A. Leuenhagen via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:27:24AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > > Regarding the Internet as of today and Al Gores vision and the Internet > > commerce etc. > > > > I always wondered why it is not possible for me and probably many other > > people to no

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread John A. Leuenhagen via Gnupg-users
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:27:24AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > Regarding the Internet as of today and Al Gores vision and the Internet > commerce etc. > > I always wondered why it is not possible for me and probably many other > people to not get a *static* IPv6 address additionally when you sign

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread Stefan Claas
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día sábado, octubre 10, 2020 a las 03:57:39p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas > escribió: > > > Stefan Claas wrote: > > > > > Since I have started the thread publicity to let GnuPG users know > > > other communication forms and which can be be read everywhere, > > > without a

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, octubre 10, 2020 a las 03:57:39p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas escribió: > Stefan Claas wrote: > > > Since I have started the thread publicity to let GnuPG users know > > other communication forms and which can be be read everywhere, > > without access restrictions, it will be interesti

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread Stefan Claas
Stefan Claas wrote: > Since I have started the thread publicity to let GnuPG users know > other communication forms and which can be be read everywhere, > without access restrictions, it will be interesting to see if all > postcards will arrive ... ;-) Update. I received feedback from (not all*)

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-08 Thread Stefan Claas
Ángel wrote: [...] Apologies for not quoting your message content and deleting it. We all can probably discuss many more things about postal mail versus email, postman, Internet etc. and what not. For me the Internet spans, as a closed net/mesh, around the globe and therefore I do not see it as

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-08 Thread Ángel
On 2020-10-06 at 12:34 +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > Mark Fernandes wrote: > > Hello Mark, > > [...] > > > Hello Stefan. Forgive my ignorance, but I'm failing to see the > > significant > > benefit of such a method. Is what you are proposing similar to > > sending an > > encrypted message on CD

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-08 Thread Mark
Back in the old days of the internet there was ISP called Primenet (no longer around) that did give static IPs. I had one at that time.  Nowadays it seems like only possible with business accounts at at least with Cox, those are 2-3x the cost of residential ones. So unless you want to spend the coi

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-08 Thread Stefan Claas
Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 07/10/2020 23:27, Stefan Claas wrote: > > I always wondered why it is not possible for me and probably many other > > people to not get a *static* IPv6 address additionally when you sign up > > as private individual at an ISP of your choice? > > There isn't much cons

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-08 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
> There isn't much consumer demand for it (most people don't even know > what IPv6 is), so ISPs aren't going to spend time on it unless > there's something in it for them. Here in the United States, it is generally quite difficult for consumers to get -anything- except the bog-standard that their

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-08 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 07/10/2020 23:27, Stefan Claas wrote: > I always wondered why it is not possible for me and probably many other > people to not get a *static* IPv6 address additionally when you sign up > as private individual at an ISP of your choice? There isn't much consumer demand for it (most people don't

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan Claas
Stefan Claas wrote: [...] > Well, first of all, we should ask ourselves why in the world do people get > so many many services on the Internet for *free* ...? I think it has to do > with the U.S. Supremacy & Leadership role. Normally when you or me would > start a business you would need a lot of

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan Claas
Stefan Claas wrote: > MFPA wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > On Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 1:33:04 PM, in > > , Stefan Claas wrote:- > > > > > > > > > Later when Al Gore 'invented' the Internet > > > > I thought Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet in 1989. > > He was the inventor of the Wo

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan Claas
MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 1:33:04 PM, in > , Stefan Claas wrote:- > > > > > Later when Al Gore 'invented' the Internet > > I thought Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet in 1989. He was the inventor of the World Wide Web. And I had put the word invented in quo

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-07 Thread MFPA via Gnupg-users
Hi On Wednesday 7 October 2020 at 1:33:04 PM, in , Stefan Claas wrote:- > Later when Al Gore 'invented' the Internet I thought Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet in 1989. -- Best regards MFPA I miss civilisation and I w

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-07 Thread Stefan Claas
Mark Fernandes wrote: [...] Hello Mark, > Hello Stefan. I'm not saying hard-working, honest postmen would do this, > but not all postmen are necessarily hard-working and honest. How difficult > is it to steam-open an envelope, take a photo of the contents with your > smartphone, send it abroad,

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-07 Thread Mark Fernandes via Gnupg-users
> > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2020 12:34:43 +0200 > From: Stefan Claas > To: Mark Fernandes , > gnupg-users@gnupg.org > Subject: Re: Five volunteers needed (EU Are you sure that this is > really advantageous? > Message-ID: <20201006113425.7...@300ba

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-06 Thread Stefan Claas
Mark Fernandes wrote: Hello Mark, [...] > Hello Stefan. Forgive my ignorance, but I'm failing to see the significant > benefit of such a method. Is what you are proposing similar to sending an > encrypted message on CD via the post, that the recipient then gets > decrypted using the public key

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-06 Thread Mark Fernandes via Gnupg-users
> > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 17:37:57 +0200 > From: Stefan Claas > ... > Subject: Five volunteers needed (EU only please) > Message-ID: <20201005163757.3...@300baud.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi all, > > ... > My new