Our review:
http://www.mobileactive.org/safety-line-new-report-bbg-and-freedom-house-mobile-security.
Underwhelming.
On Aug 2, 2012 10:59 PM, "Robert Guerra" wrote:
> Thought this newly released report might be of interest to the Liberation
> Tech community...
>
>
> Safety on the Line: Exposing t
From: Stewart Brand
Doctorow framed the question this way: “Computers are everywhere. They
are now something we put our whole bodies into---airplanes, cars---and
something we put into our bodies---pacemakers, cochlear implants. They
HAVE to be trustworthy.“
Sometimes humans are not so trustwo
Hi All,
We have revised the Liberationtech mailing list guidelines to restrict the
sending of attachments to avoid viruses and spyware (#6 below).
A big thanks to Brian Conley and Nathan of Guardian Project for helping
compose the text.
Best,
Yosem
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Moderation Guidelines:
We've had an
Hi all,
I've suggested the following text, which I believe Yosem has made the
default response to anyone who sends an attachment to the list from hereon.
It's based on Tibet Action's great overview. Those familiar will notice
I've cut some of their text, for brevity.
I used their text because I l
On 8/3/12 9:07 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> Hi All,
>
[...]
>
> 5. The Liberationtech mailing list archives are private to the extent
> that only list members can access these archives.
But do we have a leak breaking the policy?
http://www.mail-archive.com/liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu/
Greeting Liberationtech
i have just read the guideline and the additional number 6 guideline, it would
for sure help in keeping the list safe from computer virus or spyware. i would
like to suggest a solution for those who are posting document with there email
when sending it out to liberationte
FYI - If folks are interested in alternative open source online group
software, we use http://GroupServer.org via http://OnlineGroups.Net.
See
It places attachments on the server (where if malicious could be
removed) which makes it really handy for lower bandwidth environments.
Example online com
Looks like the mobileactive.org discussion list guidelines. Verbatim, in fact,
until #6. Which I will, in turn, appropriate... :)
Katrin
On Aug 3, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We have revised the Liberationtech mailing list guidelines to restrict the
> sending of at
#6 being my adapted appropriation of Tibet Action Insititute's:
https://tibetaction.net/detach-from-attachments/
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Katrin Verclas wrote:
> Looks like the mobileactive.org discussion list guidelines. Verbatim, in
> fact, until #6. Which I will, in turn, appropriate...
Perhaps the mentions of Dropbox and Google Docs could be accompanied by caveats
regarding using those sites or links to caveats.
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Should you need to change your subscription options, plea
No reference to Freedom Box ir Free Network Foundation?
Jon Lebkowsky
(Sent from my iPhone)
On Aug 3, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> From: Stewart Brand
>
> Doctorow framed the question this way: “Computers are everywhere. They are
> now something we put our whole bodies into---
Hi,
Many thanks, Yosem, Brian and Nathan for this initiative!
> Any sharing that needs to be done can use public Google Docs
> or Dropbox links.
This may be a silly question, but how exactly does downloading something
from a a Dropbox link differ from downloading an email attachment? The
basic i
Good afternoon folks,
We've just released v1 of the Humanitarian Hack Box, a VirtualBox VM that
comes pre-loaded with Ushahidi, Sahana Eden, and OpenStreetMap. The image
is designed to enable testing by security professionals interested in
finding and fixing vulnerabilities in these programs.
Th
The Tor Project is looking for a Firefox developer as a contractor
position likely starting in October and going through Q1 2013, with the
possibility of later in 2013 and beyond. There may also be a possibility
for part-time work prior to October. This would be a telecommuting
position, with colla
Greeting,
as i have suggested previously, a person could upload the doc file to Google
doc and select the option of sharing the link publicly, this would allow people
to access your document online. another method which has already been stated
before is to just copy and paste the content on the
Hello All,
Example of messaging on online security from the Syrian opposition responding
to online attacks by Pro-Government Electronic Actors: hold a sign with a
message about information security, then take a picture.
E.g.
" Protect the revolution, protect your password. Don't be tricke
This is a good logic, but there is still a problem even if Google scans
uploads.
Both state and nonstate actors often use zero day vulnerabilities. Since
a zero day has never been seen before, there is no signature for it in
any virus database.
--
Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com)
GPG key: 0x1B873635
Greeting Greg,
you point is for sure true, the gap between virus releasing time and antivirus
companies realizing it and updating there virus database could be used to
initiate a virus attack, which lead me to another question, maybe the method in
which pasting the text on the email is the best
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