[liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
Hello! Dropbox is completely convenient, but source is closed and I do not really want storing my data on their server. What other app exist? Anything truly open and support own remote storage, but working as: drop into folder, auto syncro happens on a supported platform? Thanks! -- Jerzy

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote: Hello! Dropbox is completely convenient, but source is closed and I do not really want storing my data on their server. What other app exist? Anything truly open and support own remote storage, but working as: drop into

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Brad Beckett
Or better yet -- encrypt your data with CloudFogger, it's free: http://www.cloudfogger.com/en/ I told DropBox long ago that encryption would reck havoc on their de-duplication and that people would continue to use it until they feel their data is secure. 2 years ago I asked for two factor

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 06.01.2013 09:49, Jerzy Łogiewa wrote: What other app exist? Anything truly open and support own remote storage Apart from OwnCloud, there is also http://sparkleshare.org/ (Git backed) -- Moritz Bartl https://www.torservers.net/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at:

[liberationtech] Travel without drive

2013-01-06 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
Hello! This is branch to Travel with notebook habit. I am interested in discussing travel notebook- without drive. Again I have read Jake Appelbaum travels without any drive. It presents some question however: 1: How to move data? - mail in some crypted booting USB stick, ship back out? -

Re: [liberationtech] Travel without drive

2013-01-06 Thread Jerzy Łogiewa
Yes, one extreme method (ending: destroy stick) but about cloning and shipping stick not much. And I still like to know Jake's method. Maybe not worth another thread, sorry. -- Jerzy Łogiewa -- jerz...@interia.eu On Jan 6, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: I think many of these

[liberationtech] New Media, Legislation Activism in the Digital Age

2013-01-06 Thread Arzak Khan
CGCS Media Wire provides a look back at 2012′s new and social media law, legislation and activism in Pakistan. http://cgcsblog.asc.upenn.edu/2013/01/03/status-update-new-media-legislation-activism-in-the-digital-age/ -- Unsubscribe, change to digest,

Re: [liberationtech] Call for Open Letter on Skype

2013-01-06 Thread Nadim Kobeissi
Alright guys, the holidays are over and it's time to get the ball rolling regarding an open letter! Let's start a PiratePad and edit the draft together. NK On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Alfredo Lopez alfr...@mayfirst.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/22/2012

Re: [liberationtech] Draft checklist for choosing tools

2013-01-06 Thread Robert Guerra
In case it hasn't been mentioned before, the source source commons is good resource for list of toolkits and social software .. URL - https://socialsourcecommons.org/ regards Robert On 2013-01-06, at 1:18 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: With such kind of checklist it would be nice to

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread John Adams
Why don't you just get around the problem entirely and use Dropbox's storage for encrypted disk images? If you have data sufficiently encrypted, it doesn't matter how it's stored. -j On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Jerzy Łogiewa jerz...@interia.eu wrote: Hello! Dropbox is completely

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
John Adams: Why don't you just get around the problem entirely and use Dropbox's storage for encrypted disk images? If you have data sufficiently encrypted, it doesn't matter how it's stored. I generally agree that the data should be encrypted, though I think it should also be authenticated

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2013-01-06 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:21:38PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: That's a rather intriguing concept, though I might look at starting from UUCP NNTP, or perhaps BITNET, rather than the FIDO model - the software is a bit more mature, and UUCP at least is still supported. Mobile devices could

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Griffin Boyce
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 3:50 PM, John Adams j...@retina.net wrote: Why don't you just get around the problem entirely and use Dropbox's storage for encrypted disk images? If you have data sufficiently encrypted, it doesn't matter how it's stored. -j On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jacob

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-06 Thread Collin Anderson
This thought led me to a more general question: does Secdev have plans to make data / methodology / code behind Black Watch and the other components of Secdev's measures and study of openness available for peer review replication? John's point drove at the heart of a concern of mine regarding

Re: [liberationtech] New report on Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Turkmenistan

2013-01-06 Thread Rafal Rohozinski
Collin, (John), All of this requires longer discussion, but I'll be brief here (for now). Yes, we intend on making Black Watch open-source. And yes, we intend on making data from Black Watch Open Data on censorship and surveillance. WTR to your question Collin, Black Watch consists of

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread 魏有豪
Griffin, how is Dropbox making a diff of what has changed breaking encrypted files and truecrypt containers? Dropbox most likely merely works along the principles of rsync. If you have ever used encryption properly, you will realise that Dropbox uploads the entire encrypted container whether one

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread Griffin Boyce
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Kelvin Quee (魏有豪) kel...@quee.org wrote: Being paranoid is probably a good thing on this list but spreading falsehoods OR unverified claims is something that we all should not do. Kelvin Quee (魏有豪) +65 9177 3635 Dropbox has broken every single truecrypt