Re: [liberationtech] Licensing Free Software for Liberation + Safety

2013-02-11 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
Heya, congrats on being close to launch! I don't see a way of doing what you talk of here that *isn't* simply a barrier (and a weak one) towards people who would do things with the code, good or bad. It did make me think for a while about it, but I don't have anything useful to say (or I'd say

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 05:54:19PM +0100, Andreas Bader wrote: > Don't you think that e.g. DSL (Damn Small Linux) has less code than Android? I don't know. While I'm somewhat familiar with DSL, I don't use Android and know very little about it. I just did a little searching and see various figur

[liberationtech] Stanford Security Seminar Tomorrow: Jay Lorch -- Ensuring Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center

2013-02-11 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Joe Zimmerman *Jay Lorch* -- *Ensuring Private Access to Large-Scale Data in the Data Center* Tuesday, February 12, 2013 Talk at 4:30pm in Gates 463A Abstract: Recent events have shown online service providers the perils of possessing private information about users. Encrypting data mi

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread Brian Conley
Hi Adrelanos, At SWN we have been writing a lot of documentation, training, and other materials in the last 18 months, including a soon-to-be published 40,000 word curriculum in journalism, mobile safety, and multimedia production. What I find works best are: 1. active voice sentences whenever p

[liberationtech] Licensing Free Software for Liberation + Safety

2013-02-11 Thread Brian Conley
Hi all, So as Small World News approaches the beta release of our forthcoming app, produced with Guardian Project, Free Press Unlimited, and Radio Free Asia,I'm digging through a variety of licenses and information about how best to license various items that make up the app, StoryMaker™(not to be

Re: [liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/13 07:37, Douglas Lucas wrote: > I should note the solution I came up with for this. "Use a firewall > to monitor for suspicious outbound traffic." I guess that's the > best solution there is short of disassembling the new machine and > knowin

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread adrelanos
danimoth: > On 11/02/13 at 10:20am, adrelanos wrote: >> Hi, >> >> since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought >> it may be worth checking how other projects did. >> >> Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Bonus points for >> anonymity/privacy/security rela

Re: [liberationtech] Would like to change my email id

2013-02-11 Thread Brian Conley
Buddha, please use the links at the end of any lib tech mail to change your settings. Sent from my iPad On Feb 11, 2013, at 9:07, Buddhadeb Halder wrote: > Hi, > I would like to chnage my email id for this group. Could you please ammend my > email id to bhalder...@gmail.com . I do not want to

[liberationtech] CfP: Technology, power & political economy of new media

2013-02-11 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Carpentier Nico Call for papers: Technology, power and the political economy of new media Editors Rasmus Helles (guest editor) and Anne Mette Thorhauge, University of Copenhagen SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 10, 2013 Publication deadline: Fall 2013 Recent developments in digital communicatio

Re: [liberationtech] Would like to change my email id

2013-02-11 Thread Buddhadeb Halder
Hi, I would like to chnage my email id for this group. Could you please ammend my email id to bhalder...@gmail.com . I do not want to receive mail on this id i.e. buddhadeb.hal...@unibo.it Please do the needful, Regards, Buddha Buddhadeb Halder PhD Research Fe

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-11 Thread Andreas Bader
On 02/11/2013 04:15 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:54:27AM +0700, Uncle Zzzen wrote: >> Obviously systems are too complex for most people to really figure out >> what's exactly running on their computer, and modern systems (from smart >> phones to unity) make it harder and ha

[liberationtech] CFP: Workshops in CISTI'2013 - 8th Iberian Conference on IST, Lisbon, June 19-22

2013-02-11 Thread Maria Lemos
*** WORKSHOPS in CISTI'2013 8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Lisbon, Portugal, June 19 - 22, 2013 http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=

Re: [liberationtech] Chromebooks for Risky Situations?

2013-02-11 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:54:27AM +0700, Uncle Zzzen wrote: > Obviously systems are too complex for most people to really figure out > what's exactly running on their computer, and modern systems (from smart > phones to unity) make it harder and harder for users (even "power users") > to peek unde

Re: [liberationtech] Happy Creepy February!

2013-02-11 Thread liberationtech
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:47:18PM -0600, nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote 1.8K bytes in 0 lines about: : Thanks to investigative work by the Guardian, we can tell just how many : steps back online privacy's taken this year. It's unfortunate: : : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/softw

[liberationtech] Software that tracks people on social media created by defence firm

2013-02-11 Thread Mohammad Shublaq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/10/software-tracks-social-media-defence http://www.minds.com/blog/view/39193/fifth-largest-defense-contractor-builds-riot-spy-software-for-use-with-facebook-twitter -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mail

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread danimoth
On 11/02/13 at 10:20am, adrelanos wrote: > Hi, > > since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought > it may be worth checking how other projects did. > > Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Bonus points for > anonymity/privacy/security related projects. >

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread André Rebentisch
Am 11.02.2013 11:20, schrieb adrelanos: > Hi, > > since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought > it may be worth checking how other projects did. > > Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Karl Fogel's rant about poor documentation and appraisal of good docu

Re: [liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread Griffin Boyce
As a user, I prefer text with screenshots. As a coder, I'm okay with just text. Video is good for showing off the finished product, but not as good for showing how to implement something. (It's a bit of an amusing problem where someone will youtube a solution to a really common problem. :D So eve

[liberationtech] Good examples of software documentation?

2013-02-11 Thread adrelanos
Hi, since I want to write good documentation for my own project, I thought it may be worth checking how other projects did. Which project/documentation do you personally enjoy? Bonus points for anonymity/privacy/security related projects. Which medium is preferred? Text, text with lots of screen