Re: [liberationtech] Looking for collaborators for free-range voting project

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Allan
Replying to Rich, Rubin and Edwin: Rich Kulawiec said: > It won't work. Until the bot/zombie is solved, online voting is a > non-starter, since any election worthy of being stolen can be. It > doesn't matter what you do on the server side: you can construct as > elaborate and clever and secure a

[liberationtech] PCD 3/1/13 - Tapan Parikh, Representation Technologies

2013-02-27 Thread Yosem Companys
Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547: HCI Seminar) http://hci.st/seminar 1 March, 2013 12:50-2:05 pm, Gates B01 Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley School of Information Representation Technologies Information technologies are essential tools for the representation and communication of

[liberationtech] Call for Nominations for PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies

2013-02-27 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nikita Borisov Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:13 PM Subject: Call for Nominations for PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies To: Ian Goldberg 2013 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies Cal

Re: [liberationtech] Research on the Global Square Project?

2013-02-27 Thread ttscanada
Hi Yosem, You can give her this email if you like. At the moment the Global Square and Tribler p2p microblogging / video streaming projects are indistinguishable, at least until we get the base functionality. All the best, Heather Marsh On 13-02-27 12:05 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: From: *J

[liberationtech] Research on the Global Square Project?

2013-02-27 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Jessica F. Lingel Hi, I'm trying to help a fellow activist locate material related to the Global Square project, which is a social media platform for coordinating activist efforts. I wanted to reach out and see if anyone had information about the status of the project or research that came

[liberationtech] Event: Tech@State Internet freedom, March 8

2013-02-27 Thread Seth Bouvier
Dear Libtechers, On March 8, there will be an Internet freedom conference in D.C. that I suspect may be of interest to many of you. Andrew McLaughlin will give the opening keynote, and Danny Weitzner will give the closing keynote. In between are sessions related to issues discussed on this list,

Re: [liberationtech] Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills

2013-02-27 Thread Pavol Luptak
Drug Lords Celebrate the Drug War at the UN! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7oF3N30rUc Mexican Drug Lord Thanks the UN for 50 Years of Prohibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0p6d6lGTOk On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:47:51AM +0100, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: >That's incredible. I honestly did

Re: [liberationtech] cellebrite report

2013-02-27 Thread R. Jason Cronk
You could play Guitar Hero to get in your phone... http://bojinov.org/professional/usenixsec2012-rubberhose.pdf Another option would be to use animal species. There are some 3-30 million different species of animals. Even restricting oneself to vertebrates, you have about 50,000 species (a five

Re: [liberationtech] Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills

2013-02-27 Thread Griffin Boyce
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Griffin Boyce > wrote: > > It's better to anonymize personal information wherever possible. It > > sounds almost ridiculous, but this trips up anonymous bloggers and > writers > > all the time. > > This is

Re: [liberationtech] Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills

2013-02-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > It's better to anonymize personal information wherever possible. It > sounds almost ridiculous, but this trips up anonymous bloggers and writers > all the time. This is OPSEC — there is a mailing list on the subject, maintained by The Grugq:

Re: [liberationtech] cellebrite report

2013-02-27 Thread Tom Ritter
The Passcode section of the report is blank, I guess indicating the user did not have a passcode? The article does mention passcodes: > All modern smartphones can be locked with a PIN or password, which can slow > down, > or in some cases, completely thwart forensic analysis by the police (as we

Re: [liberationtech] Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills

2013-02-27 Thread Griffin Boyce
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Ryan Gallagher wrote: > On 27 February 2013 00:01, Eva Galperin wrote: > >> I'm not sure that I would support ranking drug cartels as a less >> technologically sophisticated threat than the government in Mexico. >> > > If I were working out of Mexico it would be u

Re: [liberationtech] CNN writer on leaving Facebook

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Bernal (LAW)
I wanted to say a little more on the issues of profiling, facial recognition and so forth - and why I'm quite bothered by Facebook in both regards >From my perspective, I think it's sometimes easy to (at least in our minds) >divide people into two categories: those in 'dangerous' situations, and

Re: [liberationtech] Drones

2013-02-27 Thread Andreas Bader
Parker Higgins: > The person who compiled that list is very active on the Stanford Drones > list that Yosem sent around a link to just the other day. I haven't done > extensive vetting, but I'm sure he'd be willing to explain how he came > to his conclusions over there. > > Thanks, > Parker > I s

Re: [liberationtech] Mexico's most vulnerable reporters lack digital security skills

2013-02-27 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Kyle Maxwell wrote: > I'm curious how the infosec community, particularly those of us who > speak and write Spanish, can assist in helping Mexican activists and > journalists. I can point out that cables communication [1] is designed to withstand most of the thre