Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

This is a really awesome improvement. I tried the new Tor Browser yesterday (OS X) and loved it. Did not encounter any problems. Really glad to see such drastic usability improvements for Tor. NK On 2013-06-17, at 9:45 AM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really excited to say that Tor B

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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Richard Brooks wrote: > > From Guardian Q&A with Snowden > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower > > Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id > my data protected by standard encryption? >

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

On 17.06.2013 21:06, micah wrote: > Do you have any suggestions for what Riseup can do to resolve that > concern for you? I don't disagree with you, I'm just curious about > solutions here. I am happy to repeat myself, since the issues I have with Riseup have not been addressed so far. Tactical T

[liberationtech] How CyanogenMod’s founder is giving Android users their privacy back | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/06/how-cyanogenmods-founder-is-giving-android-users-their-privacy-back/ How CyanogenMod’s founder is giving Android users their privacy back New "Incognito Mode" enables more granular privacy settings than in stock Android. by Florence Ion - June 17 2013, 4:45p

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Hi, Seems the culprit is gfx.direct2d.disabled. If I set it to true, it works without compatibility mode. layers.acceleration.disabled seems to be indifferent. Best regards, MH 2013/6/18 Mike Perry > It looks like Mozilla hit a similar bug some years ago: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sho

Re: [liberationtech] NSA Director Alexander @ Senate Appropriations Committee (Jun 12)

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Gregory Foster wrote: > U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations (Jun 12) - "Hearing on > Cybersecurity": > http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/ht-full.cfm?method=hearings.view&id=33dda6f9-5d83-409d-a8c5-7ada84b0c598 > 1) we do it for you! 2) DHS is "protecting

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

It looks like Mozilla hit a similar bug some years ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595364 While in compatibility mode, can you try setting one or both of these to 'true' in about:config: gfx.direct2d.disabled layers.acceleration.disabled Then try without XP compatibility mo

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> > I wonder what encryption software would look like if Apple made it as > friendly as their products > > While not from Apple, I think the latest version of GPGtools for the Mac > (https://gpgtools.org) is quite nice. Agreed. Even my 13-year-old's using it. I do wish something as easy exist

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> Apple already builds in encryption into many of its products: > FileVault disk encryption, Mail.app S/MIME support, iMessage & > Facetime end-to-end encryption, and iCloud keychain are a few > examples. File Vault 2, the whole-hard-disk-encryption solution built in to Mac OS 10.7 and up, is supe

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Great stuff Jacob! Will report any bugs I encounter. Ian. On Jun 17, 2013 8:47 AM, "Jacob Appelbaum" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important > changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic > builds that allow us to verify t

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Hi, Some findings on this issue. 0) Setting compatibility mode to "Windows XP (Service Pack 3)" makes it work! 1) I tried it on two machines, both don't have NVidia.(both have Intel HD Graphics 4000) 2) sfc /verifyonly couldn't find any discrepancy. Hope it helps. Best regards, MH 2013/6/1

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Tested tor-browser-linux32-3.0-alpha-1_en-US from China. UI-wise I agree with everybody that running just one program is much more intuitive. I can't connect though. Here's what happens: 1. Try connecting directly. This times out after a long time. 2. Add bridge relays from https://bridges.torpro

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Mike Perry: > Kody Leonard: > > I get the same error on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It will run when Windows > > XP is selected under Compatibility mode. I had the same issue with other > > languages. This is logged in the event viewer when it doesn't run as-is: > > > > Faulting application name

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Kody Leonard: > I get the same error on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It will run when Windows > XP is selected under Compatibility mode. I had the same issue with other > languages. This is logged in the event viewer when it doesn't run as-is: > > Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version:

[liberationtech] MOOC'd

Dear all, We just ran a package of stories on MOOCs that may be of interest to list members. First, we have Stanford's Rob Reich correcting some of the excessive claims of proponents and critics ... http://bostonreview.net/us/much-ado-about-moocs Second, we have former Princeton President Willi

Re: [liberationtech] Identi.ca, Diaspora, and Friendica are more secure alternatives to Facebook.

I'm completely certain that these small, poorly funded projects have hired massive security teams (as the major social networks do) and provide a safe alternative to Facebook or Twitter. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > Slate makes mistake of calling them "more secur

[liberationtech] Identi.ca, Diaspora, and Friendica are more secure alternatives to Facebook.

Slate makes mistake of calling them "more secure." YC http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/06/17/identi_ca_diaspora_and_friendica_are_more_secure_alternatives_to_facebook.html How to Block the NSA From Your Friends List By April Glaser and Libby Reinish Posted Monday, June 17, 2013,

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On Jun 17, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > > I wonder what encryption software would look like if Apple made it as > friendly as their products While not from Apple, I think the latest version of GPGtools for the Mac (https://gpgtools.org) is quite nice. Regards, -drc

Re: [liberationtech] Brazilian Revolution (today)

There's an aggregate page of different live streams here: http://vitor.me/revoltadovinagre/ Cheers, Helder On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: David Leal Garcia > > check this Brazil-world event! > > https://www.facebook.com/events/551482894889876/553009018070597/?no

[liberationtech] Brazilian Revolution (today)

From: David Leal Garcia check this Brazil-world event! https://www.facebook.com/events/551482894889876/553009018070597/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity they are in need of translators by the way! they are adamant to globalize the struggle as well. and if you may know any hot developers out there, put

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Apple already builds in encryption into many of its products: FileVault disk encryption, Mail.app S/MIME support, iMessage & Facetime end-to-end encryption, and iCloud keychain are a few examples. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > I wonder what encryption software w

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Jun 2013, at 22:23, Richard Brooks wrote: > From Guardian Q&A with Snowden > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower > > Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id > my d

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

>From: Jonathan Wilkes >To: micah ; liberationtech > >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 5:16 PM >Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives Here's the much more articulate version of what I wrote: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/06/more

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

led application icon is as follows http://diymobileusabilitytesting.net/bernard/skitches/tbb-3.0alpha1-icon1-20130617-221217.jpg However when the application is opened, the application icon is this http://diymobileusabilitytesting.net/bernard/skitches/tbb-3.0alpha1-icon2-20130617-221432.jpg It m

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>From Guardian Q&A with Snowden http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-nsa-files-whistleblower Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption? Answer: Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto sy

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

>From: micah >To: Jonathan Wilkes ; liberationtech >; liberationtech > >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 3:06 PM >Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives >Jonathan Wilkes writes: >> Finally, the user of riseup must trust the description of

[liberationtech] An analysis of Gezi Parki

The Power of Social Media - The Helplesness of Traditional Media and #direngeziparki #direnankara, #direnizmir: An analysis of the Alternative Informatics Association (Alternatif Bilisim) http://www.alternatifbilisim.org/wiki/An_analysis_of_Gezi_Parki Residents of Istanbul started a peaceful sit-

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

On Jun 17, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Collin Sullivan wrote: * when using Mission Control feature on Mac, screen disappears and isn't collected with other app windows. Sorry, to clarify: this is the splash screen while connecting, not the browser screen. Browser works fine in Mission Control. -- T

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Looks great! Congratulations! Minor things on OSX 10.7.5: * Took considerably longer to connect to the Tor network using this browser bundle than my previously-installed TorBrowser-2.3.25-5-osx-x86_64-en-US. I'm on a slow network but 2.3.25 typically takes ~1 minute or less to establish a conn

[liberationtech] NYT: Obama’s German Storm

Hi, it's not the first time I hear or read this from Americans: Many people already gave up discussions about data protection a long time ago. So there seems a lot of hope that Europeans and especially the Germans with their learnings from history of surveillance and strong view on privacy can

[liberationtech] TipWire revisited

I don't know where we are along the scale between "crypto works" (as Snowden says) and the "NSA can break everything" trend on the list and the net in general, but I still believe cra

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

Micah, What does Riseup do? I joined a list for the "budding" Texas Pirate Party, and it was hosted on it. I think the best promotion is "to preach by example" or, in a way I like more for the humor of it all, "to eat your own dog food," and from your statement, it looks like you guys do just th

Re: [liberationtech] 21st Century Statecraft: Joint Statement on U.S.-Germany Cyber Bilateral Meeting

Dear colleagues, it is not easy to read diplotalk, but that was the meat: "Germany noted its concern in connection with the recent disclosures about U.S. Government surveillance programs. The U.S. referenced statements by the U.S. President and the Director of National Intelligence on this issue

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

Jonathan Wilkes writes: > Finally, the user of riseup must trust the description of their service on > the website to be true because it is a form of > privacy by policy.  If joining it is to be anything other than practicing the > bad habit of trusting implicitly something you > read on a list

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

I get the same error on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. It will run when Windows XP is selected under Compatibility mode. I had the same issue with other languages. This is logged in the event viewer when it doesn't run as-is: Faulting application name: firefox.exe, version: 17.0.6.0 Faulting module

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

>From: Anne Roth >To: "liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu" >Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 1:13 PM >Subject: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives >Hi, >Tactical Tech has been getting a lot of questions lately on what to do to avoid being spied on - l

Re: [liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/2013 03:24 PM, Lucas Gonze wrote: > It occurs to me that Prism exclusively targets large providers. > This suggests that it relies on economies of scale. Which suggests > a defense against Prism: use small providers, because there are > diseco

Re: [liberationtech] How to defend against attacks on chips?

Good list: Yeeloong, Coreboot, Opencores, etc. This book isn't bad for explaining some of the general problems: http://www.amazon.com/Embedded-Systems-Security-Practical-Development/dp/0123868866 In addition to UEFI alternatives, I'd also argue that we need to fix UEFI, to handle the use case o

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Hi, I tried torbrowser-install-3.0-alpha-1_en-US.exe on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit (Japan edition), but it doesn't run at all. Installation went well, but double-clicking on "Start Tor Browser" icon doesn't start things off, nothing happens (seems trying something for a while, but crashes silen

[liberationtech] New list: ZapBuzz

Hi y'all, here's a fresh new discussion list you might be interested in: Zapbuzz - exploring the uses of DIY HW, 3D printing, drones, etc for NGOs http://fairsay.com/networks/zapbuzz-forum/ join & spread the word Cheers -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest,

[liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

Hi, Tactical Tech has been getting a lot of questions lately on what to do to avoid being spied on - like probably most everyone on this list. We have compiled this 'Quick Guide to Alternatives', based on Security in-a-box and more. https://alternatives.tacticaltech.org In addition we try to k

Re: [liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congratulations Tor devs! Serious kudos -- this is exactly the direction TBB needs to go. A couple minor things: the order of the addons in the toolbar seems arbitrary (particularly the location of the Tor button, NoScript, and HTTPS Everywhere). I'm

[liberationtech] [cweb...@dustycloud.org: [GMG-Devel] MediaGoblin v0.4.0, "Hall of the Archivist", is released!]

- Forwarded message from Christopher Allan Webber - Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:39:23 -0500 From: Christopher Allan Webber To: MediaGoblin Subject: [GMG-Devel] MediaGoblin v0.4.0, "Hall of the Archivist", is released! Hey all! We've got an exciting new release of MediaGoblin out. This

Re: [liberationtech] How to defend against attacks on chips?

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 08:16:54AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > It's true that in the limit, we can never be sure that a given piece of > hardware contains no trojans. However, there are many ways that a > trojan could be implemented which could be found with available > techniques. It would be

Re: [liberationtech] How to defend against attacks on chips?

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:09:00AM -0400, Richard Brooks wrote: [re looking for hardware trojans] > You can't defend against this. There is a lot of research > going into detecting hardware trojans. In general, verifying > that either hardware or software is (or is not) malicious > in undecidable.

Re: [liberationtech] security aspects of OpenQwaq

OpenQwaq is potentially a useful tool for collaboration, especially multimedia (webcam streaming to avatar face, audio (best with USB headset) with ability to instantiate rooms) -- I've seen it scale to groups or 50+ partipants. Collaborative editing is available. Disclosure: no commercial rela

Re: [liberationtech] How to defend against attacks on chips?

You can't defend against this. There is a lot of research going into detecting hardware trojans. In general, verifying that either hardware or software is (or is not) malicious in undecidable. We are even lacking in tools, short of exhaustive tests, for verifying that either hardware or software ma

[liberationtech] Help test the new Tor Browser!

Hi, I'm really excited to say that Tor Browser has had some really important changes. Mike Perry has really outdone himself - from deterministic builds that allow us to verify that he is honest to actually having serious usability improvements. I really mean it - the new TBB is actually awesome. I

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 06:05:47AM -0700, Brian Conley wrote: > Until you become a nuisance, at which point the state just requests > cancelation/blocking/surveillance of your single static IP address? There are alternative ways to circumvent that (e.g. look at Retroshare, which does not need ins

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Rich Kulawiec: > On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:11:08AM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: >> On 2013-06-09, at 10:08 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: >>> Second: stupidity, in all forms, fully deserves to be slapped down -- >> >> This is where I stop reading. > > I have to admit, even though I've read this half a

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

Hold on... On Jun 11, 2013 12:27 AM, "Yosem Companys" wrote: > The distinction between direct or indirect access is semantic, not substantive, and likely irrelevant to most Americans. And then... > > As I said, a recent NY Times article spoke specifically of the embedding of NSA employees at US

Re: [liberationtech] eternity USENET (Re: Internet blackout)

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > Thanks for the comments, and for the pointers to Eternity and Briar. > It would appear that I have rather a lot of reading to do. ;-) > > One more generic comment/observation: clearly, Usenet or a Usenet-ish > mechanism will run on a smart

Re: [liberationtech] eternity USENET (Re: Internet blackout)

Thanks for the comments, and for the pointers to Eternity and Briar. It would appear that I have rather a lot of reading to do. ;-) One more generic comment/observation: clearly, Usenet or a Usenet-ish mechanism will run on a smartphone. But I'm not sure that's a good idea. Given the existence

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

Until you become a nuisance, at which point the state just requests cancelation/blocking/surveillance of your single static IP address? I'm asking, because I'm not clueful on this issue and interested to hear more as you and rich are touting this as all being very easy, which seems unlikely... Th

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

+1 Eleanor. On Jun 14, 2013 6:38 PM, "Eleanor Saitta" wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2013.06.14 18.20, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > Now since I have (once again) opened my big mouth, I'll step up as > > well: if any organizations want to get their email out of the >

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

Rich and Ernad, If you could reply to the list about what you come up with I and probably others would be grateful. Unfortunately many who need these tools will not even be aware where to begin looking for hardware. Let us know when you finish the book, and I hope it is short and to the point. ;

Re: [liberationtech] Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 10:11:08AM -0400, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > On 2013-06-09, at 10:08 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > Second: stupidity, in all forms, fully deserves to be slapped down -- > > This is where I stop reading. I have to admit, even though I've read this half a dozen times, I don't g

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 06:34:42PM +0200, Eleanor Saitta wrote: > The issue with this approach is that maintaining infrastructure like > this takes an ongoing time commitment by someone who is clueful (and > thus at least moderately expensive for broke organizations where > everyone's constantly ov

Re: [liberationtech] Oakland Cryptoparty This Sunday at 1pm

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 06:41:12PM +0200, Ernad Halilovic wrote: > First of all, thank you for all your valuable input on this list. You're very kind, but my contributions are minor and unimportant. Others have done far more. > I wanted to ask you if you have any good resources on getting the ha

[liberationtech] [tt] WaPo: NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn't anyone use it?

- Forwarded message from Frank Forman - Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:40:03 + (GMT) From: Frank Forman To: Transhuman Tech Subject: [tt] WaPo: NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn't anyone use it? NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn't anyone use it? http://www.washingtonpost.com/b

Re: [liberationtech] eternity USENET (Re: Internet blackout)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/06/13 00:53, Guido Witmond wrote: Encrypting everything should stop article spoofing. (Although it doesn't stop article flooding, and an adversary could try to overwhelm the network by injecting large amounts of traffic. Depre