Re: [liberationtech] USA Today panel with 3 American Whistleblowers

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:53 PM, wrote: > I think it is bad form of Binney to break the line. It is clearly of > exceeding importance to the world public to know that the United States is > escalating the arms race in offensive state hacking. What makes you think that the US is escalating the

Re: [liberationtech] USA Today panel with 3 American Whistleblowers

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> This might be of interest to people.. >> >> >> http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/ >> >> A round-

Re: [liberationtech] USA Today panel with 3 American Whistleblowers

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This might be of interest to people.. > > > http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowden-whistleblower-nsa-officials-roundtable/2428809/ > > A round-table discussi

[liberationtech] FW: [TrumanScholars] question for lawyers, middle east, security folks about outgoing email

Dear Liberation Tech List Members, As Yosem Companys suggested in the below message, I am hoping members of this list might be able to provide some guidance on recent revelations, both of the sale of surveillance technology by US companies to governments in Bahrain, Malaysia, and elsewhere to mo

[liberationtech] Censorship circumvention and ticket inspectors

Dear friends, I have been asked to explain how four mechanisms of censorship circumvention work using some sort of analogy that any layman could understand. I proposed the analogy of surfing the Internet as traveling and firewalls as ticket inspectors checking where you are going as described belo

Re: [liberationtech] NSA flag terms

Griffin Boyce writes: > Michael Azarkevich wrote: > >> I find it hard to believe the list is authentic. It has words like "Java", >> "Quiche" and "Redheads" for gods sake. Also, they misspelled the name of >> the Israeli equivalent of the Navy SEALS (They wrote "Shayet-13" instead of >> "Shayete

Re: [liberationtech] Encipher.it

I have one correction to my quick look at the encipher.it code. I had misread this line: "hmac = hex_hmac_sha1(key, _this.text);" in https://encipher.it/javascripts/ encipher.js I did not notice the second parameter and thought this was just MACing a key, which wouldn't make much sense. It's actua

Re: [liberationtech] NSA flag terms

Shava Nerad wrote: > These are kind of like Mad Libs (tm) incorporating these likely (dare I > say) false flag lists of keywords. > > And of course, they work about as well as a mouse giving an owl the finger. > I'm working on an IRC bot that uses Markov chains to simulate real (but gibberish)

Re: [liberationtech] NSA flag terms

On 06/19/2013 03:40 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > Michael Azarkevich > wrote: > > I find it hard to believe the list is authentic. It has words like > "Java", "Quiche" and "Redheads" for gods sake. Also, they misspelled > the name of the Israeli equiv

[liberationtech] Any opengov loving/Facebook app experts out there?

From: Steven Clift At E-Democracy, we need a "go to" person who can answer strategic questions about what you can and cannot do with Facebook. In general, we need our open source open gov/civic tech apps/site to reach more people via Facebook so we don't end just having to use Facebook completel

Re: [liberationtech] NSA flag terms

Also, just as an interesting observation, there are a number of text memes running around now that claim to jam the NSA. You may have seen one that refers to "overthrow my boss," for example. These are kind of like Mad Libs (tm) incorporating these likely (dare I say) false flag lists of keywords

Re: [liberationtech] NSA flag terms

Michael Azarkevich wrote: > I find it hard to believe the list is authentic. It has words like "Java", > "Quiche" and "Redheads" for gods sake. Also, they misspelled the name of > the Israeli equivalent of the Navy SEALS (They wrote "Shayet-13" instead of > "Shayetet-13"). > > The NSA aren't stup

[liberationtech] Telecomix Broadcast System - Now including news from Turkey

Ohai, The Telecomix non-organisation has set-up a little while ago a repository for archiving videos, news and pictures from Syria. It has beenfully rewritten (in django) with a modular approach. And now, this modular approach is used to dothe same thing for Turkey. Currently, it is parsing some

[liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust [was: Help test Tor Browser!]

- Forwarded message from Mike Perry - Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:54:30 -0700 From: Mike Perry To: liberationtech Subject: [liberationtech] Deterministic builds and software trust [was: Help test Tor Browser!] Reply-To: liberationtech Jacob Appelbaum: > Hi, > > I'm really excited to s

Re: [liberationtech] Decoupling from current power structures

On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:08:34 -0400 Sebastian Benthall wrote: > Taking that as a model, maybe rather the right way to think about it > is: how to build an alternative distributed economy for food and > shelter that is not tied to centralized power structures. That actually sounds a lot like what