Re: [liberationtech] a privacy preserving and resilient social network

I like the idea, so I was checking it out. I was confused by this statement in the download terms: > Since MyZone Client Application is open source, you will not change any > part of MyZone’s code without the written approval of MyZone’s copyright > owner Alireza Mahdian reached at (alireza.mahdia

[liberationtech] a privacy preserving and resilient social network

Hi, With all the recent news on NSA spying on social network users the concern over the user privacy has increased even more. I am not arguing whether it is ethical or not and whether it is needed for the safety of citizens and how effective it would be. even before this, social network provide

[liberationtech] Fwd: MyZone social network

Forwarded conversation Subject: MyZone social network From: *Alireza Mahdian* Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:18 PM To: building-a-distributed-decentralized-inter...@googlegroups.com Hi, With all the recent news on NSA spying on social network users the concern over the

[liberationtech] Data Dealer, the new game about digital privacy and online surveillance (nonprofit, under CC)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Passing this along for some friends of mine... = Data Dealer, the new game about digital privacy and online surveillance (nonprofit, under CC)

Re: [liberationtech] Crowdfunding for Tor exit relays and bridges

Neat, promoted. I can't say that I agree with the claim that all exit nodes are professionally operated ;) Moritz Bartl wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA512 > >Hi! > >I've just started a crowdfunding campaign for Tor exit relays and >bridges. > >tl;dr: We collect donations

[liberationtech] Crowdfunding for Tor exit relays and bridges

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi! I've just started a crowdfunding campaign for Tor exit relays and bridges. tl;dr: We collect donations, and simply distribute them equally among all Torservers.net partner organizations. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tor-anti-censorship-an

Re: [liberationtech] abuse control for Tor exit nodes

Rich Kulawiec: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:16:23PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > This is a really deeply interesting assertion. You seem to imagine a > > bright line of "abuse" that is agreed on by all parties, with a policy > > that can be implemented by thoughtful operators to "make the abuse

[liberationtech] Multiple vulnerabilities in Silent Circle

Thanks to Arturo Filastò for pointing this out: https://github.com/SilentCircle/silent-phone-base/issues/5 Many remotely executable overflows in the ZRTP library used by Silent Circle. NK -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stan

Re: [liberationtech] A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping

Hello! Thanks, this is just in time, I'll try to use Elliptic Curve cryptography (ECDHE) whenever possible =) Kind regards, On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > (for the sake of completeness) > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/ssl_forward_secrecy/ > > A simple SSL t

Re: [liberationtech] abuse control for Tor exit nodes [was: Twitter Underground Market Research - pdf]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 10:16:23PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > This is a really deeply interesting assertion. You seem to imagine a > bright line of "abuse" that is agreed on by all parties, with a policy > that can be implemented by thoughtful operators to "make the abuse > stop". I submit tha

[liberationtech] A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping

(for the sake of completeness) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/26/ssl_forward_secrecy/ A simple SSL tweak could protect you from GCHQ/NSA snooping It might slow you down, but hey, you can't have everything By John Leyden, 26th June 2013 Forward Secrecy An obscure feature of SSL/TLS call

Re: [liberationtech] How many of us are at CFP?

And though CFP is over, I will be in DC for meetings for Blue Rose until maybe Saturday, now, it looks like, if anyone wants to get together! I am renewing my researcher card and camping out at LOC at the law library as "coworking space" when not in meetings. It will feel like the late 90s (only

Re: [liberationtech] safermobile.org / mobileactive.org

Robert, Kristin, Kody Thanks for you feedbacks and for forgiving me to have missed it the first time. Good to know that this work is still around, although it is not that fresh now and should probably be used with care (and of course the CC ND is unfortunate for anyone willing to update or transla

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 04:02:15PM -0700, Mike Perry wrote: > YaCY and other FOSS engines (in a sibling thread someone mentioned > another that I already forgot) are also something that I will accept > search plugins for the Omnibox, but their result quality, index depth, > and crawl frequency are