Re: [liberationtech] E-Voting

2016-11-17 Thread Brian Behlendorf
That's similar to what some people are saying about blockchain applications to voting. Don't use it for the voting itself, even in a zero-knowlege way, as votes need to be both auditable and understandable to lay people to be trusted. But, you could use it for voter registration and for

Re: [liberationtech] A great move by Tor

2015-12-11 Thread Brian Behlendorf
Here here! Shari was amazing as ED at the EFF (and is still on the board) and really the perfect choice for Tor. Brian On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, James S. Tyre wrote: Congratulations to Tor on successfully concluding its search for a new Executive Director: former EFF Executive Director Shari

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-12 Thread Brian Behlendorf
And this is why even people who care about their privacy still use Skype. Brian On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Andrew Lewis wrote: From anecdotal experience: Running your own OpenVPN endpoint on a cloud provider like digitalocean* seems to work really well as long as you wrap the OpenVPN connection

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-12 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, The Doctor wrote: On 02/12/2015 01:06 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: And this is why even people who care about their privacy still use Skype. Bad actors go to extraordinary, stupid lengths to restrict access and put surveillance measures in place. Hours rivalling

Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-15 Thread Brian Behlendorf
. It's just the US has become such an embarrassingly good example of this. Brian On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Al Billings wrote: So, which countries exist where we *can* trust the binaries when they’re made within them? On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Brian Behlendorf br...@behlendorf.com wrote: Sadly

Re: [liberationtech] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?

2015-01-15 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, carlo von lynX wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:50:41PM -0500, Richard Brooks wrote: Actually, you also need to have source code for the compilers used and the compiler's compilers... Yes, we have those. We have systems completely produced from source and others that are

Re: [liberationtech] If patients don't care about their privacy, should doctors?

2014-09-24 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014, Kate Krauss wrote: I was chatting with a health care administrator at a conference who is charged with rolling out a telehealth (read: Skype) clinical program for patients to communicate with doctors. [...] The health care administrator said that studies show that patients