Re: [liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

2014-08-24 Thread J.M. Porup
ing? No. But there should be. Although I fear any such efforts will probably be futile. https://www.anamericandissidentinexile.com/blog/2014/01/fahrenheit-72/ Jens -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: http

Re: [liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

2014-08-24 Thread J.M. Porup
tore of knowledge is laughable on its face. Something P2P, maybe blockchain-based, might work. Convincing people of the reality and urgency of the threat is another matter. Jens -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Vio

Re: [liberationtech] Surviving the Coming Data Purge (was: economic cost of lost emails.)

2014-08-24 Thread J.M. Porup
ntries hostile to American interests will (hopefully) also survive. Plan ahead. Jens -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberat

Re: [liberationtech] Surviving the Coming Data Purge (was: economic cost of lost emails.)

2014-08-24 Thread J.M. Porup
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 19:29, Al Billings wrote: > > On Aug 24, 2014, at 3:11 PM, J.M. Porup wrote: > > > The goal is to ensure the survival not of conformity or trivia, but of > > dissent. > > Whose goal? Those of us who do not wish to see an end to art, to

Re: [liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

2014-08-25 Thread J.M. Porup
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 03:03, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 04:40:26PM -0300, J.M. Porup wrote: > > If we really want a permanent archive of humanity's work, we > > need to build some kind of distributed Noah's Ark. Archive.org is > > no good (boo

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: economic cost of lost emails.

2014-08-26 Thread J.M. Porup
ld this. I'm hiring, > so reach out. > > Juan Interesting. Is the goal to create a DAC (Distributed Autonomous Corporation)? References: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/01/computer-corporations [*] http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-autonomous

Re: [liberationtech] Tailored Crypto Workshops in Brussels

2014-08-30 Thread J.M. Porup
ions, and found myself giving him an impromptu course in OpSec. I was shocked. Meanwhile in Colombia, journalists get murdered by all and sundry, and no one seems to give a damn... Jens -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Viol

Re: [liberationtech] Am I the only one who feels tricked by the Kickstarter campaign thinking that BRCK will be non-profit?

2014-09-18 Thread J.M. Porup
wonder if equity crowdfunding would improve the "responsible to the community" part. Unlike regular crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding is like a mini-IPO with a lot less overhead. Contributors buy shares in the venture. The owners are responsible to shareholders. The idea is gaining a lot of t

[liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-10 Thread J.M. Porup
, not end users. But angel investors want to see a hundred million dollar exit, minimum. Anyone working on anything juicy in this space that would scale globally and make money too? Or am I looking for something that doesn't exist? Jens - -- J.M. Porup, CDWDS (Chief Dude Who Does Stuff) LatAm

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
lical!" > > The fact is that profit and "common good" are most times divergent > endeavours and, if they intersect, they'd be tangent, secant, > perhaps even with more intersections, but - their Sims, goals, > objectives are radically different! > > On N

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
ot; between "profit" and "common good," didn't I? > > But there is a huge gap, oceans of "bad" or just "OK" between > those intersections, "few and far between," isn't it? > > > Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Gra

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/10/14 12:37, hellekin wrote: > *** Indeed, there's an inherent conflict of interest. But free > software, free hardware, and liberation technologies suffer a > systematic lack of resources. If the only alternative to capital > investment is ei

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/14 08:48, hellekin wrote: > On 11/11/2014 09:00 AM, J.M. Porup wrote: >> If it helps, think of it as a Venn diagram. There is one set, >> that of profitable scalable innovation. There is another set, >> that of F/LOSS th

Re: [liberationtech] investing in liberation tech

2014-11-11 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/14 09:36, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: > what I'd be interested to know regarding "angel investors" and > Chile, is exactly what is meant by this statement in the website > originally referenced in the email starting this thread:

Re: [liberationtech] Bitcoin as a Humanitarian Finance tool

2014-11-28 Thread J.M. Porup
's not a zero-sum game. Jens - -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUeNKPAAoJEGrDVsHXOmiE4tAQAIxgbpf//TyMNpI1Akebh18r IKFUV+vyoFGQIP/lQ8XyqShJIRhE38do7HjgcRokN4osdcWZDEY2Y8WFvfzokGVT 2TWYllPWUsb/h2tVeLmBaR7BXAGEizWII33c8

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-05 Thread J.M. Porup
want to make it easy for the jackbooted (if red white and blue) thug next door to stomp all over me and re-install the next Batista? JMP -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com PGP fingerprint: 1442 C867 3E9D 14A1 58FC 2266 6AC3 56C1 D73A 6884 On 01/05/15 15:59, Myself wrote: > Under the new

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-05 Thread J.M. Porup
partment, Facebook is CIA > and it's all controlled by the Illuminati and E.T., still, Cubans > deserve Internet access like everybody else. Checking my cable modem > now, Batista may be creeping up the coaxial :) > > On Jan 5, 2015 6:22 PM, "J.M. Porup" <mailto:j...@po

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-06 Thread J.M. Porup
t access like everybody else. Checking my cable modem > > now, Batista may be creeping up the coaxial :) > > > > On Jan 5, 2015 6:22 PM, "J.M. Porup" <mailto:j...@porup.com> > > <mailto:j...@porup.com <mailto:j...@porup.com>>&

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-08 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/08/15 10:45, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes wrote: > Oh YEAH! TAYLOR SWIFT! teaching us about Freedom while basking in her > millions. OMG ROTFLMFBO Um. OK. It wasn't my intention to trick you. I just figured you knew. I mean, this is lib-tech... > Bottom line: any single bit of additio

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-09 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/09/15 10:21, Myself wrote: > Also, very important at this time are the USG democracy promotion > programs Ah, democracy. America's deadliest export. http://williamblum.org/books/americas-deadliest-export JMP -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-09 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/09/15 11:34, Myself wrote: > Democracy = bad sounds ultra-leftist/communist to me. You can always > move to North Korea, Cuba or Iran if you don't like it. Democracy gives > you that choice. America exports "democracy" the way Genghis Khan exported the right to speak Mongolian. How did Grah

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-09 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/09/15 13:04, Myself wrote: > The only way to appease a bully is to fight back. I agree! Let's give a giant, collective middle finger to Uncle Sam, now, shall we? JMP -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: htt

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-09 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/09/15 12:04, Myself wrote: > Yeah, I see you have a lot of innocence... Consider the alternative > exports of the super power that lost the cold war, you and your entire > family could be in a Siberian concentration camp right now just for > trying to connect to the internet you take for gran

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

2015-01-15 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/15/15 13:45, Al Billings wrote: > Insisting that we both can and cannot (at the same time) trust people like > Moxie simply because they live in the USA and the NSA exists is stupid. I > don’t see a suggestion of what jurisdiction the author thinks people can live > within where there won’

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

2015-01-15 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/15/15 14:25, Al Billings wrote: > >> On Jan 15, 2015, at 11:20 AM, J.M. Porup wrote: >> >> On 01/15/15 13:45, Al Billings wrote: >>> Insisting that we both can and cannot (at the same time) trust people like >>> Moxie simply because they live in

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

2015-01-15 Thread J.M. Porup
r software there. > >> On Jan 15, 2015, at 11:41 AM, J.M. Porup wrote: >> >> I know it's hard for some Merkans to understand, but there is this >> magical place called "Rest of the World." There are even parts you >> haven't bombed yet! You m

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

2015-01-17 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/15 14:52, Cypher wrote: > On 01/15/2015 11:29 AM, carlo von lynX wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:49:31AM -0800, Steve Weis wrote: >>> Note you said "users will never know" if e2e is being used, >>> but as Moxie says "we'll be surfacing th

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

2015-01-17 Thread J.M. Porup
On 01/17/15 12:24, Matt Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > Why would anyone bother to change your Twitter image? What do they gain > from that? > Intimidation. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/ JMP -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violatio

[liberationtech] Fwd: Request to mailing list liberationtech rejected

2015-01-18 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just so you all know, the list moderator is now censoring posts with political content they don't like. It is impossible to discuss emerging technology without discussing the social and political disruption that it causes. One rather wonders what [li

[liberationtech] The Future of Security Journalism

2015-01-26 Thread J.M. Porup
First https://medium.com/@toholdaquill/security-journalism-full-speed-ahead-34e490742056 JMP -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liber

Re: [liberationtech] The Future of Security Journalism

2015-01-26 Thread J.M. Porup
Eleanor Saitta: > On 2015.01.26 21.06, J.M. Porup wrote: >> Here's my reply: >> >> Security Journalism, Full Speed Ahead! I’ll Go First >> >> https://medium.com/@toholdaquill/security-journalism-full-speed-ahead-34e490742056 > > What a shocking failure

Re: [liberationtech] The Future of Security Journalism

2015-01-29 Thread J.M. Porup
Nathan Andrew Fain: > Quinn's thought that legislation is required to protect this form of > data journalism is optimistic. Sufficient solutions would take a very > long time to formulate and probably not be very workable until > societies have full internalized the shift into a digital world. Wh

Re: [liberationtech] RFC Metasploit for the Masses

2015-01-30 Thread J.M. Porup
coderman: > as one who is always fond of the question, > "what's your threat model?" If I may suggest, the threat model is not to the individual, but rather to the macro-organism. To society as a whole. To the Internet. What is that threat? That a small number of power-hungry thugs pwn the worl

Re: [liberationtech] WATCH LIVE NOW: Steven Heydemann on "Authoritarianism in the Era of Mass Politics"

2015-02-02 Thread J.M. Porup
Yosem Companys: > CDDRL’s Program on Arab Reform and Democracy (ARD), in partnership with the > Arab Studies Institute, presents: > > *Authoritarianism in the Era of Mass Politics* > *Featuring:* > *Steven Heydemann* > *Vice President, Applied Research on Conflict* > *United States Institute of Pe

Re: [liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-17 Thread J.M. Porup
Rich Kulawiec: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 07:17:18PM +0100, Christian Huldt wrote: >> Who are mailchimps.com and why should I trust them? > > Spammers for hire, and no, you shouldn't -- doubly so since (like many > such operations) they embed unique-per-recipient tracking links in every > message t

Re: [liberationtech] Minorities & privacy/surveillance

2015-02-26 Thread J.M. Porup
Shava Nerad: > Have you looked for information specifically on COINTELPRO and the civil > rights movement? It might not be indexed under surveillance (a good deal > of the activity was sabotage and harrasment, too) but having grown up under > the FBI's eye, it's hard to imagine there isn't literat

[liberationtech] A Field Guide to Physical Surveillance for Journalists and Activists

2015-02-27 Thread J.M. Porup
surveillance, and suggests countermeasures suitable for a law-abiding journalist or activist to take. More: https://medium.com/@toholdaquill/a-field-guide-to-physical-surveillance-b44f6af4e094 -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com 1442 C867 3E9D 14A1 58FC 2266 6AC3 56C1 D73A 6884 -- Liberationtech is public

[liberationtech] The Internet & Human Rights

2015-04-15 Thread J.M. Porup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The Internet Takes Away Your Human Rights Here’s How to Stop It https://medium.com/@toholdaquill/the-internet-takes-away-your-human-righ ts-ade9ab8cbd30 Feedback welcome. JMP - -- 1442 C867 3E9D 14A1 58FC 2266 6AC3 56C1 D73A 6884 -BEGIN PGP S

[liberationtech] Plunder. It's a Thing.

2015-05-05 Thread J.M. Porup
-b449485812bc feedback welcome. Jens - -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com 1442 C867 3E9D 14A1 58FC 2266 6AC3 56C1 D73A 6884 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVSQhUAAoJEGrDVsHXOmiEKHsQAI8mQsfNyyzIf1k0g44xLk6r jCAIGApJSe8Ff6Ujt9bJdjR3ktb/ifjlOzWuUoJpOEakC+XHMpluAXnw6GXCCQ1q +9/D/diwuBRDhW3D

Re: [liberationtech] Globe and Mail Editorial

2015-05-21 Thread J.M. Porup
Ronald Deibert: > Hi LibTech > > Following up on my earlier post about our Citizen Lab report, and the > reporting of the CBC and the Intercept on the smartphone exploitations, I > wrote a piece for the Globe and Mail summarizing my views. A fine article. May I offer one quibble? > The case of

[liberationtech] Silicon Valley Must Be Redistributed

2016-03-03 Thread J.M. Porup
The continued existence of Silicon Valley in its current form is the single greatest threat to the human race we face today. As the FBI v Apple fiasco makes clear, any Silicon Valley business can be commandeered, coerced to serve the surveillance apparatus. [0] The solution: We must disrupt Silic

Re: [liberationtech] Silicon Valley Must Be Redistributed

2016-03-03 Thread J.M. Porup
wind up in the same spot with a different > governments possessing and utilizing the same coercive powers. > > J.M. Porup: > > The continued existence of Silicon Valley in its current form is the > > single greatest threat to the human race we face today. > > > >

Re: [liberationtech] unmonitored international communication?

2016-03-03 Thread J.M. Porup
On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:46:58PM -1000, Carolyn Santo wrote: > The recent talk about video games made me wonder about using them as a > communication channel that might not be monitored by repressive governments. You mean, like the US and British governments? > Hope this sparks some useful idea

Re: [liberationtech] Email provider enabling enforced SMTP/TLS for inbound MX-received emails

2016-04-04 Thread J.M. Porup
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Moritz Bartl wrote: > > On 01/03/2016 02:57 PM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: > >> Ideally, i would like an automatic email to be sent back to the sender > >> of that email, informing h

Re: [liberationtech] At Stanford: US Spies - Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, And What to Do About It

2017-02-04 Thread J.M. Porup
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 12:44:05PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: > From: Stanford Center for Internet & Society > > The wonderful Jennifer Granick > > AMERICAN SPIES - MODERN SURVEILLANCE, WHY YOU SHOULD CARE, AND WHAT TO DO > ABOUT IT > > > US intelligence agenc

Re: [liberationtech] Decentralization

2017-02-05 Thread J.M. Porup
On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 12:17:49PM -0800, Yosem Companys wrote: > Can anyone think of decentralized business models that are profitable so > folks on this list who are struggling with pitching decentralization as a > business model can succeed? The centralized business model of Silicon Valley pose

Re: [liberationtech] Decentralization

2017-02-08 Thread J.M. Porup
Starving Silicon Valley of tech talent, ending the "brain drain," and encouraging talented engineers to stay home--or go somewhere else--is an important part of disrupting US control of the internet, and decentralizing that power around the world. LatAm Startups encourages Latin American startups