Re: [liberationtech] Teach privacy at Mozilla?

2015-02-02 Thread John Adams
I live in SF and I'd be down. Let me know what date. -j On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.edu wrote: From: Rhona Mahony rmah...@stanford.edu via cryptopa...@lists.stanford.edu Hey, the Privacy Team at Mozilla would like our help with a CryptoParty! They

Re: [liberationtech] Detekt

2014-11-22 Thread John Adams
I'm on vacation at the moment and it's going to take some time to analyze Detekt, but there are a number of problems with the software so far that need help and possibly a write-up or two. Most of it makes me think, something doesn't smell right here. Here are some random thoughts after a first

Re: [liberationtech] Iranian and Twitter's Dick Costolo

2014-09-28 Thread John Adams
Uh, as far as I know Twitter did not have per-country restrictions on 2FA. Perhaps this is because of limited SMS support, but Twitter did not restrict 2FA per-country. -j On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:33 AM, Nariman Gharib nariman...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This week, Dick constolo did a good job

Re: [liberationtech] Time validation for 2-step verification codes

2014-08-27 Thread John Adams
I don't know where you're getting your information from, but I audited Google's 2FA when I worked at Twitter. The attack scenario that is described here is simply not possible without the endpoint being owned. Code replay is not possible. Once a code is accepted, it cannot be used again to log

Re: [liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-15 Thread John Adams
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 5:27 AM, carlo von lynX l...@time.to.get.psyced.org wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 04:45:01PM -0500, John Adams wrote: Granted, it provides a low level of encryption for clients but it does not provide Non-repudiability to those users, opening them up to MitM attacks

Re: [liberationtech] New IT security measures underway

2014-02-03 Thread John Adams
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:01:06AM -0800, Yosem Companys quoted: One of these mandates includes having employees with Windows XP laptops and desktops migrate to Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate, or Windows 8 Pro or

Re: [liberationtech] 49 Page NSA analysis of Tor

2013-10-05 Thread John Adams
On Oct 5, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: I wonder if tor.eff.org has any referer logs from 2006 showing inbound traffic from http://wiki.gchq/ or similar. .gchq isn't an Internet TLD, so That's doubtful. -j -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on

Re: [liberationtech] 49 Page NSA analysis of Tor

2013-10-05 Thread John Adams
Ah, point taken. Referrer leak would be very interesting to research here. -j On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:36:27PM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote: On 05/10/13 16:31, John Adams wrote: On Oct 5, 2013, at 12:17 AM, Andy

Re: [liberationtech] iPhone5S Fingerprint and 5th amendment

2013-09-10 Thread John Adams
Has Apple released specs on the operation of the fingerprint system? I.e. Can it be configured to use both a pin and a fingerprint? -j On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Percy Alpha percyal...@gmail.com wrote: I know that users can be forced to handover digital card and written down passcode

Re: [liberationtech] Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

2013-07-25 Thread John Adams
The reason why Twitter, Google, and other companies went to RC4 is because of issues with AES. The CBC and known IV attacks permitted BEAST to occur. RC4 was the safest way out. Even then, RC4 can be broken. In short, no one on the Internet is running SSL in a way that cannot be broken. Although,

Re: [liberationtech] Designing Fairness for DMCA

2013-07-16 Thread John Adams
We call this The trust and safety departments at most major companies. It already exists. You're getting wrapped up in a technical implementation which would normally be handled by large teams. The level of integration you describe is more than just a simplistic database table. Additionally,

Re: [liberationtech] One time pad Management system?

2013-07-12 Thread John Adams
Uh. S/key is a one time pad system that came out over 20 years ago and is open source. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:36 PM, Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:12:32PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: Are there any practical one time pad management

Re: [liberationtech] NSA is very likely storing all encrypted communications it is intercepting

2013-06-21 Thread John Adams
ECHDE_RSA offers an excellent degree of protection against after the fact analysis if and only if the private key is disclosed (or captured.) If the the privkey is unavailable, NSA can always go after the session keys -- capture of communications is actually made easier in these cases when sites

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

2013-06-17 Thread John Adams
scarcasm 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. /scarcasm On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Yosem Companys compa...@stanford.eduwrote: Slate

Re: [liberationtech] Opt out of Prism

2013-06-12 Thread John Adams
the tools can and cannot provide. -j On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Andrea St and...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends about John Adams, i just copied the title of the website. No more, no less. 2013/6/12 Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl On 12-06-13 19:21, John Adams wrote: I like

Re: [liberationtech] SECDEV: The internet in Syria: down, but not out

2013-05-08 Thread John Adams
However, according to SecDev cyber analysts, a damaged cable alone should not have caused the Border Gateway Protocols (BGP) routes for netblocks to be withdrawn. Rather, the fact that these routes disappeared suggests that the regime ordered the disconnect for reasons that are unknown.

Re: [liberationtech] My SXSW exposé in the Washington Post!

2013-03-15 Thread John Adams
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Shava Nerad shav...@gmail.com wrote: Technically, that's a different conference -- SXSW/I is a separate event that doesn't even run the same dates, last time I went (though they overlapped). It is all the same conference, That's why I have a platinum badge

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-07 Thread John Adams
I have never had a problem with creating images via hdiutil, setting them to AES-256, and then using them on dropbox. Additionally, if dropbox is breaking files, file a bug report. I've met with their team multiple times and they're certainly willing to fix things like this. -j On Sun, Jan 6,

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-07 Thread John Adams
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Jacob Appelbaum ja...@appelbaum.net wrote: I generally agree that the data should be encrypted, though I think it should also be authenticated and integrity checked before it is actually used. If this level of paranoia is relevant to you, then maintain

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-06 Thread John Adams
Why don't you just get around the problem entirely and use Dropbox's storage for encrypted disk images? If you have data sufficiently encrypted, it doesn't matter how it's stored. -j On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Jerzy Łogiewa jerz...@interia.eu wrote: Hello! Dropbox is completely