Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Julian Oliver
o. Briar looks good, but burns through battery, apparently. It is truly decentralised. Using Tor however, it does have a central point of failure, as many routes block Tor nodes, easily loaded into a firewall/iptables from the public directory. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver https://julianolive

Re: [liberationtech] Pro-Democracy Activists Run into Telegram Issue

2018-12-30 Thread Julian Oliver
lations of list guidelines will get you > > moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > > Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > > liberationtech-ow...@lists.stanford.edu. > > > > -- > Public Key: https

Re: [liberationtech] // freevpn.me //

2015-07-29 Thread Julian Oliver
account (to lower threat from password capture (local keylogger or evil endpoint)), checked I was actually on my server, su'd to another user and all was well. As usual, context rules the threat model. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org PGP key: https:

Re: [liberationtech] // freevpn.me //

2015-07-26 Thread Julian Oliver
a list of public and free OpenVPN offerings, and no-one seems to know a thing about them. Cheers, Julian > On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:57 AM -0700, "Shelley" > wrote: > On July 26, 2015 9:59:04 AM Julian Oliver wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > D

[liberationtech] // freevpn.me //

2015-07-26 Thread Julian Oliver
registration was mid 2013. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org PGP key: https://julianoliver.com/key.asc Beware the auto-complete life. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moder

Re: [liberationtech] Free or Cheap VPN for OS X?

2015-05-27 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Wed, May 27, 2015 at 08:16:04PM +0530, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > Julian Oliver [2015-05-05 16:49:04 +0200]: > >For all else, I run my own OpenVPN servers. Very easy to set up. > > Is there any way to do this without linking the server to one's name > (through finan

Re: [liberationtech] Free or Cheap VPN for OS X?

2015-05-05 Thread Julian Oliver
I never use a closed source VPN client, even if the content is non-volatile. It might be FedWare or simply dodgy; VPN clients generally need to exec with root privileges. OpenVPN clients (like TunnelBlick) are your best bet. HTH, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering

Re: [liberationtech] Open Source Videoconference platform

2015-01-18 Thread Julian Oliver
w video lectures using it. https://jitsi.org/ https://jitsi.org/index.php/Register/Register With Chromium or Chrome you can also use Jiti purely in the browser, albeit I haven't had great luck with it: https://meet.jit.si/ A similar offering is: http://talky.io Cheers, -

Re: [liberationtech] Cuba: 5% Internet penetration

2015-01-09 Thread Julian Oliver
gt; > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > co

Re: [liberationtech] Bernard Maris among Charlie victims

2015-01-09 Thread Julian Oliver
This is the story of the Kouachi brothers. Sadly there'll likely be many more like them if the National Front rises in power - harvesting fear to feed their confused anti-immigration thesis, isolating more communities (and their children) in turn. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianol

Re: [liberationtech] Social Media Interns at Wickr

2014-05-05 Thread Julian Oliver
ications and encryption > > *How to Apply:* Please submit a resume to j...@mywickr.com and indicate your > interest in the social media internship. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https:

Re: [liberationtech] OpenSSL Heartbleed Vulnerability Patched

2014-04-08 Thread Julian Oliver
; any silently and previously compromised account will be no less vulnerable post patch. This is the long-tail of Heartbleed. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org PGP key: https://julianoliver.com/key.asc Beware the auto-complete life. -- Lib

Re: [liberationtech] Vandalism and Video Surveillance

2014-03-17 Thread Julian Oliver
aving done that thing. Choose to defuse. Make a joke of it. Play back. After all, it's not like they're running off with property or burning down the building. Seems to me like an invitation. And they've probably already read your email to this list. Cheers, -- Julian O

Re: [liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-14 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 04:03:48PM -0300, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > Julian Oliver writes: > > His Convergence project is certainly worth a look, too: > > > > http://convergence.io/ > > > > Shame it didn't catch on. AFAIK it needs a certain critical mas

Re: [liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-14 Thread Julian Oliver
s certainly worth a look, too: http://convergence.io/ Shame it didn't catch on. AFAIK it needs a certain critical mass of 'Trust Notaries'. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org PGP key: https://julianoliver.com/key.asc Beware the auto-com

[liberationtech] // NETworkshop: Zurich, Copenhagen, Brussels //

2014-03-04 Thread Julian Oliver
ts: BXL:http://www.imal.org/fr/networkshop. ZRH: http://www.digitalbrainstorming.ch/de/programm/art_under_mass_surveillance The Copenhagen event is at the ITU.dk and has no page as such. Kind regards from Berlin, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineeri

Re: [liberationtech] 15 years later, why can't Johnny still not encrypt?

2014-01-15 Thread Julian Oliver
t warning (just like we see with 'Remember this password?' in Firefox). This of course would make GnuPGP etc a dependency for installing that particular mail client. It would be great to see Mozilla take this on with Thunderbird. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP 36EED09D http://julianoliver.co

Re: [liberationtech] 13 years in the making...

2013-12-31 Thread Julian Oliver
, it's a platform built atop (leveraging) a wide array of external, community-developed projects - from B.A.T.M.A.N/OpenMesh, OpenWrt to OpenBTS and more. Keep up the good work in 2014! -- Julian Oliver PGP 36EED09D http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Liberationtech is publi

Re: [liberationtech] TextSecure will begin shipping as part of the CyanogenMod

2013-12-09 Thread Julian Oliver
rt to provide > completely transparent end-to-end text message encryption between all > of their users." > > https://whispersystems.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/ Excellent news indeed! -- Julian Oliver PGP 36EED09D http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Liberation

Re: [liberationtech] the 14th reason not to start using PGP is out!

2013-11-22 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:16:31AM +, Nick wrote: > Quoth Julian Oliver: > > Indeed, but there's a wide gulf between asserting that people > > should not use (or > > start to use) PGP at all until a better solution is available - as he does > > -

Re: [liberationtech] the 14th reason not to start using PGP is out!

2013-11-21 Thread Julian Oliver
equally as vulnerable as PGP. For the time being PGP continues to work pretty well here for my non-life-and-death communication needs. I'd rather use PGP than send mail in the clear. I'm sure this sentiment is shared by many others. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP 36EED09D http://julian

Re: [liberationtech] the 14th reason not to start using PGP is out!

2013-11-21 Thread Julian Oliver
Perhaps we should tell kids "to not start using" umbrellas too, as they've been shown to be occasionally unreliable in bad weather. Let them get soaking wet until our hovering titanium sphere with iPod dock and autopilot hits supermarket shelves. Chairs, -- Julian Oliver PG

Re: [liberationtech] [guardian-dev] Randomize MAC of Android phone?

2013-10-27 Thread Julian Oliver
ent Reset MAC address to its original, permanent hardware value. -l, --list[=keyword] Print known vendors (with keyword in the vendor's description string) -m, --mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX, --mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Se

Re: [liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

2013-08-19 Thread Julian Oliver
If, after tangible knowledge of such violence wrought, (under so and so terms, at such and such cost, with these and these goals) citizens are /still/ to vote in favour, then sad and terrible that country is. Up until that point, we have a hostage situation. Cheers! -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A

Re: [liberationtech] Google confirms critical Android crypto flaw

2013-08-15 Thread Julian Oliver
very weird indeed. This makes a good outline for a public request for a statement from them, IMO. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guideli

Re: [liberationtech] Drones for much networking

2013-08-09 Thread Julian Oliver
e. I also sometimes use 802.11 services when it's windy and/or raining. Google's balloons are a more practical approach, as are solar powered meshed APs in weather proof boxes: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/06/google_internet_balloons/ Cheers, -- Julian Olive

Re: [liberationtech] Publishing material smuggled from bad countries

2013-08-01 Thread Julian Oliver
as to who > might be interested (I could contact)? The general > region is Sub-Saharan Africa. Cryptome: http://cryptome.org http://cryptome.org/#Cryptome%20PK -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Liberationtech list is public and

Re: [liberationtech] NSA Xkeyscore VPN reference question

2013-08-01 Thread Julian Oliver
n 5 years" rather than "what we can do now". Perhaps the slide is from a pitch for more funding rather than a walkthrough of capability. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest

[liberationtech] // KillPacket: Android implementation, reference code //

2013-08-01 Thread Julian Oliver
its, merciless criticism gladly accepted. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailma

Re: [liberationtech] PGP is hard to use and needs stuff installed on your computer. Use PassLok instead.

2013-07-28 Thread Julian Oliver
QmtnoceAxJoSzjvYEYOM0q=PL12lok > > > > get the PassLok privacy app at: http://passlok.com > > -- > > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > > https://mailman.s

Re: [liberationtech] PGP is hard to use and needs stuff installed on your computer. Use PassLok instead.

2013-07-27 Thread Julian Oliver
ongratulations. And yes, it passed the offline, locally hosted test ;) I feel clicking on the title 'Key / Lock Conbination' for instructions would baffle most people. The 'step by step instructions' page is good, but I think it could be more helpfully integrated.

Re: [liberationtech] Ensuring Free Access to Ideas in Public Spaces?

2013-07-19 Thread Julian Oliver
, that albeit artistic and conceptual in its goals, is a fully functioning wireless web-server that even takes the form of a book: http://weise7.org/book/ Being Internet independent the book can be read on wireless-capable devices in a cave, out on the ocean etc. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver

Re: [liberationtech] Secure Android guide?

2013-07-13 Thread Julian Oliver
ing with it so far. How you use it is another thing. If you rarely need to make calls over the cellular network then use Airplane Mode until you need to call - that'll get you off the grid where cell provider location tracking/logging is concerned. Better still, don't use a SIM card at

Re: [liberationtech] Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app

2013-07-12 Thread Julian Oliver
anced app now the market is > > sensitive to the argument and everyone is coming out of the woods to > > do so. > > That's what I thought when I saw heml.is, too… :/ One can look at is as socially productive opportunism. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http:/

Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

2013-07-11 Thread Julian Oliver
at: > > > > "We are building Heml.is on top of proven technologies, such as XMPP with > > PGP." > > > > > > Mitar > > > > -- > > http://mitar.tnode.com/ > > https://twitter.com/mitar_m > > > > -- > http://mitar.tn

Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

2013-07-10 Thread Julian Oliver
to read I was too hasty to take no mention of openness - and the feature 'unlocking' aspect of the project - to be indication of a proprietary code base. Cheers, Julian > 9 jul 2013 kl. 18:52 skrev Julian Oliver : > > > > > Suprised to see Peter Sunde, Lei

[liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

2013-07-09 Thread Julian Oliver
Suprised to see Peter Sunde, Leif Högberg & Linus Olsson push out their private messaging for Android and iOS as closed-source unlock-ware: https://heml.is/ (Warning: Self-ingratiating video. Fun-guy team shots) Cheers, -- Julian Oliver PGP B6E9FD9A http://julianoliver.com

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-02 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 01:47:07AM +, adrelanos wrote: > Julian Oliver: > > ..on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:03:01PM +, adrelanos wrote: > >> In response to "the tool doesn't exist"... > > > > apt-get install tor && torify wget h

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 03:17:27PM -0700, Eleanor Saitta wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2013.07.01 15.15, Julian Oliver wrote: > > ..on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:03:01PM +, adrelanos wrote: > >> In response to "the tool do

Re: [liberationtech] secure download tool - doesn't exist?!?

2013-07-01 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:03:01PM +, adrelanos wrote: > In response to "the tool doesn't exist"... apt-get install tor && torify wget http://path.to/file ;) -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubsc

Re: [liberationtech] Silent Circle experiences rapid growth in wake of NSA surveillance scandal

2013-07-01 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:35:13AM -0700, Yosem Companys wrote: > http://gcn.com/blogs/cybereye/2013/06/agencies-sudden-interest-encrypted-comm.aspx > > Agencies showing sudden interest in encrypted comm Suckers. -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.o

Re: [liberationtech] Secret European deals to hand over private data to America

2013-07-01 Thread Julian Oliver
Lack of interest in the general population > tells you that they're getting away with it. > > > changing incident. We will get a completely different Brussels > > environment for related topics. > > You are kidding yourself. If you want to change things, invest into &g

Re: [liberationtech] Identity Based Encryption

2013-06-25 Thread Julian Oliver
;Understanding Email' in the CryptoParty Handbook for more information: http://weise7.org/tmp/cryptobook-v1.1.pdf (SHA256 e8d05c9693930dc942200546389eb12673da44647f62f6d22dbe07f35c9f6cd8) Warm regards from Berlin, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.o

Re: [liberationtech] AdLeaks - a whistleblowing platform

2013-06-23 Thread Julian Oliver
to communicate with AdLeaks once our ads are sufficiently > widespread." > > http://www.adleaks.org/how.html Very smart approach. Congrats. -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by e

Re: [liberationtech] Any thoughts on this?

2013-06-22 Thread Julian Oliver
like: http://utils.kde.org/projects/kgpg/ http://projects.gnome.org/seahorse/ Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Quick Guide to Alternatives

2013-06-18 Thread Julian Oliver
7;s no reason Apple doesn't do the same, as if its track record for timely patching wasn't poor enough. An important sub-theme of this whole debacle is that it's simply unrealistic to trust that a corporation will defend basic human rights, especially when coerced by a government or t

Re: [liberationtech] Blocking TCP flows?

2013-06-15 Thread Julian Oliver
> -- > Phil Fagan > Denver, CO > 970-480-7618 > > - End forwarded message - > -- > Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org > ______ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com

Re: [liberationtech] Microsoft Accesses Skype Chats

2013-05-14 Thread Julian Oliver
encryption, key ownership and topology. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Eduardo Robles Elvira > wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Pranesh Prakash > > wrote: > >> >

Re: [liberationtech] Dubai firm fined $2.8M for selling Bluecoat devices to Syria

2013-04-26 Thread Julian Oliver
ne *else* fined: > http://www.bluecoat.com/company/press-releases/blue-coat-commends-department-commerce%E2%80%99s-bureau-industry-and-security Madness! -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change pa

Re: [liberationtech] Liberte Linux

2013-04-25 Thread Julian Oliver
modified build of GNU/Linux has no intrinsic value in itself. Tell us, in the event she can't herself in English, what she's trying to do and why. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or ch

Re: [liberationtech] And right on cue, the flush our civil liberties down the toilet boys rear their ugly heads

2013-04-18 Thread Julian Oliver
hose children are terrified of the U.S and can't sleep due to the buzzing - and statistically inaccurate - killing machines flying above their homes. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] A tool for encrypted laptops

2013-03-26 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 01:03:56PM +, Michael Rogers wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26/03/13 09:59, Julian Oliver wrote: > > For your Linux laptop why not just use an encrypted file-system and > > lid-switch? Close the lid and the ma

Re: [liberationtech] A tool for encrypted laptops

2013-03-26 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:59:22AM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote: > ..on Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:55:19AM +, Andreas Bader wrote: > > > Hi all - at the risk of shilling, my company has released an Open > > > Source tool called "You'll Never Take Me Alive". If

Re: [liberationtech] A tool for encrypted laptops

2013-03-26 Thread Julian Oliver
gt; Linux? When I encrypt my Laptop with Bitlocker and Yontma, then I have a > half Open Source secured Laptop.. For your Linux laptop why not just use an encrypted file-system and lid-switch? Close the lid and the machine hibernates. If you forget to close the lid then time it out to a screen

Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on "Reply to" Question

2013-03-22 Thread Julian Oliver
ender seems like a very odd default on a mailing list - more so if implemented to 'protect us from ourselves'. If I want to reply to the sender, I will do so, but by default I expect when subscribed to a mailing list I'm there for the open discussion. Society is risky! Cheers,

Re: [liberationtech] Please Vote on "Reply to" Question

2013-03-22 Thread Julian Oliver
reply-to-all -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

[liberationtech] // Most comprehensive IPv4 mapping project made with illegal botnet //

2013-03-20 Thread Julian Oliver
http://www.hostip.info/ And then type it into the 'Add Marker' field in their impressive Hilbert Browser: http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/hilbert/index.html Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe,

Re: [liberationtech] list reply-all

2013-03-19 Thread Julian Oliver
customizable, > and presents a much smaller attack surface than many other mail clients. > > I've used a *lot* of mail clients over the years; so far, mutt's the best. Hear here. 10 years with mutt across numerous machines and it's still the client that sucks the least.

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography Alt-Folk Band Release a New MixTape!

2013-03-08 Thread Julian Oliver
p more secure AND > more usable at the same time, but we did just that, by supporting Google > OAuth2 for @gmail and @google domain accounts. We also now support > TOFU-POP for SSL verification, which is fun to say, but even more fun to > use. Upgraded! Great improvements. Cong

Re: [liberationtech] Please Help Netroots Blogger Lowell Feld

2013-03-07 Thread Julian Oliver
ote: > > One might assume he wants the incident of how his emails were stolen > > investigated, not Yahoo broken into. We security folks do have honest > > occupations too, you know. > > > > CSI: Internet and all that. > > > > Yrs, > > > >

Re: [liberationtech] Please Help Netroots Blogger Lowell Feld

2013-03-07 Thread Julian Oliver
zen > Army of Progressive Bloggers and Online Activists is Changing American > Politics." In addition, Feld has 17+ years of experience in world oil > markets as an analyst and team leader with the U.S. Energy Information > Administration. > -- > Too many emails? Unsub

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for a Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Julian Oliver
as > > > >(P.S.: Skype? You can't be serious. ICQ and Facebookchat is more > >secure. > >Use IRC). > >-- > >Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password > >by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your > &

Re: [liberationtech] Designing the best network infrastructure for?a.Human Rights NGO

2013-02-28 Thread Julian Oliver
n > >> > >> -- > >> Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change > >password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or > >changing your settings at > >https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > >--

Re: [liberationtech] // The 'Kill Packet' - feedback wanted //

2013-02-25 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 08:22:27PM +0100, Jens Christian Hillerup wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Julian Oliver > wrote: > > Very nice! I would see this as a companion project as it doesn't quite do > > the > > same thing - it's whole disk

Re: [liberationtech] // The 'Kill Packet' - feedback wanted //

2013-02-25 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 07:58:20PM +0100, Jens Christian Hillerup wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Julian Oliver > wrote: > > Consider the case one has volatile data on a remote machine that needs to be > > removed as fast and as discretely as possible. The last th

Re: [liberationtech] // The 'Kill Packet' - feedback wanted //

2013-02-25 Thread Julian Oliver
e script directly if not SSH/CLI capable > That said, in appropriate use cases, there's value for a kill switch > or even a dead man's switch (if you don't take some action within > every N hours, the device gets wiped). Yes, I agree! Thanks for your thoughts, Julian &

[liberationtech] // The 'Kill Packet' - feedback wanted //

2013-02-25 Thread Julian Oliver
hr) sketch that could be developed into a simple Android application with a big red button, or even a swipe pattern (more discreet) that unlocks and sends the 'Kill Packet'. Security issues not addressed in the sketch would be dealt with in turn. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver htt

Re: [liberationtech] Thoughts on expansion of WeChat in the U.S.?

2013-02-25 Thread Julian Oliver
und Asia and Asia Pacific (where I'm from) you'll find many people that distrust China no more than they do U.S. The U.S military presence in the Pacific right now is turning many sour. China is looked upon by some as a protector in the region. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http:/

Re: [liberationtech] CNN writer on leaving Facebook

2013-02-25 Thread Julian Oliver
). Glad I never joined. Relatedly: http://www.suicidemachine.org/ http://bengrosser.com/projects/facebook-demetricator/ Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-20 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 05:45:10PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Hi, > > Julian Oliver wrote (20 Feb 2013 16:27:24 GMT) : > > Did you file a bug? It doesn't look like you did. You should do it. > > The program Maxim was talking of is not part of Debian. Yes, just afte

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-20 Thread Julian Oliver
BackTrack is based on Debian, a distribution used by countless data forensics people, pen-testers and security auditors world wide. It's fairly widely trusted in the field. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Cryptography super-group creates unbreakable encryption

2013-02-19 Thread Julian Oliver
of trust built atop it) and make our starting point the wide variety of open source software, some of which is poorly engineered and some which is not. The "what sucks the least" scale must begin with open source, not proprietary offerings from for-profit companies with a centralised se

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-19 Thread Julian Oliver
, Ubuntu. If you'd like to be a little closer to the bling (assuming you're happy with Debian testing) I'd look at Linux Mint Debian: http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [g...@pryzby.org: Ubuntu, Dash, Shuttleworth and privacy]

2013-02-18 Thread Julian Oliver
om/5234/mark-shuttleworth-addresses-ubuntu-privacy-issues-it-enough > > > > [snip] > > - End forwarded message - > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Wickr app aims to safeguard online privacy

2013-02-02 Thread Julian Oliver
ware. > > > >Wickr's business plan is to have hundreds of millions of people > >globally use the free versions of the application while a small > >percentage opt to pay for premium features such as being able to > >control larger data files. > > > >"W

Re: [liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-01-28 Thread Julian Oliver
st any commercial VPN provider with my > freedom or life and nobody should either thus why I stated always have TOR > handy. I should have explained my reasoning better but didn't want to send > a "wall of text". Hehe. Understood. Cheers, Julian > On Mon, Jan 28, 20

Re: [liberationtech] An encryption project

2013-01-28 Thread Julian Oliver
sharing etc) project with a Javascript API. Security is with SRTP and DTLS (AFAIK). It's currently supported in the nightly builds of Firefox: http://www.webrtc.org/ Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-01-28 Thread Julian Oliver
u > >> +61 412 238 041 > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/**liberationtech<https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> > >> > >> -- > > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/**mailman/listinfo/**liberationtech<https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech> > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Android and iOS security document

2013-01-25 Thread Julian Oliver
CryptoParty Manual v1.1 is a good place to look: https://cryptoparty.org/wiki/CryptoPartyHandbook#Version_1.1 (ePub, PDF) Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanfo

Re: [liberationtech] on the whole issue to include the topic "vpn illlegal in China"

2013-01-25 Thread Julian Oliver
; firewall’s latest crackdown on smartphones and tablets. My iPad is useful > >> again, until the firewall catches on and a new round of cat-and-mouse > >> begins. > >> > >> Sadly, there’s no good news to report on breaching the wall of smog > >> blocking the sun. No one has yet invented a virtual private network to > >> transport one through the Beijing pollution. > >> > >> (Philip Shishkin is a fellow at the Asia > >> Society<http://topics.bloomberg.com/asia-society/> and > >> the author of “Restless > >> Valley<http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300184365>: > >> Revolution, Murder and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia,” to be > >> published in May by Yale University Press. The opinions expressed are his > >> own.) > >> > >> To contact the writer of this article: Philip Shishkin at > >> philip.shish...@gmail.com. > >> > >> To contact the editor responsible for this article: Katy Roberts at > >> krobert...@bloomberg.net. > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > >> > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > > > > -- > > -- > Lisa M. Brownlee, Esq. > Mexico > Skype: lisa.m.brownlee > lmbscholar...@gmail.com > lmbconta...@yahoo.com > Author's website at West Thomson > Reuters<http://west.thomson.com/store/authorbio2.aspx?r=4889&product_id=15033039&aurec=217572Auth> > About my Law Journal Press > treatise<http://www.lawcatalog.com/product_detail.cfm?productID=15196&setlist=0&return=search_results&CFID=20088542&CFTOKEN=b6ddabf982b888e4-2F42CE2A-B3D2-E07B-503BCB3A910E5EEC> > Facebook: Lisa M > Brownlee<http://www.facebook.com/#%21/profile.php?id=1691642784&sk=info> > > Author of: > > Intellectual Property Due Diligence in Corporate Transactions: Investment, > Risk Assessment and Management (West Thomson Reuters) > > Assets & Finance: Audits and Valuation of Intellectual Property (West > Thomson Reuters) > > Federal Acquisition Regulations: Intellectual Property and Related Rights > (Law Journal Press) > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

[liberationtech] [jul...@julianoliver.com: Re: Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on Jihadi Discussion Forums]

2013-01-22 Thread Julian Oliver
e – but probably also for pro-democracy > activists in authoritarian settings. > > LOCATION > CISAC Conference Room > Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor > 616 Serra St. > Stanford University > Stanford, CA 94305 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change passwo

Re: [liberationtech] Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on Jihadi Discussion Forums

2013-01-22 Thread Julian Oliver
Conference Room > Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor > 616 Serra St. > Stanford University > Stanford, CA 94305 > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: [Crypto Stick News] Vulnerabilities of Self-Encrypted SSDs

2013-01-14 Thread Julian Oliver
; > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

2013-01-13 Thread Julian Oliver
ng a subject or interest in it, to acquire expertise. Do you think academics write Wikipedia?" Cheers, Julian > On Jan 12, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "Julian Oliver" > mailto:jul...@julianoliver.com>> wrote: > > ..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Shava

Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

2013-01-12 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 02:06:55PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Julian Oliver > wrote: > > This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming > > domain it's comparable to source code that is tech

Re: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

2013-01-12 Thread Julian Oliver
social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvard’s > > Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded > > DemandProgress.org, a “campaign against the Internet censorship bills > > SOPA/PIPA.” > > -- > > Unsubscribe, change to

Re: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On Censorship

2013-01-10 Thread Julian Oliver
re than a million > users in China. That is, they reach less than 0.2% of the Internet > population. Thanks for the clarifications Martin. Again, it's good to read people 'on the ground'! Cheers, Julian > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: > > >

Re: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On Censorship

2013-01-10 Thread Julian Oliver
s about the Chinese Internet: http://strategicstudyindia.blogspot.de/2012/11/five-myths-about-chinese-internet.html "Chinese Internet users are cosmopolitan, educated, and informed. Many use, or at least know they can use, circumvention technology like VPNs (Virtual

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-08 Thread Julian Oliver
rl php-pdo > In all fairness they are not instructions for each individual user, but a server administrator. I'll be setting up OwnCloud on one of my servers soon, allowing 'mom and pop' users that I invite (friends, colleagues and family) to trivially (and relatively securely) share file

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-08 Thread Julian Oliver
ivial to script this outside of Dropbox's scope. > > It would be even more trivial to http://owncloud.org/support/install/ Yep, a great project this one. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-07 Thread Julian Oliver
within. Crudely put, two friends chatting loudly in a street parade may carry less risk of eavesdropping than sending a 4096 bit GPG encrypted email from one host on the Internet to another. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Travel without drive

2013-01-06 Thread Julian Oliver
e removal boot USB stick immediate clears > all of RAM (prevention notebook RAM being read + encryption key captured!) I think many of these questions were addressed in the previous thread. Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, chan

Re: [liberationtech] Another CA Compromise: TurkTrust

2013-01-03 Thread Julian Oliver
so far. http://convergence.io/index.html SSL/TLS is a fairly fundamental part of the transport layer infrastructure these days - hard to shake it! But yes indeed, it's insane that we're trusting these random companies to look after their end of the bargain, let alone the browsers vendors

Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?

2012-12-31 Thread Julian Oliver
ing is something we're very interested in also. Incidentally I may be developing a project for the city of Derry in Ireland that deploys low cost weather-proof, solar-powered offline access points (as a delivery platform for cultural material). If it goes ahead I will be happy to contribute a

Re: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit

2012-12-28 Thread Julian Oliver
h, no icons either. Both my arms were grabbed at the Australian border as I reached to type 'firefox' in a terminal, to start the browser in an attempt to show them a normal looking environment. Terminals at the border are not a good idea. To avoid the machine being tampered with, invest

Re: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit

2012-12-27 Thread Julian Oliver
and fly. I'm sure there's a far more user friendly approach that's sane enough out in the field. One can't expect journalists to learn the CLI (albeit I think anyone that needs to trust their machine, isolate and mitigate network threats (among others) ought to!). Cheers, -- Ju

Re: [liberationtech] Why Skype (real-time) is losing out to WeChat (async)

2012-12-27 Thread Julian Oliver
P). Excellent point to foreground. Sends me daydreaming about WebRTC and a tag: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/full-webrtc-support-is-soon-coming-to-a-web-browser-near-you/ Cheers, -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech

Re: [liberationtech] Forbes recommends tools for journalists

2012-12-18 Thread Julian Oliver
the key ... > > > > Or are we saying the iOS's storage of the key is insecure? > > > > Best, > > Eric > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > >

Re: [liberationtech] Where can I find the Twitter censorship handbook?

2012-12-17 Thread Julian Oliver
respond to user support requests, or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the public. https://twitter.com/tos //<- By 'satisfy any applicable law' they point to the vast

Re: [liberationtech] Where can I find the Twitter censorship handbook?

2012-12-15 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:24:32PM +0100, Jillian C. York wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Julian Oliver wrote: > > > > > Per-country censorship: > > > > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/twitter-censorship-policy-global-outrage_n_

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