Re: [liberationtech] A modest proposal for protecting the work (and freedom) of activists.

2014-01-20 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
Kate Krauss writes: > Dear Liberationists: > > I'm an non-technical activist who works with communities with serious > threat models who just published *“A Modest Proposal for Encrypting > the Work of Activists.*” > > https://medium.com/p/f561c5260bf3 > > See what you think. It's not a pretty sol

[liberationtech] mod_require_otr in prosody

2014-01-31 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
i suggested the idea of otr requirement to prosody devs :) -- http://hackcoop.com.ar --- Begin Message --- Hi Nicolás, On 31 January 2014 12:33, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: > > hi o/ > > in the liberationtech mailing list people is suggesting to have xmpp > servers require otr me

Re: [liberationtech] mod_require_otr in prosody

2014-01-31 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
Nicolás Reynolds writes: > i suggested the idea of otr requirement to prosody devs :) in case the attached email wasn't clear, one of the prosody devs replied with this snippet for testing: https://prosody.im/pastebin/eed63406-cd84-4ee0-a550-94c9f69a73b2 -- :O -- Liberationtech i

Re: [liberationtech] mod_require_otr in prosody

2014-01-31 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
Nicholas Merrill writes: > On 1/31/14, 2:54 PM, Nicolás Reynolds wrote: >> Nicolás Reynolds writes: >> >>> i suggested the idea of otr requirement to prosody devs :) >> in case the attached email wasn't clear, one of the prosody devs replied >> w

Re: [liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
Lucas Gonze writes: > Let's say web servers auto generated self-signed certificates for any > domain that didn't supply its own certificate, likely one from an authority. > > What that would accomplish is to make the stream unreadable over the wire, > unless the attacker was willing and able to d

Re: [liberationtech] self signing certs by default

2014-03-14 Thread Nicolás Reynolds
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 mass of 'Trust > Notaries'. afaict it was a fork of perspectives and perspectives is alive :) http://perspectives-project