Re: [liberationtech] Do you have any thoughts on Matrix.org?

2017-07-09 Thread The Doctor
atrix protocol server implementations is that, by default all activity is logged to disk in a SQLite database. The privacy and safety implications of this are considerable. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] PGP ID/fingerprint: 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.vi

Re: [liberationtech] DRL Internet Freedom pages hit the memory hole

2017-01-30 Thread The Doctor
https://www.humanrights.gov/dyn/issues/internet-freedom.html is showing up right now. I did a quick visual comparison to the latest copy at the Archive, and they seem to match up. --- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] https://drwho.virtadpt.net <http://drwho.virtadpt.net> "I am every

Re: [liberationtech] DRL Internet Freedom pages hit the memory hole

2017-01-30 Thread The Doctor
Pages and data are disappearing faster than we can archive them. Did anybody notice the page for the Judicial Branch vanished from whitehouse.gov yesterday? --- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] https://drwho.virtadpt.net <http://drwho.virtadpt.net> "I am everywhere." No PGP si

Re: [liberationtech] White House Comment Line shut down!

2017-01-29 Thread The Doctor
ay of figuring stuff out about the commenter. Keep in mind that personality analytics figured heavily into the last election... Something about this is making my heat sinks crawl. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] PGP ID/fingerprint: 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 W

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-12 Thread The Doctor
if the other side doesn't bring its A game to match, it's just not going to happen. We may as well roll over and show our bellies. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD

Re: [liberationtech] Facebook available as a Tor hidden service

2014-10-31 Thread The Doctor
nd organize actions using Facebook. Facebook setting up a Tor hidden service would not facilitate anonymity (perhaps pseudnonymity, if one were to set up a dedicated FB account) but it would certainly help implement circumvention of traffic or DNS filtering. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS

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

2014-08-27 Thread The Doctor
ith their phone > completely not connected to a network. Authenticator software can also be run on isolated machines and still be useful. I've been playing around with this a little in my spare time while developing OPSEC strategy: https://github.com/gbraad/html5-google-authenticator

Re: [liberationtech] Surviving the Coming Data Purge

2014-08-25 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/24/2014 04:41 PM, Al Billings wrote: > No offense but those things aren’t contained in my email. Just because they are not found in yours does not mean they are not in the e-mail correspondence of others. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/

Re: [liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

2014-08-25 Thread The Doctor
ing ^s to save a page, or printing it to a file. Or it can be as complex as using Scrapbook to make an instant local copy of a page. It's a habit that has to be gotten into, but is well worth it. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantiu

Re: [liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

2014-07-15 Thread The Doctor
tore and share > data. It's not a technical problem, it's a people problem. There needs to be an incentive to get people to set up YaCy nodes and make them available to anyone who wants to plug some search terms into them. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Projec

Re: [liberationtech] Thought experiment for Independence Day...

2014-07-08 Thread The Doctor
nd not many people seem willing to do that just to search for stuff on the Web every day. A fixable problem, to be sure. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: ht

Re: [liberationtech] Mapping out physical surveillance across a city

2014-06-24 Thread The Doctor
uffalo, NY: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?gl=us&ie=UTF8&t=h&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=102215082017479040190.000438c2f775228813fee http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/ Google search: "security camera maps" - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium

Re: [liberationtech] Out of US VPS suggestions

2014-03-10 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/07/2014 04:07 PM, Cypher wrote: > Can anyone suggest any locations and/or providers? I've had some success with 1984.is, in Iceland. Clean builds, and had no trouble building on top of the VMs provided. - -- The Doctor [412/724

Re: [liberationtech] Wash DC Hackathon | Jan 11 | Need advice

2013-12-02 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/2013 02:09 PM, Jack Whitsitt wrote: > It's also probably worth pinging Refresh DC http://refresh-dc.org HacDC, also: http://hacdc.org/ Public discussion list: blabber (at) hacdc (dot) org - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] D

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Firefox OS with built in support for OpenPGP encryption

2013-09-13 Thread The Doctor
business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH199169 While it might not be a good idea, the software's out there (and presumably in use). - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89

Re: [liberationtech] Linux distribution on encrypted USB?

2013-09-12 Thread The Doctor
ut touching the installed hard drive. The config > is different. And I'm afraid to break stuff. This makes me wonder just how much abuse TAILS can really take before it breaks down... - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/

Re: [liberationtech] iPhone 5S Fingerprint and Records (Was: iPhone5S and 5th amendment)

2013-09-11 Thread The Doctor
estion that hasn't been asked yet (to my knowledge, anyway): Will any of the iProduct copying devices available to LEOs bypass the 5S' fingerprint reader? - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63

Re: [liberationtech] Linux distribution on encrypted USB?

2013-09-11 Thread The Doctor
accessible every time. Were you referring to something else (namely, potentially needing to repartition the device if the distro grows too large to be accomodated by previous installs)? - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x8

Re: [liberationtech] quid pro quo

2013-09-11 Thread The Doctor
, and say out of jail (and make lots of money). Don't cooperate, don't make lots of money and possibly wind up in jail. Probably, yes. Whether or not that matters anymore is a different question. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byz

Re: [liberationtech] Small size static HTML hosting with no ads and tor friendly

2013-09-10 Thread The Doctor
ugh of the plugins are turned off. Edit static files, commit locally, push to site via HTTPS. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ You

Re: [liberationtech] Other distros like Ubuntu Privacy Remix?

2013-09-03 Thread The Doctor
ically enable it. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "What does it do? How well does it do it?" --Sean Kennedy -BEG

Re: [liberationtech] BitMessage crackdown

2013-08-27 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/2013 06:55 PM, Randolph D. wrote: > http://www.chronicles.no/2013/08/bitmessage-crackdown.html In other words, one person ran a phishing expedition against BitMessage users. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Proj

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io

2013-08-27 Thread The Doctor
local aliases for IM buddies helped with that. Automatic addition to a local address book + buddy aliasing seems like a potential solution. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io

2013-08-23 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/2013 12:43 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: > It should give an option to continue anyway, tbh. At this time, it does not. Blank canvas. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing Scramble.io

2013-08-23 Thread The Doctor
.1 or Firefox >= 21" Problematic. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Time is the fire in which we burn. -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

2013-08-22 Thread The Doctor
her such example in four or five years, after most people have forgotten and gone on with their lives. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.

Re: [liberationtech] Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods

2013-08-21 Thread The Doctor
food chain is afraid that someone who passed the lifestyle poly will pull a Snowden in the relatively near future. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1

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

2013-08-14 Thread The Doctor
ching us rad haxoring skills."? Statistically speaking, a small number of people in the audience at Blackhat watching him are likely to throw their hats and CVs into the ring for a chance at a job. It probably wouldn't have the greatest success rate, but anymore any help one can

Re: [liberationtech] Freedom Hosting, Tormail Compromised // OnionCloud

2013-08-06 Thread The Doctor
ine. No need to send ninjas to raid the cookie jar when you can say, "Mother, may I?" - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.

[liberationtech] Byzantium Linux v0.5b (Sleep Deprivation) is out!

2013-07-22 Thread The Doctor
ny bugs or have suggestions for new features, please open a ticket on our bug tracker: https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/issues?page=1&state=open Share and enjoy! - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 8

Re: [liberationtech] Traffic Analysis Countermeasures

2013-07-19 Thread The Doctor
ss interested in anonymity of communications (i.e., sending e-mail) and more interested in anonymity of net.access these days. I doubt that there is only one factor contributing to the general lack of advancement in this field, though. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium

Re: [liberationtech] How to contact hacktivists?

2013-07-17 Thread The Doctor
. All things considered, not the worst way to get the message out... - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ The last time I saw Elvis,

Re: [liberationtech] Travellers' mobile phone data seized by police at border

2013-07-16 Thread The Doctor
sonnel to buy them (I do not know how you feel about that, your call). It is decreasingly possible to purchase them at self-checkout lines, they will refuse to register and flip on the "call a clerk" light. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http:/

Re: [liberationtech] Postal mail monitoring

2013-07-03 Thread The Doctor
eports of people whose mail sometimes comes opened and resealed after leaving the custody of the sender, or just opened following certain events. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89

Re: [liberationtech] Terry Winograd and Evgeny Morozov

2013-07-03 Thread The Doctor
to a lion doesn't help when it has you in its mouth. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Become a producer of experien

Re: [liberationtech] A community wireless mesh grows in Oakland, California.

2013-07-03 Thread The Doctor
r and learning > more about the current state of affairs. I can't make it, but I'm active in that problem space. Are there any questions that I can answer? - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CD

Re: [liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

2013-06-26 Thread The Doctor
http://yacy.de/ - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "These ribs might be the Buzz Rickson's jacket of _Spook Country_." - --W

Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

2013-06-22 Thread The Doctor
; (and I include NGO- and much of organized activist-land here), we > do in the end need to do something for it. The private sector, too. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3B

Re: [liberationtech] to encrypt or not to encrypt?

2013-06-21 Thread The Doctor
can be characterized as traffic of type Z and the rest may or may not be recognizable as being related to Z or some other protocol Q that can't be characterized yet. Most favorable outcome: Encrypt. In comparison... Perfect outcome: Don't transmit anything. Just give up. But then, why

liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu

2013-06-18 Thread The Doctor
and teaching GPG4win (http://www.gpg4win.org/) for about a year now. It includes GpgOL (GPG for Outlook), and attempts to accomplish the same tasks as Enigmail (and mostly succeeds). - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807

Re: [liberationtech] diseconomies of scale

2013-06-17 Thread The Doctor
It might not see every bit of traffic to and from that site, but enough traffic might be picked up to get an idea of what's happening there and whether or not a closer look is warranted. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP:

Re: [liberationtech] Secure and Cheap Provider in Sweden or Iceland?

2013-06-14 Thread The Doctor
I use moln.is > <http://moln.is>, do you guys have any other suggestion? Any other > kind of advice? 1984.is have been very helpful to colleagues of mine. The boxen over there are said to be very stable. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://p

Re: [liberationtech] FW: [Ottawadissenters] Infinite Romeo: The Secret Government Program to Manipulate Dating Sites

2013-06-13 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2013 07:51 AM, michael gurstein wrote: > Now we know? "Kevin Flynn..." Hee hee hee... - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-13 Thread The Doctor
ly explain the > negative effects of ignoring the problem. ... Thank you. This is some of what I was looking for in an answer. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807

Re: [liberationtech] Internet blackout

2013-06-12 Thread The Doctor
tial users on what it does and does not do as well as potential threats. We haven't gotten any feedback from Byzantium Linux users of the form "We're setting up meshes in /foo/ and using it for /bar/..." but are curious about it. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer,

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-12 Thread The Doctor
ently for us? Developing software is hard, and it's not done in a vacuum. Developers need feedback from the users so we know what we are or are not doing correctly so we can fix it. "Crypto is too hard," helps nobody. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium

Re: [liberationtech] Guardian reporter delayed e-mailing NSA source because crypto is a pain

2013-06-12 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/11/2013 09:56 PM, Kate Krauss wrote: > This is the beauty of cryptoparties--people can sit next to you and > talk you through it. Thanks, Asher Wolf. That is often all it > takes. I think it's time for another wave of cryptoparti

Re: [liberationtech] NSA whistleblower revealed

2013-06-10 Thread The Doctor
tle thing like political asylum isn't much of a deterrent. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "For my next trick: a

Re: [liberationtech] NSA whistleblower revealed

2013-06-10 Thread The Doctor
h a scenario, "agents looking for someone" + "layover in the US" could very likely == "arrested" - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C

Re: [liberationtech] NSA whistleblower revealed

2013-06-10 Thread The Doctor
ssible that he caught the first flight out of US territory available to him at that time - Hong Kong. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtad

Re: [liberationtech] Stop promoting Skype

2013-06-07 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/07/2013 03:23 AM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote: > STOP PROMOTING THE INTERNET Internet? I've been posting to this mailing list with a bottle of ink, a hamster, and a tarot deck! - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project B

Re: [liberationtech] Why Metadata Matters

2013-06-07 Thread The Doctor
rm of comms metadata (which is saying something...) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_detail_record (more for the references than the article itself) - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD8

Re: [liberationtech] New Yorker debut's Aaron Swartz's 'Strongbox.'

2013-05-17 Thread The Doctor
*everyone* lurks on libtech. > > currently sitting with six people who *all* lurk here, Hee hee hee. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://dr

Re: [liberationtech] Learning

2013-04-17 Thread The Doctor
be mindful of this: http://www.darkreading.com/sophoslabs-insights/another-zero-day-for-symantec-pgp-wde/240145658 - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drw

Re: [liberationtech] Why Bluecoat?

2013-04-10 Thread The Doctor
vernment deploy it but it worked well enough to make those damned techno-hippies angry! Must be good stuff! Let me Google their sales site..." Bad publicity is still publicity. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B1

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-08 Thread The Doctor
am obviously biased, but I have not encountered the > "ham culture" you mention, but I don't doubt it exists. I have encountered it where I live, unfortunately. I know there are hams out there who work otherwise, and would very much like to meet more of them. - -- The Doctor [41

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2013 03:02 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > The whole ham culture and liberation technologies do not really > mix. Unfortunately, this has been my experience as well. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium

Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?

2013-03-07 Thread The Doctor
might be an interesting way to go about > getting real Internet connectivity. I've been on the list a couple > of years and That may be why so many community wireless projects in the States draw fire from telecom companies, but that's a rant for another mailing list (such as IS4CWN)

Re: [liberationtech] Efficient digital one-way communication

2013-03-04 Thread The Doctor
. Legality aside (we took steps to mitigate interference, but it still should be mentioned) they're not useful for datacomm (especially in emergencies). Amateur radio, while having a higher barrier to entry, seems to present a more feasible set of implementations. - -- The Doctor [412/7

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

2013-03-01 Thread The Doctor
nux, get confused and reach for a windows machine. Oh. Just like the Windows users who are being confronted with "Hey - update me!" pop-ups for Adobe Flash and Java and ignoring them because they think they're going to wreck their workstations? It's been a fun week for that in t

Re: [liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-01-28 Thread The Doctor
benefit from doing so, for that matter). - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Tell Walter it's on!"

Re: [liberationtech] advice on securing a new computer

2013-01-28 Thread The Doctor
or thought they could benefit from doing so, for that matter). - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Tell Walter it's

Re: [liberationtech] Iran can develop the software to control social networks?

2013-01-17 Thread The Doctor
do not know. Contractors hired by the government of Iran? Very likely. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Squeal like a

Re: [liberationtech] Safe app like Dropbox?

2013-01-07 Thread The Doctor
egabyte) TrueCrypt volume will download in anything like a reasonable amount of time. Found that one out the hard way late last year. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B

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

2012-12-31 Thread The Doctor
protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binkp) is being used because it assumes a reliable connection, whereas the FidoNET protocol does not. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8

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

2012-12-28 Thread The Doctor
o identify nodes, but it also increases overhead and complexity. Perhaps 'best effort' is the way to go about this. It would be useful to determine the capabilities of existing implementations to see how many reimplementations of wheels could be avoided. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [Z

Re: [liberationtech] Call for Open Letter on Skype

2012-12-26 Thread The Doctor
ww.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/microsoft_skype/ https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218002/Microsoft_seeks_patent_for_spy_tech_for_Skype It would make no sense at all for them to do the work to file a patent on CALEA intercept of Skype traffic and then not do anything with it. - -- The Doctor [412/724

Re: [liberationtech] was: Forbes recommends tools for journalist; is now: depressing realities

2012-12-20 Thread The Doctor
rive at this time at the same time (ue8827m7_rs04jin1_h264_298K.mp4, thus sayeth the uscourts.gov webserver), where it can be saved for posterity and played back in Microsoft's media player, VLC, or what have you. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS|Media] Developer, Project Byzant

Re: [liberationtech] Announcing finalists (and soon winners) for the Access Tech Innovation Prize

2012-12-07 Thread The Doctor
ry category the best of luck. Whomever is chosen in each category is most certainly doing excellent work. One of us will see everyone in New York in a couple of days! - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-03 Thread The Doctor
00101 Firefox/4.0.1; 10; Windows NT 6.1; SV1; handyCafeCln/3.3.21)" 1025 458 - If you search for "Telecomix blue coat logs" you'll find sagans of other examples. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0

Re: [liberationtech] Censorship hardware - BLUECOAT IN SYIA

2012-12-03 Thread The Doctor
or c) being used in some other location. My guess would be 'c', due to the fact that there are multiple ISPs that seem to be filtering certain things. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 /

Re: [liberationtech] China just blocked Google.com

2012-11-30 Thread The Doctor
spiders noticed that my Libtech folder was a little empty today. Going through my Spam folder manually, the last 28 messages posted to Libtech were misclassified as Spam. Strange. Watch your junk folders, folks, you might be missing a few things... - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS

Re: [liberationtech] Syrian Internet Is Off The Air

2012-11-30 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/2012 04:16 PM, Karin Kosina wrote: > Is any of you actually able to reach any of those networks? They > appear to be unreachable to me. Negative. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://p

Re: [liberationtech] Stanford Bitly Enterprise Account

2012-11-16 Thread The Doctor
y not just post full URLs, so we have at least some idea of what might be on the other end of a link? Then we can click or not, depending on personal decision. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread The Doctor
ite of applications, really) that one can download, install on a web server, and immediately begin using. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtad

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: Presenting the new Lorea distribution: Foxglove

2012-11-08 Thread The Doctor
standing up an instance of it for a project I'm working with on the side. From your interaction with the package, what do you think of its capabilities? In particular, the granularity of its profiles and what user privacy looks like from the outside? - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS

Re: [liberationtech] JournalistSecurity Spam List

2012-11-06 Thread The Doctor
bscribed every time they > unsubscribe? Funnily enough... Now that you mention it, yes. I just received a second subscription confirmation to one of my other addresses. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1

Re: [liberationtech] Online Journalists on the Frontlines

2012-10-15 Thread The Doctor
f a particular geographic location is named, local groups (NGOs and otherwise) could be asked about running a cryptoparty for journalists. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B

Re: [liberationtech] CryptoParty Handbook

2012-10-11 Thread The Doctor
hen it comes to security it's far more constructive to let people > into the process of learning to think for themselves by > understanding such particular risks; to be aware, agile and > vigilant. Security itself is a process in constant Toolkits, not cookbooks. - -- The Doctor [412/

Re: [liberationtech] best practices - roundup

2012-10-11 Thread The Doctor
nt job. I've yet to write an article on the specifics because I'm still digging out at work, but when I do I'll get the link out there. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B

Re: [liberationtech] Single board mini computers as circumvention tools

2012-06-25 Thread The Doctor
ched on a few of these issues in his presentation at CarolinaCon earlier this year. https://blip.tv/carolinacon/episode-6158272 - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "Learning is its own re

Re: [liberationtech] FB-like "Twitter-connect" soon. How can we avoid all this tracking?

2012-06-04 Thread The Doctor
with the TBB (confirmed with tcpdump). > Has anyone tested this plugin to see what information is leaked > back to Ghostery servers? When last I checked with tcpdump (about sixteen months ago) I saw no such leakage. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 8

Re: [liberationtech] Flame | sKyWIper - 'the son of stuxnet' -

2012-05-30 Thread The Doctor
me of the modules: 'gator' isn't a diminutive of 'alligator' one hears often outside of the US. 'beetlejuice' isn't common heard outside of the States, either (the movie's not often thought of these days; astronomy buffs tend to call 'betelguise' &

Re: [liberationtech] Privacy-minded search engines?

2012-05-02 Thread The Doctor
n this page, so search for "The advantages of decentralized". - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "What bothers me is, nothin' does." -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio