Re: [liberationtech] "Securing Email Communications from Facebook" offering PGP support

2015-06-01 Thread z...@manian.org
Facebook is an identity provider. GPG is a failed(so far?) system for confidentiality and massively successful system for managing identity(Hello Debian!) For their notification system, FB is leveraging GPG as an identity provider to say" only a person who has a certain private key should be able

[liberationtech] April Privacy Lab - Guest Speaker Melanie Ensign - Thurs, April 23, 4-6pm at Mozilla

2015-04-08 Thread z...@manian.org
Thursday, 23 April 2015 from 16:00 to 18:00 (PDT) Mozilla Office, 2 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA RSVP Our April Privacy Lab will include an optional and free

Re: [liberationtech] Fwd: A crowdfunding campaign to build a free baseband

2015-04-06 Thread z...@manian.org
The people on Indiegogo project look legit and their comments line up with what I know about the space. An open source 3 or 4g baseband would be huge boon to anonymity and countersurveillance efforts. Anyone have further references on the project creators? On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Blibb

[liberationtech] Meetup in Mountain View: How the NSA fought to stop the publication of Diffie Heilman

2015-03-02 Thread z...@manian.org
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs will review the history of Diffie-Hellman key exchange and how the NSA fought to keep the authors from publishing. He will give a bit of information that was not in his Stanford Magazine article on the topic. He will also briefly give an academic's perspective on cryptocurrenci

Re: [liberationtech] mail2tor.com hidden service

2015-01-01 Thread z...@manian.org
Plaintext over Tor to email accounts are probably not safe. We've seen a major round of this where the Feds seize a hosted anonymous email account and then email plain texts appear in indictments. Perhaps the most famous is the TorMail & Charlie Shrem case. http://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik