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[liberationtech] Bloomberg: Spies Fail to Escape Spyware...
by frank＠journalistsecurity.net 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar for Cyber Arms - Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/spies-fail-to-escape-spyware-in-5-… The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open, one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpurbs convention rooms, scanning the airwaves for spies. In the salons above him, merchants of electronic interception demonstrate their gear to government agents who have descended on the Malaysian capital in early December for the Wiretapperbs Ball, as this surveillance industry trade show is called. As he tries to detect hacker threats lurking in the wireless networks, the man who helps manage a Southeast Asian countrybs Internet security says therebs reason for paranoia. The wares on offer include products that secretly access your Web cam, turn your cell phone into a location-tracking device, recognize your voice, mine your e-mail for anti-government sentiment and listen to supposedly secure Skype calls. He isnbt alone watching his back at this cyber-arms bazaar, whose real name is ISS World. For three days, attendees digging into dim sum fret about losing trade secrets to hackers, or falling prey to phone interception by rival spies. They also get a tiny taste of what theybve unleashed on the outside world, where their products have become weapons in the hands of regimes that use the gear to track and torture dissidents. b Ibm concerned about my calls or Internet being monitored, because thatbs what they sell,b says Meling Mudin, 35, a Kuala Lumpur-based information-technology security consultant who takes defensive measures as he roams the exhibits. b When I make phone calls, I step out of the hotel, I donbt use my computer and I also donbt use the wireless services provided.b bWe Meet Againb ISS, which convenes every few months in cities from Dubai to Brasilia, is the hub of the surveillance trade. In recent years, countries such as Syria, Iran and Tunisia bulked up their monitoring by turning to some of ISSbs corporate sponsors, such as Italybs Area SpA and Germanybs Utimaco Safeware AG (USA) and Trovicor GmbH, a Bloomberg News investigation showed. Business is booming, with annual revenue of $3 billion to $5 billion growing as much as 20 percent a year, ISS organizer Jerry Lucas estimates. Lucas, 68, an American with a PhD in physics, is perfectly cast for the part of spyware convention mastermind. With sweeping eyebrows and a bare pate that make him a look-alike of Democratic strategist James Carville, he greets an uninvited journalist at his Prague event in June with, b Webve been expecting you.b On the second encounter, in Kuala Lumpur this month, he descends an escalator from the convention floor and intones: b We meet again.b Warning Attendees Lucas, whose conference company TeleStrategies, Inc., is based in McLean, Virginia, makes the point that his marketplace serves police who conduct criminal investigations and intelligence services that prevent terror attacks. Virtually every communications network in the world includes wiretapping for prosecutors, or location tracking to rescue people in emergencies. And customers at ISS also include phone company executives. Still, Lucas describes Spy vs. Spy intrigue that emerges when he convenes ISS (short for Intelligence Support Systems). The potential for hacking has led him to warn attendees to comply with the law of host countries. b We tell them, bDo not bring in radio equipment that is not allowed by the government,bb says Lucas, who started ISS nine years ago. Some gear can intercept mobile-phone or Internet transmissions, impersonating legitimate networks by sitting in the middle of the data flow. b These guys can be your base station,b Lucas says. bHide Your Laptopb Attendees routinely guard against hacking, says Nikhil Gyamlani, a Munich-based developer of monitoring systems who has attended several ISS events. He says being in close contact with competitors versed in the dark arts gives them a chance to secretly copy documents saved on hard drives or sent via e-mail. He advises preventive measures. b Absolutely no use of wireless networks, and hide your laptop in a safe,b says Gyamlani, 34, the founder of a new surveillance company, GlassCube. b The fear is very justified.b Some who havenbt taken such precautions have learned to be more careful. At ISS in Prague this year, an employee of an African telecommunications regulator was cruising Facebook on his Archos (JXR) tablet computer when he found his every click being projected on a screen at the front of the room, he recalled afterwards in the lobby. Hebd been using the hotelbs wireless Internet. Watching The Detectives While ISS is closed to journalists, a Bloomberg News reporter dropped in on two 2011 installments, walking hotel corridors, sitting in bars and haunting lounges. In Prague, at a hotel connected to a shopping mall food court, potential buyers included Thailandbs Department of Special Investigation and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In the lobby, contingents from Greece and Turkey sat on opposite sides of the room. Many conventioneers carried black canvas tote bags from Utimaco, whose systems were used in a Syrian surveillance project that was exposed this year by Bloomberg News and shut down before it could become operational. Approaches by a journalist at ISS only triggered more paranoia among some executives. At a fourth-floor conference room rented by Trovicor in Prague, an employee, Jesper Mathiesen, not only declined to talk, but declined to trust the reporterbs business card as reliable identification. Rock Star b Anyone can print a business card,b he said, as another employee led a delegation from Serbia into the room. In the Prague hotelbs elevators, an employee of Andover, U.K.-based Gamma International rode up and down, escorting government delegations to back-to-back, appointment-only demonstrations of Gammabs FinFisher intrusion system, conducted in darkened rooms. Once secretly planted on a targetbs computer, FinFisher allows remote control of the device. The tool became widely known early this year when a copy of a FinFisher proposal turned up in Egypt after the February revolution and was posted online. The notoriety helped make the German hacker-turned- executive behind FinFisher a rock star of the ISS circuit. Listed in the conference agendas only by his initials, MJM, he is Martin J. Muench, 30, the managing director of Gammabs German unit. One of his talks in Kuala Lumpur is titled, b Offensive IT Intelligence Information-Gathering Portfolio bAn Operational Overview.b Saudi Arabia, India At this gathering of real-life James Bonds, Muench most resembles 007 himself, as played by Sean Connery: just over six feet tall, in a trim black suit and skinny black tie. Spotted at ISS this month, Muench declines to comment, while lighting a cigarette. For the Malaysia event, which has 871 invited attendees from 56 countries, the Hilton lobby hosts a parade of ISSbs various tribes and their telltale markings. Buyers from Saudi Arabiabs interior ministry, Indiabs cabinet secretariat and the 5-month-old state of South Sudan brandish yellow nametags that peg them as government officials. Vendors are identified by red tags. Employees of Munich-based Trovicor are easy to pick out: each is dressed identically, in a dark suit and a red necktie, which is custom made, marketing director Birgitt Fischer-Harrow says. Barring Syria b It is a Trovicor corporate identity. The company colors are black, white and Pantone 202c red,b she says, referring to the precise shade of burgundy. Trovicor is a former intelligence unit of Siemens AG and Nokia Siemens Networks. The chain of companies supplied and maintained eavesdropping systems for Syria, Bahrain, Tunisia and other countries that have battled rebellions this year, a Bloomberg News investigation showed. Fischer-Harrow says the company canbt comment on contracts or clients. Lucas says hebs barred Syrian or Iranian government representatives from ISS. Still, that hasnbt stopped surveillance gear from reaching those countries, and the controversy has attracted crashers to ISS seeking to expose how the technology can be abused by repressive regimes. In an empty hotel restaurant after lunch, Eric King, the human rights and technology adviser at London-based Privacy International, is poring over conference presentations hebs obtained and tallying a growing list of suspicious technological glitches. When he tries to send an e-mail from his Apple Inc. laptop, he gets a message that his encryption wonbt work. Seeking Hackers His paranoia builds as he also realizes that more secure 3G networks, used for phones and wireless Internet, are unavailable in the hotel. King, 22, jetlagged and wearing a wrinkled, blue button-down shirt, has a hypothesis: Someone has blocked the 3G to force everyone to use methods that would be easier to intercept. He consults the ISS program and finds a possible culprit, b Live Demonstration of Tactical GSM Interrogation and Geo- Location System.b b Webve got to get us some hackers,b he says, eager to untangle what may be a nest of surveillance. A few hours later, King heads to Kuala Lumpurbs art deco Central Market to meet a Privacy International volunteer. Over a noodle dinner, she puts him in touch with a hacker who agrees to meet up the next day. Recruiting Spies Back at the hotel, the night is young and the paranoia is deep. Unlike typical trade shows, this one has no social events. No corporate-sponsored cocktail parties. No hospitality suites. Clients and suppliers donbt want to be seen with each other in public, and some countries bar their agents from mingling at the event because itbs a recruiting ground for spies seeking sources, organizer Lucas says. In some delegations, b Theybll send four or five people and have one here just to watch the rest,b he says. At the Hiltonbs wine bar, Vintage Bank, three men from Milan-based HackingTeam are talking among themselves, drinking from brandy snifters. Because HackingTeam sells programs that can spy on a computerbs contents and activities, maybe they know something about the 3G blackout. All three say that they, too, have noticed, and also suggest an interception effort may be afoot. In the morning, Kingbs hacker arrives at the Hilton lobby, toting a backpack filled with wireless Internet gear and wearing a black T-shirt. Intelligence Operative They set up shop on a coffee table. After an hour of performing many of the same tests the intelligence operative had done at the start of the convention, the network activity comes up clean. The hacker suggests the 3G problem might just be a spotty phone system. Later, ISS organizer Lucas says any drop in service may have been caused by heavy usage by convention-goers. Upstairs, the operative is back in the leather club chair, this time using an iPad. Asked if this isnbt risky, he says itbs just for browsing websites, not e-mail or anything involving passwords. And hebs got no files saved to it. Does he have e-mail access? He holds up a BlackBerry, and says hebs running nothing sensitive through it. Then he does a double-take. The screen saver is a photo of him and his wife. The bad guys could do face recognition, he says, looking at the picture. Kicking himself for the lapse, he walks off, the paranoia having got the best of him. b Editors: Marcia Myers, Melissa Pozsgay To contact the reporter on this story: Vernon Silver in Rome at vtsilver(a)bloomberg.net; To contact the editor responsible for this story: Melissa Pozsgay at mpozsgay(a)bloomberg.net Enlarge image Conference organizer Jerry Lucas (back to camera) attends the ISS World trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg Enlarge image A convention floor display being dismantled is shown at the ISS World trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg Enlarge image A conference participant holds name tag during the ISS World trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg Enlarge image A convention floor display being dismantled is shown during the ISS World trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg Enlarge image Eric King, a human rights and technology adviser at London-based Privacy International, has a meal at Kuala Lumpurbs Central Market to recruit a hacker to test for surveillance at the ISS World trade show. Source: Bloomberg -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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by bear 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

<cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com>, "'cypherpunks(a)lne.com '" <cypherpunks(a)lne.com> Subject: Re: Ross's TCPA paper > > Here's a clue, Mr. Bear. The cypherpunks list was founded on the > principle that cyberspace can enhance freedom, and that includes freedom > to associate with whomever you choose. Racism is evil, but the solution > must lie in people's hearts. Pointing a gun at them and forcing them > to act in a politically correct manner (which is what civil rights > regulations really do) is no solution to the problem. Bear left the Cypherpunks list a long while ago, citing fundamental disagreements. "Cryptography" was formed as a putatively apolitical list. Apparently this is no longer so, and its politics are at odds with the main themes on our list. (I believe this partly comes about precisely _because_ it supposedly has no political compass heading.) I have strong views on all this DRM and TCPA stuff, and especially on the claim that some form of DRM is needed to prevent government from taking over control of the "arts." But we said everything that needed to be said _years_ ago. No point in repeating the same points. --Tim May "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11

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Lucrative update
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Lucrative release 4 is out. I know many people are used to seeing releases numbered like "0.000001", "0.000002", "2.0.3.0.14.657" etc. but release numbering systems are essentially arbitrary in nature so don't get excited as Lucrative goes toward version 50+. This release is a fairly minor one, but included some changes such as the client name that I wanted to get out as soon as possible. There is also a new development weblog at http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/weblog/. I went through an install with someone over IRC last night and made a blog entry summarizing the install notes. I recommend reading the notes before attempting an install. I am glad to help with an install, drop me a note at patrick(a)lfcgate.com if you have trouble. Some documentation on the various entities in the Lucrative system is now available on the website, http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/documentation.php but more is needed and coming. If Lucrative is interesting to you, please consider helping in any way you can: Feedback Installation reports Suggestions Comments Criticism Feature requests Source code patches Donations Are all very much welcomed. And criticism is more useful to me than praise. My sincere thanks to everyone who has participated so far by installing, testing, providing feedback, spreading the word, and donating. And finally I just received word from SourceForge that the project registration for Lucrative has been approved. Regards, Patrick -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBD5ECKcRBADUvjXHwLtxIyS4AyjBs/dFtN6rdeP18Fhzh1hD5fJwkFevqY9Z I1ASROTh6eXYF7pU5sEvbcPshHyTB41ZtTqZvQvpwWN0fUzOuutuI0mtC5UPp9Rz j47SdWLdEXNHjwnHDCYSyqtqZu8GujGRQybR0eP3NIh/NwbSDUKdgz7IjwCg//Jo UtjP3zUFobm/0UYA+CJ5krED/091x9Js0gwNwvjbzM8DqO+r8qNz0kXI13FkrPRk QNd37lxt6m2m8HZD1WYM2wKwtMzHSwJcWzaDZ/tNc+ppYjzpw0EQCh9FqjGs8Vau guF6PA1M8lJTCcLKaL4e7ynic+PAw5Xa/tdOYgFCG+eLMU5RLvzRCYoOLIjgMJLJ yG98BACAMlDmFVYgC/UKvzZmHfZ5CtCKd8sPfCXrYLu5NeFRE0LR6D6zjzmhi1xX okfreR5o3T/y78VBM98js+m2/+7Z0AElqydeW/RnV1zqwDGjDr9z2MgARf3yLAbs n3BU8Fz61RwvHy6cRkT+2dR2f69QQUSpkupvLwZIGX/iwm4uKLQdUGF0cmljayA8 cGF0cmlja0BsZmNnYXRlLmNvbT6JAE4EEBECAA4FAj5ECKcECwMCAQIZAQAKCRBb mvb9yuOVfaA2AKDAu5tDj9F2KI8cJMrKKkQRAcUyxACg6/bei7lUJH+E5igJqGRx SjKrRA65BA0EPkQIpxAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQ yiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjG zB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ng w+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkIt AjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF 6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarT W56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY72 88kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy 1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYX AAICD/wKwtF7Y4NKBe8PQ6jDbjWziiTv9Ac/EnRTJDQEoqgLa2LyE+6Ahw/VPGvp mfxkD2MKxC9E7kYVmasn6sHnSpvAv3e7O1Bqbo/qLzzCcJQ5VCurZ+elRM1GZ4Oc fM19FPKutb0/JFEv0nrqS4BGkF7WFBbu5dKYl/GIO7Co1mAerFIb719dOwMPVEIz OT08u8uB9jyR8gEElf+CVuNfOUkrUGg4HS4SbmTTrCSz3/8n5PkquSuAyjCB/dwM ZsZwA0/TTR8sDYlmlf9xPj5PGpGnV9OUwfig6eE0eWtRFeasmz0uiX+yp45ABtNh 6EXP/PFaBgXi9omXXjeeFYfpDvmfA6izvTIQfXTV6V9ZWrBfXarM+GQ+6guXWVbd 9fXvmCr982LkzuKQrK1OpRXBMUapXL+tOy/LYzz91InqKKhgPNGa12fvotZ4LzlM iqoM+Hpz5L9B5We1Ph0lD6RBVXDCqd+P8extnY/7AaDy7tC0UghaAaUuEZXJQPIc oQ3QGbpjM0nGe/VZN5EZhljau0NNENFaU56cOpvOhcO04gLGNNc2NS+rIpTMsaHh o1CG90c5zZZJuUbyx0mIHriNQXDgEwunSZPQorKK9KSppyyjeuOyi5F/mBBPXeyT weLhLqLvAr9se/+Z3aQvMADJi8zUZtGggLTw+N9R5XSwtSh2R4kARgQYEQIABgUC PkQIpwAKCRBbmvb9yuOVfWayAKC+mBhHdn1XZ5uH0RocAyJ32hx2kgCePyhB+IqM TjWLDLarQxcPYhbkFi4= =nx1M -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[EPIC_IDOF] Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the
by Richard M. Smith 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

start http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article334684.ece Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 22 December 2005 The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which has taken more than 25 years to develop, is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch in Hertfordshire is already working on ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer, which many people would see as truly introducing the prospect of Orwellian street surveillance, where our every move is recorded and stored by machines. Although the problems of facial recognition by computer are far more formidable than for car number plates, experts believe it is only a matter of time before machines can reliably pull a face out of a crowd of moving people. If the police and security services can show that a national surveillance operation based on recording car movements can protect the public against criminals and terrorists, there will be a strong political will to do the same with street cameras designed to monitor the flow of human traffic. A major feature of the national surveillance centre for car numbers is the ability to trawl through records of previous sightings to build up an intelligence picture of a vehicle's precise whereabouts on the road network. However, the Home Office and police believe that the Big Brother nature of the operation can be justified on the basis of the technology's proven ability to catch criminals. "In simple terms criminals use vehicles. If you want to commit a crime, you're going to use a vehicle," said Frank Whiteley, the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, who leads the project. " There is nothing secretive about it and we don't want it to be secret, because we want people to feel safer, to see that they are protected." A 13-month pilot scheme between 2003 and 2004 found the performance of the police improved dramatically when they had access automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. Project Laser 2 involved 23 police forces using specially fitted vans with ANPR cameras linked to a police database. It led to a fivefold increase in the arrest rate for frontline officers. But these mobile units will constitute only a tiny proportion of the many thousands of ANPR cameras that by next year will be feeding more than 35 million number plate "reads" every day into the new national data centre at Hendon, north London, the same site as the Police National Computer. Mr Whiteley, chairman of the ANPR steering committee, said the intention eventually was to move from the "low thousands" of cameras to the " high thousands". ... _______________________________________________ EPIC_IDOF mailing list EPIC_IDOF(a)mailman.epic.org https://mailman.epic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/epic_idof ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[IP] Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] inspirational projects / freedombox neighbours
by Sandy Harris 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Jaromil <jaromil(a)dyne.org> wrote: > > ... projects that are neighbours of freedombox > > i'm sure people here know many... I for one like to start with this > link http://k0a1a.net/netless since it's quite fresh and mostly > inspirational :) > > hope you like to add more: stuff that can integrate with freedombox in > future, interact, act as close neighbour projects... I'm new to the list and now browsing the archives to get up to date, so I figured I night as well make a list as I went and post it. Things I'd say are no-brainer choices to include as part of the box, assuming they are solid enough. Open Source self-hosted social networking, http://status.net/ ZRTP encrypted VoIP: http://zfoneproject.com/ http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_ZRTP http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6189 Secure distributed file system http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html Open Source online payment system https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki http://www.bitcoin.org/ Privacy-protecting single ID scheme: http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/08/07/webid/ http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID Everything else: Overlay networks http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/ Co-operative Routing http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com/projects/cor/index.html Clock radio with network http://www.chumby.com/ DNS https://github.com/jpmens/couch-sdb http://p2pdns.sourceforge.net/ http://sovereigncomputing.net/ similar goals http://www.pontarius.org/pontarius-0-1-features-draft/ http://pagekite.net/ http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.telematicsfreedom.org/en/projects/freedom-box http://fdmbx.net/ http://code.google.com/p/phantom/ https://guardianproject.info/ http://nlnet.nl/press/20110414-serval.html _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss(a)lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: [Freedombox-discuss] inspirational projects / freedombox neighbours
by Sandy Harris 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Jaromil <jaromil(a)dyne.org> wrote: > > ... projects that are neighbours of freedombox > > i'm sure people here know many... I for one like to start with this > link http://k0a1a.net/netless since it's quite fresh and mostly > inspirational :) > > hope you like to add more: stuff that can integrate with freedombox in > future, interact, act as close neighbour projects... I'm new to the list and now browsing the archives to get up to date, so I figured I night as well make a list as I went and post it. Things I'd say are no-brainer choices to include as part of the box, assuming they are solid enough. Open Source self-hosted social networking, http://status.net/ ZRTP encrypted VoIP: http://zfoneproject.com/ http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_ZRTP http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6189 Secure distributed file system http://tahoe-lafs.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html Open Source online payment system https://github.com/FellowTraveler/Open-Transactions/wiki http://www.bitcoin.org/ Privacy-protecting single ID scheme: http://digitalbazaar.com/2010/08/07/webid/ http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID Everything else: Overlay networks http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/ Co-operative Routing http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com/projects/cor/index.html Clock radio with network http://www.chumby.com/ DNS https://github.com/jpmens/couch-sdb http://p2pdns.sourceforge.net/ http://sovereigncomputing.net/ similar goals http://www.pontarius.org/pontarius-0-1-features-draft/ http://pagekite.net/ http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/ http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch http://wiki.virtualsquare.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.telematicsfreedom.org/en/projects/freedom-box http://fdmbx.net/ http://code.google.com/p/phantom/ https://guardianproject.info/ http://nlnet.nl/press/20110414-serval.html _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss(a)lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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by bear 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

<cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com>, "'cypherpunks(a)lne.com '" <cypherpunks(a)lne.com> Subject: Re: Ross's TCPA paper > > Here's a clue, Mr. Bear. The cypherpunks list was founded on the > principle that cyberspace can enhance freedom, and that includes freedom > to associate with whomever you choose. Racism is evil, but the solution > must lie in people's hearts. Pointing a gun at them and forcing them > to act in a politically correct manner (which is what civil rights > regulations really do) is no solution to the problem. Bear left the Cypherpunks list a long while ago, citing fundamental disagreements. "Cryptography" was formed as a putatively apolitical list. Apparently this is no longer so, and its politics are at odds with the main themes on our list. (I believe this partly comes about precisely _because_ it supposedly has no political compass heading.) I have strong views on all this DRM and TCPA stuff, and especially on the claim that some form of DRM is needed to prevent government from taking over control of the "arts." But we said everything that needed to be said _years_ ago. No point in repeating the same points. --Tim May "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11

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Lucrative update
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Lucrative release 4 is out. I know many people are used to seeing releases numbered like "0.000001", "0.000002", "2.0.3.0.14.657" etc. but release numbering systems are essentially arbitrary in nature so don't get excited as Lucrative goes toward version 50+. This release is a fairly minor one, but included some changes such as the client name that I wanted to get out as soon as possible. There is also a new development weblog at http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/weblog/. I went through an install with someone over IRC last night and made a blog entry summarizing the install notes. I recommend reading the notes before attempting an install. I am glad to help with an install, drop me a note at patrick(a)lfcgate.com if you have trouble. Some documentation on the various entities in the Lucrative system is now available on the website, http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/documentation.php but more is needed and coming. If Lucrative is interesting to you, please consider helping in any way you can: Feedback Installation reports Suggestions Comments Criticism Feature requests Source code patches Donations Are all very much welcomed. And criticism is more useful to me than praise. My sincere thanks to everyone who has participated so far by installing, testing, providing feedback, spreading the word, and donating. And finally I just received word from SourceForge that the project registration for Lucrative has been approved. Regards, Patrick -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBD5ECKcRBADUvjXHwLtxIyS4AyjBs/dFtN6rdeP18Fhzh1hD5fJwkFevqY9Z I1ASROTh6eXYF7pU5sEvbcPshHyTB41ZtTqZvQvpwWN0fUzOuutuI0mtC5UPp9Rz j47SdWLdEXNHjwnHDCYSyqtqZu8GujGRQybR0eP3NIh/NwbSDUKdgz7IjwCg//Jo UtjP3zUFobm/0UYA+CJ5krED/091x9Js0gwNwvjbzM8DqO+r8qNz0kXI13FkrPRk QNd37lxt6m2m8HZD1WYM2wKwtMzHSwJcWzaDZ/tNc+ppYjzpw0EQCh9FqjGs8Vau guF6PA1M8lJTCcLKaL4e7ynic+PAw5Xa/tdOYgFCG+eLMU5RLvzRCYoOLIjgMJLJ yG98BACAMlDmFVYgC/UKvzZmHfZ5CtCKd8sPfCXrYLu5NeFRE0LR6D6zjzmhi1xX okfreR5o3T/y78VBM98js+m2/+7Z0AElqydeW/RnV1zqwDGjDr9z2MgARf3yLAbs n3BU8Fz61RwvHy6cRkT+2dR2f69QQUSpkupvLwZIGX/iwm4uKLQdUGF0cmljayA8 cGF0cmlja0BsZmNnYXRlLmNvbT6JAE4EEBECAA4FAj5ECKcECwMCAQIZAQAKCRBb mvb9yuOVfaA2AKDAu5tDj9F2KI8cJMrKKkQRAcUyxACg6/bei7lUJH+E5igJqGRx SjKrRA65BA0EPkQIpxAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQ yiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjG zB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ng w+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkIt AjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF 6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarT W56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY72 88kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy 1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYX AAICD/wKwtF7Y4NKBe8PQ6jDbjWziiTv9Ac/EnRTJDQEoqgLa2LyE+6Ahw/VPGvp mfxkD2MKxC9E7kYVmasn6sHnSpvAv3e7O1Bqbo/qLzzCcJQ5VCurZ+elRM1GZ4Oc fM19FPKutb0/JFEv0nrqS4BGkF7WFBbu5dKYl/GIO7Co1mAerFIb719dOwMPVEIz OT08u8uB9jyR8gEElf+CVuNfOUkrUGg4HS4SbmTTrCSz3/8n5PkquSuAyjCB/dwM ZsZwA0/TTR8sDYlmlf9xPj5PGpGnV9OUwfig6eE0eWtRFeasmz0uiX+yp45ABtNh 6EXP/PFaBgXi9omXXjeeFYfpDvmfA6izvTIQfXTV6V9ZWrBfXarM+GQ+6guXWVbd 9fXvmCr982LkzuKQrK1OpRXBMUapXL+tOy/LYzz91InqKKhgPNGa12fvotZ4LzlM iqoM+Hpz5L9B5We1Ph0lD6RBVXDCqd+P8extnY/7AaDy7tC0UghaAaUuEZXJQPIc oQ3QGbpjM0nGe/VZN5EZhljau0NNENFaU56cOpvOhcO04gLGNNc2NS+rIpTMsaHh o1CG90c5zZZJuUbyx0mIHriNQXDgEwunSZPQorKK9KSppyyjeuOyi5F/mBBPXeyT weLhLqLvAr9se/+Z3aQvMADJi8zUZtGggLTw+N9R5XSwtSh2R4kARgQYEQIABgUC PkQIpwAKCRBbmvb9yuOVfWayAKC+mBhHdn1XZ5uH0RocAyJ32hx2kgCePyhB+IqM TjWLDLarQxcPYhbkFi4= =nx1M -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[EPIC_IDOF] Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the
by Richard M. Smith 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

start http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article334684.ece Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start By Steve Connor, Science Editor Published: 22 December 2005 The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which has taken more than 25 years to develop, is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch in Hertfordshire is already working on ways of automatically recognising human faces by computer, which many people would see as truly introducing the prospect of Orwellian street surveillance, where our every move is recorded and stored by machines. Although the problems of facial recognition by computer are far more formidable than for car number plates, experts believe it is only a matter of time before machines can reliably pull a face out of a crowd of moving people. If the police and security services can show that a national surveillance operation based on recording car movements can protect the public against criminals and terrorists, there will be a strong political will to do the same with street cameras designed to monitor the flow of human traffic. A major feature of the national surveillance centre for car numbers is the ability to trawl through records of previous sightings to build up an intelligence picture of a vehicle's precise whereabouts on the road network. However, the Home Office and police believe that the Big Brother nature of the operation can be justified on the basis of the technology's proven ability to catch criminals. "In simple terms criminals use vehicles. If you want to commit a crime, you're going to use a vehicle," said Frank Whiteley, the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire, who leads the project. " There is nothing secretive about it and we don't want it to be secret, because we want people to feel safer, to see that they are protected." A 13-month pilot scheme between 2003 and 2004 found the performance of the police improved dramatically when they had access automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras. Project Laser 2 involved 23 police forces using specially fitted vans with ANPR cameras linked to a police database. It led to a fivefold increase in the arrest rate for frontline officers. But these mobile units will constitute only a tiny proportion of the many thousands of ANPR cameras that by next year will be feeding more than 35 million number plate "reads" every day into the new national data centre at Hendon, north London, the same site as the Police National Computer. Mr Whiteley, chairman of the ANPR steering committee, said the intention eventually was to move from the "low thousands" of cameras to the " high thousands". ... _______________________________________________ EPIC_IDOF mailing list EPIC_IDOF(a)mailman.epic.org https://mailman.epic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/epic_idof ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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