July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[ZS] Looking for Zero state input - Google glasses and the pirate party movement's relationship with privacy
by Chris Monteiro 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

Hi All Below is an email I just fired off to pirate party international general mailing list. It covers the emergence of google glasses and how having a pro 'privacy' stance is increasingly a unintuitive term to use to describe pirate party policies. I was wondering how Zero State had or had not tackled describing the freedom of of its citizens (what I've hastily referred to as 'peer to peer privacy') against the privacy from traditional corporations/governments? Is the framework for Zero State so robust that no one needs protecting from it, or does this simply reflect the fact that there are so few structures within Zero State that one might require protection from, that this apparent contradiction has not yet been addressed? Apologies if I'm mischaracterised the movement in this question - but if you've an existing plan to tackle this dicotomy I'd love to hear it :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chris Monteiro <c.monteiro(a)pirateparty.org.uk> Date: 17 March 2013 22:41 Subject: Google glasses and the pirate party movement's relationship with privacy To: pp.international.general(a)lists.pirateweb.net Hi all If one were to draw a Venn diagram between 'people who think Google glasses are cool' and 'pirate party supporters', you would have a large section of overlap between the two. That said, I think it's about time we start carefully describing the *differences *in privacy types - because what is privacy but another form of intellectual property?, e.g. we advocate: * Privacy from government snooping/profiling without appropriate civil rights oversights * Privacy from corporations holding (and losing!) data without consumer control Yet the 'peer to peer' consumer led privacy that Google glasses are accelerating the cause of, is of a different sort and already falling in this camp we have: * Photographer's freedoms to take video/pictures of public places/events * The rights to share private information of relevant to international civil rights interests (e.g. wikileaks) * The decriminalisation of file sharing of privately copyrighted works via effectively public channels I apologise if this comparison has flaws, but is only designed as an illustration. Anyhow, on to the topic at hand, Google glasses, score one for the consumers or one for the corporations? I think the answer is 'a bit of both', and I expect the governments will be planning the act of requisitioning user data recordings from cloud storage vendors as they have with phones, browsing histories, emails etc very soon. I expect tech savvy pirates have seen the beginning of the anti google glasses movement (yes, I'm calling it a movement already) with: * Banning from pubs http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/03/10/the-ban-on-google-glass… * Speculation that it'll be banned in further ways http://www.zdnet.com/google-glass-expect-widespread-usage-bans-over-privacy… * Concerns specifically about corporate/government control of the technology, excepting individual privacy issues http://www.reddit.com/r/Transhuman/comments/1afspi/this_is_the_kind_of_ment… http://stopthecyborgs.org/2013/03/03/cyborgs-a-typology/ My suggestion is that we move towards language that somehow differentiates: * Privacy-from-governments/corporations covering the first set of 'privacy' items and * What I've heard labeled 'individual freedom to think *what and how* we want', of which encompass the individual rights over data. More memorable terms may be needed though. It's important that the pirate parties remain on the right side of emerging privacy issues and don't get caught up with existing statements endorsing unnecessary corporate/government control via support of consumer technologies - whilst ideally having sufficiently coherent principles that can be applied by non-technology specialists to new challenges tomorrow's privacy challenge brings. Does anyhow want to work with me to identify this appropriate language for pirate party usage? -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Doctrine Zero" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to DoctrineZero+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- 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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[serval-project-dev] New algorithm for message dissemination in decentralized networks faster than its predecessors and guarantees delivery
by 8f6e58ee＠gmail.com 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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Fwd: [Macsec] Mac GPG
by Mark Talbot 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 02/25/01 8:10 PM Received: 02/25/01 8:18 PM From: Gordon Worley, redbird(a)rbisland.cx To: macsec(a)macsecurity.org I hope that this message will be appropriate for the list. If it's not, just let me know and I won't post anything like this again. I've started a project on Sourceforge to create a Mac OS X front end, inter application services, and an easy install method for GnuPG. After a bit of work, I managed to get GPG running on my machine, but it was too hard for someone whose casually interested in security (much less doesn't know why ve should care, as the majority of compuer users do). I don't mean that it required a lot of security knowledge, but it did require some Unix knowledge that the average Mac user just doesn't have and probably wouldn't pick up just to get GPG installed. Anyway, once GPG is easy to install, then the project will move on to inter application services, so that from any program on Mac OS X text can be encrypted. This is my main interest in the project, but I figured I'd scratch some other people's itches while I'm at it. Finally, the project will work on a front end for Mac OS X so that J. Random User won't have to get down and dirty with the command line. Now, you may ask yourself, why am I posting all of this here. Well, Mac GPG is free software (or, less accurately but more familar, open source). Thus, I'm looking to the list for developers. The Web site for the project is <http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/> and the project page is <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg/>. If anyone out there would like to help, check out those links, sign up with Sourceforge if you haven't already, and send me a message letting me know what you'd like to work on and be sure to include your Sourceforge user name so I can add you to the project. There are some jobs posted on the project page, and if you meet those descriptions I'd *really* like to have you on the project. Okay, that's pretty much it. With a little luck and hard work, in a few weeks we should have something to make Mac OS X much nicer to live in. Maybe we'll even time it right and come out just after the official release of OS X. That would be great. Thanks. -- Gordon Worley http://www.rbisland.cx/ mailto:redbird@rbisland.cx Public Key: C462 FA84 B811 3501 9010 20D2 6EF3 77F7 BBD3 B003 _______________________________________________ Macsec mailing list Macsec(a)macsecurity.org http://www.macsecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/macsec ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- --- 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'

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FC: Feds' "safe harbor" site displayed private info about U.S. firms
by Declan McCullagh 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45031,00.html 'Secure' U.S. Site Wasn't Very By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 2:00 a.m. July 6, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- A U.S. government website devoted to helping businesses keep sensitive information private instead revealed confidential information about American firms. A Commerce Department privacy website exposed proprietary information -- such as revenue, number of employees, and the European countries with which the firm does business -- that U.S. companies provided to the government in strict confidence. This information has been publicly accessible since the site went online last year. Casual visitors even could modify information stored in the agency's database, permitting anyone to delete, for instance, Microsoft, Intel, or Procter & Gamble from a government-certified list of companies that can freely exchange information with European firms. In response to queries from Wired News, the Commerce Department plugged the security hole at 5 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. "We are aware of the concerns, and are taking all necessary steps to identify and resolve the issue," a department official said. The irony of gaping security holes in a Commerce Department "Safe Harbor" site established to aid U.S. firms in offering adequate privacy protection wasn't lost on some privacy advocates. "If the government can't control its own information, why is it asking the private sector to do any better?" says Jim Harper, editor of Privacilla.org. "When it comes to information management, government is the gang that couldn't shoot straight." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----

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TSA Promises Privacy For Subjects Of Clothing-Penetrating Scans
by Cynthia Kuo 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

For IP, if you wish. ---- TSA Promises Privacy For Subjects Of Clothing-Penetrating Scans http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=202401630 The U.S. Transportation Security Administration today promised to protect air travelers' privacy as TSA personnel peer through their clothes. The TSA has begun testing a millimeter wave scanning system at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport as an alternative to pat-downs performed by security personnel when secondary screening is deemed appropriate. The technology can see through clothing to detect weapons, explosives, and other objects. The TSA said that energy emitted by millimeter wave technology -- 10,000 times less than a cell phone -- is safe, that the technology is intended to keep passengers safe, and that it will keep the potentially embarrassing images safe. "We are committed to testing technologies that improve security while protecting passenger privacy," said TSA administrator Kip Hawley in a statement. "Privacy is ensured through the anonymity of the image: It will never be stored, transmitted, or printed, and it will be deleted immediately once viewed." Ensuring privacy, as the TSA describes it, involves having security officers view images from remote locations. Thus, the security officer cannot identify the passenger, visually or by some other means, but can send word to fellow officers if a threat is detected. According to the TSA, the scanning system applies a security algorithm to further protect passenger privacy by obscuring the passenger's face. <snip> ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- 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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[IP] TSA Promises Privacy For Subjects Of Clothing-Penetrating Scans
by David Farber 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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Fwd: [Macsec] Mac GPG
by Mark Talbot 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

---------------- Begin Forwarded Message ---------------- Date: 02/25/01 8:10 PM Received: 02/25/01 8:18 PM From: Gordon Worley, redbird(a)rbisland.cx To: macsec(a)macsecurity.org I hope that this message will be appropriate for the list. If it's not, just let me know and I won't post anything like this again. I've started a project on Sourceforge to create a Mac OS X front end, inter application services, and an easy install method for GnuPG. After a bit of work, I managed to get GPG running on my machine, but it was too hard for someone whose casually interested in security (much less doesn't know why ve should care, as the majority of compuer users do). I don't mean that it required a lot of security knowledge, but it did require some Unix knowledge that the average Mac user just doesn't have and probably wouldn't pick up just to get GPG installed. Anyway, once GPG is easy to install, then the project will move on to inter application services, so that from any program on Mac OS X text can be encrypted. This is my main interest in the project, but I figured I'd scratch some other people's itches while I'm at it. Finally, the project will work on a front end for Mac OS X so that J. Random User won't have to get down and dirty with the command line. Now, you may ask yourself, why am I posting all of this here. Well, Mac GPG is free software (or, less accurately but more familar, open source). Thus, I'm looking to the list for developers. The Web site for the project is <http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/> and the project page is <http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/macgpg/>. If anyone out there would like to help, check out those links, sign up with Sourceforge if you haven't already, and send me a message letting me know what you'd like to work on and be sure to include your Sourceforge user name so I can add you to the project. There are some jobs posted on the project page, and if you meet those descriptions I'd *really* like to have you on the project. Okay, that's pretty much it. With a little luck and hard work, in a few weeks we should have something to make Mac OS X much nicer to live in. Maybe we'll even time it right and come out just after the official release of OS X. That would be great. Thanks. -- Gordon Worley http://www.rbisland.cx/ mailto:redbird@rbisland.cx Public Key: C462 FA84 B811 3501 9010 20D2 6EF3 77F7 BBD3 B003 _______________________________________________ Macsec mailing list Macsec(a)macsecurity.org http://www.macsecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/macsec ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- --- 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'

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FC: Feds' "safe harbor" site displayed private info about U.S. firms
by Declan McCullagh 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,45031,00.html 'Secure' U.S. Site Wasn't Very By Declan McCullagh (declan(a)wired.com) 2:00 a.m. July 6, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- A U.S. government website devoted to helping businesses keep sensitive information private instead revealed confidential information about American firms. A Commerce Department privacy website exposed proprietary information -- such as revenue, number of employees, and the European countries with which the firm does business -- that U.S. companies provided to the government in strict confidence. This information has been publicly accessible since the site went online last year. Casual visitors even could modify information stored in the agency's database, permitting anyone to delete, for instance, Microsoft, Intel, or Procter & Gamble from a government-certified list of companies that can freely exchange information with European firms. In response to queries from Wired News, the Commerce Department plugged the security hole at 5 p.m. EDT on Wednesday. "We are aware of the concerns, and are taking all necessary steps to identify and resolve the issue," a department official said. The irony of gaping security holes in a Commerce Department "Safe Harbor" site established to aid U.S. firms in offering adequate privacy protection wasn't lost on some privacy advocates. "If the government can't control its own information, why is it asking the private sector to do any better?" says Jim Harper, editor of Privacilla.org. "When it comes to information management, government is the gang that couldn't shoot straight." [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- End forwarded message -----

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TSA Promises Privacy For Subjects Of Clothing-Penetrating Scans
by Cynthia Kuo 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

For IP, if you wish. ---- TSA Promises Privacy For Subjects Of Clothing-Penetrating Scans http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=202401630 The U.S. Transportation Security Administration today promised to protect air travelers' privacy as TSA personnel peer through their clothes. The TSA has begun testing a millimeter wave scanning system at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport as an alternative to pat-downs performed by security personnel when secondary screening is deemed appropriate. The technology can see through clothing to detect weapons, explosives, and other objects. The TSA said that energy emitted by millimeter wave technology -- 10,000 times less than a cell phone -- is safe, that the technology is intended to keep passengers safe, and that it will keep the potentially embarrassing images safe. "We are committed to testing technologies that improve security while protecting passenger privacy," said TSA administrator Kip Hawley in a statement. "Privacy is ensured through the anonymity of the image: It will never be stored, transmitted, or printed, and it will be deleted immediately once viewed." Ensuring privacy, as the TSA describes it, involves having security officers view images from remote locations. Thus, the security officer cannot identify the passenger, visually or by some other means, but can send word to fellow officers if a threat is detected. According to the TSA, the scanning system applies a security algorithm to further protect passenger privacy by obscuring the passenger's face. <snip> ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- 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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[IP] TSA Promises Privacy For Subjects Of Clothing-Penetrating Scans
by David Farber 05 Jul '18

05 Jul '18

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