July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: [tahoe-dev] keeping private grids private
by Vladimir Arseniev 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Thanks for your responses, Markus and Brian. Running the grid on a VPN is still the best option, it seems (with firewall rules to block non-VPN traffic). Only VPN clients can see the introducer, and connect to other nodes on the VPN. But there are vulnerabilities. We've been using OpenVPN's commercial Access Server, which is presumably well secured. However, the setup is vulnerable to attackers with physical access to the server. We've mitigated the risk by encrypting the server's credential databases, but determined attackers can read passphrases from memory. We've tried running the server locally, and forwarding the access port to a VPS, but connections (through commercial VPNs) haven't been reliable enough, and latencies are huge. Still, we do control the introducer, and could readily move our grid to a new VPN, if necessary. OpenVPN's default star topology is also problematic, and creating mesh networks seems complicated. We've looked at CloudVPN, but nodes can be cloned, and there's no mechanism for refusing connections. Access control depends on firewall rules, and using a public DHCP server with static mapping and static ARP. That may be the way to go, however, if the OpenVPN server bottleneck becomes an issue. _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev(a)tahoe-lafs.org http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- 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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[p2p-hackers] Seth Johnson: Request for the P2P Workshop at the FTC
by Seth Johnson 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Below is my request to participate in the FTC's Workshop on "P2P Filesharing," details of which may be found at: > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/filesharing/index.htm > http://www.ftc.gov/os/2004/10/041015p2pfrn.pdf Seth --- Request to Participate Federal Trade Commission Peer to Peer Filesharing Workshop Including Comments and Recommendations Seth Johnson I have been a developer of database software since the 1980's, and presently offer professional consultancy services in information quality improvement. My clients have included the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Sony Music, Bertelsmann, and Affinity Health Plan. I am also an advocate and organizer in areas of information freedom. Working with New Yorkers for Fair Use and other groups, I have worked to promote the interests of innovation in information technology for many years, including such areas as patent policy at the World Wide Web Consortium, content control in the broadband Internet, the broadcast flag, software patents, and other issues. At the Internet Commons Congress in March 2004 (http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc) I worked with Daniel Berninger, New Yorkers for Fair Use and others to bring together advocates for many different areas so that they could better coordinate their activities and concerns. A matter of some concern regarding the FTC's workshop on "P2P filesharing technology" arises from its usage of the term "P2P" or "peer to peer." Observing that Napster's centralized data servers were a legal target, some Internet users declared that the use of a central server was unnecessary, because the decentralized architecture of the Internet was inherently not subject to the legal theory behind the charges levied against Napster. As a result, downloadable applications like KaZaA, Grokster and Gnutella took on the label "P2P" to distinguish them from Napster, when in fact the ability for any computer to directly communicate with any other is built into the Internet infrastructure. In addition, the facts that these applications allowed users to open up access to their directories, and that they presented lists of files which users could select to initiate transfers, have often obscured the fact that the applications themselves do not transfer the files, and that the ability to give other users access to local directories is a feature built into ordinary operating systems. This is why "P2P filesharing" is not an appropriate name to describe these applications. These applications simply provide the same function that Napster provided with a centralized server: the ability to find files on the Internet. They are decentralized search engines. They do not perform the file transfers and they do not themselves make peer to peer possible. They allow users to implement a search engine that is distributed across many machines, and the Internet itself does the rest. The description of "P2P filesharing applications" presented in this workshop's call for participation offers nothing to distinguish KaZaA, Grokster or Gnutella from the basic functions of the Internet and ordinary, generally used operating systems. It also makes no mention of the core functionality that these applications actually do provide: search and discovery of the locations of files. Sharing files among a group of users is a basic network capability that operating systems and networks already provide. Among the goals presented by the FTC for this workshop are learning about P2P, including how it works, and discussing self-regulatory, regulatory, and technological responses to a set of risks which the workshop associates with these consumer-friendly decentralized search engines. I suggest that the testimony of those who designed the Internet and those who exercise its basic functions as a matter of their daily productive lives, will provide a stronger framework for understanding the real nature of these risks. One name that should be recommended is David Reed, one of the original architects of the underlying infrastructure of the Internet. He is well-prepared to comment on the relationship between the architecture of the Internet and the capacities for innovation for which it provides. Another name that might be considered is Bram Cohen, the author of BitTorrent. A cursory survey of Sourceforge.net will show a great variety of projects whose authors can testify to their dependence on the peer to peer architecture of the Internet, and to the fact that accessing and distributing of files among peers is an unalterable component of their work. The participation of voices representing development projects such as these is a critical consideration for this workshop. Discussion of consumers' private interests should not be confused with copyright issues. Even greater risks ensue when discussions of filters, privacy, security, adware, viruses, exposure to undesirable material and impairments of computer function are mixed with copyright issues. The result of addressing copyright concerns in the manner of protecting private consumer interests can only be that both copyright and innovation will suffer. Technological developments that affect the capacity of individuals to publish, use, and develop new uses for information will often signal new issues for copyright policy, issues which touch on areas that are necessarily out of the scope of the FTC's mandate for rulemaking or promulgating norms. In particular, among the risks mentioned in the workshop's call for participation is that of exposure of end users to liability to charges of copyright infringement. Addressing this risk within the conceptual framework that the call for participation appears to exhibit, and in terms of the kinds of responses that it cites for consideration, can reasonably be expected to lead to a very limited understanding and an encouragement of prescriptive responses that are not well-advised. More fundamentally, addressing copyright issues within this conceptual framework will result in owners of computers and makers of applications losing their capacity to develop and make use of their computers and the communications infrastructure. It may be that the structure that the workshop will eventually take is to some extent exhibited in the questions presented in the call for participation and the way it contemplates certain risks with regard to consumers' use and understanding of the features of decentralized search applications. Inasmuch as this is true, it would be advisable to adjust the structure of the workshop to more precisely reflect the nature of the subject matter. The scope of the questions should also be expanded and adapted to admit a proper examination of the relationship of the risks to the nature of the technology and the interests of flexibility and innovation; and I would urge the FTC to adapt the conceptual framework and format of the workshop to reflect this purpose more greatly. Opportunity should be provided to describe the architecture of the Internet and how it fosters innovation, and to more precisely define the nature of the applications that are the focus of the workshop. The set of questions on uses of "P2P filesharing" technology should be expanded to admit testimony of those who develop Internet applications. The questions listed in the set addressing the impact of "P2P filesharing" on copyright holders would in fact warrant an extensive process of public inquiry in themselves. Many of these questions address areas that do not pertain specifically or solely to the consideration of the impact of peer to peer technology on copyright holders. The FTC would be well advised to report on the areas alluded to by these questions separately and extensively. The sets of questions addressing identification and disclosure of risks to consumers should be adapted so that the nature and source of the risks are not misconstrued, and so that a more encompassing understanding of the sources of the risks and of prospective solutions can be developed. The questions as a whole exhibit a narrow focus on a set of applications whose characteristics are not properly recognized and understood. The set of questions addressing technological solutions should be decoupled from a narrow focus on specific applications that provide decentralized search capabilities, and should be expanded to admit a broader analysis. The solutions currently identified in the call for participation do not appear to provide for a well-designed response to the full scope of risks and implications elicited by this workshop's areas of consideration. One major source of these risks that some will mention is the undue influence on the market and on copyright policymaking of interests such as market dominant software manufacturers, publishers and the recording and motion picture industries. Monopoly interests in the operating system arena in particular interfere severely with consumers' access to, understanding of and choices with respect to software that can provide far more robust protections than they generally make use of presently. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to participate in this workshop as a panelist. I also offer to help in advising as to the structure of the workshop and appropriate participants. Above I have mentioned David Reed and Bram Cohen. Voices I can mention in particular as offering constructive and appropriate insight for this proceeding include the following. I mention them in many cases without specific knowledge of their interest in participating, or of their having actually requested to participate: Jay Sulzberger, New Yorkers for Fair Use, jays(a)panix.com Brett Wynkoop, Wynn Data Limited, wynkoop(a)wynn.com Michael Smith, LXNY, mesmith(a)panix.com Miles Nordin, Developer/Systems Administrator, carton(a)Ivy.NET Dan Berninger, Technology Analyst, dan(a)danielberninger.com Adam Kosmin, WindowsRefund.net, akosmin(a)windowsrefund.net Andrew Odlyzko can provide rigorous empirical analysis and data that are highly pertinent to the subject areas addressed by this workshop: Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, odlyzko(a)dtc.umn.edu The following are just a few people who can represent specific development projects: Kevin Marks, MediAgora, kmarks(a)mac.com Lucas Gonze, Webjay, lgonze(a)panix.com Bram Cohen, BitTorrent, bram(a)bitconjurer.org The following are good leading voices who would make significant contributions to this workshop: David Reed, SATN.org, dpreed(a)reed.com Bob Frankston, SATN.org, rmfxixB1(a)bobf.frankston.com David Isenberg, "The Stupid Network," isen(a)isen.com Richard Stallman, The GNU project, rms(a)gnu.org David Sugar, Free Software Foundation, dyfet(a)gnu.org Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, fred(a)eff.org Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge, gbsohn(a)publicknowledge.org Robin Gross, IP Justice, robin(a)ipjustice.org Chris Hoofnagle, Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse, hoofnagle(a)epic.org Nelson Pavlosky, Free Culture, npavlos1(a)swarthmore.edu Thank you, Seth Johnson Committee for Independent Technology (SNIP Contact Information) _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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[drone-list] New Meetup: Drone Journalism: Reporting from above (with Wired's Chris Anderson, Occucopter)
by Yosem Companys 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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[p2p-hackers] Seth Johnson: Request for the P2P Workshop at the FTC
by Seth Johnson 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Below is my request to participate in the FTC's Workshop on "P2P Filesharing," details of which may be found at: > http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/filesharing/index.htm > http://www.ftc.gov/os/2004/10/041015p2pfrn.pdf Seth --- Request to Participate Federal Trade Commission Peer to Peer Filesharing Workshop Including Comments and Recommendations Seth Johnson I have been a developer of database software since the 1980's, and presently offer professional consultancy services in information quality improvement. My clients have included the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Sony Music, Bertelsmann, and Affinity Health Plan. I am also an advocate and organizer in areas of information freedom. Working with New Yorkers for Fair Use and other groups, I have worked to promote the interests of innovation in information technology for many years, including such areas as patent policy at the World Wide Web Consortium, content control in the broadband Internet, the broadcast flag, software patents, and other issues. At the Internet Commons Congress in March 2004 (http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc) I worked with Daniel Berninger, New Yorkers for Fair Use and others to bring together advocates for many different areas so that they could better coordinate their activities and concerns. A matter of some concern regarding the FTC's workshop on "P2P filesharing technology" arises from its usage of the term "P2P" or "peer to peer." Observing that Napster's centralized data servers were a legal target, some Internet users declared that the use of a central server was unnecessary, because the decentralized architecture of the Internet was inherently not subject to the legal theory behind the charges levied against Napster. As a result, downloadable applications like KaZaA, Grokster and Gnutella took on the label "P2P" to distinguish them from Napster, when in fact the ability for any computer to directly communicate with any other is built into the Internet infrastructure. In addition, the facts that these applications allowed users to open up access to their directories, and that they presented lists of files which users could select to initiate transfers, have often obscured the fact that the applications themselves do not transfer the files, and that the ability to give other users access to local directories is a feature built into ordinary operating systems. This is why "P2P filesharing" is not an appropriate name to describe these applications. These applications simply provide the same function that Napster provided with a centralized server: the ability to find files on the Internet. They are decentralized search engines. They do not perform the file transfers and they do not themselves make peer to peer possible. They allow users to implement a search engine that is distributed across many machines, and the Internet itself does the rest. The description of "P2P filesharing applications" presented in this workshop's call for participation offers nothing to distinguish KaZaA, Grokster or Gnutella from the basic functions of the Internet and ordinary, generally used operating systems. It also makes no mention of the core functionality that these applications actually do provide: search and discovery of the locations of files. Sharing files among a group of users is a basic network capability that operating systems and networks already provide. Among the goals presented by the FTC for this workshop are learning about P2P, including how it works, and discussing self-regulatory, regulatory, and technological responses to a set of risks which the workshop associates with these consumer-friendly decentralized search engines. I suggest that the testimony of those who designed the Internet and those who exercise its basic functions as a matter of their daily productive lives, will provide a stronger framework for understanding the real nature of these risks. One name that should be recommended is David Reed, one of the original architects of the underlying infrastructure of the Internet. He is well-prepared to comment on the relationship between the architecture of the Internet and the capacities for innovation for which it provides. Another name that might be considered is Bram Cohen, the author of BitTorrent. A cursory survey of Sourceforge.net will show a great variety of projects whose authors can testify to their dependence on the peer to peer architecture of the Internet, and to the fact that accessing and distributing of files among peers is an unalterable component of their work. The participation of voices representing development projects such as these is a critical consideration for this workshop. Discussion of consumers' private interests should not be confused with copyright issues. Even greater risks ensue when discussions of filters, privacy, security, adware, viruses, exposure to undesirable material and impairments of computer function are mixed with copyright issues. The result of addressing copyright concerns in the manner of protecting private consumer interests can only be that both copyright and innovation will suffer. Technological developments that affect the capacity of individuals to publish, use, and develop new uses for information will often signal new issues for copyright policy, issues which touch on areas that are necessarily out of the scope of the FTC's mandate for rulemaking or promulgating norms. In particular, among the risks mentioned in the workshop's call for participation is that of exposure of end users to liability to charges of copyright infringement. Addressing this risk within the conceptual framework that the call for participation appears to exhibit, and in terms of the kinds of responses that it cites for consideration, can reasonably be expected to lead to a very limited understanding and an encouragement of prescriptive responses that are not well-advised. More fundamentally, addressing copyright issues within this conceptual framework will result in owners of computers and makers of applications losing their capacity to develop and make use of their computers and the communications infrastructure. It may be that the structure that the workshop will eventually take is to some extent exhibited in the questions presented in the call for participation and the way it contemplates certain risks with regard to consumers' use and understanding of the features of decentralized search applications. Inasmuch as this is true, it would be advisable to adjust the structure of the workshop to more precisely reflect the nature of the subject matter. The scope of the questions should also be expanded and adapted to admit a proper examination of the relationship of the risks to the nature of the technology and the interests of flexibility and innovation; and I would urge the FTC to adapt the conceptual framework and format of the workshop to reflect this purpose more greatly. Opportunity should be provided to describe the architecture of the Internet and how it fosters innovation, and to more precisely define the nature of the applications that are the focus of the workshop. The set of questions on uses of "P2P filesharing" technology should be expanded to admit testimony of those who develop Internet applications. The questions listed in the set addressing the impact of "P2P filesharing" on copyright holders would in fact warrant an extensive process of public inquiry in themselves. Many of these questions address areas that do not pertain specifically or solely to the consideration of the impact of peer to peer technology on copyright holders. The FTC would be well advised to report on the areas alluded to by these questions separately and extensively. The sets of questions addressing identification and disclosure of risks to consumers should be adapted so that the nature and source of the risks are not misconstrued, and so that a more encompassing understanding of the sources of the risks and of prospective solutions can be developed. The questions as a whole exhibit a narrow focus on a set of applications whose characteristics are not properly recognized and understood. The set of questions addressing technological solutions should be decoupled from a narrow focus on specific applications that provide decentralized search capabilities, and should be expanded to admit a broader analysis. The solutions currently identified in the call for participation do not appear to provide for a well-designed response to the full scope of risks and implications elicited by this workshop's areas of consideration. One major source of these risks that some will mention is the undue influence on the market and on copyright policymaking of interests such as market dominant software manufacturers, publishers and the recording and motion picture industries. Monopoly interests in the operating system arena in particular interfere severely with consumers' access to, understanding of and choices with respect to software that can provide far more robust protections than they generally make use of presently. I would greatly appreciate the opportunity to participate in this workshop as a panelist. I also offer to help in advising as to the structure of the workshop and appropriate participants. Above I have mentioned David Reed and Bram Cohen. Voices I can mention in particular as offering constructive and appropriate insight for this proceeding include the following. I mention them in many cases without specific knowledge of their interest in participating, or of their having actually requested to participate: Jay Sulzberger, New Yorkers for Fair Use, jays(a)panix.com Brett Wynkoop, Wynn Data Limited, wynkoop(a)wynn.com Michael Smith, LXNY, mesmith(a)panix.com Miles Nordin, Developer/Systems Administrator, carton(a)Ivy.NET Dan Berninger, Technology Analyst, dan(a)danielberninger.com Adam Kosmin, WindowsRefund.net, akosmin(a)windowsrefund.net Andrew Odlyzko can provide rigorous empirical analysis and data that are highly pertinent to the subject areas addressed by this workshop: Andrew Odlyzko, University of Minnesota, odlyzko(a)dtc.umn.edu The following are just a few people who can represent specific development projects: Kevin Marks, MediAgora, kmarks(a)mac.com Lucas Gonze, Webjay, lgonze(a)panix.com Bram Cohen, BitTorrent, bram(a)bitconjurer.org The following are good leading voices who would make significant contributions to this workshop: David Reed, SATN.org, dpreed(a)reed.com Bob Frankston, SATN.org, rmfxixB1(a)bobf.frankston.com David Isenberg, "The Stupid Network," isen(a)isen.com Richard Stallman, The GNU project, rms(a)gnu.org David Sugar, Free Software Foundation, dyfet(a)gnu.org Fred von Lohmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation, fred(a)eff.org Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge, gbsohn(a)publicknowledge.org Robin Gross, IP Justice, robin(a)ipjustice.org Chris Hoofnagle, Electronic Privacy Information Clearinghouse, hoofnagle(a)epic.org Nelson Pavlosky, Free Culture, npavlos1(a)swarthmore.edu Thank you, Seth Johnson Committee for Independent Technology (SNIP Contact Information) _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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[drone-list] New Meetup: Drone Journalism: Reporting from above (with Wired's Chris Anderson, Occucopter)
by Yosem Companys 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

[image: Meetup] <http://www.meetup.com/t/ea1_1> New Meetup Drone Journalism: Reporting from above (with Wired's Chris Anderson, Occucopter)<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/events/55590572/t/ea1_grp/?rv=ea1> Hacks and Hackers Added by Burt Herman Thursday, March 29, 2012 7:00 PM Storify 149 9th street, Suite 404 San Francisco, CA 94103 Price: $10.00 per person Pay online<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/events/55590572/t/ea1_grp/?rv=ea1> Will you attend? **Yes**<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/events/55590572/t/ea1_lnm/?response=3…> **No**<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/events/55590572/t/ea1_lnm/?response=2…> 98 spots left! 2 Hacks and Hackers going, including: <http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/members/13824202/t/ea1_fcs/> nicole martinelli<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/members/13824202/t/ea1_fcl/> English-language editor & community manager at IJNet.org , a DC-based non-profit... <http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/members/10029724/t/ea1_fcs/> Burt Herman<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/members/10029724/t/ea1_fcl/> I'm a longtime journalist who is taking the entrepreneurial path in this time of... Drones aren't just for the miitary anymore. Remote-controlled flying devices are becoming more widely available, and journalists have begun to consider their use in reporting. That may or may not be a good thing, and our panelists have strong opi... Learn more<http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/events/55590572/t/ea1_grp/?rv=ea1> Sponsored by Pearson <http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/sponsors/> Follow us! <http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/HacksHackers/388538798848> <http://twitter.com/hackshackers/> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/burtherman/> Add *info(a)meetup.com* to your address book to receive all Meetup emails To manage your email settings, click here<http://www.meetup.com/account/comm/> Meetup, PO Box 4668 #37895 New York, New York 10163-4668 *Meetup HQ in NYC is hiring!* http://www.meetup.com/jobs/ BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Meetup//Meetup Events v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Meetup Events X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20120309T012550Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120329T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120329T210000 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Drone Journalism: Reporting from above (with Wired's Chris Anders on\, Occucopter) DESCRIPTION:Hacks and Hackers\nThursday\, March 29 at 7:00 PM\n\nDrones a ren't just for the miitary anymore. Remote-controlled flying devices are becoming more widely available\, and journalists have begun to consider ...\n\nFee: Price: USD 10.00 per person\n\nDetails: http://meetupbayarea .hackshackers.com/events/55590572/ ORGANIZER;CN=Meetup Reminder:MAILTO:info@meetup.com CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20120309T011947Z GEO:37.77;-122.40 URL:http://meetupbayarea.hackshackers.com/events/55590572/ SEQUENCE:1 LAST-MODIFIED:20120309T012529Z UID:event_55590572@meetup.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- 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: [tor-talk] Leave Your Cellphone at Home
by Jago Pearce 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

How much improvement might flightmode realistically provide? On the one hand, if you are a targetted individual it's basically not going to provide any protection because with a rootkit it can be so easily overridden. However, for the average Joe such as myself who just likes to have a little bit more privacy -just because- can this be a nice halfway house? Schedule a flightmode switch every 2 hours to pick up txt SMS messages. What phone you are trying this on matters of course. If it's a closed source Chinese phone then I think you can expect some kind of logging similar to CarrierIQ anyway. However... perhaps that info isn't shared with whoever it is using cellphone triangulation right? So what about the scanario of a Replicant O/S phone will those Samsung modem binary blobs? Do we really know if the modem is being switched off or not? The only way to give some confidence (not full confidence) might be to monitor for GSM with gnuradio or (hopefully) RTL-SDR... or just put it next to some analug speakers? Professional criminals use a different phone each time and pay cash. They then have a life of basic phones and T9 text messaging. They then buy a new phone when paranoia reaches some kind of random level. Replicating this with smarter phones is sounds more difficult. I would guess they swap infomation at prision - they are the experts. It would be interesting to see what the more knowledgeable ones in there think about how they got caught. If enough of that data could be collected you'd have an insight. Major gangs might have some knowledge on this. I wonder what they would say. How would you monitor if you are being monitored. Because I travel a lot including to places my country is at war with and read mailinglists like this I tend to think I'm someone the man would be interested in. There have been times where phone calls have gone strange and so forth. Perhaps the systems I and people like me use would be good for study. Do you have any links or google search terms on people who have found tracking tech conclusively rather than (possibly) paranoid hunches? On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:39 AM, <antispam06(a)sent.at> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012, at 01:56, Mansour Moufid wrote: >> Anyway, I think cryptography will depend more and more on steganography >> -- and in the case of Tor, covert/subliminal channels. Imagine a protocol >> where Alice sends Bob a steady stream of garbage, and the message is >> encoded in the inter-packet timing noise. ;) > > Actually, this kind of run is taking SciFi turns. > > In real life the act of comunication, simply connecting with someone > else is more important than the message. Whatever you wish to call the > adversary Alice and Bob are hiding from is more interested of the fact > that Alice needs to connect with Bob than what the hell are they talking > about. Encryption, reading between the lines, a rudimentary code that > makes My grandma feels better into We go as planned, they are all to be > established after subject interrogation. What they need is the web. > Facebook if you prefer. Because we have established that we are tracking > Alice or Bob. And we need the whole network. > > The stupidity of most of the books I have read on this theme stands > around the concept of Truth. These organisations DO NOT care about > whatever sense an outsider would place with the word truth. They might > go for such truths as justifying their wages, pleasing a half mad boss, > and so on. Many are connected with the propaganda machine. And quite > often wars are waged among competing services. Think of a treasure hunt, > the silly Easter Egg hunt for children executed by grown men trained to > torture. > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- Sites supported: http://moneybutnofixedabode.blogspot.com/ http://justfortheloveofit.org/ _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- 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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[drone-list] Feb 28 USB on Drones
by Al Mac Wow 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://www.independent.com/news/2013/feb/25/ucsb-symposium-examine-use-drone s-humanist-perspec/ http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2949 UC Santa Barbara on Thursday, February 28 will have a symposium: "Life in the Age of Drones" to begin at 2 p.m. in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building. The event is free and open to the public. Speakers to include: * Keynote address, "After the Drones," by Arthur Kroker, the Canada Research Chair in Technology and Theory at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; * Marko Peljhan, professor of media arts and technology at UCSB and co-director of the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, will discuss "The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems -- A Brief History"; * Lisa Parks, professor of film and media studies, and director of UCSB's Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), will discuss "Targeted Homelands: Networked Visions of the U.S. Drone War in Pakistan"; * filmmaker Casey Cooper Johnson, will screen and discuss his film "UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey"; * and Nancy Mancias, a CODEPINK campaign organizer, whose talk is titled "Much Ado About Drones: New Media to New War." Al Mac = Alister William Macintyre 2013 Feb I become temporarily famous: http://cryptome.org/2013/02/drone-nations.htm _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- 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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[EFCE2K] Scheduled programme - 9 days and counting
by Ian Grigg 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The scheduled programme for EFCE is now posted on the site at: http://www.efce.net/programme.html It's now about 9 days and counting to go, so if you haven't registered and got your travel logistics sorted out, you'd better get cracking. We again have a FULL programme of the latest and greatest in Financial Cryptography. More running code than any other event! Every presentation a highlight, every line of source a chance to crash and burn in engineering style :) See you there, assuming fair winds, industrial peace in France, and litiguous peace in the Caribbean! -- iang --- 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' -- ____________________________________________________________________ "...where annual election ends, tyranny begins;" Thomas Jefferson & Samuel Adams The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: <nettime> A DIY Data Manifesto by Scott Gilbertson
by Flick Harrison 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Server space is one thing, BBS networks are an interesting solution, sort of a HAM radio version of the internet. I think the backbone needs to be de-privatised as well. I was under the impression there are places in Europe where the internet backbone is public, leased out to anyone who wants some. Here, even the pipeline is under threat - the usage caps and overage charges (which mostly serve to limit competing businesses, rather than democratic expression which tends to be lower-bandwidth ;-) ) are hotly debated, with Joe Public mostly on the side of Cheaper and Faster but no dialogue around public pipelines whatsoever. There are two companies in most of Canada, Shaw and Telus in the west, Bell and Rogers in the East, who deliver all the internet service, they are forced to lease out to competitors but they are always pushing for the power to charge more to their competitors to squeeze their share. Even the pundits who want Net Neutrality still don't call for public communications infrastructure. The net is treated more like phones than roads, which is a mistake in my opinion. http://www.thestar.com/business/article/933854--geist-the-real-reason-we-pa… Our post office is about to abandon (sell) its courier operations, seen as too incompetitive with commercial enterprises, and when competitive, an unwanted intrusion on the free market. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/931800--goar-a-smar… -Flick -- * WHERE'S MY ARTICLE, WORLD? http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_Harrison * FLICK's WEBSITE & BLOG: http://www.flickharrison.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- 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: <nettime> A DIY Data Manifesto by Scott Gilbertson
by Flick Harrison 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Server space is one thing, BBS networks are an interesting solution, sort of a HAM radio version of the internet. I think the backbone needs to be de-privatised as well. I was under the impression there are places in Europe where the internet backbone is public, leased out to anyone who wants some. Here, even the pipeline is under threat - the usage caps and overage charges (which mostly serve to limit competing businesses, rather than democratic expression which tends to be lower-bandwidth ;-) ) are hotly debated, with Joe Public mostly on the side of Cheaper and Faster but no dialogue around public pipelines whatsoever. There are two companies in most of Canada, Shaw and Telus in the west, Bell and Rogers in the East, who deliver all the internet service, they are forced to lease out to competitors but they are always pushing for the power to charge more to their competitors to squeeze their share. Even the pundits who want Net Neutrality still don't call for public communications infrastructure. The net is treated more like phones than roads, which is a mistake in my opinion. http://www.thestar.com/business/article/933854--geist-the-real-reason-we-pa… Our post office is about to abandon (sell) its courier operations, seen as too incompetitive with commercial enterprises, and when competitive, an unwanted intrusion on the free market. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/931800--goar-a-smar… -Flick -- * WHERE'S MY ARTICLE, WORLD? http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_Harrison * FLICK's WEBSITE & BLOG: http://www.flickharrison.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- 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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