July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

[Politech] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

always transmitting your location [priv] Related Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-05008.html And a column I wrote on this a while ago: http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5064829.html -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Always-on location tracking in cellphones Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:04:30 -0400 From: Richard M. Smith <rms(a)computerbytesman.com> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan(a)well.com> Hi Declan, We have talked before about the FCC mandate which is requiring all U.S. wireless carriers to provide location information to emergency operators accurate to about 150 feet on all 911 calls as part of the Enhanced 911 program (http://www.fcc.gov/911/enhanced/) To meet this FCC mandate, my Verizon Wireless Treo 650 cellphone includes some kind of GPS tracking technology. The Treo also has an option to select if location information is sent in to Verizon for all calls or only 911 calls. I was a bit surprised to learn that my Treo defaults to always sending location information. After a bit of initial confusion, I got confirmation from both Palm and Verizon Wireless that my observation about the default was correct. However, Verizon Wireless told me this is a mistake and going forward, they plan to change the default to "911 calls only". I'm curious now when other models of cellphones transmit location information to carriers. Can folks on Politech check their cellphones and phone manuals to see what kind of controls there are over location information and send me the results? I'll also need the make and model of the phone and the wireless carrier. For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone Preferences" in the Options menu of the main phone screen. Thanks, Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ------------------------------------- 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> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 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] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

transmitting your location [priv] X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net Begin forwarded message:

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[Politech] Chip Pitts on NSA surveillance, data mining, and national security letters [priv]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Previous Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/2007/03/20/fbi-illegal-use/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FYI -- re NSA programs, NSLs, and datamining Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:12:54 -0500 From: Chip Pitts <chip.pitts(a)att.net> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan(a)well.com> Hi, Declan -- I hope you're well. Here's a little top level summary I did trying to describe where we are on warrantless domestic surveillance (via NSA, NSLs, and datamining) . . . Chip http://www.washingtonspectator.com/articles/20070315surveillance_1.cfm _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.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 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: wikileaks unreachable
by Randy Bush 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Message from twitter @wikileaks: > WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass > attacks. as someone who has done a lot of tunneling, uucping, funny routing relays, ... for democratic movements in lots of countries, i am not pleased at seeing the need arise in the so-called democratic states. randy ----- 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: wikileaks unreachable
by Randy Bush 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Message from twitter @wikileaks: > WikiLeaks,org domain killed by US everydns.net after claimed mass > attacks. as someone who has done a lot of tunneling, uucping, funny routing relays, ... for democratic movements in lots of countries, i am not pleased at seeing the need arise in the so-called democratic states. randy ----- 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] announcing b The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Newsb
by Zooko O'Whielacronx 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Folks: With the help of new volunteer Patrick McDonald, we're going to start publishing the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News. You can see the inaugural edition in HTML form (attached), in .rst source form (appended), or on the web at http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/TWN1.html . We will *not* be sending the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News to p2p-hackers every week. Instead we'll set up a site with an RSS feed that you can subscribe to if you want. Oh, in fact, maybe we should create a new mailing list named tahoe-lafs-weekly-news(a)tahoe-lafs.org that people can subscribe to if they want the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News in their inbox. Is anyone out there interested? Let us know: Patrick McDonald <marlowe(a)antagonism.org>, Zooko <zooko(a)zooko.com>, or tahoe-dev(a)tahoe-lafs.org. Regards, Zooko o;?.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ========================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1 ========================================== Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, brought to you by Patrick McDonald and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, scribes. Announcements and News ====================== Brian Warner is the release manager for 1.9.0_. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF_) being the major new change. MDMF will implement almost the same protocol and format as the current SDMF files. However it provides the following new features: * efficient random-access reads of arbitrary spans * fairly efficient random-access writes to arbitrary spans * allow more than one segment's worth of data .. _1.9.0: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.0 .. _MDMF: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 Tahoe-LAFS needs people to do code reviews. There is worry that the mandatory code review process may be slowly down the project too much. There are currently fifteen_ tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This page_ covers how to review a patch. .. _fifteen: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~review… .. _page: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess Planning has begun for the First International Tahoe-LAFS Summit, to be held June 27 to June 30, 2011 in San Francisco. The volunteergrid2_ is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity. .. _volunteergrid2: http://www.bigpig.org Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released_ the code for webdrive. Webdrive_ is a JavaScript UI for Tahoe-LAFS that was developed by AllMyData. .. _released: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-May/006345.html .. _WebDrive: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-webdrive/browser Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the source code for the Tahoe-LAFS `iPhone client`_. .. _iPhone client: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client Patrick McDonald volunteered to provide the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News and help with documentation. Tahoe-LAFS is now one of the backends that git-annex_ can store files in. git-annex is a tool that uses all of git's machinery for identifying and tracking files, but stores the actual complete contents of the files in a separate location instead of in the git repo itself. See `The RelatedProjects Page`_ on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks. .. _git-annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ .. _The RelatedProjects Page: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects .. Please change this version number whenever you edit this file! .. version: 2.1 Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1 Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, brought to you by Patrick McDonald and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, scribes. Announcements and News Brian Warner is the release manager for [1]1.9.0. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files ([2]MDMF) being the major new change. MDMF will implement almost the same protocol and format as the current SDMF files. However it provides the following new features: * efficient random-access reads of arbitrary spans * fairly efficient random-access writes to arbitrary spans * allow more than one segment's worth of data Tahoe-LAFS needs people to do code reviews. There is worry that the mandatory code review process may be slowly down the project too much. There are currently [3]fifteen tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This [4]page covers how to review a patch. Planning has begun for the First International Tahoe-LAFS Summit, to be held June 27 to June 30, 2011 in San Francisco. The [5]volunteergrid2 is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity. Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData [6]released the code for webdrive. [7]Webdrive is a JavaScript UI for Tahoe-LAFS that was developed by AllMyData. Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the source code for the Tahoe-LAFS [8]iPhone client. Patrick McDonald volunteered to provide the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News and help with documentation. Tahoe-LAFS is now one of the backends that [9]git-annex can store files in. git-annex is a tool that uses all of git's machinery for identifying and tracking files, but stores the actual complete contents of the files in a separate location instead of in the git repo itself. See [10]The RelatedProjects Page on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks. References 1. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.0 2. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 3. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~review… 4. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess 5. http://www.bigpig.org/ 6. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-May/006345.html 7. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-webdrive/browser 8. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client 9. http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ 10. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- 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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[tahoe-dev] monitoring/visualization (was: What about this?)
by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Ted Rolle, Jr. <stercor(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Or, is this functionality already built into Tahoe-LAFS? What sort of monitoring functionality are you interested in, Ted? What data do you want to see? There is the "Download Performance Graphs" in the Tahoe client. Check it out! It contains lots of information. There is also the "/statistics" page served up by the Tahoe client that shows a few statistics about uploads and downloads. There are munin plugins in the source tree: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/git/misc/operations_helpers/… I'm not sure, but I think that those plugins are the source of these graphs of volunteergrid2: https://vg2-stats.rosenkeller.org/ Least Authority Enterprises has set up some basic monitoring of our services with zenoss: https://monitoring.leastauthority.com (username: guest, password: guest) We haven't yet published the configuration and scripts that we use to run that monitoring server. We intend to do so. If you care about such details let us know on this list and this will encourage us to prioritize publishing it. A couple of tahoe-lafs contributors, Nejucomo Wilcox and Leif Ryge, work at StatMover -- http://statmover.com/ -- which is making a database and JavaScript visualization tool: https://bitbucket.org/0x0000/saturnalia/wiki/Home I'd like to see Tahoe-LAFS statistics graphed in that thing. The demos of it make it seem fun to explore data in it. So the first question from your perspective, Ted, is probably "What do I want to know?". Regards, Zooko _______________________________________________ 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] announcing b The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly Newsb
by Zooko O'Whielacronx 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Folks: With the help of new volunteer Patrick McDonald, we're going to start publishing the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News. You can see the inaugural edition in HTML form (attached), in .rst source form (appended), or on the web at http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/TWN1.html . We will *not* be sending the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News to p2p-hackers every week. Instead we'll set up a site with an RSS feed that you can subscribe to if you want. Oh, in fact, maybe we should create a new mailing list named tahoe-lafs-weekly-news(a)tahoe-lafs.org that people can subscribe to if they want the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News in their inbox. Is anyone out there interested? Let us know: Patrick McDonald <marlowe(a)antagonism.org>, Zooko <zooko(a)zooko.com>, or tahoe-dev(a)tahoe-lafs.org. Regards, Zooko o;?.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*- ========================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1 ========================================== Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, brought to you by Patrick McDonald and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, scribes. Announcements and News ====================== Brian Warner is the release manager for 1.9.0_. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF_) being the major new change. MDMF will implement almost the same protocol and format as the current SDMF files. However it provides the following new features: * efficient random-access reads of arbitrary spans * fairly efficient random-access writes to arbitrary spans * allow more than one segment's worth of data .. _1.9.0: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.0 .. _MDMF: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 Tahoe-LAFS needs people to do code reviews. There is worry that the mandatory code review process may be slowly down the project too much. There are currently fifteen_ tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This page_ covers how to review a patch. .. _fifteen: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~review… .. _page: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess Planning has begun for the First International Tahoe-LAFS Summit, to be held June 27 to June 30, 2011 in San Francisco. The volunteergrid2_ is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity. .. _volunteergrid2: http://www.bigpig.org Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released_ the code for webdrive. Webdrive_ is a JavaScript UI for Tahoe-LAFS that was developed by AllMyData. .. _released: http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-May/006345.html .. _WebDrive: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-webdrive/browser Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the source code for the Tahoe-LAFS `iPhone client`_. .. _iPhone client: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client Patrick McDonald volunteered to provide the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News and help with documentation. Tahoe-LAFS is now one of the backends that git-annex_ can store files in. git-annex is a tool that uses all of git's machinery for identifying and tracking files, but stores the actual complete contents of the files in a separate location instead of in the git repo itself. See `The RelatedProjects Page`_ on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks. .. _git-annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ .. _The RelatedProjects Page: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects .. Please change this version number whenever you edit this file! .. version: 2.1 Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 1 Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, brought to you by Patrick McDonald and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, scribes. Announcements and News Brian Warner is the release manager for [1]1.9.0. The plan for release is late July with Kevan's Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files ([2]MDMF) being the major new change. MDMF will implement almost the same protocol and format as the current SDMF files. However it provides the following new features: * efficient random-access reads of arbitrary spans * fairly efficient random-access writes to arbitrary spans * allow more than one segment's worth of data Tahoe-LAFS needs people to do code reviews. There is worry that the mandatory code review process may be slowly down the project too much. There are currently [3]fifteen tickets which need review. Please help the project out by reviewing a patch. This [4]page covers how to review a patch. Planning has begun for the First International Tahoe-LAFS Summit, to be held June 27 to June 30, 2011 in San Francisco. The [5]volunteergrid2 is looking for inaugural members who meet their requirements of uptime and capacity. Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData [6]released the code for webdrive. [7]Webdrive is a JavaScript UI for Tahoe-LAFS that was developed by AllMyData. Peter Secor on behalf of AllMyData released the source code for the Tahoe-LAFS [8]iPhone client. Patrick McDonald volunteered to provide the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News and help with documentation. Tahoe-LAFS is now one of the backends that [9]git-annex can store files in. git-annex is a tool that uses all of git's machinery for identifying and tracking files, but stores the actual complete contents of the files in a separate location instead of in the git repo itself. See [10]The RelatedProjects Page on the Tahoe-LAFS wiki for other cool hacks. References 1. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/milestone/1.9.0 2. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 3. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~review… 4. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/PatchReviewProcess 5. http://www.bigpig.org/ 6. http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-May/006345.html 7. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-webdrive/browser 8. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-iphone-client 9. http://git-annex.branchable.com/special_remotes/ 10. http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/RelatedProjects _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- 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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[Politech] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

always transmitting your location [priv] Related Politech message: http://www.politechbot.com/p-05008.html And a column I wrote on this a while ago: http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-5064829.html -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Always-on location tracking in cellphones Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:04:30 -0400 From: Richard M. Smith <rms(a)computerbytesman.com> To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan(a)well.com> Hi Declan, We have talked before about the FCC mandate which is requiring all U.S. wireless carriers to provide location information to emergency operators accurate to about 150 feet on all 911 calls as part of the Enhanced 911 program (http://www.fcc.gov/911/enhanced/) To meet this FCC mandate, my Verizon Wireless Treo 650 cellphone includes some kind of GPS tracking technology. The Treo also has an option to select if location information is sent in to Verizon for all calls or only 911 calls. I was a bit surprised to learn that my Treo defaults to always sending location information. After a bit of initial confusion, I got confirmation from both Palm and Verizon Wireless that my observation about the default was correct. However, Verizon Wireless told me this is a mistake and going forward, they plan to change the default to "911 calls only". I'm curious now when other models of cellphones transmit location information to carriers. Can folks on Politech check their cellphones and phone manuals to see what kind of controls there are over location information and send me the results? I'll also need the make and model of the phone and the wireless carrier. For my Treo phone, I found the location option under "Phone Preferences" in the Options menu of the main phone screen. Thanks, Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ------------------------------------- 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> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 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] Request: Check your cell phone to see if it's always
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

transmitting your location [priv] X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) Reply-To: dave(a)farber.net Begin forwarded message:

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