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FOIA/Public Records Event and Livestream
by Polity News 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

There is an event in DC about the Freedom of Information Act on March 13, 2015. There is also supposed to be a livestream of the conference for anyone to watch online. The Freedom of Information Act can be used by anyone to request records from the US federal government. Many states and countries also have their own public records laws which can be very useful for journalists and researchers. Link http://www.newseum.org/event/2015-national-freedom-of-information-day-confe… Copy/Past of Agenda 2015 National Freedom of Information Day March 13 – The Knight Studio at the Newseum 8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Welcome: Gene Policinski, Chief Operating Officer, Newseum Institute Patrice McDermott, Executive Director, OpenTheGovernment.org 8:30 - 9:10 a.m. Speaker: Miriam Nisbet, former director of Office of Government Information Services, National Archives 9:10 – 9:15 a.m. BREAK 9:15 – 10:50 a.m. Sunshine Week at ‘10’ – and in 2015 Presented by Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, American Society of News Editors and Sunshine in Government Initiative Remarks: Rick Blum, Executive Director, Sunshine in Government Initiative Moderator: Andy Alexander, Visiting Professional, E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University Panelists: Pete Weitzel, former editor, The Miami Herald; former executive director, Coalition of Journalists for Open Government Deb Gersh Hernandez, Communications Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and co-coordinator, Sunshine Week Megan Rhyne, Executive Director, Virginia Coalition for Open Government SW- 2015 Moderator: Kevin Hall, Chief Economics Correspondent, McClatchy Newspapers Presenters: Brian Carovillano, Vice President and Managing Editor, U.S. news, The Associated Press Bill Sternberg, Deputy Editorial Page Editor, USA TODAY 10:50 - 11 a.m. BREAK 11 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Open Government: Successes, Challenges, Prospects Presented by OpenTheGovernment.org Moderator: Sean Moulton, Director, Open Government Policy, Center for Effective Government Panelists: Sean Vitka, Federal Policy Manager, Sunlight Foundation Tom Blanton, Director, National Security Archive Shanna Devine, Legislative Director, Government Accountability Project Miriam Nisbet Former Director, OGIS Eric Mill, 18F Project, General Services Administration Respondents Moderator: Joe Goldman, President, Democracy Fund Prof. Bruce Cain, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University (via Skype) Charles Clark, Senior Correspondent, Government Executive Media Group 12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. 2015 James Madison Award Presented by the American Library Association Remarks: Sari Feldman, ALA President-elect Speaker: Madison Award winner (via video) Concludes

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NSA Apple DPA Cryptanalysis
by John Young 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

The Intercept has released files on Apple, DPA and other cryptanalysis: http://cryptome.org/2015/03/nsa-apple-dpa-intercept-15-0309.zip (12pp, 1.9MB)

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Effect of Ubiquitous Encryption - IETF Draft
by John Young 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

IETF draft "Effect of Ubiquitous Encryption" <http://t.co/xrGAhyDtWP>http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-mm-wg-effect-encrypt-01.txt "As the use of encryption continues to increase, [system operator] efforts to prevent it will continue to emerge."

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cluster analysis of blockchains
by dan＠geer.org 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

cluster analysis of blockchains, etc. http://www.coinalytics.co/ --dan

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hey, that's a funny van
by Eugen Leitl 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_dNCH6UwAArGlP.jpg:orig

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[coreboot] Fwd: lowRISC in Google Summer of Code 2015
by Eugen Leitl 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

----- Forwarded message from ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 03:06:07 +0000 From: ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> To: coreboot <coreboot(a)coreboot.org> Subject: [coreboot] Fwd: lowRISC in Google Summer of Code 2015 Message-ID: <CAP6exY+27t8R7sU552nf7aZTR_0jaP5kcmq3wOCPBV3zLv2+8Q(a)mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: lowRISC Announcements <list(a)ann.lowrisc.org> Date: Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:52 PM Subject: lowRISC in Google Summer of Code 2015 To: <rminnich(a)gmail.com> We're pleased to announce that lowRISC is taking part in Google Summer of Code as a mentoring organisation. We're working with a number of our friends in the wider free and open source software and hardware communities to provide a range of project ideas in a number of different implementation languages covering every level of the hardware/software stack. GSoC provides a stipend of $5500 for selected students to work on open source over the summer. Student applications open on Monday 16th March. For more information, see the GSoC FAQ <https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_ program/google/gsoc2015/help_page>. The full lowRISC ideas list is available here <http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2015-ideas/>, and the titles are listed below. We're also very interested in student-proposed ideas. Massive thanks are due to everyone who has volunteered to mentor. * A fully open source FPGA compilation flow using Yosys * Accessing the OpenCores ecosystem (implementing a Wishbone to TileLink bridge) * jor1k port to RISC-V * Extend Tavor to support directed generation of assembly test cases * Constrained randomised testing with coverage tracking in Cocotb * TCP offload to minion cores using rump kernels * Schematic Viewer for Netlists (SVG/JavaScript) * Porting Icarus Verilog to JavaScript using Emscripten * Optimized ray tracer for Nyuzi parallel processor * Porting musl libc to RISC-V * LLVM pass for control-flow hijacking protection using lowRISC’s tagged memory * Porting L4/FIASCO.OC to RISC-V * Adding Chisel support to FuseSoC * Trace Debugging Infrastructure for lowRISC * OCaml native code port to RISC-V * JTAG hardware debugging support for Nyuzi Even if you're not a student, we'd appreciate your help in spreading the word to ensure we get the best possible applicants. As ever, we invite you to subscribe to the lowrisc-dev discussion list <http://listmaster.pepperfish.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ lowrisc-dev-lists.lowrisc.org>, idle on #lowRISC on irc.oftc.net, and follow @lowRISC on Twitter. -- The lowRISC team ------ If you wish to unsubscribe, click http://subscribe.lowrisc.org/ unsubscribe?email=rminnich%40gmail.com&secret=e66ba8262f518ffbe2fb50edd82c61 f0ed8f5c6a -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot(a)coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: FOIPA adventures
by Polity News 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

There is a public listserve for FOIA/MDR/Privacy Act issues. Just remember that it is public list though. http://www.nfoic.org/foi-listserv

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Re: FOIPA adventures
by Polity News 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

If you receive a Glomar response to a FOIA request, you can use that to file a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR). You can request for the records to be declassified and challenge the classification. You have to make sure that you follow the correct procedure and appeal to the ISCAP board in time. Info on MDR appeals http://www.archives.gov/declassification/iscap/mdr-appeals.html Info on MDR http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/foia/foia_guide/foia_guide_chapter4.pdf The NSA Archive has experience in filing MDRs http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/ On a side note, the US Navy, for months, lost my FOIA request about Tor and the Navy finally transferred the request to the correct department...where it continues to languish.

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Governments Covertly Fund Internet Freedom Activists
by Polity News 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

When asked for public records about internet freedom funding, the governments of the Netherlands and Sweden classified and redacted documents about the contracts. http://piratetimes.net/governments-covertly-fund-internet-freedom-activists/

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Crypto Vulns
by John Young 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

No 1 vulnerability of crypto is the user 2nd passphrases 3rd overconfidence 4th trust in the producer 5th believing backdoors are No. 1

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