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ICWATCH
by rysiek 21 May '15

21 May '15

Interesting: https://icwatch.transparencytoolkit.org/ -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147

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Mailpile SMTorP [ref: nexgen P2P email]
by grarpamp 21 May '15

21 May '15

Mailpile is interesting because it moves the concept of "webmail" from the remote service (where the user is nothing more than enslaved cannon fodder) to the user locally as an embeddable daemon. This eliminates the fact that all these new centralised OpenPGP webmail providers will have access to your keys/cleartext, because either: A) it resides there B) the malware they give you to run in your browser gives it away. Mailpile is now looking to deliver directly between onions [1]. https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/issues/1131 They could probably use some thoughts / hands / review. [1] A model somewhat similar to that outlined in thread "The next gen P2P secure email solution" https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2013-December/002638.html ... https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2014-July/004900.html

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Usability studies on encryption and e-mail
by grarpamp 21 May '15

21 May '15

https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/issues/1127 "Perform usability studies on encryption and e-mail"

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Rand Paul Filibustering PATRIOT Renewal, Accepts Bitcoin
by grarpamp 21 May '15

21 May '15

Live filibuster video... http://www.c-span.org/video/?326084-1/senator-rand-paul-rky-nsa-surveillanc…

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Surveillance Law
by grarpamp 20 May '15

20 May '15

https://surveillancelaw.org/ Perhaps 2014 is not quite 1984, though. This course explores how American law facilitates electronic surveillance—but also substantially constrains it. You will learn the legal procedures that police and intelligence agencies have at their disposal, as well as the security and privacy safeguards built into those procedures. The material also provides brief, not-too-geeky technical explanations of some common surveillance methods.

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[Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary.
by Eugen Leitl 20 May '15

20 May '15

----- Forwarded message from Emin Gün Sirer <el33th4x0r(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 06:25:01 -0400 From: Emin Gün Sirer <el33th4x0r(a)gmail.com> To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Virtual Notary. Message-ID: <CAPkFh0tWykVJU-9mCTR95eqUF0B5TO-ZO7B3L0wf_QYAmAuuBA(a)mail.gmail.com> Hi everyone, Given the recent discussions on projects that use the Bitcoin blockchain to record factoids, people on this list might be interested in the Virtual Notary project. Virtual Notary is essentially an online witness (aka attestor) to online factoids. It can provide: * proof of Bitcoin funds (without revealing public addresses or fund location on the blockchain) * proof of Bitcoin address ownership * proof of Tweet * proof of real estate value * proof of DNS ownership * proof of existence * proof of web page contents * proof of weather conditions The factoids can be recorded on the blockchain (if you pay for the transaction with Bitcoin or PayPal), or they can be part of a free attestation chain that we maintain. The website provides a permanent URL to the factoids it generates; it also provides an X.509 certificate that you can download and keep safe in perpetuity, independent of the website. The link to the website is here: http://virtual-notary.org The link to the writeup describing the various factoids and their use cases is here: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/06/20/virtual-notary-intro/ We are actively looking for people who are interested in developing the service further. Specifically, if you have suggestions for how to extend the service, for new proof/factoid types, or for how to build a business case around the core idea, please let us know. Best, - egs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development ----- End forwarded message -----

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"I don't like IKE!"
by coderman 20 May '15

20 May '15

https://www.altsci.com/ipsec/ : if (iph1->rmconf->proposal->gssid != NULL) { Fuzzers missed this. Hackers missed this. Believe you me, I would have missed it if I wasn't diligent and lucky...

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Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day | Ars Technica
by L0R3NZ 5Z4B0 19 May '15

19 May '15

Wow!!! ~BizDevCon http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/worker-fired-for-disabling-gps-a… Worker fired for disabling GPS app that tracked her 24 hours a day A Southern California woman claims she was fired after uninstalling an app that her employer required her to run constantly on her mobile phone—an app that tracked her every move 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Plaintiff Myrna Arias, a former Bakersfield sales executive for wire-transfer service Intermex, claims in a state court lawsuit that her boss, John Stubits, fired her shortly after she uninstalled the job-management Xora app that she and her colleagues were required to use. According to her suit (PDF) in Kern County Superior Court: After researching the app and speaking with a trainer from Xora, Plaintiff and her co-workers asked whether Intermex would be monitoring their movements while off duty. Stubits admitted that employees would be monitored while off duty and bragged that he knew how fast she was driving at specific moments ever since she installed the app on her phone. Plaintiff expressed that she had no problem with the app's GPS function during work hours, but she objected to the monitoring of her location during non-work hours and complained to Stubits that this was an invasion of her privacy. She likened the app to a prisoner's ankle bracelet and informed Stubits that his actions were illegal. Stubits replied that she should tolerate the illegal intrusion….. Intermex did not immediately respond for comment. The suit, which claims invasion of privacy, retaliation, unfair business practices, and other allegations, seeks damages in excess of $500,000 and asserts she was monitored on the weekends when she was not working. Arias' boss "scolded" her for uninstalling the app shortly after being required to use it, according to the suit. Her attorneys said the woman made $7,250 per month and that she "met all quotas" during a brief stint with Intermex last year. "This intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person," the filing said.

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Nuclear security
by Lodewijk andré de la porte 19 May '15

19 May '15

https://wikileaks.org/trident-safety/ I'd like to dedicate this moment to all the time you and I have wasted on using a secure process, rather than just not giving a damn. Then ask you "what do you think you could have done with that time instead?", given the knowledge that the primary deterrent is fear - not actual security. See now, *they *are not wasting much of their time on security. Compete. (note: shaming and blackmailing you when the time is right is real, and extremely hard to avoid. Be prepared to have your whole history, in minute details, used against you. Provided there's ever any reason, that is. Until then, though, what can they do?)

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NYT on Nick Szabo and Bitcoin
by John Young 18 May '15

18 May '15

<http://t.co/2zgTpKDPaa>nytimes.com/2015/05/17/business/decoding-the-enigma-of-satoshi-nakamoto-and… Those around cypherpunks 1993-1998 will recall Szabo's emails on bitcoin early precursors along with Adam Back, Hal Finney, Tim May, Wei Dai, Lucky Green, Hettinga, many more burgeoning F-Cs. NYT piece credits cpunks as subversive birther, now being hyper-monetized by arch-cryptoanarchist Goldman Sachs and many more centralists. Szabo denies being Satoshi, but ... others rush to fill the gap

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