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SOS
by Lilith Lela 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, We received a request from https://twitter.com/S0Sph for us using and recommending this site/service http://sos.ph/ Earlier, a few weeks ago, I had been briefly looking at this https://cryptostorm.is/ These darknet tokens. R it useful in activist contexts? What you think? Got perhaps (external to this service(s)) links and/or insights for us so we can figure out how it works exactly, and what its vulnerabilities r? Cheers, Lilith

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Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts
by Patrick Georgi 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Am 17.11.2013 21:46, schrieb Alex: > [Broken record warning] What if, somehow, the community gathered a few > brains, talked to a vendor, and convinced them to put coreboot on a > yet-to-be-released product? It would almost seem like the community > would do most of the work for free. What sort of responses have we > received in the past with this approach? System 76, ThinkPenguin, > Pudget, etc... have we tried any of them? They have sleek systems, and > at least the first … [View More]

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Re: [serval-project-dev] how to get best voice quality with low end phones?
by Jeremy Lakeman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

3s of lag seems a bit on the high side. Using cheap huawei's here in the lab, we typically see about 250-500ms of lag. Note that the cheap huawei's seem to have a 2KB hardware audio buffer, leading to (2KB / 16bit 8KHz ~=) 120ms of jitter that we can't do anything about. We'd like to implement some kind of echo canceler, but we haven't found anything that would be trivial to drop in. Our jitter buffer could probably use some improvements, I'm not going to say that it is in any way ideal. We'… [View More]re not managing network buffer bloat right now. When the wifi channel is busy, the rate that the kernel will send packets drops and can easily start to back up in the network stack. This can add a significant amount of latency. If packets don't arrive in time, the link state routing engine may be dropping the link, which would limit the number of outgoing packets, which would drop the latency, and the link would come back up again... We should be using RTT estimates to throttle our transmit rate to keep latency low, and feed into our link state calculations to work out when a link is really dead, or everything on that interface is just slow. But we haven't built anything like that yet. If we were limiting our transmit rate better, instead of sending lots of small UDP packets, we would try to aggregate more voice packets per UDP frame. Hopefully allowing the voice call to continue, just with higher jitter. Rhizome, and hence messaging, doesn't care as much if the network path is unstable. And it will just keep on trying until it gets there, making messaging *much* more reliable. We have some rough plans to implement a combination of push-to-talk / voicemail, using rhizome. And built into the messaging UI. But we don't have any concrete plans to start this work right now. And one day we may implement a form of network coding to reduce the number of packets required for bi-directional traffic over multiple hops. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Miles <myles(a)tenhand.com> wrote: > > I've been testing with a pair of huawei 8150s using the stock gingerbread > to connect to a 703n mesh extender. Wifi on the phones is pretty poor and > my area is RF-noisy, so wifi works to about 2 blocks line of sight. I'm > using about a 2 week old nightly build of the batphone app. > > When the signal is strong, the phone works with about 3 seconds of audio > delay and noticeable echo. When the wifi gets poor & drops to 2mb, voice > cuts out entirely. text continues to work until wifi drops. Amusingly, > voice calls drop at about the limits of my shouting voice. > > Some of the problem is probably background /wind noise. I'd love a mute > button on the batphone. > > What should I do to improve voice experience , short of souping up the > mesh extender? Do you usually use headsets? With PTT? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Serval Project Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. [View Less]

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Re: Request for transcript: "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions"
by John Young 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

That herd behavior is disappointing but customary cowardice. Worse happened after 9/11. Many once valiant FOI fighters cleansed their websites and heralded the need to obey the war-mongerers, and urgently cautioned others as if the propaganda was believable. No doubt, this self-censorship is market-driven to please funders, advertizers and publishers who dare not displease their dinner companions at Aspen, Davos, Bohemian Grove, and for sure the DC centroid of privileged access to valuable … [View More]

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Re: passwords! (p5) / ngrams and passphrases
by coderman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:09 PM, brian carroll <electromagnetize(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... if a password service used this principle,... 3-4 sets instead, > themselves having special rules... > > [set1|set2|set3|set4] > > in this way, a 'rolling password' could be developed ... this feels similar to various guided / ordered permutations strategies that use a corpus of ngrams or words for attacking longer sequences, like passphrases. [with or without decorating … [View More]

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Fwd: That wonderful 1980-ies hippie vibe...
by coderman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk(a)phk.freebsd.dk> Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:53 PM Subject: That wonderful 1980-ies hippie vibe... To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg(a)w3.org> It's bedtime here in Denmark, but before I go to bed, I want to thank for the wonderful 1980'ies hippie-vibe of the last couple of days, it's been a wonderful nostalgic experience. I don't know how many of you remember "atomic weapon free zones" ? Maybe if you are … [View More]

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Denial of Disservice Attack [was: Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography]
by coderman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jim Bell <jamesdbell8(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > ... >>Jim Bell's exhortations to deny all pleas a hard sell considering that >>one in four rolls over completely under pressure. :/ > > For 70,000 Federal criminal defendants per year, there are only about 3,500 > Federal criminal trials per year. In other words, ultimately 95% 'rolls > over'. (Note: That doesn't mean that they necessarily 'rat': Many > defendants have no co-… [View More]

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Request for transcript: "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions"
by coderman 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Anyone have a transcript for this piece? --- "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245660885 While polls show many Americans are uneasy with government actions revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one profession in particular seems to be alarmed. A new survey of professional writers finds them much more concerned than the general public. An organization of writers says that a large majority of its members have "never been as … [View More]

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Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client
by grarpamp 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

> I don't think that's possible at the moment. There are no > deterministically built operating systems yet. This is rather sad. I think FreeBSD has a project somewhere trying to move that way. Hopefully all of the unix-likes are at least aware of the concept, if not having an actual project for it. Also, none of the BSD's have any built-in integrity in their repositories, they just insist their infrastructure and committers are infallible among other escuses. (Excepting DragonFly which … [View More]

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Re: [Cryptography][Law] Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography
by John Young 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

That should have been Bernie-S, not -X. And Mitnick now runs a rather profitable security service and lecture series. About Jim Bell (he can speak for himself but I know best how to smell and tell a rat): The IRS secret agent leading Jim's chase, Agent Gordon, lurked on cypherpunks for a long time, gathering names and addresses to subpoena for Jim's grand jury probe and (first) trial. Several of us were subpoenad along with cpunks records from some (John Gilmore one of those). Some, like me, … [View More]were summoned both for the grand jury and the trial held in Tacoma, WA. (Sidebar: youngster Declan McCullagh covered that and I urged him to report seditiously enough to be sent to jail to build his rep -- he politely refused to cellmate Jim.) Short story (full account in the archive) is that not many supported Jim all the way when the shit came down, indeed, brazenly ridiculed his adventure, presumably to cover their ass from Agent Gordon and co-lurkers always on duty hereabouts. Who secretly ratted Jim at the grand jury remains unknown but their behavior and sweat odor has been profiled by god and they will not be given authentic bitcoins, only fakes with their undercover UID embedded like Lamo. At 06:13 PM 11/16/2013, you wrote: >On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > > ... > > At a HOPE panel on informants, several hackers disclosed > > those pressures to rat, some succumbed and were let off, > > Emmanuel Goldstein admitted it, some refused and were > > jailed, Bernie-X, Kevin Mitnick. All agreed it is far worse to > > go through than you think. Goldstein estimated 25% of hackers > > are rats. > >Jim Bell's exhortations to deny all pleas a hard sell considering that >one in four rolls over completely under pressure. :/ > > > > > Barrett Brown is on the hot seat right now, being offering deals > > to rat, as customary, with three (!) trials postponed to maintain > > pressure. Shit, even his mom was used as a fed provocation to > > misbehave then as a persuasion club as were Sabu's nephew > > and niece. > >it would be interesting to see a survey of the carrots and sticks used >by federal prosecutors. > > > > > Anybody with a high profile is targeted, so beware publicity > > hounds crowing of derrying-do and urgings by high profilers > > who may or may not be in the grips of the feds, and if not, > > will soon be due to their publicity narcosis, and then used > > as clubs or head to jail for obstruction and recidivism or > > some other nut-squeezing -- even in jail they are offered > > deals to rat and sentence reduced. > >good thing JYA stays under the radar! Sorry to say Radar mag did a smear of us. > > In or out jail the pressure to rat continues, as with Adrian > > Lamo. Ex-cons never know if an overture is an LE sting or a > > an honest request for advice, so they rat to be safe -- recall > > they are obliged -- forever -- to report overtures, just like > > ex-spies remain under the gun to rat for life. If you haven't > > been there don't imagine you know what it's like. > >what do you mean by "obliged -- forever -- to report overtures"? i >would be very interested to know if there are clauses compelling >disclosure in these agreements for unrelated activities. is this >"soft" pressure, or legally binding? Notice upon release from prison that ex-cons are expected to be on call. Panoptic assured. Moreso for ex-spies. > > Don't imagine this list and others like it, chats, OTRs, TOR, > > are not being spied for easy targets. > >this opportunistic spying even has a code name: EPICFAIL Also Open Source. [View Less]

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