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by zmanian 13y ago
We still have a long way to go on educating the public. The 3 branches of government have conspired in secret to enable programs the violate the rule of law and create the conditions for a police state. -The FISA court does not have the aut
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by zmanian 13y ago
I saw a Bing street view car recently in SF Bay Area. It was the weirdest thing.
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by zmanian 13y ago
Simply raising awareness and suspicion of the American government's attempt to subvert the security features of US products is step in the right direction.
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by zmanian 13y ago
Restore the Fourth SF participated in the protests with several other organizations. We don't know who the other participants in BULLRUN are. We don't know if companies or standards bodies are compromised from the top down like RS
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by zmanian 13y ago
It only worked for me after turning off Https Everywhere.
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Trustycon LiveStream: Starts at 9:30am Pacific Time(youtube.com)
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by zmanian 13y ago
The tendency of institutions to deny, cover up and conceal systems exploitation is one of the major failing of contemporary culture. This is how we lied ourselves into thinking that the iOS SSL stack was trustworthy and it applies equally t
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by zmanian 13y ago
It should be noted Textsecure is the default messaging app on Cyanogen which reaches 10 million devices. We really need to encourage folks to use these genuinely secure messaging apps rather encryption fairy dust like Telegram
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Spy Lockout: The NSA debate comes to the Apple Shareholder meeting(spylockout.org)
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by zmanian 13y ago
I find it difficult to imagine a world where Applications agnostic caching for encrypted sessions is possible. I fully expect a world where application developers have services at their disposal for positioning assets closer to the end user
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TLS/SSL critical vulnerability on iOS/OSX(crowdstrike.com)
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by zmanian 13y ago
I'm a Haskeller but I'll defend Node a bit. The absolute most compelling thing about Node is how it has hacked organizational dynamics in large companies. Walmart and PayPal basically used it to completely liberate their frontend
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Legal Privacy Hackathon at Mozilla SF[Video of Talks](air.mozilla.org)
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BitCoin and Pseudoanonymity: What Your Accountant needs to know(github.com)
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by zmanian 13y ago
The only hope that we have of containing mass surveillance technologies is to establish a moral norm against using these technologies as unchecked tools of power. The point of the Day We Fight Back is not that effect that we have in Congres
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Let Feinstein know that we will not go quietly by phone,email or snail mail(shameonfeinstein.org)
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by zmanian 13y ago
Your threat model doesn't represent the current state of the world. We don't just have have governments passively listening on wires is ways that are thwarted by encryption. The contemporary threat profile is - Wholesale compromis
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by zmanian 13y ago
Inspired by this wonderful essay on the Oakland DAC https://medium.com/p/b6e6043dad4f
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by zmanian 13y ago
We desperately need less user hostile encryption technologies but our control regime for abusive surveillance technology must include create a societal norm that these systems are morally unacceptable. The toolkit to do this is the popular
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by zmanian 13y ago
The advantage Haskell has in finance is there are a number of long term success stories to point to. Standard Chartered traders use an excel to Haskell interface for risk management and trade execution. S&P Capital IQ uses a Haskell DSL
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by zmanian 13y ago
I'm debugging a thing with the events page for the restorethefourthsf.com site.
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by zmanian 13y ago
This is a future area where the anti-authoritarian left and right might be able to work together towards a less corporate system.
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by zmanian 13y ago
My understanding is the Provo site uses an open loop system. I'm not aware of any data center scale closed loop cooling systems.
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by zmanian 13y ago
I think you are entirely correct. We've taken some measures to protect signatories. The site works really well with TOR/No Script. You can also conceal your name from being listed on the site.
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by zmanian 13y ago
Very interesting. Thanks.
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by zmanian 13y ago
Remember this information only covers FISA warrants that are applied to specific to accounts. It doesn't cover a FISA warrant that searches all of Gmail for a keyword or other generic selector. It doesn't cover information the gov
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by zmanian 13y ago
Based on the conversations, I've had with various internet companies lawyers. They consider their private keys to be their crown jewels and they believe the US government would be not be able to keep it secret in the long run if they t
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by zmanian 13y ago
- Feb 11th 611 Folsom Street Protest ( https://www.facebook.com/events/614121478661276/ ) -Feb 11th Utah Protest ( https://www.facebook.com/events/527159990715739 )
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by zmanian 13y ago
There are three concrete harms from the current operations of the surveillance state. - Retroactive investigation/ parallel constructions: An arm of the government decides an individual is undesirable and merely needs to look up their
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by zmanian 13y ago
We need to assume a threat model today where Advanced Persistent Threats can seize private keys from hosting providers and US companies. Both secret court orders and hypervizor exploits are part of this threat profile. This threat is greate

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