Hi!
"Join us for an enlightening and provocative evening as we explore the
Internet’s double-edged sword: its ability to spread knowledge and
democracy and its potential risk to civil liberties and personal
freedoms. This exciting evening will feature prominent speakers with
diverse viewpoints on the impact the Internet has had on business,
entertainment, and our society at large. Speakers include: Larry Sonsini
’66, chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; Rick Finkelstein ’78,
vice chairman and COO of Universal Pictures; whurley, co-founder of
Chaotic Moon; Jeremy Howard, president & chief scientist of Kaggle; and
John Riccitiello, private investor, prior CEO of Electronic Arts."
http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/citris.html?event_ID=69189…
Mitar
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We have some rad guests from Catalonia (Guifi.net) and Kansas City (Free
Network Foundation <http://thefnf.org>) visiting us this week!
If you're totally new, read up on our current
ToDos<http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/ToDos>and generally peruse the
wiki <http://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh>.
*Work Meeting / Hacknight Format* [not relegated to technical work alone!
we need to hack community, politics, the planet writ large!]
1. Go around checking in on what each person's gotten done since the last
hacknight, what they're stuck on or need help with, and what they're aiming
to work on tonight.
2. Hack on each of our independent tasks, or split up into pairs / small
working groups as needed.
3. Brief check-in before leaving on what's been accomplished that night and
make sure everything's been documented on the wiki.
*Various things to do this hacknight:*
-Pick our visitors' brains :D
-Decide on a name, dear god
-That will probably take most of the night
Looking forward!
Jenny
http://jennyryan.nethttp://thepyre.orghttp://thevirtualcampfire.orghttp://technomadic.tumblr.com
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"Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories."
-Laurie Anderson
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
-Hannah Arendt
"To define is to kill. To suggest is to create."
-Stéphane Mallarmé
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Hi!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci12/vpwns-virtual-pwned-networks
User-accessed Virtual Private Network systems allow authorized users
remote access to protected or otherwise privileged networks while
avoiding dependence on ISPs along the route for data confidentiality and
integrity. This direct expression of the internet’s end-to-end principle
of security is generally accepted as a highly successful design.
VPN services and technology advertising censorship circumvention,
resistance to data retention, and anonymity as features are
proliferating rapidly. But it is unclear that these security properties
were included in the original design requirements of VPN protocols and
product implementations. Experience with dedicated anonymity networks
(e.g., Tor) shows that strong anonymity is not achieved by accident. The
‘P’ in VPN notwithstanding, not all privacy methods are equal or
strongly anonymizing, which opens opportunities for attackers when
VPN-based systems are used for anonymity or even simple censorship
circumvention.
This paper evaluates VPN anonymity, security and privacy features
including identity, geographic location, confidentiality of
communications, and generalized security issues such as reachability and
prevention of network tampering. We find many popular VPN products are
susceptible to a variety of practical user deanonymization attacks.
Weaknesses stem from lack of security analysis of the composition of
VPNs, applications, and the TCP/IP stack on each respective operating
system. Although we describe some potential mitigations for vendors, the
primary goal of this paper is to raise awareness of the inherent risks
which come from repurposing off-the-shelf VPN systems to provide strong
anonymity.
Mitar
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Steve Song" <steve(a)villagetelco.org>
Date: Sep 1, 2013 7:39 AM
Subject: A discussion item for Berlin: an Open Hardware WiFi platform
To: "Ben West" <ben(a)gowasabi.net>, "Musti" <musti(a)wlan-si.net>, "L. Aaron
Kaplan" <aaron(a)lo-res.org>, "team(a)wirelesssummit.org" <
team(a)wirelesssummit.org>, "Andrew Reynolds" <andrew(a)opentechinstitute.org>,
<al.banda(a)activspaces.com>, <atunpan(a)ait.asia>, <alwalid(a)accessnow.org>, <
aabdelaal(a)unomaha.edu>, "Andy Gunn" <andygunn(a)opentechinstitute.org>, <
behravan(a)demcouncil.org>, <daniel.kitscha(a)ec.europa.eu>, "Michael
Calabrese" <Calabrese(a)newamerica.net>, "Brian Duggan" <
bcduggan(a)opentechinstitute.org>, "Daniel Staples" <
danstaples(a)opentechinstitute.org>, "Darby Hickey" <
darbyhickey(a)opentechinstitute.org>, "Andres Astudillo" <astudillo(a)ieee.org>,
"Dillip Pattanaik" <dillippattanaik(a)gmail.com>, <fostee21(a)rpi.edu>, "Andrew
Bolden" <bolden(a)newamerica.net>, "Ermanno Pietrosemoli" <ermanno(a)gmail.com>,
"Georgia Bullen" <georgia(a)opentechinstitute.org>, "Geneviève Bastien" <
gbastien(a)versatic.net>, <hemant(a)nomadindia.net>, "Greg Bloom" <
greg.bloom(a)gmail.com>, <horvitz(a)volny.cz>, "Grady Johnson" <
grady(a)opentechinstitute.org>
Cc:
Hi all,
I am looking forward to seeing you all in Berlin in October.
As a primer for the summit, there is something that Nico and Guido from
Altermundi and I have been talking about that we'd like to raise as an
informal discussion item at the summit. We'd like to seek out interest
from other groups in participating in a project to establish an Open
Hardware WiFi platform.
The community wireless movement has grown thanks the ability of Open Source
pioneers to adapt and evolve the OpenWRT operating system which provides a
platform for networks to implement the protocols and services that they
like. The ability to customise commodity wireless routers is at the
foundation of the community wireless movement. While OpenWRT has grown
steadily in robustness and sophistication, another revolution has been
taking place, the Open Hardware movement. Open Hardware has brought
groundbreaking innovations like the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi. It has
galvanised the maker movement and opened the door to hardware creativity.
Perhaps the time has come for an Open Hardware wireless platform that can
be a platform for WiFi hardware innovation and something that all community
wireless networks can benefit from.
The Atheros AR9344 platform is a affordable yet powerful dual radio
platform featuring:
- IEEE 802.11n 2x2 2.4 GHz / 5 GHz System on-a-Chip (SoC)
- 74Kc MIPS processor operating at up to 560 MHz
- 10/100 Ethernet Switch with five IEEE 802.3 Ethernet LAN ports
- USB 2.0 controller with built-in MAC/ PHY supports Host or Device mode
- I2S/SPDIF-out audio interface
- SLIC for VOIP/PCM
- One low-speed UART (115 Kbps), one highspeed UART (3 Mbps), and
multiple GPIO pins for general purpose I/O
It could be the foundation of an Open Hardware WiFi device designed for
community wireless network deployment.
In Berlin, Village Telco and Altermundi would like to invite you discuss
the merits of building an Open Hardware WiFi platform that will be the
commodity WiFi device we always wanted.
Thoughts welcome :)
