<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A few more links from the esteemed Richard Wheeler:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-tim</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>There was a recent email from Ars that had a bunch of interesting stuff. In case you didn't see it:<br class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/" class="">How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica</a><br class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/how-to-build-your-own-vpn-if-youre-rightfully-wary-of-commercial-options/" class="">How to build your own VPN if you’re (rightfully) wary of commercial options | Ars Technica</a><br class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/a-beginners-guide-to-beefing-up-your-privacy-and-security-online/" class="">A beginner’s guide to beefing up your privacy and security online | Ars Technic</a>a<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>This was also of note:<br class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/04/dhs-to-senator-malicious-use-of-stingrays-is-a-real-and-growing-risk/" class="">Feds: There are hostile stingrays in DC, but we don’t know how to find them | Ars Technica</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>This relates to that Culver City plate scanner thread:<br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://gcn.com/articles/2018/04/09/cary-law-enforcement-analytics.aspx?s=gcntech_100418" class="">Analytics help city police connect the dots across databases — GCN</a></div></div><br class=""></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 12, 2018, at 1:21 PM, Tim Schwartz <<a href="mailto:tim@timschwartz.org" class="">tim@timschwartz.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks to all that came out last night to the Cryptosocial @ CRASH Space! Here is a summary of all that went down: <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">We talked and demoed stuff for about 2.5 hours:</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Byron did some phenomenal demoing of Qubes OS especially showing off how all of the VMs interact together, and we did some testing with quarantining USBs -> <a href="https://www.qubes-os.org/" class="">https://www.qubes-os.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Justin and Jay from Crash were nice enough to demonstrate and confirm that EXIF data especially geolocation is stripped from photos taken from within Signal (it doesn’t work if you take a photo with the normal camera and send it with signal)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We had some rambling conversations about FB and GDPR (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation</a>), what VPNs block (ISPs sniffing) and data expiration / retention standards (we need more data retention controls and explicit times up front from data controllers!) <a href="https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/cslp-september-2016-1516.pdf" class="">https://www.sidley.com/-/media/publications/cslp-september-2016-1516.pdf</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some rambling conversations about data forensics in images and audio -> <a href="https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620" class="">https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20629671" class="">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20629671</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How to cross the USA border and what you can and can’t say (thanks Lee for the link), go watch this talk! <a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9086-protecting_your_privacy_at_the_border" class="">https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9086-protecting_your_privacy_at_the_border</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Byron had a setup where we could search for our old usernames and account names and see if we had been pwned, similar to <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/" class="">https://haveibeenpwned.com/</a> (turns out I have been!!! [panic])</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Events coming up: </b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peer to Peer Web @ Fowler Studio on April 28th -> <a href="https://peer-to-peer-web.com/los-angeles/2018-04-28" class="">https://peer-to-peer-web.com/los-angeles/2018-04-28</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Right to Repair @ UCLA on April 24th -> <a href="https://readme.gseis.ucla.edu/2018/04/04/april-24-right-to-repair/" class="">https://readme.gseis.ucla.edu/2018/04/04/april-24-right-to-repair/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Acid Free Art Book Fair @ Blum & Poe on May 4-6 [I’m giving a talk on artists working within libraries on May 6th with Katie Herzog + I<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class="">tza Vilaboy] -> </span><a href="http://acid-free.info/" class="">http://acid-free.info/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Tim @ LA Cryptoparty</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>