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| DATE | 2006-10-25 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Free Software Magazine
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Not another TeX analogue?
Ruben
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 04:50:28PM -0400, rc wrote:
> Yeah, its great, awesome monetary split compared to traditional
> publishing. I have been playing with LyX for a couple of weeks. It
> rocks, period. Plus, I believe it will spit out a final format ready
> for lulu if it doesn't hook right into over the net.
>
> http://www.lyx.org/
>
> R
>
> Ruben Safir wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:21:01AM -0400, rc wrote:
> >>BTW - Lulu.com was founded by Red Hat founder Bob Young
> >>
> >>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/secure_voip_calling_free_software_right_to_privacy
> >>
> >
> >Say - I didn't know that. LULU looks like it might be a seriously useful
> >tool
> >when we publish out text book.
> >
> >Ruben
> >
> >>Secure VoIP calling, free software, and the right to privacy
> >>
> >>By David Sugar
> >>
> >>Online on: 24/10/2006
> >>
> >>All free nations in the world today recognize certain basic principles,
> >>such as freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the freedom of
> >>privacy. These values that we all share were articulated by and fought
> >>for by people such as Voltaire, Jefferson, and Bolivar. This common
> >>heritage of freedom is today under attack by those who wish to turn the
> >>clock back on human progress. We all know that a government that lives
> >>in such fear of its own citizens that it must spy on them and claims the
> >>authority to do so en-mass and unchallengeable is not a legitimate
> >>government of the people it claims to serve.
> >>
> >>There is an interesting story about George Washington during the
> >>American Revolutionary War. At one point some of Washington's officers
> >>were plotting rebellion against him, and he accidentally received a
> >>dispatch that was meant for one of the conspirators. Having opened it,
> >>and read it, he realized what had happened, and then asked the courier
> >>to please apologize because the letter was not meant for him. He choose
> >>to act as best he could in a manner as if he had not read the letter.
> >>For Washington understood that even at a time of war, there are certain
> >>ideals that must never be sacrificed, otherwise even if victory was
> >>achieved, it is not worth the price of a nation nobody would wish to
> >>live in.
> >>
> >>With these thoughts, we chose, on the first Monday of this October, to
> >>release a stack for secure VOIP calling, as free software developed
> >>through GNU Telephony, a loose organization of developers who specialize
> >>in free software for telecommunications. We accomplished this by
> >>creating a free software stack that implements Phil Zimmerman's ZRTP, as
> >>well as the Secure RTP spec. This is now part of the GNU RTP Stack,
> >>ccrtp. We chose to make this available for immediate use in the most
> >>compelling way, by having available at the same time, a complete secure
> >>softphone client anyone can also download and use and which implements
> >>the secure calling features in an easy to use manner. This client was
> >>the Twinkle Softphone client, developed by Michel De Boer, and modified
> >>with his help to meet this goal in time with our initial release.
> >>
> >>Secure calling VOIP using ZRTP operates much like ssh in concept. The
> >>keys for communication are generated locally, rather than using an
> >>external certificate authority, hence preventing weak or poisoned
> >>certificates which SRTP potentially allows. Fingerprint session
> >>signatures are shown and cached much like the ssh host fingerprints, so
> >>that one can determine if there is a man in the middle decrypting at one
> >>end and encrypting to another.
> >>
> >>What we have developed does not interfere with lawful police
> >>investigations, since the end point can still be compromised with
> >>physical access, presumably executed as part of a lawful and judicially
> >>supervised court order. But it does prevent arbitrary and mass spying on
> >>what people say, which must come to an end before all other freedoms are
> >>lost. With additional technologies including tls secured SIP and
> >>anonymizing connection proxies, it is possible to also reduce
> >>associative information signal that intelligence so desperately wishes
> >>to mine, and that is a goal of later phases of this project.
> >>
> >>Since it is free software, anyone can download and use it. Since it is
> >>offered as a library, it can be used to produce applications, like
> >>Twinkle, that can perform secure communications by design, rather than
> >>as an afterthought. This technology is here to stay. There are enough
> >>people who have set it up now around the world, including some I
> >>personally showed. The source is available and mirrored worldwide.
> >>Binaries have been build and now distributed in Debian. Much of that was
> >>all done very rapidly and early on at the start of the month, the rest
> >>while I was in Maturin speaking at the IVth International Free Knowledge
> >>Conference, which I will write about next week, to deliberately make
> >>sure it was immediately usable and widely disseminated.
> >>
> >>This technology we are bringing to free VOIP software was of course
> >>first proposed, in a proprietary form, and as an external proxy known as
> >>zfone, by Phil Zimmerman. Much of the work in developing secure calling
> >>in the GNU RTP Stack was done by people like Werner Dittman and Federico
> >>Pouzols, and with lots of Michel De Boer from Twinkle. Whether you are a
> >>head of state wishing to communicate in private, a union organizer
> >>within a company, or simply talking to your family and friends, you have
> >>a basic right and expectation of privacy. We intend to do everything in
> >>our power to help further that goal.
> >>
> >>Further information can be found at GNU Telephony
> >>
> >>
> >>Ruben Safir wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:32:43PM -0400, einker wrote:
> >>>>I' ve been reading this since issue #5. I thought you knew about it ....
> >>>>
> >>>I discovered it last month and posted a note about it to the list.
> >>>Since I got no responses, I thought I'd mention it again./ It would be
> >>>nice to make
> >>>a contribution to their rag. They did a much better job than we did
> >>>trying to promote the same thing.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Ruben
> >>>
> >>>>On 10/23/06, Ruben Safir wrote:
> >>>>>Has anyone seen this Free Software Magazine at
> >>>>>
> >>>>>http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>This site is one of the best examples of Free Software in action I've
> >>>>>ever
> >>>>>seen.
> >>>>>Its content is awesome, the commentaries just wonderful and in depth.
> >>>>>The
> >>>>>Magazine is everything I had hoped for with the NYLXS Quarterly
> >>>>>Journal as
> >>>>>a
> >>>>>serious review journal that doesn't completely lose the new user or
> >>>>>program
> >>>>>user of computers.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>And David Sugar is a regular writer in it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>And then they discovered this every cool social enginering tool.....
> >>>>>
> >>>>>http://www.lulu.com/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Ruben
> >>>>>--
> >>>>>__________________________
> >>>>>Brooklyn Linux Solutions
> >>>>>
> >>>>>So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> >>>>>that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> >>>>>proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> >>>>>
> >>>>>DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> >>>>>http://fairuse.nylxs.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
> >>>>>
> >>>>>"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming
> >>>>>sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need
> >>>>>the ability to participate in our own society."
> >>>>>
> >>>>>http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting
> >>>>>http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> >>>>>http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and
> >>>>>articles from around the net
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>>Regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>Evan M. Inker
> >
--
__________________________
Brooklyn Linux Solutions
So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://fairuse.nylxs.com
"Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME"
"The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming
sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need
the ability to participate in our own society."
http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Consulting
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive or stories and articles from around the net
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