Like other computer scientists who have studied Diebold voting machines, we were surprised at the apparent carelessness of Diebold's security design. It can be hard to convey this to nonexperts, because the examples are technical. To security practitioners, the use of a fixed, unchangeable encryption key and the blind acceptance of every software update offered on removable storage are rookie mistakes; but nonexperts have trouble appreciating this. Here is an example that anybody, expert or…

You might as well start by looking in the data of your machine. Did you fill in your real name and address anywhere? Remove it. And don’t keep any of your passwords on your machine. A piece of paper will do.

KeePassX is very useful if you make more identities, keeping the database on a USB stick that you take out of your machine when you walk away from it, and keep that stick in a location only known to you.

 

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Saturday 17 December 2011

by: Ralph Lopez, War Is a Crime

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An Open Letter from and to White Allies Calling for Support of “Decolonize Oakland” Proposal:

Tomorrow, local Indigenous peoples are proposing at Occupy Oakland’s General Assembly for a name change from Occupy Oakland to “Decolonize Oakland”. You can read the proposal…