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FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon ( http://kiwicon.org/ ) for being transphobic, sexist and otherwise disrespectful to women and trans people. See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kiwicon_2014_expulsion IMO it was justified, but guess you had to be there.
According to the Pond docs: > What a global, passive adversary (one who can observe all Internet traffic) can achieve: > A GPA can learn who is using Pond and where their home servers are located. It's probably a great piece of software, but how exactly does it fit into the theme of cover over concealment? At its current level of popularity, simply using Pond, without a proxy at least, paints a giant target on you in…
Pond works through Tor, and Pond servers are hidden services. I consider that using Tor makes me a target, so I go through at least three VPN services.
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The ad-lib appears to be included in the provided PDF.
Hmm, "ad-lib" -- given that slide, what did they plan to say? Anyway, it's interesting to me that the pics of mostly-naked men and ASCII Goatse hardly get mentioned, overshadowed by a verbal remark. Maybe the con has changed its policy in response, but did they preview the slide deck?
FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon ( http://kiwicon.org/ ) for being transphobic, sexist and otherwise disrespectful to women and trans people. See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kiwicon_2014_expulsion IMO it was justified, but guess you had to be there.
See, fuck this. We are all fucked if style begins to trump substance in infosec, like it has in most everything else. Fucking marketing turds. The Grugq is dropping pearls before swine.
FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon ( http://kiwicon.org/ ) for being transphobic, sexist and otherwise disrespectful to women and trans people. See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kiwicon_2014_expulsion IMO it was justified, but guess you had to be there.
"A transgender Mongolian in the desert"? Is this really so gravely offensive?
FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon ( http://kiwicon.org/ ) for being transphobic, sexist and otherwise disrespectful to women and trans people. See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Kiwicon_2014_expulsion IMO it was justified, but guess you had to be there.
"A transgender Mongolian in the desert"? Is this really so gravely offensive?
"It's not compassionate to remind transgender people that they're a minority that often has trouble "passing" and face extreme violence bc of that...if you were a trans woman in the audience who'd been beat up for not being able to pass as cis, how would it make you feel to have that treated like a joke"
Seems reasonable. I retract my previous comment.
Up until now, I'd thought of distributions like TAILS as offering excellent defaults, while providing good compartmentalization. I remember reading that Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald and Bruce Schneier all made use of TAILS when reading leaked NSA documents.
I'm genuinely surprised to see Linux being dismissed as laughably insecure. I'd like to learn more -- particularly given that the main criticism is that the defaults are so bad. Does anyone know which distribution/kernel is being referred to? Up until now, I'd thought of distributions like TAILS as offering excellent defaults, while providing good compartmentalization. I remember reading that Laura Poitras, Glenn Gre…
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I don't get why he says "VPN connection to TOR => GOTOJAIL". How is it OK that your ISP sees you connecting to Tor, but dangerous if your VPN provider does? Or is this about some other issue?
Yes, hard to understand why he says that, maybe he meant TOR connection to VPN?