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1. kwlug Computer and Network Security , privacy

   At 7pm Charles McColm @chaslinux shows off #XBMC; Sarah Harvey @worldwise001 talks about !Security and !Privacy http://kwlug.org/node/899

   Monday, 04-Nov-13 22:12:14 UTC from sn.jonkman.ca
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca repeated this.
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Cryptography

     Also, we're having an informal GnuPG/PGP keysigning, bring your fingerprint strips! #Cryptoparty http://sobac.com/wiki/index.php/Informal_Keysigning !crypto

     Monday, 04-Nov-13 23:33:37 UTC
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   • kwlug Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

     Maybe we can trust Linux, and !FreeSoftware? Even Linus Torvalds was approached by the gov't to install backdoors

     Tuesday, 05-Nov-13 01:46:53 UTC
   • johnnynull Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

     @kwlug Unconfirmed.

     Tuesday, 05-Nov-13 01:49:58 UTC
   • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Surveillance , Cryptography , johnnynull

     Confirmed! I just ran across this piece from Theodore Ts'o: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336505 TL;DR: Intel's hardware RNG is compromised by NSA's SIGINT, but Linus Torvalds insisted it be used to generate /dev/random (via http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/12/how-does-nsa-break-ssl.html ) !crypto !surveillance

     Thursday, 05-Dec-13 06:29:00 UTC
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   • drak Mercurial , Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca

     …and Matt Mackall, current lead developer of !Mercurial stepped down as maintaner because Linus overrode his decision not to trust the compromised hardware RNG blindly.

     Thursday, 05-Dec-13 06:55:39 UTC