I’ve always wanted to watch you do your show. Do this more often — especially when you turn the cam on your equipment as you did. It’s like a peek at the magic.
Madge, you say that e-mail encryption is too hard. I’d agree. But you should still think about doing it. Adium’s ‘OTR’ (off-the-record) encryption is not secure against man-in-the-middle attacks. This means that there’s no verification that your conversation is not being infiltrated. This is possible because unless you have a trusted identity system combined with public keys, there is no way to guarantee the encryption.
What would happen is quite simple – the ‘man in the middle’ could accept a conversation with you, negotiate a key, and then negotiate a key with the person you are talking about (both automatic processes), and then bridge your conversations.
This is why I use public key encryption. It’s more complex than it ought to be, but it’s definitely worth it. Encrypting your chats *is* a step up, but it won’t keep out the most dedicated. If you want to go down the route of crypto, encrypting your chat using OTR is the first step.
Public key encryption works on a different basis – you create a secret key and a public key (along with a revocation key). You then distribute the public key. Other people who you know in real life who also have keys can sign them, to say “when you get a message from Key 1234, it really comes from Madge Weinstein”. There’s no easy way of making this system simpler than it is, unfortunately. There are some good tools for OS X though.
Here in the UK, the government have put out a law that allows the government to demand your e-mail and encryption keys. If I ever release a revocation certificate that is not accompanied with a reason, it is because I am not legally allowed to explain why. I’d suggest adopting this kind of policy.
Although this stuff is quite geeky, the crypto community all realise the huge threat posed by governments like that of Mr. Bush’s making. It costs nothing but an hour or so of time to make a step towards opting out of NSA wiretapping (etc.) by technical means. On the Mac, there are clients available for all the major mail systems – Mail.app, Thunderbird, Entourage and Firefox (Gmail).
9 Responses to “YR661 Yeast Video – Would you like LYPS with that?”
I’ve always wanted to watch you do your show. Do this more often — especially when you turn the cam on your equipment as you did. It’s like a peek at the magic.
Is that a Rietveld chair?
a fake one
Oui. Plus des emissions video de temps en temps, si vous plait. C’est Madge en total.
Et Cheryl est une salope.
You want me to fart more?
C’est impossible. Tu es en maxi-fart.
I always love when u do videos, esp long ones. Makes my clit get hard.
A+++
Kinda touching at the end honaye. I miss chaun-say… wish wanda hadn’t given him so much chocolate. What a whore.
Madge, you say that e-mail encryption is too hard. I’d agree. But you should still think about doing it. Adium’s ‘OTR’ (off-the-record) encryption is not secure against man-in-the-middle attacks. This means that there’s no verification that your conversation is not being infiltrated. This is possible because unless you have a trusted identity system combined with public keys, there is no way to guarantee the encryption.
What would happen is quite simple – the ‘man in the middle’ could accept a conversation with you, negotiate a key, and then negotiate a key with the person you are talking about (both automatic processes), and then bridge your conversations.
This is why I use public key encryption. It’s more complex than it ought to be, but it’s definitely worth it. Encrypting your chats *is* a step up, but it won’t keep out the most dedicated. If you want to go down the route of crypto, encrypting your chat using OTR is the first step.
Public key encryption works on a different basis – you create a secret key and a public key (along with a revocation key). You then distribute the public key. Other people who you know in real life who also have keys can sign them, to say “when you get a message from Key 1234, it really comes from Madge Weinstein”. There’s no easy way of making this system simpler than it is, unfortunately. There are some good tools for OS X though.
In Chicago, there are key signing events.
Here in the UK, the government have put out a law that allows the government to demand your e-mail and encryption keys. If I ever release a revocation certificate that is not accompanied with a reason, it is because I am not legally allowed to explain why. I’d suggest adopting this kind of policy.
Although this stuff is quite geeky, the crypto community all realise the huge threat posed by governments like that of Mr. Bush’s making. It costs nothing but an hour or so of time to make a step towards opting out of NSA wiretapping (etc.) by technical means. On the Mac, there are clients available for all the major mail systems – Mail.app, Thunderbird, Entourage and Firefox (Gmail).
Okay, lecture over.
thanks for that, I spent an entire evening catching up on yeast/insane/eclecticNB after my vacation, got inspired and put some stuff in a blender.
Care to comment?