Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 23:33, philip.jack...@nordnet.fr said: > gpg: invalid item `BZIP2' in preference string BZIP2 support is optional. If the bzip2 package is not installed you won't have bzip2 support. You may want to "apt-get install libbz2-dev" or similar and rebuild gnupg. > I suppose gnup

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread dan
| > Is this not the core of the question? In a world of social media | > and sensor-driven everything, does not the very concept of private | > information fade, per se? I believe it does. | | No. Taking part in social networks and other media is a choice. One can | a) choose not to take

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread Jason Antony
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-08-27 15:02, Mark Rousell wrote: > No. Taking part in social networks and other media is a choice. One > can a) choose not to take part at all, or b) choose how one takes > part and what information one shares. What can't be controlled is w

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-27 Thread Philip Jackson
On 27/08/14 09:57, Werner Koch wrote: > > BZIP2 support is optional. If the bzip2 package is not installed you > won't have bzip2 support. You may want to "apt-get install libbz2-dev" > or similar and rebuild gnupg. > >> I suppose gnupg-1.4.16 and the new 2.0.26 share the same gpg.conf so I cou

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 06:46:13AM -0400, d...@geer.org wrote: > > | > Is this not the core of the question? In a world of social media > | > and sensor-driven everything, does not the very concept of private > | > information fade, per se? I believe it does. > | > | No. Taking part in soc

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread shm...@riseup.net
Mark Carousel wrote: > On 23/08/2014 11:16, d...@geer.org wrote: >> >> > On 2014-08-22 at 21:13, Rejo Zenger wrote: >> > >> > Open data and transparency should only be about what concerns everybody, >> > like government actions, trains schedule, etc. not private information. >> >> Is this no

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread shm...@riseup.net
Jason Antony wrote: > On 2014-08-27 15:02, Mark Rousell wrote: > >> No. Taking part in social networks and other media is a choice. One >> can a) choose not to take part at all, or b) choose how one takes >> part and what information one shares. > > What can't be controlled is when people who k

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I fully agree with you, which means that I see few ways to preserve > the liberty that privacy represents than to withdraw from much of > civil society while it shares ever more... I see a couple, but much like Dan, I'm not optimistic about them. The first is this: *stop talking about privacy*.

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:42, philip.jack...@nordnet.fr said: > My linux distribution already has libbz2-1.0 but it will be elsewhere in the > file structure and I haven't yet found out how to make use of it for my > installation of 2.0.26. As usual you need to install the development package for a

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 27 August 2014 at 5:15:09 PM, in , Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > I've run into self-styled privacy advocates here in the > U.S. who are furious over how the U.S. has been reading > their email. The only problem is there's very litt

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 27 August 2014 at 11:16:24 AM, in , Jason Antony wrote: > What can't be controlled is when people who know you > give out your personal details on social networks. > It could happen because they may not see anything wrong > with

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Is there really as much of a distinction as some would have us > believe? Yes, absolutely. If the problem is X and your advocacy loudly insists that Y is happening, then you're (a) not solving X (although Y might need fixing anyway), and (b) all the people you've persuaded to join your cause w

Re: installing gnupg-2.0.26

2014-08-27 Thread Philip Jackson
On 27/08/14 21:06, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:42, philip.jack...@nordnet.fr said: > >> My linux distribution already has libbz2-1.0 but it will be elsewhere in the >> file structure and I haven't yet found out how to make use of it for my >> installation of 2.0.26. > > As usual y

Public Key Algorithms - GnuPG 2.x lists fewer than GnuPG 1.x

2014-08-27 Thread MFPA
Hi I only just noticed that among the output of "gpg --version" I get different lists of supported public key algorithms between versions 1.4.16 and 2.0.26. 1.4.16: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA 2.0.26: RSA, ELG, DSA Is this actually a change in what is supported, or just how GnuPG reports it

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 27 August 2014 at 8:37:10 PM, in , Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Is there really as much of a distinction as some would >> have us believe? > Yes, absolutely. If the problem is X and your advocacy > loudly insists that Y is happen

Re: email verification as casual checking?

2014-08-27 Thread Steve Jones
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:56:11 +0200 Philip Jackson wrote: > - the email address belongs to a person who does control the key and > he may or may not be the person named in the email address. I am > risking my secrets with an unknown person. I had better take care of > the nature of those secrets

Re: Fwd: GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance and give us a way to fight back

2014-08-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> But there will be significant overlap between the dataset collected by > somebody harvesting content and the inferences about somebody's life > that could be drawn by somebody harvesting metadata. I had hoped the > quote from the EFF website would illustrate this. For some individuals, yes. For