[HacktionLab] HacktionLab Digest, Vol 27, Issue 6

Sat Jul 24 22:02:26 BST 2010

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Hi,

There is a serious error in the methodology outlined in the link:

http://tiny.booki.cc/?FCZr

which appears on

http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists/hiding-stuff-on-your-computer/

By only encrypting your home partition and not swap as well you
potentially expose sensitive information in plain text, including passwords!

As root, run the following on a linux system with a non encrypted swap
partition.

grep -a yourpasswordhere /dev/sda2

replace yourpasswordhere with a password you use for a user etc. on your
system. Replace /dev/sda2 with your swap device.

You can find swap by running (as root)

fdisk -l

The Id will be 82.

I tried this on Debian squeeze and could see user passwords etc.

Why not just use the debian or ununtu installer to encrypt home and swap
using dm-crypt during installation. The debian installer won't even
entertain encrypting a partition unless swap is also encrypted.

Solidarity,
John

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>    2. Re: finished proofreading - now need further help was: Tech
>       Tools for Activists book (Mike Harris)
>    3. Re: finished proofreading - now need further help was: Tech
>       Tools for Activists book (Mara)
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> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:52:26 +0100
> From: Mike Harris <mike at mbharris.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] finished proofreading - now need further
> 	help was: Tech Tools for Activists book
> To: ana <anap at riseup.net>
> Cc: hacktionlab at lists.psand.net
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> Great work Ana
>> I have made the amendments I thought, like putting full words to the few
>> acronyms that didn't have them, substituted some "n't"s with full
>> "not"s, indicated in which chapter more info could be found instead of
>> just "elsewhere" ...
>>   
> I agree with that, generally in writing it's better not to use the
> contracted forms.  I spot that there's still some instances of things
> like won't and can't.  May be we should replace all of them, to be
> stylistically consistent?
> 
> 
> Mike.
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:01:50 +0100
> From: Mike Harris <mike at mbharris.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] finished proofreading - now need further
> 	help was: Tech Tools for Activists book
> To: ana <anap at riseup.net>
> Cc: hacktionlab at lists.psand.net
> Message-ID: <4C4A9DEE.9030309 at mbharris.co.uk>
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> 
> Hi again,
> 
> This is great, it seems like we have finally arrived!
> 
> The next Climate Camp in August seems to me like a good date to aim for
> to have it ready to distribute it there.
> 
> I propose then that we at least get a run printed by Oxford Green Print
> (as we discussed at the April meeting in Oxford) and ferried up to
> climate camp.  I can organise the printing and probably getting them up
> there.
> 
> Artwork-wise, perhaps I propose asking Tony to do something simple based
> around the style used for this year's BarnCamp flyers?  I think it would
> be nice, though not essential, to have a photo for every article.
> 
> We've got some funds to get the first couple of runs going.  I can get a
> quote off Green Print to use as a yardstick for others to get local
> quotes as well...
> 
> what reckon ye?
> 
> Mike.
> 
> Mike Harris
> w: http://mbharris.co.uk
> t: +44 7811 671 893
> 
> 
> 
> ana wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> I have now read the booki twice. Thanks so much to every one who have
>> made it possible , it shows it is well thought and articulated, I'd said
>> brilliant indeed - apart from a few small things ;)
>>
>> I have made the amendments I thought, like putting full words to the few
>> acronyms that didn't have them, substituted some "n't"s with full
>> "not"s, indicated in which chapter more info could be found instead of
>> just "elsewhere" ...
>>
>> There are a few small things I feel could be further improved, but for
>> which I need your help.
>>
>> ---- In the chapter about uploading your media:
>>
>> "Indymedia.org.uk allows you to upload video files anonymously but you
>> don't get a streaming video player or an RSS feed."
>>
>> but you do get this in various local sites don't you? do we not want to
>> include this? or mention the drupal capabilities, now that the drupal
>> aggregator is going to be deployed soon?
>>
>> http://www.booki.cc/tech-tools-for-activists
>>
>> ---- In the chapter on How to get pages removed from Google Cache
>>
>> this phrase is gramatically incorrect and can not be understood:
>> "In this case, only the URL is needed. This process was repeated for the
>> http:// and https:// pages, but it is if this is necessary. "
>>
>> I'd just write:
>> "you need to repeat the process for the same urls, but writing "https"
>> instead of "http" at the beginning"
>> but the original phrase doesn't make it clear to me if i would be
>> correct so I need help.
>>
>> ---- In the chapter Free as in Freedom, I have a minor problem with this
>> phrase:
>>
>> There has never been a major virus outbreak on GNU/Linux,
>>
>> when has there been a minor one?
>>
>> I think we could say that "there has never been a virus outbreak", or at
>> least that "virus outbreaks are unheard of" on gnu linux.
>>
>>
>> ---- Further down the same chapter, this para,
>>
>> "What are the prospects and strategies for keeping the benefits of free
>> software in an age of collaboration mediated by software services? One
>> strategy, argued for in "The equivalent of free software for online
>> services" by Kragen Sitaker (see <
>> http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2006-July/000818.html>),
>> is that centralised services need to be re-implemented as peer-to-peer
>> services that can run on computers as free software under users'
>> control. This is an extremely interesting strategy, but a very long term
>> one, for it is both a computer science challenge and a social one. "
>>
>> I find a bit irrelevant for people not involved in developing software.
>> I almost was put off from going on reading myself. Which would be a pity
>> because the simil with restaurants and friends' houses is very valid.
>>
>> --- In the same chapter, in this phrase:
>> "namely to ensure that people retain democratically self-managed control
>> over their own information infrastructure"
>>
>> is the word "democratically" important? i would take it out for redundant.
>>
>> Thanks for all the work again, and for any help/opinion/vision you can
>> give me now.
>>
>> ana
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:51:21 +0100
> From: Mara <mara at aktivix.org>
> Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] finished proofreading - now need further
> 	help was: Tech Tools for Activists book
> To: hacktionlab at lists.psand.net
> Message-ID: <4C4AC5A9.60102 at aktivix.org>
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> 
> On 24/07/2010 09:01, Mike Harris wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> This is great, it seems like we have finally arrived!
>>
>> The next Climate Camp in August seems to me like a good date to aim for
>> to have it ready to distribute it there.
> 
> That sounds good. Maybe we can also try and have a UK wide day of events
> (gpg workshops, linux install sessions, talks, film screenings...) in as
> many places as possible as a launch day? Through advertising the events
> people will hear about the booklet, and gain some practical skills as
> well. I'm sure we could do something in London, anyone else up for
> organising an event? Plus we could try and get some donations in that
> can go towards the printing.
> 
> Mara
> 
>> I propose then that we at least get a run printed by Oxford Green Print
>> (as we discussed at the April meeting in Oxford) and ferried up to
>> climate camp.  I can organise the printing and probably getting them up
>> there.
>>
>> Artwork-wise, perhaps I propose asking Tony to do something simple based
>> around the style used for this year's BarnCamp flyers?  I think it would
>> be nice, though not essential, to have a photo for every article.
>>
>> We've got some funds to get the first couple of runs going.  I can get a
>> quote off Green Print to use as a yardstick for others to get local
>> quotes as well...
>>
>> what reckon ye?
>>
>> Mike.
>>
>> Mike Harris
>> w: http://mbharris.co.uk
>> t: +44 7811 671 893
> 
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