Just saw Micky Metts speach "How can we prevent the Orwellian 1984 digital world?" held at #libreplanet2019 : https://u.fsf.org/lp192

Both slide PDF and source code are now online for my #LibrePlanet2019 talk "Computational Symbiosis: Methods That Meld Mind and Machine":

https://mikegerwitz.com/talks#cs4m

This year, I tried to commit much more frequently than in past years (see Git history) to demonstrate how I use Org mode to track the progress of sections of my talk and outline the work I need to do. I'll write about it some time.

As an errata of sorts to my #LibrePlanet2019 talk---I think I said "GNU/Linux running on the proprietary Windows kernel", when Linux isn't involved---it's GNU/kWindows. Microsoft wrote a compatibility layer that translates Linux syscalls, so programs compiled _for_ GNU/Linux run atop of the Windows kernel. See https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/gnu-kwindows for more information.

I also forgot to mention for the 2FA password manager example that storing long-term secrets using asymmetric ciphers isn't a good idea; you should use symmetric keys for that. Fortunately, pass{words,phrases} (as I demonstrated in the talk) aren't long-term secrets---they're easily changed. But you can easily do _both_ asymmetric for 2FA with a smartcard and symmetric by adding another GPG invocation to the pipeline.

More to come (including repository of the source code for the slides, as well as notes) within the next day or so. Slides are at https://mikegerwitz.com/talks/cs4m.pdf. Thanks to all those who attended and watched online. Feedback/criticism welcome. I simplified my talk a lot in case the audience wasn't technical but I also didn't want to simplify it too much in case the audience was full of hackers. The intent was to just provide some exposure to the concepts for further research by attendees.

It was a pleasure meeting everyone again at #LibrePlanet2019. I hope to see you all again next year!

hanging out with the team after #libreplanet2019 sending SMS on the Librem 5 devkit #devkitSunday #LibremLife

Thank you @fsf ! Thank you everyone for making #libreplanet so special ! #libreplanet2019 EOF

Red line was a mess so I missed the keynote, but I'm here! #libreplanet #libreplanet2019

Since I'm on hotel Wifi, a reminder to travelers: consider using a VPN or Tor. I use the latter, both for my web browsing and for SSH to my home server, for privacy reasons.

It's not just about data collection on guests by the hotel or network operator---some networks, like my hotel, aren't even encrypted, so any non-encrypted traffic can be sniffed. There's a lot of metadata that can be sniffed even from encrypted connections, including domains that you're accessing, and traffic analysis can get a pretty good idea of what it is you're looking at depending on the sites you're visiting. So any guest or anyone else within range (or any users of long-range antennas, even) could sniff data from guest connections.

Be safe!

#LibrePlanet2019 #privacy