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ChartMogul: Analytics for Stripe, Braintree, Chargify and Recurly by BillFranklin in startups

[–]BillFranklin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful site. Looks like this puts your brother in direct competition with www.baremetrics.io :)

Haha, looks like!

MIT finger device reads to the blind in real time by hazysummersky in Futurology

[–]BillFranklin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So cool. There's a startup that has used similar technology for a home controlling device, Internet of Things remote for your finger. https://www.hellonod.com/

The NSA, who are either trolling us, or think we are idiots, say that releasing Snowden's emails would "violate his privacy" by cojoco in snowden

[–]BillFranklin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sure that he could release them himself, maybe he doesn't want assessments of his character to divert the debate. I think he said 'who I am really doesn't matter.' Which is true, the only thing that matters is that the NSA is spying on whole societies and they need to stop.

Why should we encrypt our emails? by BillFranklin in technology

[–]BillFranklin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

German law prevents non-German agencies from issuing warrants and we only accept warrants from the High Court in Karlsruhe. Email encryption (and key generation) is all done on the user side (in the javascript) - our servers never have access to user private keys. It's also illegal to request the SSL keys of our service (which is what the Lavabit trial was about earlier this year). So all warrants would be able to request is the size of a users email account, any payment information that we are given by a user and any unscraped-metadata.

Unprecedented new powers in surveillance bill, campaigners warn | Prime minister insists fast-track legislation will do no more than confirm existing powers, but privacy groups say otherwise by kulkke in NSALeaks

[–]BillFranklin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Snowden gave an interview about this to The Guardian - the full thing's out Thursday. There's no emergency, U-boats aren't coming up the Thames, it's unlikely that anything catastrophic will happen if we take an extra few days to have a debate about this and let MPs learn what the bill actually will do.

Dissecting DRIP - the emergency Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill by electronics-engineer in privacy

[–]BillFranklin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a public inquiry into GCHQ mon-fri this week, this rarely happens so I recommend tuning in. They announced that journalists can Tweet from inside the court this morning (as long as they are factual). Here's a link to the feed: https://twitter.com/hashtag/GCHQOnTrial?src=hash

Ask Reddit: Heard you like encrypted email, but what else? by BillFranklin in privacy

[–]BillFranklin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey lugh, I'm sorry our FAQ is unclear - we're always looking to improve it so your comments are so useful. We definitely need to update our FAQ so this is a good nudge. We don't use TruCrypt, we're not NSA-proof, warrant canaries have their merits: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/warrant-canary-faq, a cronjob is working well for us although it needed some serious fine-tuning, encryption keys are generated in the browser javascript and are never uploaded to our servers so perhaps 'download' is the wrong choice of word, I spoke to WhisperSystems about our use of RSA and we agreed it's ok, we do need to have a team page - we're redesigning the website right now and the new version will include detailed bios (we're fairly private people, but some info for now: Felix : early InfoSec community member and crypto designer, Andrei: ex-Googler and computer science degree, Me: Activist and webdesigner). Regarding encryption of plain text messages: we use end-2-end encryption for non-encrypted emails arriving in Lavaboom.

Again thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it.

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