Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 14

I have been honored to be invited as a co-chair (together with Vasilis Ververis and Mario Isaakidis) for a Special Track called «Topics on Internet Censorship and Surveillance» (TICS), at the The Eighteenth International Conference on Networks, which will be held in Valencia, Spain, 2019.03.24–2019.03.28, and organized under IARIA’s name and umbrella. I am reproducing here the Call for Papers. Please do note that if you are interested in participating, the relevant dates are those publicized for the Special Track (submission by 2019.01.29; notification by 2019.02.18; registration and camera-ready by 2019.02.27), not those on ICN’s site. Over the past years...

It’s only two weeks to the beginning of the privacy and anonymity colloquium we will be celebrating at the Engineering Faculty of my University. Of course, it’s not by mere chance we are holding this colloquium starts just after the Tor Meeting, which will happen for the first time in Latin America (and in our city!) So, even though changes are still prone to happen, I am happy to announce the activity program for the colloquium! I know some people will ask, so — We don’t have the infrastructure to commit to having a video feed from it. We will,...

So, I hope this will help me go back to being more productive! I ended up buying a Lenovo Thinkpad SK-8845 keyboard. As it was mentioned by Martin, jelly and Marcos on my previous blog post (hey! This is one of the rare ocasions where I must say Thanks Lazyweb!), it is not a new model, but it seems to be in mint shape… Plus, I got it for only MX$745 (that is, ≈US$37), shipped to my office and all! My experiences so far? Mostly positive. Yes, I would prefer the trackpad to be a bit larger (it is approx...

Our university, among the largest in the world and among the most important in Latin America, had an unexpected and traumatic event last September 3rd: A group of students from one of the high schools our university operates, peacefully protesting, demanding mostly proper study conditions and better security for their area, were violently attacked by a large, organized group. Things are still very much in flux, and we have yet to see what this really meant, and what are its consequences. But in the meantime, I cannot but take as mine the following words, by Comité Cerezo. I am sorry...

After a long rant with a nice and most useful set of replies regarding my keyboard, yesterday I did the mistake –and I am sure it was the first times in five years– of touching my Power key. Of course, my computer (which I never shut down) obliged and proceeded to shut itself down, no questions asked – Of course, probably because I don’t use a desktopesque WM, so it exhibits the same behavior as the system’s actual power switch. I was limited to powerelessly watch it cleanly shut down… It didn’t make me very happy. That key should not...

As most of my readers, I am a heavy keyboard user. Most of my computer usage is mediated through the keyboard, not the mouse as it seems to be the norm nowadays (and don’t even get me started on touchscreens – When I talk about computers, I am not talking about phones. Ever.) In the past, I suffered a lot of upper back pain. It has thankfully improved, but in big part due to changes in the way I interface with the world. Again, if I do most of my work sitting and in front of my computer, being comfortable...

So… Everybody I’ve interacted with along the last couple of weeks knows I’m basically just too busy. If I’m not tied up with stuff regarding my privacy/anonymity project at the university, I am trying to get the DebConf scheduling, or trying to catch up with my perpetual enemy, mail backlog. Of course, there’s also my dayjob — Yes, it’s vacation time, but I’m a sysadmin, and it’s not like I want to give software updates much of a vacation! Of course, my family goes to Argentina for a couple of weeks while I go to DebConf, so there’s quite a...

Hi friends, Thanks to the work I have been carrying out with the “Derechos Digitales” NGO, I have received ten Raspberry Pi 3B computers, to help the growth of Tor nodes in Latin America. The nodes can be intermediate (relays) or exit nodes. Most of us will only be able to connect relays, but if you have the possibility to set up an exit node, that’s better than good! Both can be set up in any non-filtered Internet connection that gives a publicly reachable IP address. I have to note that, although we haven’t done a full ISP survey in...

Having followed through some paperwork I was still missing… I can finally say… Dates I’m going to DebCamp18! I should arrive at NCTU in the afternoon/evening of Tuesday, 2018-07-24. I will spend a day prior to that in Tokio, visiting a friend and probably making micro-tourism. My Agenda Of course, DebCamp is not a vacation, so we expect people that take part of DebCamp to have at least a rough sketch of activities. There are many, many things I want to tackle, and experience shows there’s only time for a fraction of what’s planned. But lets try: keyring-maint trainingWe want...

I started teaching at Facultad de Ingeniería, UNAM in January 2013. Back then, I was somewhat surprised (for good!) that the university required me to create a digital certificate for registering student grades at the end of the semester. The setup had some not-so-minor flaws (i.e. the private key was not generated at my computer but centrally, so there could be copies of it outside my control — Not only could, but I noted for a fact a copy was kept at the relevant office at my faculty, arguably to be able to timely help poor teachers if they lost...