The sun was setting and a cool breeze was picking up as grey clouds billowed behind the mountains along Hanalei Bay. I had spent most of the day wrangling content, markup, and CSS, and the Pacific was calling. There was still plenty of work to be done, but balance is important, and my mind needed to reset. Winter Break Of Code Day Seventeen In this life nearly every relationship we create and maintain is built upon expectations.
These expectations extend beyond the individual, past the family, and onto society. Naked on 28 Jan I meditated on two syllables, allowing my breath and heartbeat to synchronize, and I too became a part of the show.
They Live moxie0 on 27 Jan In the film, a drifter named John Nada discovers a box of sunglasses that, when worn, allows the wearer to really see the world around him.
For instance, when wearing the glasses, simple advertisements for consumer products are revealed as something other than what they appear. Real World Kauai A guest post by kmonkeyjam on 26 Jan While many people questioned my choice to spend my winter vacation writing code, I was excited for the opportunity to spend a week hanging out with an eclectic group of people while doing two of my favorite things: coding and surfing.
There's no you in srveillance jlund on 25 Jan Winter Break Of Code Day Thirteen My ten-year-old mind was completely blown when I realized that I could eavesdrop on the walkie-talkie conversations of the other kids in my neighborhood. I rode my bike to the library in stunned silence, found a book about codes and puzzles, and raced home to my computer.
BAS , and wrote a Caesar cipher implementation that worked in both directions. That ended up being the easy part. Mahalo joyceyan on 24 Jan Once we actually got to the dive site I realized I had no clue what I signed up for.
It took some time and a fair amount of patience from my dive instructor before I even made it underwater. Instead of feeling disoriented by being underwater, it began to feel natural to swim among tropical fish and sea turtles. Aloha But Not A guest post by jackflips on 23 Jan How did you come to love humans so much? But it was on this trip I realized my answer needs a little probing. The pool on the roof must have a leak rileyjshaw on 21 Jan Today we discussed the finer points of the axolotl protocol used by TextSecure.
Today we wrote copy, polished features, closed bugs, and merged pull requests. Measured by lines of code, today was short. Measured by steps taken, it was tall. Measured by ideas discussed, things learned, and sights seen, it was towering. Encryption, encryption everywhere A guest post by jessysaurusrex on 20 Jan A curve by any other name liliakai on 19 Jan Discussion and debate flourished.
Conversations ranged over all parts of every project. Words spoken aloud may have outnumbered lines of code shipped. The entire team was fully engaged and people nearly had to be dragged out of the house for an afternoon hike to the top of the ridge.
We learned about fields and curves and groups, of basepoints and cofactors, secrets and signatures. Questions abounded and Trevor delivered the answers, one after another, albeit with enough handwaving that I thought he might lift off and fly himself back to the mainland.
However, there was one question that even he could not answer: Why are they called elliptic curves? From Weierstrass to Montgomery to Edwards formats, these geometric objects that form the essential mathematical underpinnings of many modern crypto systems are not defined by ellipses, nor do they resemble ellipses. Not even for very stretchy definitions of an ellipse. There is no immediately obvious connection. So why do we call them that?
As usual, to understand the universe, we must first bake an apple pie from scratch. Or at least pretend to. The View From here trevp on 18 Jan Surrendering to the Potential of Constraints abolishme on 17 Jan Winter Break Of Code, Day 5 The prophetic discourse of the Karai can be summed up in an observation and a promise: on the one hand, they constantly affirmed the fundamentally evil character of the world, on the other, they insisted that conquest of a good world was possible.
The world is ugly! The initial idea was to institute a horizontal decision-making system. A methodology that could define and populate thousands of roles for the collaborative administration of social order: ministers of industry, pedagogy, natural resources, foreign relations, internal affairs, communications, and so on.
It was a form of governance intended to gradually flatten a hierarchy that the early industrial revolution had exaggerated.
Certain senior members of the Nomenklatura had the privilege to appoint new members, and maintain long lists of qualified candidates. New members, now obliged from a favor, formed allegiances to their patrons.
Patrons themselves carried social debts to those who appointed them , and it went on like this up the stack into the inner circle. Speed ahead to our modern life. My social relations are all but completely virtualized. My list of friends and followers, contacts and matches, profiles and handles … all thrum wildly.
Apps are released every week which impose and constrain my lists into new formations, reconstructing my social life over and over. Building cooperative protocols and APIs and apps and networks. Designing the interfaces and behaviors and experiences of everyone else. Teaching but sometimes refusing to learn, giving generously but sometimes taking without permission, anticipating what we want but often supposing what we want without asking. Designing our dismal fate. Slowly appointing their heirs by proximity.
As a publisher and designer, I count myself among this degenerate few and tread carefully whenever I manage to move or speak at all. Signal to Noise corbett on 16 Jan Winter Break Of Code Day 3 As it does every morning, the day started with Moxie singing the stand-up song, reminding us all and waking up the slackers that at 9am sharp we all get in a circle to discuss what we accomplished the day before and what our priorities are for the coming day.
Star Quality elchao96 on 14 Jan My application was pretty last-minute, completed when I was in a state of droopiness and scholarship-application-hyperdrive. But I got on a plane from the Midwest, went from cloudy, 20 degrees with windchill making it feel like 0 to sunny, 77 degrees with mild winds making it feel still 77 degrees. If you see a bug in the code, it's probably dying A guest post by turtlekiosk on 13 Jan Winter Break Of Code Day 1 I woke up this morning feeling like this routine was normal, instead of implausible.
Two days ago, I was in New York City, riding the train with millions of other commuters in the freezing snow. Today, I went surfing on a beach in beautiful Kauai. In the same absurd fashion, I shared meals, stories, and workspaces with people, who days earlier, I had only read about and admired from afar.
The promises of the Winter Break of Code seem impossible: a vacation in paradise, large milestones of work to be met, a welcoming space with talented companions. But when Moxie came into the bedroom this morning strumming his ukulele to wake us for the daily morning stand-up, up we were, ready to claim the small victories in the browser extension project, the Signal iOS client, and the Android applications from the day prior and to lay out plans to further the state of user-friendly secure communication tools.
Winter Of Code Lineup moxie0 on 16 Dec Every year when we do this kind of call for proposals , our experience from past events sets our expectations higher.
Even with really high expectations this time around, we were blown away by the number of high-quality proposals we received for this winter. The lineup for this January is set to be really great: Read more Winter Of Code moxie0 on 20 Oct Winter Break Of Code is an opportunity for designers, developers, writers, strategists, and creative thinkers interested in privacy and security to spend some time contributing to privacy-related projects in a retreat-like setting with other co-conspirators.
Think of it as an extended hackathon, but with your travel expenses paid, and with breaks for surfing, hiking, swimming, and just generally being in Kauai. At Open Whisper Systems, we want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication tools that are as easy and reliable to use as making a normal phone call or sending a normal text message. At Open Whisper Systems, we believe users should have both privacy and powerful services.
Your contacts and calendars belong to you. So does your privacy. Flock makes it possible to have both. Private Group Messaging moxie0 on 05 May One of the major features we introduced in the TextSecure v2 release was private group chat. Winter Break of Code I banged the top of my foot surfing over some coral; the cuts were sealed within minutes.
On day zero nothing is easy, but over time you improve, spilling a little less blood every time. Moments to keep meskio on 12 Jan The house surrounded by palm trees, people with computers in every corner, laying down on a sofa, chatting on the balcony, and sitting down on the carpet. The value of our confidences abolishme on 11 Jan Winter Break of Code, Day Five Understanding digital privacy under capitalism If commodities could speak, they would say this: our use-value may interest men [sic], but it does not belong to us as objects.
What does belong to us as objects, however, is our value. Our own intercourse as commodities proves it. We relate to each other merely as exchange-values. Thus spake the commodity Marx saw modernity more acutely than most of his contemporaries, and provided a description of capitalism that remains, in my opinion, quite useful. However, we must be brave enough to attempt to understand his description of the relationship between commodity and value in the context of a world very different from Industrial Revolution-era Europe.
That is, one which includes the strange new primordial soup of the internet and capital. What would it say? A Whisper A guest post by corbett on 10 Jan People are chomping at the bit to use our software on iOS. Contribute code or coins. Design of Crypto A guest post by mkhandekar on 09 Jan We have two homes near the beach shared by 12 people. Concepts for future startups and tactics about self-publishing books are brewing, and conversations are lined with politics and activism.
Work sessions are focused on making cryptography usable in existing Android apps and soon-to-be-released iPhone apps. Better than cake A guest post by liliakai on 08 Jan Maybe it was because of my work in the previous months on tweaking the site layout to be responsive, or because bcrypt who is infinitely more qualified was too dedicated to her work at the EFF to take the time off, or because my birthday happened to fall on this week, but for one reason or another, the universe smiled, and here I am.
Roosters and a mountain of design A guest post by mcginty on 07 Jan Off the plane after a pitch-black descent, the humid fresh smell distinct to this place along with my feet landing on soil was a good hint that we were indeed on an island and this was actually happening. It was very welcome. Building a social network is not easy. For people to effectively use private communication software like TextSecure, they need to be able to know how to contact their friends using TextSecure.
An experiment in funding privacy OSS. For an OSS project, particularly one that aspires to a collective sense of ownership, handling donations is not always entirely straightforward.
Even if a project sets up a bank account, there are still only a few people who have access to the money itself, and distributing it appropriately can be hard to figure out. Which is true! WBoC Lineup moxie0 on 11 Dec After our wonderful experience with Spring Break Of Code , we were excited to try this again. Even with high expectations based on our experience in the Spring, the response was still better than what we could have hoped for.
The hundreds of high-quality proposals we received were really inspiring, and we hope that one day we can get a space large enough for all of the amazing people who are passionate about the development of privacy-enhancing technology. We think the final lineup of those attending in January is going to be great: Read more We want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication methods that are as easy and reliable to use as making a normal phone call or sending a normal text message.
Their rapid growth is beginning to rival Microsoft for the third-largest smartphone OS distribution. As of today, the TextSecure protocol will begin shipping as part of the CyanogenMod OS-level SMS provider, in an effort to provide completely transparent end-to-end text message encryption between all of their users.
Advanced cryptographic ratcheting moxie0 on 26 Nov Winter Break Of Code moxie0 on 23 Oct Our projects are free, Open Source, and tend to be oriented around the mobile environment. While there, you can split your time between island living and working on an Open Whisper Systems-related privacy project that you propose.
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