From james at jamespurser.com.au Tue Mar 1 02:56:32 2016 From: james at jamespurser.com.au (james at jamespurser.com.au) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:56:32 +0300 Subject: [Linux-aus] Fw: new message Message-ID: <00009f8a7ae4$313da1a1$5d5aae7a$@jamespurser.com.au> Hey! Open message james at jamespurser.com.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From russell at coker.com.au Wed Mar 2 00:23:32 2016 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 00:23:32 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] SPF problems too In-Reply-To: References: <201601150311.36115.russell@coker.com.au> <201601170623.14304.russell@coker.com.au> Message-ID: <201603020023.32690.russell@coker.com.au> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 06:36:08 PM David Bell wrote: > Because I'm finally making an attempt to catch up on email I thought I'd > share my perspective as a moderator/admin of the mailing lists for LCA2016 > (and lca-announce) as well as a user of mailhost for normal email. > > Following this thread the admin team disabled greylisting and SPF on > mailhost which affects mail flow into LA's mailing lists (including LCA) > and the various inboxes used by Council, the Admin Team, and the LCA team > (among others). Whilst mail was delivered slightly quicker, the quantity of > spam also increased notably. Wouldn't it make more sense to have greylisting running on the addresses that aren't for subscriber-only lists? When a list only allows subscribers to post it won't benefit from greylisting. Regarding SPF, what needed to be done is to have the address published for the council not point to a system that forwarded mail without SRS to a server that enforces SPF checks. > Based on these experiences (which I'd expect the other mailman > moderators/admins, mailhost users would echo) I'd recommend the Admin Team > enable greylisting and SPF once again. If configured well (as I believe it > was previously) most users should barely notice a delay as repeat senders > do not get greylisted again within certain time frames. There was never any serious complaint about greylisting. Complaints about it came as a side effect of the list queuing issue that was delaying mail, greylisting got blamed for what was mostly not related to it. SPF was never configured well. When a server receives mail from a basic forwarding system that doesn't do SRS it has to be configured to whitelist that server. The fact that I can now send mail to the advertised address for the council without it bouncing is an improvement. But it would be better if SPF was configured correctly. We currently have a problem of needless spam with James Purser's address in the From: field which can be simply fixed by enforcing SPF. While that spam is a small portion of the spam that everyone here receives it's something that can be simply solved. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From steve at nerdvana.org.au Wed Mar 2 01:23:22 2016 From: steve at nerdvana.org.au (Steve Walsh) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:23:22 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] SPF problems too In-Reply-To: <201603020023.32690.russell@coker.com.au> References: <201601150311.36115.russell@coker.com.au> <201601170623.14304.russell@coker.com.au> <201603020023.32690.russell@coker.com.au> Message-ID: <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> Hello Russell On 03/02/2016 12:23 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > Wouldn't it make more sense to have greylisting running on the addresses that > aren't for subscriber-only lists? When a list only allows subscribers to post > it won't benefit from greylisting. Taking an example transaction from wikipedia (it's on the internet, it must be true, right?); 1: 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP Postfix 2: HELO relay.example.org 3: 250 Hello relay.example.org, I am glad to meet you 4: MAIL FROM: 5: 250 Ok 6: RCPT TO: 7: 250 Ok 8: RCPT TO: 9: 250 Ok At the moment, postgrey kicks in at line 4. Are you suggesting we (somehow) reconfigure postgrey to start later in the conversation, say around line 6 or 8? I've spent the last several months trying various modifications on "how to make greylist apply to the receiving domain and not the sender domain", and have not been able to find a way to make greylisting, a sender deferring technology, function at a per-recipient domain level. Short of writing our own version of the SMTP standard, we're just plain stumped on how we can make this happen. Can you perhaps share a link to a page with instructions on how to make postgrey wait longer in the conversation, and to defer at the recipient domain level, rather than at the first identifying stage of the SMTP transaction like it currently does? Or, alternatively, are you suggesting that LA runs multiple mail servers for each type of service we currently consolidate down to one machine, such as lists, general mail, RT instances, conferences, etc, and only configure greylisting on the instances that really critically need it? regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From noel.butler at ausics.net Wed Mar 2 08:21:00 2016 From: noel.butler at ausics.net (Noel Butler) Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 07:21:00 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] SPF problems too In-Reply-To: <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> References: <201601150311.36115.russell@coker.com.au> <201601170623.14304.russell@coker.com.au> <201603020023.32690.russell@coker.com.au> <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> Message-ID: On 02/03/2016 00:23, Steve Walsh wrote: > Hello Russell > > On 03/02/2016 12:23 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > >> Wouldn't it make more sense to have greylisting running on the addresses that >> aren't for subscriber-only lists? When a list only allows subscribers to post >> it won't benefit from greylisting. > > Taking an example transaction from wikipedia (it's on the internet, it must be true, right?); > > 1: 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP Postfix > 2: HELO relay.example.org > 3: 250 Hello relay.example.org, I am glad to meet you > 4: MAIL FROM: > 5: 250 Ok > 6: RCPT TO: > 7: 250 Ok > 8: RCPT TO: > 9: 250 Ok > > > At the moment, postgrey kicks in at line 4. Are you suggesting we (somehow) reconfigure postgrey to start later in the conversation, say around line 6 or 8? > > I've spent the last several months trying various modifications on "how to make greylist apply to the receiving domain and not the sender domain", and have not been able to find a way to make greylisting, a sender deferring technology, function at a per-recipient domain level. > > Short of writing our own version of the SMTP standard, we're just plain stumped on how we can make this happen. Can you perhaps share a link to a page with instructions on how to make postgrey wait longer in the conversation, and to defer at the recipient domain level, rather than at the first identifying stage of the SMTP transaction like it currently does? > > Or, alternatively, are you suggesting that LA runs multiple mail servers for each type of service we currently consolidate down to one machine, such as lists, general mail, RT instances, conferences, etc, and only configure greylisting on the instances that really critically need it? > > regards > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus We've found greylisting is waste of time these days, as Russ points out, all it does it delay legit mail, their connection has to hit anyway, so better to rely on better configurations... smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_unknown_recipient_domain permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination ... reject_unknown_client_hostname reject_unknown_helo_hostname reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_unlisted_recipient reject_unlisted_sender reject_rbl_client f.oo.bar .... check_policy_service unix:private/spfpolicy ..and of course setup amavis with spamassassin etc to catch those that do venture through. and use the KISS principle with all your mail, not doing so, only asks for problems (its why we at xyz pissed of a large SAN with cluster FS's and replaced it with good 'ol NAS (NFS), been no outages since.) -- If you have the urge to reply to all rather than reply to list, you best first read http://members.ausics.net/qwerty/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From russell at coker.com.au Wed Mar 2 11:26:40 2016 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 11:26:40 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] SPF problems too In-Reply-To: <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> References: <201601150311.36115.russell@coker.com.au> <201603020023.32690.russell@coker.com.au> <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> Message-ID: <201603021126.40568.russell@coker.com.au> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:23:22 AM Steve Walsh wrote: > Short of writing our own version of the SMTP standard, we're just plain > stumped on how we can make this happen. Can you perhaps share a link to On the 16th of January I sent a URL describing how to do this to the list. Did you try the method menioned in that URL? If so how did it fail? On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 12:10:39 AM Russell Coker wrote: > https://rimuhosting.com/knowledgebase/linux/mail/greylisting%20with%20postg > rey > > It is possible to have greylisting for some accounts, the above is one of > the first Google hits for "greylisting per user". I might do something > like this for the LUV server as it will soon be hosting IMAP accounts as > well as mailing lists. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From russell at coker.com.au Wed Mar 2 13:18:23 2016 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:18:23 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] SPF problems too In-Reply-To: References: <201601150311.36115.russell@coker.com.au> <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> Message-ID: <201603021318.23278.russell@coker.com.au> On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 08:21:00 AM Noel Butler wrote: > We've found greylisting is waste of time these days, as Russ points out, > all it does it delay legit mail, their connection has to hit anyway, so > better to rely on better configurations... Steve Walsh and David Bell have stated that the amount of spam getting through has increased since greylisting was disabled. I never claimed that greylisting is a waste of time, I use it on my own mail server! But it doesn't seem to provide any benefit for a closed list (IE one that only members can post to) if the server also ensures that mail isn't forger. So if SPF was correctly implemented to stop the forged mail from James Purser then greylisting wouldn't be needed for the lists. But greylisting would still be good for all the other addresses. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From steve at nerdvana.org.au Fri Mar 4 16:06:23 2016 From: steve at nerdvana.org.au (Steve Walsh) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 16:06:23 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] SPF problems too In-Reply-To: <201603021126.40568.russell@coker.com.au> References: <201601150311.36115.russell@coker.com.au> <201603020023.32690.russell@coker.com.au> <56D5A5DA.1020800@nerdvana.org.au> <201603021126.40568.russell@coker.com.au> Message-ID: <56D917CF.10607@nerdvana.org.au> Hello Russell On 03/02/2016 11:26 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 01:23:22 AM Steve Walsh wrote: >> Short of writing our own version of the SMTP standard, we're just plain >> stumped on how we can make this happen. Can you perhaps share a link to > On the 16th of January I sent a URL describing how to do this to the list. > Did you try the method menioned in that URL? If so how did it fail? It's a great solution where you have a single domain and you only want some people to have greylisting, but individually confirming every email address on every domain on each domain that LA and it's committees and sub-committees uses, as to whether or not that single address needs greylisting, will not in any way reduce the workload on an already overloaded team, and will even contribute to increasing the workload on other committees, etc. It's worth nothing what the reporting delay in mail to the lists was in no way anything to do with greylisting, but was, infact, a legacy configuration option in the mailman qrunner configuration, that once removed, say mail handled in less than 60 seconds, as opposed to the previous 60 minutes. We're currently planning to re-enable greylisting (which combined with SPF does do wonders to reduce the amount of absolute crap that comes in on port 25), and whitelist domains for regular posters to the list, which we feel is a suitable compromise to maintain the operation of the systems that are in place, whilst continuing to meet the wants of the community. regards -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference aims to bring together the individual talents of the best and brightest security folk in the region, through live presentations, activities and demonstrations. The conference is held over two days in a relaxed atmosphere, allowing attendees to enjoy themselves whilst networking within the community and expanding their knowledge of security. Live presentations and activities will cover a full range of defensive and offensive security topics, varying from previously unpublished research to required reading for the security community. .[x]. Important Dates .[x]. June 30 - Call For Presentations Close October 17-21 - Ruxcon Training October 22-23 - Ruxcon Conference .[x]. Topic Scope .[x]. o Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o Mobile Device Security o Virtualization, Hypervisor, and Cloud Security o Malware Analysis o Reverse Engineering o Exploitation Techniques o Rootkit Development o Code Analysis o Forensics and Anti-Forensics o Embedded Device Security o Web Application Security o Network Traffic Analysis o Wireless Network Security o Cryptography and Cryptanalysis o Social Engineering o Law Enforcement Activities o Telecommunications Security (SS7, 3G/4G, GSM, VOIP, etc) .[x]. Submission Guidelines .[x]. In order for us to process your submission we require the following information: 1. Presentation title 2. Detailed summary of your presentation material 3. Name/Nickname 4. Mobile phone number 5. Brief personal biography 6. Description of any demonstrations involved in the presentation 7. 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Kind regards, Kathy -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [SFD-announce] News for 2016, DFD, HFD and more Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:41:06 +0700 From: Frederic Muller - DFF Reply-To: sfd-discuss at sf-day.org To: sfd-announce at sf-day.org Dear all, As a few (many?) of you have seen, our servers got hacked during Christmas and we've been not very fast at getting everything back online. In the meantime we have been handed over the management of Document Freedom Day (DFD) and the FSFE is still hosting the system. It has taken us a bit of time to get familiar with the way events registration is being handled (and events appear...). I believe we're finally ready! So DFD is happening on March 30th this year, being the last Wednesday of March but as usual the date you chose is really what works best for you. Currently we have events planned from March 16 to April 8, with 17 events registered and visible at http://documentfreedom.org/events/events.en.html The website has been updated to a minimum to reflect 2016 changes. Artworks design is available on FSFE git server at https://gitorious.org/document_freedom_day/artwork?p=document_freedom_day:artwork.git;a=tree Next event planned for 2016 is Hardware Freedom Day which after a community consultation will happen on April 9th (2nd Saturday of the month). It seemed to be the best date for most of interested participant, so that's what we'll use this year. We still need to put the website, the wiki and the registration scripts back online, something which should happen this week or the next. The leftover is Education Freedom Day which obviously can't happen on March 23rd this year for a few reasons. We would be interested to know what date works best for you, and will run a poll as we did for HFD. And last but not least, Software Freedom Day will happen on September 17th this year. We will come back to this later but are planning to run a T-shirt design competition, and hopefully will be able to ship T-shirt this year. Thank you very much for your patience and let wish ourselves the best in promoting Software, Hardware, Document and Education Freedom! Frederic Muller Digital Freedom Foundation _______________________________________________ SFD-announce mailing list SFD-announce at sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikegardener at operamail.com Tue Mar 15 21:25:34 2016 From: mikegardener at operamail.com (mike) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 05:25:34 -0500 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux On Optus Wireless Message-ID: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hello Linux Folks... Would anyone PLEASE help with advice... Which Linux Programs will operate on Optus Wireless Broadband in Australia ?? I have tried a couple of packages with no success yet and am missing using Linux and annoyed by using windows Thanks a million ! Mike The Gardener Ph~ 0410 296 297 -- http://www.fastmail.com - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service From noel.butler at ausics.net Tue Mar 15 22:05:32 2016 From: noel.butler at ausics.net (Noel Butler) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:05:32 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux On Optus Wireless In-Reply-To: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <997748a7553454f5d713d3dfc340c5ce@ausics.net> On 15/03/2016 20:25, mike wrote: > Hello Linux Folks... > Would anyone PLEASE help with advice... Which Linux Programs will > operate on Optus Wireless Broadband in Australia ?? > I have tried a couple of packages with no success yet and am missing > using Linux and annoyed by using windows > Thanks a million ! > Mike The Gardener > Ph~ 0410 296 297 wvdial -- If you have the urge to reply to all rather than reply to list, you best first read http://members.ausics.net/qwerty/ From robyn at robynspcs.com Tue Mar 15 23:09:45 2016 From: robyn at robynspcs.com (Robyn Willison) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:39:45 +1030 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux On Optus Wireless In-Reply-To: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <56E7FB89.9030700@robynspcs.com> usbmodeswitch is the program needed to get the unit to operate. On 15/03/2016 8:55 PM, mike wrote: > Hello Linux Folks... > Would anyone PLEASE help with advice... Which Linux Programs will > operate on Optus Wireless Broadband in Australia ?? > I have tried a couple of packages with no success yet and am missing > using Linux and annoyed by using windows > Thanks a million ! > Mike The Gardener > Ph~ 0410 296 297 > From jsbragg at scriptforge.org Wed Mar 16 11:19:03 2016 From: jsbragg at scriptforge.org (Scott Bragg) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 11:19:03 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux On Optus Wireless In-Reply-To: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: Hi Mike, I recently switched my Netgear router for a small Ubuntu Linux box and newer model 3G dongle. It's operating on the Virgin Mobile network but since that uses the Optus network it should be quite similar. I ended up using wvdial on Ubuntu, putting the config in my /etc/network/interfaces using tips found on this page: https://gist.github.com/ziogaschr/6457f57f1fac5293215d However, I also note that if you are using it with a 3G/4G dongle, you need to make sure the dongle is supported in the usbmodeswitch-data package so it is detected properly by the kernel and sets up the appropriate /dev/ttyUSBx entries. In my case I went to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch-data/+changelog and checked that support had been added for my dongle. There's also these two scripts that could work for you as well: Saki's 3G Script: http://www.sakis3g.com/ UMTSkeeper (includes Saki's script but has more features such as keepalive pinging): http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/ I hope some of those tips help. Here is my /etc/wvdial.conf file you might be able to adapt: [Dialer Defaults] Phone = Username = Password = New PPPD = yes [Dialer virginbroadband] Modem Type = Analog Modem Phone = *99# ISDN = 0 Baud = 460800 Username = "guest" Password = "guest" Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 Init1 = ATZ Init2 = at+cgdcont=1,"ip","virginbroadband" Stupid Mode = 1 On 2016-03-15 21:25, mike wrote: > Hello Linux Folks... > Would anyone PLEASE help with advice... Which Linux Programs will > operate on Optus Wireless Broadband in Australia ?? > I have tried a couple of packages with no success yet and am missing > using Linux and annoyed by using windows > Thanks a million ! > Mike The Gardener > Ph~ 0410 296 297 -- -- Scott Bragg From mikegardener at operamail.com Wed Mar 16 13:27:04 2016 From: mikegardener at operamail.com (mike) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:27:04 -0500 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux On Optus Wireless In-Reply-To: References: <1458037534.3261431.549571914.6AC8C8E0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <1458095224.4097798.550430242.1CD5E1CE@webmail.messagingengine.com> Hey Thank you HEAPS for the advice and your time in replying to me ! Much Appreciated ! Mike The Gardener Ph~ 0410 296 297 On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, at 07:19 PM, Scott Bragg wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I recently switched my Netgear router for a small Ubuntu Linux box and > newer model 3G dongle. It's operating on the Virgin Mobile network but > since that uses the Optus network it should be quite similar. > > I ended up using wvdial on Ubuntu, putting the config in my > /etc/network/interfaces using tips found on this page: > https://gist.github.com/ziogaschr/6457f57f1fac5293215d > > However, I also note that if you are using it with a 3G/4G dongle, you > need to make sure the dongle is supported in the usbmodeswitch-data > package so it is detected properly by the kernel and sets up the > appropriate /dev/ttyUSBx entries. In my case I went to > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usb-modeswitch-data/+changelog > and checked that support had been added for my dongle. > > There's also these two scripts that could work for you as well: > Saki's 3G Script: http://www.sakis3g.com/ > UMTSkeeper (includes Saki's script but has more features such as > keepalive pinging): > http://mintakaconciencia.net/squares/umtskeeper/ > > I hope some of those tips help. Here is my /etc/wvdial.conf file you > might be able to adapt: > > [Dialer Defaults] > Phone = > Username = > Password = > New PPPD = yes > > [Dialer virginbroadband] > Modem Type = Analog Modem > Phone = *99# > ISDN = 0 > Baud = 460800 > Username = "guest" > Password = "guest" > Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 > Init1 = ATZ > Init2 = at+cgdcont=1,"ip","virginbroadband" > Stupid Mode = 1 > > > > On 2016-03-15 21:25, mike wrote: > > Hello Linux Folks... > > Would anyone PLEASE help with advice... Which Linux Programs will > > operate on Optus Wireless Broadband in Australia ?? > > I have tried a couple of packages with no success yet and am missing > > using Linux and annoyed by using windows > > Thanks a million ! > > Mike The Gardener > > Ph~ 0410 296 297 > > -- > -- > Scott Bragg -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access your email from home and the web From kathy at kathyreid.id.au Thu Mar 17 02:55:15 2016 From: kathy at kathyreid.id.au (Kathy Reid) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 02:55:15 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Update from the Membership Team Message-ID: <56E981E3.9080101@kathyreid.id.au> Hi everyone, The Membership Team would like to provide an update on our activities to date. Firstly, we've brainstormed a number of use cases for a Membership platform, both so that we can better understand what an ideal system may look like, and also so that we can undertake traceability on any candidate platforms. We've met online once and have identified a number of actions to keep progressing, including; * Designing a user survey to better understand what our audiences need and want from both the public website and membership platform. * Writing further user stories around how LUGs may use the membership platform, and how we can integrate with conference tools such as ZooKeepr * Exploring some of the technical details around Drupal and CiviCRM to better understand the scope of what a Drupal/CiviCRM implementation would look like, and to understand what sort of supporting artefacts such as documentation, training and configuration would be required for a successful implementation, to further understand the implications and viability of pursuing this path. The next piece you can expect to hear from us on will be a request to undertake a user survey to explore how you currently use http://linux.org.au. As always, your questions, comments and queries are warmly welcomed. 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We're now requesting that you take 5 minutes out of your busy day (it's only 5 minutes - promise!) and let us know how you use linux.org.au, what's working with it and what can be improved; http://opinahq.com/app/c/67076 Your responses are completely anonymous. Unlike say, an upcoming nationwide census. But that's a different topic ;-) As always your questions, comments and feedback are warmly welcomed, With kind regards, Kathy Reid, Sae Ra Germaine, Cameron Tudball, Luke John, Joel Addison, Michael Cordover, Neill Cox The Membership Team [0] http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2016-March/022626.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From web at polynate.net Tue Mar 29 21:55:23 2016 From: web at polynate.net (Nathan Bailey) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:55:23 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Census data risks - retention and correlation of records (Was: Linux Australia Membership Team - Website Survey March 2016) Message-ID: On 29 March 2016 at 17:34, Kathy Reid wrote (in her website survey thread): > Your responses are completely anonymous. Unlike say, an upcoming > nationwide census. But that's a different topic ;-) Is this something we should respond to, in our broader role? It's not really an 'open' issue, it's kind of the opposite of data freedom in a sense, but it is about data privacy... I am quite unhappy about (a) the change in policy and (b) the lack of consultation in the change. For those who are unaware - the ABS now intend to retain your personal information (previously destroyed) *and* correlate it with other data. This change in policy was quietly announced in mid-December (Christmas season), and has only recently hit the news (see news.com.au article and ABC ). This despite: i) ABS already having a current example of leaked data which was *not* detected internally ii) DHS having 63 cases of data breaches in one year iii) SA police having 100 cases of data breach *each* year and, as a working example, the US census data already being hacked . How many websites, financial institutions, insurers and government agencies use your name, address and date of birth for security? That's all in the census, along with your earnings. An ABS census hack would be the most comprehensive identity theft of all time... It is just too risky to provide key personal information on every single Australian in a database that could be exploited by staff or hackers, and there really is no good reason to do so. The ABS should return to their previous policy of destroying personal identifying data and only retaining census data itself. -N PS: I responded to the LA website survey before responding to this email, so should you ;-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: