..on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:31:25AM +0000, dan jones wrote: > > >> You may be aware that a previous event called CryptoParty was > >> organized during the OpenITP Tech Summit on 27th November. > >> However, the organizers required people to give their real ID in > >> order to participate, requirement that was considered as not > >> acceptable by a number of people, including people from the Tunis > >> hackerspace. > > > > It sucks that it turned out this way. I didn't want to at all, and > > I was looking forward to meeting Hackerspace TN folks, but I > > totally get why you were turned off by the name policy. I probably > > would be too in the same situation. > > Could someone explain why there was a name policy? I am having trouble > imagining why?
Well it's quite absurd really, given one of the primary concerns addressed at Crypto Parties is protecting the right to anonymity. -- Julian Oliver http://julianoliver.com http://criticalengineering.org -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
