John Cusack comes to mind - he's on the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation.
~Griffin On 08/12/2013 04:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz wrote: > Quick request. > > In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a > video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to > deliver that hash to the public, and thus assure the authenticity of a > piece of code, a public key, or whatnot. The problem is that the > sample youtube video I linked had yours truly reading the hash, and > people naturally objected that I wasn't Justin Bieber and, > consequently, weren't too convinced that the video was authentic. > > Aside from the fact that an adversary might be able to convince Justin > Bieber to make a video reading a fake hash (not that I believe Justin > doesn't care; it's just a hypothesis), the idea of getting a celebrity > for this kind of video has a lot of merit. I'd like to engage one for > the next update of my app. > > So, here's my question. Does any one know of a celebrity who cares > enough about computer security to be persuaded to take one minute of > his/her time to read a hash before a camera? > > Thanks a million! > > -- > Francisco Ruiz > Associate Professor > MMAE department > Illinois Institute of Technology > > PL13lok=WsH3zTgZn8V3hnIqjdbfPus+5YF5n+LBRPuH9USMMp8izPv+hsLoZKv+jaCFMapJFfiA11Q9yJU1K1Wo0TbjXK/=PL13lok > > get the PassLok privacy app at: http://passlok.com > > -- "Cypherpunks write code not flame wars." --Jurre van Bergen #Foucault / PGP: 0xAE792C97 / OTR: sa...@jabber.ccc.de My posts, while frequently amusing, are not representative of the thoughts of my employer. -- Liberationtech is a public list whose archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
