Penn Jilette
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz <r...@iit.edu> 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 > > -- > 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. > -- Tony Arcieri
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