-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - From memory (anyone knowing the please correct me if I am wrong) but the London Cryptoparty which was held in the Google Campus also required real names for "health and safety" reasons. This didn't stop people from signing-up with fake e-mail addresses and names. (Of course not something I would suggest!)
On 1 Dec 2012, at 14:01, Julian Oliver wrote: > ..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 - -------------------------------------- Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQumG0AAoJENsz1IO7MIrrPDIIAINxi+RXdkRAiTqZRwmnfiGE ygHQsvHT0PawIZwMp6m3fw6AzYkUIYUgjz5EzCV6q1dzuciyUrnwMfxDnQAqhkYd Y/ltOBK7zLEytFPsBHf2jxdSj+0XwT3bEf2FDgjeZMUK7tr3CnVIIaJcd9KEMADV 30u5OtDY4HQamBtvZfmQqr2K6NXjNajRPvG3KVsQ4q8agSGfBrjLr51VTvhoma4E oKSLnC0QeZugcU4wXsJdjKPjP9I3x7eGSv6LnDNnDpVTV/EJvrdIEPLl3y51yvyj mbC7uOTKQkrfr8Ms3BsjPacy2eMSJsG3n4IQHKkbu6h4vSeyfy/OaSq63Ohu8n0= =UHXJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
