Please note that EFF has not signed off on this. Very busy with post Aaron S stuff; more later.
Cindy On Jan 16, 2013, at 11:12 AM, John Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Nadim Kobeissi <[email protected]> writes: > >> Dear Privacy Advocates and Internet Freedom Activists, >> >> I call on you to review the following draft for our Open Letter to Skype >> and present your name or the name of your organization as signatories: >> >> http://www.skypeopenletter.com/draft/ >> >> The letter will be released soon. Feedback is also welcome. >> > > Thank you for the opportunity to give feedback. > > We would sign if it included a request that Skype be released as free > software. > > This seems important for many users. Even if Skype published a > transparency report indicating abuse of user information, users are > unable to use modified versions of Skype to address those abuses and > instead would have to drop it entirely in favor of something else -- a > very high cost path for many, who may have to just submit to the abuse > instead. > > Of course a free client wouldn't necessarily be sufficient on its own > either, but we do think it's necessary. > > Admittedly I don't know much (anything) about how existing transparency > reports are verified, but I worry that this would give people a false > sense of security. Does someone with sufficient access audit them? Other > than law enforcement agencies publishing info which would help verify > some subset of the commitments made in a transparency report. > > -john > > -- > John Sullivan | Executive Director, Free Software Foundation > GPG Key: 61A0963B | http://status.fsf.org/johns | http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS > > Do you use free software? Donate to join the FSF and support freedom at > <http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=8096>. > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech ******************************************************* Cindy Cohn [email protected] Legal Director ---- www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 436-9333 x108 (415) 436-9993 (fax) Join EFF! https://supporters.eff.org/donate -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
