Thanks for this--comments throughout: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]>wrote:
> Kate Krauss <[email protected]> writes: > > > Dear Liberationists: > > > > I'm an non-technical activist who works with communities with serious > > threat models who just published *“A Modest Proposal for Encrypting > > the Work of Activists.*” > > > > https://medium.com/p/f561c5260bf3 > > > > See what you think. It's not a pretty solution, and it's not meant to > > compete with others (let a thousand flowers bloom) but I think it > > would work for us. It's a four-minute read. > > i think the problem is two fold: sometimes you try to explain something > the other person doesn't really want to understand. it's frustrating > for both :) > > Been there--though people love software if it seems fun-- I'm really focused right now on motivated activists and journalists who can't get ecryption up and running. Then we can colonize the others :) > in my opinion and having watched how people adopts insecure and > propietary technology while ignoring your technically better > recommendations, the best way is to have another non technical (or not > identified primarily as) person show others how to do it. at hacklab > barracas we try to do that, otherwise we can't have people's attention! > > (it doesn't mean we're overly succesful at that :P) > That seems great----in my experience it's not that it's frustrating or slow--I just can't get it to work at all. > > ps: i agree it should be part of the default installation of a free > operating system, that's why i started this repo: > https://github.com/fauno/duraskel/tree/develop > Wow--Will this be like pages or like a Wizard? What will it seem like to the user? (The answr to my question might be on the page but I'm not familiar with the terminology). I like the fact that it's called the Bonjour account--very friendly and respectful; not the "Perhaps you're an idiot" account ;) Thanks! Kate Krauss @AIDSPol > > -- > P) > > -- > Liberationtech is public & 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 > [email protected]. >
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