I love the idea and it's about open software. But isn't specifically Fedora. I'm afraid it should be more for a personal blog rather than Fedora Magazine.
My thoughts, Sylvia On Friday, 12 February 2016, Justin W. Flory <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This email is about a pitch idea I have, but I'm looking at identifying if > the Fedora Magazine is the best audience for it, or if I should consider an > alternative publishing source like OSDC. > > The same student at the Rochester Institute of Technology who designed the > laser interface software in the laser light show article a couple of months > back also has another awesome project... introducing the Black Box. > > He designed this for one of the courses in RIT's FOSS minor. The Black Box > is a mysterious black box! What does it do? You don't know. It's locked. > It's a mysterious black box. What the presenter will then tell you is that > it's a service that offers a free encryption service. However, you can't > know how it works. That is not allowed. > > To make a longer (and very hilarious) story short, the presenter then > shows you how the encryption method is actually backdoored and is > arbitrary. But… what is inside the Black Box? After it is unlocked, it is > revealed that the insides actually contain a small sample of radioactive > material and a Geiger counter! The Black Box uses an open-source kernel > module to generate a random number from the read of the Geiger counter. I > was able to see it presented it live, and it was quite the show! > > The lesson behind the Black Box is to show how with proprietary software, > you don't actually know what's going on "behind closed doors". It's a very > engaging, exciting, and maybe ever so slightly dangerous project that I > think is a fantastic example of breaking down the difference between open > and closed software development. > > Links to his project are below: > > http://brendan-w.com/rng > > https://github.com/brendan-w/kRad > > So, as mentioned earlier, my question is whether or not this would be > appropriate for the Magazine. It doesn't have a specific tie into Fedora, > which is why I'm wondering if it's relevant enough for us. > > Curious to know your thoughts! Thanks. > > -- > Cheers, > Justin W. Flory > [email protected] > >
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