Hi, I completely agree with this conclusion: this was what I wanted to talk about when I wrote "shape". It allows to talk about pure ideas (good and bad ;)) without any issue to fear from brands.
I will try to give a first shot about captions. For the short paper, I am not sure we can produce this before 36C3 but well, we can try. - Fil Lupin. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:37 AM, dllud <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a fruitful discussion with Denis about the ideas for the flyer. > This email summarizes our conclusions. > > To get everybody on the same page: Fil and I were exploring the idea of > creating a double-sided flyer/handout that would have the mockup of the > front and back sides of a phone on either side of the flyer. There would > be arrows pointing to the internal components or to the icons of some > apps shown on the screen. These arrows would be captioned with a short > text explaining a freedom/privacy/security issue present on most > commercially available phones (check the attached sketches). > > Denis pointed out that creating the captions would be virtually > impossible without picking a specific phone model. The > freedom/privacy/security issues vary too wildly between phone models. > Take for instance the satellite navigation system (satnav). On some > phones the OS has to ship a non-free firmware and use a non-free driver, > for others there are free drivers and no need to ship firmware, others > have non-free firmware and free drivers, others have proprietary apps on > top that track users and relay their whereabouts. > A generic caption would become a mess. > > On the other hand, we do not wish to pick one single specific phone > model. That would make the info much less relevant and would age > quickly. Denis thought about going for the extremes: What about > portraying the worst possible phone? Or the best possible phone? > > I very much agree that this is the right direction. All captions become > much simpler. Creating multiple flyers, where only the text captions > change, is easy enough for us, as the base illustration would stay the same. > > Denis came up with the following reinterpretation of the "The Good, the > Bad and the Ugly": > "The Good enough, the Bad hack, the Ugly subjugation" > > - "The Good enough" would be an hypothetical RYF[1] compliant phone, > which is the "minimum required". Personally I would also like something > such as "The Good utopia", that portraits a phone that goes beyond the > RYF minimum and has free hardware and free firmwares every. > > - "The Bad hack" would be Replicant at it's current state (perhaps on a > i9300). > > - "The Ugly subjugation" would be the worst phone we can think about > (freedom/privacy/security wise). > > What do you think about this direction? Fil? > If it seems good, any help creating the captions would be highly > appreciated. > > Also, help creating a shorter and less technically of the article would > be welcomed too. > As previously decided, all flyers will prominently point (link and QR > Code) to the main article where it is all explained in detail. But as > Denis pointed out, we should probably have a shorter version of that > article. As is, it is too extensive and only understandable by people > with a tech background. > > Regards, > David > > References: > > > [1] https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
