Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-13 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/13 21:32, Francisco Ruiz wrote: So, here's my question. Does any one know of a celebrity who cares enough about computer security to be persuaded to take one minute of his/her time to read a hash before a camera? I'd like to second

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-13 Thread David Miller
Maybe the celebrity could read the binary sequence of a compiled program, and the user could take dictation into a simple command line script? On 13 August 2013 10:37, Michael Rogers mich...@briarproject.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/13 21:32, Francisco

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-13 Thread Lina Srivastava
So not sure this is taking the discussion in a direction useful to this list, but a thought-- celebrities are not likely to be available to do something like this -- i.e., a series of readings on youtube videos -- unless the videos were connected to a high-profile campaign, a film/documentary, or

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-13 Thread Francisco Ruiz
Hi Kyle, don't take it so hard. I asked this question so _everybody_ who'd like to try the celebrity video trick would be able to collect a few likely candidates. Likely others will beat me to it. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Kyle Maxwell ky...@xwell.org wrote: I didn't know LibTech had

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-13 Thread Francisco Ruiz
Hi Guido, This looks very interesting, but I have trouble understanding it. Can you give me a sample URL where this is being shown in action? Many thanks. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Guido Witmond gu...@witmond.nl wrote: Dear professor Ruiz. The real issue is to create an *easy* way

[liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Francisco Ruiz
Quick request. In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to deliver that hash to the public, and thus assure the authenticity of a piece of code, a public key, or whatnot. The problem is that the

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Griffin Boyce
John Cusack comes to mind - he's on the board of Freedom of the Press Foundation. ~Griffin On 08/12/2013 04:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Quick request. In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Richard Brooks
Some idle thoughts: Edward Snowden Bradley Manning Julian Assange Gen. Hayden Jacob or Nadim On 08/12/2013 04:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Quick request. In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Jayne Cravens
On 2013-08-12 15:32, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Does any one know of a celebrity who cares enough about computer security to be persuaded to take one minute of his/her time to read a hash before a camera? Hugh Grant has made privacy issues the focus of his Twitter feed. However, he is more

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Sarah A. Downey
Ashton Kutcher has talked publicly multiple times about the value of privacy, both in his personal life and as an investor. On Aug 12, 2013 4:38 PM, Richard Brooks r...@acm.org wrote: Some idle thoughts: Edward Snowden Bradley Manning Julian Assange Gen. Hayden Jacob or Nadim On

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Parker Higgins
On 8/12/13 1:45 PM, Sarah A. Downey wrote: Ashton Kutcher has talked publicly multiple times about the value of privacy, both in his personal life and as an investor. He made some comments today that were sort of unfortunate in that area.

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Guido Witmond
On 08/12/2013 04:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz wrote: Quick request. In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to deliver that hash to the public, and thus assure the authenticity of a piece of code, a

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Guido Witmond
Dear professor Ruiz. The real issue is to create an *easy* way to do hash validation correctly. Reading a hash on youtube is not going to make it. You use HTTPS without DNSSEC and DANE. Please use those first. It solves a lot of your server validation issues. At least it allows your users'

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Yishay Mor
Cory Doctorow - sent from my phone. On Aug 12, 2013 9:33 PM, Francisco Ruiz r...@iit.edu wrote: Quick request. In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to deliver that hash to the public,

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Collin Anderson
The problem with occasionally looking at Huffington Post is that I'm subjected to such things... Matt Damon: *He broke up with me, the Elysium star said. There are a lot of things that I really question, you know: the legality of the drone strikes, and these NSA revelations they’re, you know,

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Kyle Maxwell
I didn't know LibTech had become the PassLok development mailing list. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Collin Anderson col...@averysmallbird.com wrote: The problem with occasionally looking at Huffington Post is that I'm subjected to such things... Matt Damon: He broke up with me, the

Re: [liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

2013-08-12 Thread Tony Arcieri
Penn Jilette On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz r...@iit.edu wrote: Quick request. In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to deliver that hash to the public, and thus assure the