> On 24 Sep 2015, at 23:10, Thomas White <[email protected]> wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Could we perhaps expand the contact information field in some way? One > thing I was pondering a while ago was a social contact, not just an > email address. I raised a very brief point about this with Virgil in > Paris last year, but I think I made it very poorly at the time as I > just come up with it on the spot. > > To assign an email address is good for email communications and using > PGP and so forth, but also allowing another handle such as a Twitter > username would be a way to create further credibility of diversity. > For example, my following on Twitter is quite diverse and it would be > hard to argue I was a government proxy or so on. If many operators > have Twitter handles where the information and identity is public > anyway, having a second option to tie into those social parameters > would be more transparent in the people running those relays if they > chose to be. For example, I have no problem in being open on some of > the projects I am working on, and I'm sure moving into a social sphere > could have a positive effect on Tor in general in terms of trust. > > For example, let's say the contact box lacks an email, we could see if > there was a way for reaching out to people via Twitter to let them > know a relay is outdated instead of private email reminders. > > Anyway I am rambling on a bit there, but my point is getting people to > use not just email, but also tie into a twitter account or something > of that nature would make it clearer that Tor is not run almost > exclusively by the military or whatever, since that kind of open data > with aliases and Twitter feeds connected to the relay ownership is > researchable if people, like Transparency Toolkit, wanted to "check us > out" so to speak. To verify the data, we could make Roster have a > small verification step, just a "tweet this code to verify this is > your account" and then Roster can store the URL to this tweet to > maintain an independent proof that alias controls which relay, similar > to how Keybase does it.
It would be great to do this in a way that’s independent of social media platform. Many social media platforms have been invented and gone under in the time the Tor Network has been running. Tim Tim Wilson-Brown (teor) teor2345 at gmail dot com PGP 968F094B teor at blah dot im OTR CAD08081 9755866D 89E2A06F E3558B7F B5A9D14F
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