[liberationtech] how do I tell these Chinese people "You're doing it wrong!" ?

Zooko O'Whielacronx zooko at zooko.com
Mon Nov 1 09:37:17 PDT 2010


Folks:

It kind of seems like some people in China might be relying on using
the Tahoe-LAFS public demo over unencrypted HTTP and thinking that it
provides security properties like they would get if they ran their own
copy of Tahoe-LAFS locally:

http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-November/005535.html

Or maybe that's not what they are thinking. There is a large
language/cultural barrier here through which "google translate"
provides merely a glimpse of meaning. As far as I know they have never
read or understood any of my attempts to communicate with them.

Any suggestions from this crowd about how to manage this situation? As
shown in the discussion on the tahoe-dev list, we might take down the
public demo entirely or, more likely, try to put some sort of warning
label on it in Chinese.

Thanks,

Zooko



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