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

[Jacob Appelbaum]

On 11/01/2010 09:37 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> 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.
> 

Heya Zooko,

A translation and warning in Chinese would probably be a good start.

However, is there any reason that you can't use a CA cert and only offer
service over SSL/TLS?

All the best,
Jake