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

[Frank Corrigan]

You might want to ask one of the organisations listed at:
http://www.internetfreedom.org/about whether they would help produce a
notice in Chinese.

Frank


----- Original message -----
From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zooko at zooko.com>
To: liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 10:37:17 -0600
Subject: [liberationtech] how do I tell these Chinese people "You're
doing      it wrong!" ?

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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