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

[Robert Guerra]

Rebecca MacKinnon, who's on this list could likely be of help as she's
fluent in Mandarin.

regards

Robert

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Frank Corrigan <email at franciscorrigan.com>wrote:

> 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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