[liberationtech] Does anyone know a celebrity who feels strongly about privacy issues?

[Griffin Boyce]

John Cusack comes to mind - he's on the board of Freedom of the Press
Foundation.

~Griffin

On 08/12/2013 04:32 PM, Francisco Ruiz wrote:
> Quick request.
>
> In comments to a recent post, people seemed to agree that publishing a
> video of someone reading a hash might be a fairly hard-to-hack way to
> deliver that hash to the public, and thus assure the authenticity of a
> piece of code, a public key, or whatnot. The problem is that the
> sample youtube video I linked had yours truly reading the hash, and
> people naturally objected that I wasn't Justin Bieber and,
> consequently, weren't too convinced that the video was authentic.
>
> Aside from the fact that an adversary might be able to convince Justin
> Bieber to make a video reading a fake hash (not that I believe Justin
> doesn't care; it's just a hypothesis), the idea of getting a celebrity
> for this kind of video has a lot of merit. I'd like to engage one for
> the next update of my app.
>
> So, here's my question. Does any one know of a celebrity who cares
> enough about computer security to be persuaded to take one minute of
> his/her time to read a hash before a camera?
>
> Thanks a million!
>
> -- 
> Francisco Ruiz
> Associate Professor
> MMAE department
> Illinois Institute of Technology
>
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>
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