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

[Sarah A. Downey]

Ashton Kutcher has talked publicly multiple times about the value of
privacy, both in his personal life and as an investor.
On Aug 12, 2013 4:38 PM, "Richard Brooks" <rrb at acm.org> wrote:

> Some idle thoughts:
>
> Edward Snowden
> Bradley Manning
> Julian Assange
> Gen. Hayden
> Jacob or Nadim
>
> 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
> >
> >
> PL13lok=WsH3zTgZn8V3hnIqjdbfPus+5YF5n+LBRPuH9USMMp8izPv+hsLoZKv+jaCFMapJFfiA11Q9yJU1K1Wo0TbjXK/=PL13lok
> >
> > get the PassLok privacy app at: http://passlok.com
> >
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