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

[Yishay Mor]

Cory Doctorow

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On Aug 12, 2013 9:33 PM, "Francisco Ruiz" <ruiz at iit.edu> 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!
>
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> Francisco Ruiz
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> MMAE department
> Illinois Institute of Technology
>
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