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

[David Miller]

Maybe the celebrity could read the binary sequence of a compiled program,
and the user could take dictation into a simple command line script?


On 13 August 2013 10:37, Michael Rogers <michael at briarproject.org> wrote:

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> On 12/08/13 21:32, Francisco Ruiz wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I'd like to second Guido's objection that most people don't know what
> a hash is, or have the skills or software required to verify one, so
> this isn't an effective security measure for most people.
>
> Even if it were, you'd have to ask the celebrity to read a new hash
> for every version of the software, and the videos for old versions
> could be used in a rollback attack.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
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David Miller
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