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

[Francisco Ruiz]

Hi Kyle, don't take it so hard. I asked this question so _everybody_ who'd
like to try the celebrity video trick would be able to collect a few likely
candidates. Likely others will beat me to it.

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Kyle Maxwell <kylem at xwell.org> wrote:

> I didn't know LibTech had become the PassLok development mailing list.
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Collin Anderson
> <collin at averysmallbird.com> wrote:
> > The problem with occasionally looking at Huffington Post is that I'm
> > subjected to such things...
> >
> > Matt Damon:
> >
> > "He broke up with me," the "Elysium" star said. "There are a lot of
> things
> > that I really question, you know: the legality of the drone strikes, and
> > these NSA revelations they’re, you know, it’s like, they’re, you know,
> Jimmy
> > Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s, that’s a
> > little, that’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So, you
> > know, he’s got some, some explaining to do, particularly for a
> > constitutional law professor."
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/matt-damon-obama-broke-up-with-me_n_3732426.html?utm_hp_ref=entertainment
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Yishay Mor <yishaym at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Cory Doctorow
> >>
> >> ----- sent from my phone.
> >>
> >> 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!
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Francisco Ruiz
> >>> Associate Professor
> >>> MMAE department
> >>> Illinois Institute of Technology
> >>>
> >>>
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Francisco Ruiz
Associate Professor
MMAE department
Illinois Institute of Technology

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