I guess it comes down to risk calculus: Which has a worse outcome: training users to ignore security warning from OSX, or the chilling effects an Apple NDA could have on the project.
(I don't pretend to know the answer myself.) -- Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com) GPG key: 0x1B873635 On 11/9/12 6:25 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 06:05:58PM -0500, Matthew Fisch wrote: >> TorProject should be registered as an Apple software developer, and the >> binary should be signed, both to increase credibility of the torproject >> and the safety of users. > > I agree with you about the 'safety of users' side. But I'm not so clear > on the 'credibility' side. Last I checked, to become an official Apple > developer, they required you to sign an NDA *in order to see the agreement > they would then ask you to sign*. > > We at Tor aren't big on signing blanket broad NDAs with large > corporations, so you can see why we'd be hesitating (to put it nicely). I > imagine we're not the only ones. > > --Roger > > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
