Maybe crosspost to Libtech? A lot of EFF people read there, and there's a lot of people with a legal/policy background who could give some good insights.
-- Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com) GPG key: 0x1B873635 On 11/10/12 11:30 AM, Matthew Fisch wrote: > I think the idea of getting an organization such as the EFF (with credibility > Apple couldn't afford to deny) to sign off on the binaries sounds like the > only plausible solution -- though I understand the politics of this aren't > exactly trivial. I didn't realize legal kung-fu was necessary when you don't > plan to submit to the app store. This type of thing is something that should > be investigated long-term however especially considering the Mountain Lion > default of denying unsigned binaries, and the Tor Project's mission of > increasing use of Tor by mainstream users to increase credibility of the > project. > > All that said, there is a simple short-term fix: > > A warning and subtle protest of Apple's closed gatekeeper methodology should > be included in the OS X download webpage. This is actually a great technology > to protect users computers from privacy invasions by rogue software, it's > just in Apple's blood to exert a bit more control than desktop users find > comfortable. Also, uploaded some screenshots to google drive to highlight the > simple but unintuitive workaround, once the application is added to the > gatekeeper exception list no further warnings will be produced: > > https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B1pT3gU1bGZiYWVaQTFVR05QUmc/edit > ^^ > three images labelled step 1, 2 and 3. > > Also, I think it's important not to totally discredit the gatekeeper > technology. If users turn this off they significantly increase risk exposure > to their machines despite any idealogical concerns. > > -Matt > > > Matthew Fisch > mfi...@mfisch.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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
