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Some concernsSome concernsPosted Feb 24, 2011 6:54 UTC (Thu) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)In reply to: Some concerns by JoeBuck Parent article: The Freedom Box gets off the ground
I mostly agree, with one caveat. Yes, most pictures of me on Facebook are from other people. And, yes, any hypothetical pictures that I wouldn't have wanted made public to the whole world would definitely have been posted by a friend ;)
On the other hand, some causes are worth dying for, and some brave souls can take being beat to death by xkcd's $5 wrench - especially when they have even a modicum of hope that not giving up whatever secrets were desired meant that the 4096 bit encrypted hard drive, with whatever links to whatever other people they cared about, would be out of reach of wrench-wielding thugs.
And sometimes you just need to delay the thugs long enough that your revolution becomes thousands strong, and secrets no longer matter.
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Some concerns Posted Feb 25, 2011 14:39 UTC (Fri) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link]
On the other hand - how many people would buy this stuff if they risk being beaten to death just because they own one? I mean it's a dead giveway to government agents - guy has such a device, he's up to something! And although there are some brave souls who can take the beating, would they also let their mother/sister take the beating/raping?
wrenches don't scale, and they provide visibility Posted Feb 25, 2011 19:23 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
I think this is focussing on irrelevant details of an immense exaggeration.
First difference is scale. Even if everyone handed over their passwords at the mere sight of a wrench, this is *many* orders of magnitude slower than ording Facebook to hand over their entire database.
Secondly, the wrench method is publicly visible or leaves traces. We don't know if Facebook gave info to Mubarak or his allies but we would hear if a government was using physical violence to get account passwords.
wrenches don't scale, and they provide visibility Posted Mar 3, 2011 9:37 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]
Irrelevant details?
Well one detail that I don't find irrelevant is that by monitoring the access of TOR proxys, the governements can get easily a list of 'suspect users'.
If the list is small, it's very risky to be in the list, so IMHO that's something to keep in mind as the Freedom box plan to use TOR..
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