Hi, On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > But then they want to verify who you are and what do they want to do this? A > photo > from your webcam of yourself, a keyboard finger print to associate with you > and a > photo of a valid ID document such as a drivers license. The latter they > promise to > delete once they can see that you are you. > > Here are 2 screen dumps of the tracking process as they explain it. > > 1. http://ubuntuone.com/3PBTfO0UENZO8yS8xvVqcF > 2. http://ubuntuone.com/55qqbqJQkWXoIokhzVPY31
you should avoid that ubuntu stuff if you really care > 1. Gathering the keyboard fingerprint presumable means running some arbitrary > piece > of code on my computer. This code is clearly a highly refined key-logger and > therefore a grave threat to my personal and financial details. I would not > submit to > Signature Track with out the source code so that I can read, verify and > compile it > myself. Therefore may I have this code please? if it's in a webbrowser, it's probably just javascript connected to an input field, not a full blown keylogger > 2. How do I know you've deleted the photo of my drivers license? you don't - there is no way to verify > 3. In an age when personal details are saleable what reason do I have to > trust the > morality of the people behind Coursera and Signature Track? one reason would be called pragmatism - who are we kidding, there are more people that just want that certificate than people that aren't willing to share information about themselves for it > I've posted these questions on the discussion forum of the course itself > where the > system automatically flagged it as 'unresolved' to the course lecturers and > assistants who are, of course, all philosophers. Next week's lecture happens > to be > about morality. sorry that they don't share your appreciation for related meta discussions mbs
