Thanks Maria, As you might guess I'm not much of a coder, just an old croak fumbling along with new technology. But I've never trusted javascript in browsers. I don't know what it is doing and it seems like it could be anything.
I'll wait and see if I get any reply from Coursera or any response from the forum. Nothing from anywhere yet. Moss > 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 >
