The demand for _real_ names in Tunis was not related specifically to the Cryptoparty, but rather to the OpenITP event afaik?
/Marcin Asher Wolf skrev 2012-12-02 12:57: > London Cryptoparty specifically pointed out the usefulness of pseudonyms > if signing up for an event, on their wikipage. > > > On 2/12/12 6:59 AM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote: >> - From memory (anyone knowing the please correct me if I am wrong) but the >> London Cryptoparty which was held in the Google Campus also required real >> names for "health and safety" reasons. This didn't stop people from >> signing-up with fake e-mail addresses and names. (Of course not something I >> would suggest!) > > >> On 1 Dec 2012, at 14:01, Julian Oliver wrote: > >>> ..on Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 10:31:25AM +0000, dan jones wrote: >>>> >>>>>> You may be aware that a previous event called CryptoParty was >>>>>> organized during the OpenITP Tech Summit on 27th November. >>>>>> However, the organizers required people to give their real ID in >>>>>> order to participate, requirement that was considered as >>>>>> not acceptable by a number of people, including people from >>>>>> the Tunis hackerspace. >>>>> It sucks that it turned out this way. I didn't want to at all, and >>>>> I was looking forward to meeting Hackerspace TN folks, but I >>>>> totally get why you were turned off by the name policy. I probably >>>>> would be too in the same situation. >>>> >>>> Could someone explain why there was a name policy? I am having trouble >>>> imagining why? > >>> Well it's quite absurd really, given one of the primary concerns addressed >>> at >>> Crypto Parties is protecting the right to anonymity. > >>> -- >>> Julian Oliver >>> http://julianoliver.com >>> http://criticalengineering.org >>> -- >>> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > >> -------------------------------------- >> Bernard / bluboxthief / ei8fdb > >> IO91XM / www.ei8fdb.org > >> -- >> Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > > > -- > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- Marcin de Kaminski: Internet researcher, adviser, analyst Phone: 0768-045151 (Int: 0046768045151) WWW: http://www.dekaminski.se Twitter: http://twitter.com/dekaminski
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