Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-23 Thread Oliver Propst
I have now asked the board to take a decision in this matter. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, its great to see the all the activities around the upcoming Board election, I hope we still are able to focus on day-today things. There is right

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-21 Thread Andre Klapper
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 20:24 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: I'm basically satisfied as long as our Bugzilla uses SSL Our Bugzilla has many other flaws as we run an unsupported version. andre -- Andre Klapper | ak...@gmx.net http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 20:24 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 00:33 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: snip (It'd also be a bit silly to run a $2 privacy campaign and then not participate in this, but I guess there are real disadvantages to abusing SSL: increased power costs,

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
I agree whole heartidly that this is a valuable and good use of GNOME time and resources. As a free software project ostensibly committed to freedom, privacy and security, it behooves us to participate. Emily Gonyer On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Oliver Propst oliver.pro...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 12:39 +0200, Oliver Propst wrote: This would include: Display a banner on GNOME.org, 5 June with link to https://www.resetthenet.org/ Promote our participation on the campaign website Promote our our participation and our work in this area in our own channels

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Andrea Veri
2014-05-20 21:47 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro mcatanz...@gnome.org: Currently gnome.org does not even use HTTPS by default, let alone HSTS or PFS. If we are planning to endorse this campaign, I think we should also implement their recommendations. Assuming gnome.org stands for www.gnome.org

Re: About possible participation in Rest the Net campaign

2014-05-20 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 00:33 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Assuming gnome.org stands for www.gnome.org I'm asking you whether it makes sense to abuse the use of SSL even when not really needed? From your response, I can see that you're concerned primarily with protecting users' personal information.