Happening in October 3rd to 5th in São Paulo, the third edition of Conisli, one of the biggest Free and Open Source Software events in Brazil, will have several assurers around. No booth was arranged, even though we are trying to organize something. If you want to help assure people, or you are interested in being assured, drop an email to evaldo@gardenali.biz .
October 21/22 2005: A team of super assurers will be present at the Berlinux 2005, the biggest Linux and open source conference in Berlin. We will have our own booth so look for the CAcert logo. Information about the planned program can be found at www.berlinux.org
November 25 – 27 2005, EuroBSDCon is the main european BSD conference where members from all BSD teams meet and share experience and first hand know-how with the users of BSD systems.
There will be enough assurers to get full points. More information you’ll get at the info desk and the OpenBSD table.
see you there.
The following was posted to the bugtraq mailing list:
Dear security community and Oracle users,
Many of my customers run Oracle. Much of the U.K. Critical National Infrastructure relies on Oracle; indeed this is true for many other countries as well. I know that there’s a lot of private information about me stored in Oracle databases out there. I have good reason, like most of us, to be concerned about Oracle security; I want Oracle to be secure because, in a very real way, it helps maintain my own personal security. As such, I am writing this open letter.Extract from interview between Mary Ann Davidson and IDG
IDGNS: “What other advice do you have for customers on security?”
Davidson: “Push your vendor to tell you how they build their software and ask them if they train people on secure coding practices. ”
Now some context has been put in place I can continue.
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Hungary’s only Software Freedom Day event has been organized in Szeged. It is a city in the south with a big university and high involvement in open source.
There was a CAcert lecture and assurance party successfully held, about 50 new members joined the community. We were three assurers there.
More about the event:
SFD Szeged home: www.inf.u-szeged.hu/opensource/events.php
Lecture slides: www.artificis.hu/talks/sfd05
2 CAcert Assurers will be on hand to do identity verifications, we can also do Thawte Notarizations. We will try to be on hand for each users meeting in the future.
“The Dutch government plans to open an electronic file on every child at birth as a tool to spot and protect the troubled kids of the future. All citizens will be tracked from cradle to grave in a single database – including health, education, family and police records.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050913/ap_on_re_eu/netherlands_child_files
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These kinds of articles always raise red flags with me when governments propose something that has the potential to be very unpopular as “benefiting” children.
This was posted to slashdot and the first few comments included:
– paedophiles wet dream
– WWII was fought to prevent this kind of overarching governmental reach and it’s occurring anyway
– several credit card gateways cracked recently leaking millions of records how would this be any better if it’s actually going to be useful across all govt agencies…
At this point if I were a citizen I’d firstly be very concerned, and then be very angry about this kind of thing, and if it goes through in the Netherlands it’s just as likely to be pushed in other countries.
Keysigning Party en CAcert waarmerking,
Installparty en diverse Presentaties op:
Software Freedom Day’S
10 en 11 september 2005
Beide dagen open vanaf 12:00, aanvang 14:00
In TOSti, Spoorlaan 340 Tilburg.
Voor de tweede keer wordt in en met TOSti Tilburg de Nederlandse Editie van Software Freedom Day georganiseerd en wegens het uitgebreide programma en de vele presentaties en activiteiten is dit jaar gekozen voor 2 dagen waarop de Desktop centraal staat, met onder meer
presentaties van de meest gebruikte grafische werkomgevingen GNOME en
KDE en de populaire GNU/Linux distributie Ubuntu, die een volwaardig en
volwassen alternatief biedt voor de thuisgebruiker. Er zijn ook
presentaties van de OpenCD, waarop vrije software staat die onder het
besturingssysteem Windows werkt, zoals het bekende en populaire
OpenOffice.org, de suite waarmee de gemeente Haarlem ruim 250.000 euro
bespaarde en nog veel meer veelgebruikte toepassingen zoals Mplayer, de
GIMP, Jabber &c.
Zie voor het volledige programma sfd.tostitilburg.nl
In het kader van “Re:animatie” is er een doorlopende ‘installparty’: breng je (vorige, oude, overgeschoten) computer en de aanwezige deskundigen kunnen helpen met het installeren van een geschikte
distributie, zoals het genoemde Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Debian Sarge en
dergelijke, zodat deze computer nog een paar jaar meekan, en geschikt is
om met vrije software te experimenteren. Vergeet niet: bij TOSti draaien
deze en meer distributies en wordt een internet radio station
gerealiseerd met bejaarde pentium II, 800 Mhz machines!
Een spiksplinternieuw blik voor een dual boot (een machine waarop zowel
Windows als Open Source draait) mag natuurlijk ook.
Ook is er op zaterdag een Keysigningparty waarop gebruikers van GnuPG keyslips uitwisselen, elkaars identiteit verifieren zodat ze niet alleen veilig maar vooral vertrouwd via email kunnen communiceren (je *weet* wie de afzender is, dit is geen Viagra-spam of adocaat ergens rond de evenaar met een miljoenenerfenis voor
Keysigning Party en CAcert waarmerking op zaterdag 10 september van 20.00 u tot 20.40 u.
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Meer info over softwarefreedomday.org
Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the
public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source
Software. Over 200 teams are registered so far, and they have plans to
celebrate Free Software at schools, universities, parks, and many other
public places.
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TOSti-The Open Source Test Initiative
Spoorlaan 340 Tilburg.
Normale openingstijden : di t/m zo 14.00-17.00,
wo 19.00-21.00, vrij 21.00-00.00> : Live Screaming Radio Show
www.tostitilburg.nl
info@tostitilburg.nl
irc.uvt.nl/6667 #tosti
Someone has posted a RFE (Request for enhancement) to the Novell/Sse bugzilla to include CAcert’s root in software distributed by Novell/Suse.
October 1st 2005 – Ohio Linux Festival to be held in Columbus Ohio, there will be more then enough assurers on hand to get full points. Free registration so no excuses for anyone in the region not attending!
Look for the large CAcert banner we sneak up!