Re: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov
On 12/25/2012 04:06 PM, Go Linux wrote:
> --- On Tue, 12/25/12, Max Hyre <max@hyre.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Max Hyre <max@hyre.net>
>> Subject: [OT?] Free Software petition on WhiteHouse.gov
>> To: "Debian User mailing list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2012, 12:10 AM
>> Dear Debianists:
>>
>> The U.S. president's website has a
>> petition to support the use of
>> Free Software in schools. It might be a good idea for
>> us USAians to
>> sign it:
>>
>> http://wh.gov/Rz6C
>>
>>
>
> Too bad signing requires registration with personal info. That's one DB I'd rather not be in. Of course I could fake it but deception is not in my nature . . .
>
>
I think I understand these concerns. However, petitions used for getting
bills started and placed before the U.S. House and Senate (or just for
state legislatures or city councils) do have to have authenticated
signature sources. Otherwise, it would be easy enough to fake a petition
with almost any number of signatures.
What's different about this (as compared to how we did it decades ago)
is that the sign-up is done with an on line entity instead of with a
local signature collector that you know, or are presumed to know. That's
the additional risk. And, IIRC, whitehouse.gov has been compromised on
at least one previous occasions. But so have many sites to whom many of
us have given our credit card information.
the worrier
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