[BALUG-Talk] MOZILLA's GnuPG/PGP key-signing session, October 3rd

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MOZILLA's GnuPG/PGP key-signing session, October 3rd

Former subject was the somewhat longer-titled
'[sf-lug] [BALUG-Talk] Fwd: GnuPG / PGP key signing party October 3rd 2017'

Quoting <Michael.Paoli at cal dot berkeley dot e d U>,
at least from [1] and also from [2]:
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NOTE ALSO THAT appears (free) "ticket" is REQUIRED to attend this event.
Passing this along, as it looks like it didn't make it to
at least several lists (non-member posting and/or too many recipients):

----- Forwarded message from lhirlimann at mozilla.com -----
     Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 10:51:18 +0200
     From: "Ludovic Hirlimann" <lhirlimann at mozilla.com>
  Subject: GnuPG / PGP key signing party October 3rd 2017
       To: buug at buug.org, Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu,
talk at nblug.org, balug-talk at lists.balug.org, svlug at lists.svlug.org,
sf-lug at linuxmafia.com, info at eblug.org, bad at bad.debian.net,
penlug-members at new.penlug.org, bale at linuxmafia.com, meyering at fb.com

Hello my name is ludovic,

I'm a sysadmins at mozilla working remote from europe.  I'm organizing
a pgp Key
signing party in the Mozilla san francisco office
(https://wiki.mozilla.org/People:MozSpaces_Guidelines:San_Francisco)
  on October the 3rd 2017 from 6PM to 8PM.
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Ah, so a Mozilla employee is remotely organizing a GnuGP/PGP key-signing
session happening at one of the parent company's main U.S. West Coast
offices.
IMHO, the timing of this session is ever-so-slightly suspicious given that
it's happening just over one month before the planned release date of
Mozilla Firefox's extensions-busting version 57 [3]; intentionally
released to cut down the browser usage percentage of Google's Chrome
browser [4] as well as possibly that of the open-sourced Chromium browser
[5].
One would hope that there will be _no_ data-collection and storage of
participants' _personal_ information before/during/following the time of
this Mozilla key-signing-only event, and well in advance of the FF57
release date......


>From what I'm seeing now, and FWIW, both the 64-bit open source Brave*
browser [6] and the 32-bit open source Palemoon browser [7] will _still_
be supporting many of our most important browser extensions into the near
future.

*An interesting fact to note about Brave is that their Mission District HQ
[8] is ~3/4 hr MUNI busride from Mozilla's SF offence [9] ear Rincon
Point.

Comments from announcement-forwarder Michael P, from Rick M, and from
others are expected and of course welcome :-)
-A


References
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[1] linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2017q3/012773.html

[2]
https://temp.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2017-August/000005.html

[3]
https://www.cnet.com/special-reports/mozilla-firefox-fights-back-against-google-chrome/

[4] https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/index.html

[5] https://www.chromium.org/Home

[6] https://www.brave.com

[7] https://www.palemoon.org

[8] https://www.brave.com/about/

[9] https://wiki.mozilla.org/People:MozSpaces_Guidelines:San_Francisco