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@dsilverstone and good programmers should be working on higher level languages and concepts which reduce security problems
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@frabcus I fear that before you have "safe" languages you need a "safe" computing hardware platform, and that's somewhat harder to achieve.
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@dsilverstone just thinking... anything I can read on what a "safe" computing hardware platform would mean?
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@frabcus Sadly I don't know of any material on that sort of thing because thus-far hardware is 'unsafe' :-( (AFAIK)
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@frabcus TBF, right now I'm more worried about the latest knee-jerk political reaction to the *idea* of widespread effective cryptography.
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@dsilverstone I've got a slightly more complex project that I want to do to do with that as well - this C/C++ promise is meant to be tiny!
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@dsilverstone basically, have someone in every constituency visiting and briefing their MP regularly on it
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@frabcus An ambitious idea, but perhaps something worthwhile. Although it ought not be limited to one topic.
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@dsilverstone yeah, so I'd copy something like oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/caโ€ฆ
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@dsilverstone two topics a year maybe - all on internet security/privacy.
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Replying to @frabcus
@frabcus Sounds worthwhile to me. Not sure I'd be good as a persuasive person though I'd be prepared to assist someone who was.

Jan 19, 2015 ยท 1:52 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone my main limiting factor is who to write the briefing packs (and ideally run the whole thing!), ORG obvious candidate
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@frabcus Mmm it certainly needs to be carefully constructed (the packs) and well run for a good effect. ORG makes sense if they have time.