[hackerspaces] Wikileaks mass mirroring party

[Bkay]

Digitally signing that content would not be a bad idea for those
messages.... but which key to trust?

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Koen Martens <gmc at sonologic.nl> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:25:28PM +0100, Caspar Clemens Mierau wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Koen Martens wrote:
> > > Pardon my paranoia, but what prove do i have that this is indeed
> > > wikileaks asking me to put their pubkey in a server, and not some evil
> > > genius building a botnet of willing victims??
> >
> > You cannot prove that. But nobody asked for a ssh root access. Just
> > provide a locked down ftp or stripped ssh account and everything is
> > fine.
>
> That I would do anyway, it just strikes me as an odd way of doing things,
> even more so because there are also url's circulating with the same
> instructions on public pastebin's that can be modified by anyone.
>
> Gr,
>
> Koen
>
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