[CryptoParty] What's CryptoParty and what are guidelines?

[Hauke Laging]

Am Do 18.07.2013, 16:09:10 schrieb MeI:

> Cryptoparty states in it's handbook and elsewhere that it's a
> non-commercial event and is not affiliated with political parties.
> What more specification of that is needed?

1) Not everybody uses the handbook. If you are an expert for something why 
should you need the handbook? I would prefer an explicit statement from 
everyone.

2) "What does affiliated mean?" seems to me necessary to specification. It is 
ridiculous to me that somebody wearing a party t-shirt claims that the event 
was "not affiliated with political parties".


> I don't care what ppl wear or who they are affiliated with or how they
> colour their hair as long as the topic of CP is encryption - and not a
> marketing or political event.
> Let's just keep it simple ...

Exactly. "Neutral appearance" keeps it simple. Wearing a party t-shirt or 
having a party flag (or a huge company logo) on the wall starts a discussion 
about affiliation. The simple case is that such discussions are avoided. Don't 
tell me that "neutral appearance" is more complicated than "not affiliated 
with political parties" without any specification.

There is a terrible report (with video) on the NDR web site about a 
"Cryptoparty" in a Pirate party room. The instructor is wearing a party t-
shirt, the slides of his presentation have contain "vote for Pirate party", it 
is unclear whether any non-member is in the room. Everyone they interview is a 
party member of even a party official or even publicly elected for the party.

http://www.ndr.de/ratgeber/netzwelt/datenschutz/cryptoparty103.html

Shall I tell those "journalists" something about the handbook? Funny idea. I 
want to be able to point them at the signatures of the people they are 
reporting about under a code of conduct. Or I want to be able to point out 
that the community has explicitly accepted this code of conduct but the people 
they have reported about haven't.

How obvious can abuse get? How obvious must it get until you recognize it as 
such?


CU

Hauke
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