We're hoping to get code up onto the git today, maybe tomorrow. The guy who's volunteered to do it spent the evening at a party then the night at the New Cross library occupation. He's just gone to bed.
I'm sure you'll find something to moan about in the code when you see it - i read negativity towards the entire project from your very first paragraph.
When you trawl through the code you'll note that no personal identifiers are stored anywhere. We had to finish the proof of concept in a rush so you'll also see function stubs that do nothing, inconsistencies in APIs, poorly commented code and incredible inefficiencies. These flag some of the areas of future development. But you'll also note that the unfinished or inefficient bits are to do with user functionality. Anything to do with security is not compromised.
But I'm not sure any of this is really relevant. The key question is: how sensitive is the data?
Sure, we don't encrypt the SMS messages we send to old phones - if we did the users couldn't read them so it would be pointless sending them in the first place. But the content of those messages is innocent.
Likewise we don't encrypt tweets (in or out). What would be the point? If you lose the original then I'm sure our friends at Cheltenham will have a backup....
We can do nothing about the telcos using their geolocation features to track the whereabouts of phones. But that's really not a Sukey issue - cos the same issues apply to anyone using a mobile phone for any purpose at any dem. You could of course advocate people leave their own fones at home and buy a disposable and untraceable (yeah, right!) phone just for the dem. Good luck with that one.
You "continue to urge nobody to trust a protest tool until these concerns are properly addressed" - yet I'm still to see a concise description of what these purported concerns are. A cynical man might say: "I would urge nobody to take any notice of a self important pompous windbag who seems to want to obstruct something he clearly doesn't understand".
I've extended an invitation to you privately to come along to a hackathon and to help us. And I extend it again. This genuine and heartfelt invitation remains open - come along, understand what we're doing, add your experience and knowledge to the pot and help to shape the design. Get into a positive frame of mind and be a part of this.
Make something happen.
Gausie