Signature Track

[Maurice McCarthy]

Thanks Maria,

As you might guess I'm not much of a coder, just an old croak fumbling along with
new technology. But I've never trusted javascript in browsers. I don't know what it
is doing and it seems like it could be anything.

I'll wait and see if I get any reply from Coursera or any response from the forum.
Nothing from anywhere yet.

Moss


> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Maurice McCarthy
> <moss at mythic-beasts.com> wrote:
>> But then they want to verify who you are and what do they want to do this? A photo
>> from your webcam of yourself, a keyboard finger print to associate with you and a
>> photo of a valid ID document such as a drivers license. The latter they promise to
>> delete once they can see that you are you.
>>
>> Here are 2 screen dumps of the tracking process as they explain it.
>>
>> 1. http://ubuntuone.com/3PBTfO0UENZO8yS8xvVqcF
>> 2. http://ubuntuone.com/55qqbqJQkWXoIokhzVPY31
>
> you should avoid that ubuntu stuff if you really care
>
>> 1. Gathering the keyboard fingerprint presumable means running some arbitrary
>> piece
>> of code on my computer. This code is clearly a highly refined key-logger and
>> therefore a grave threat to my personal and financial details. I would not submit
>> to
>> Signature Track with out the source code so that I can read, verify and compile it
>> myself. Therefore may I have this code please?
>
> if it's in a webbrowser, it's probably just javascript connected to an
> input field, not a full blown keylogger
>
>> 2. How do I know you've deleted the photo of my drivers license?
>
> you don't - there is no way to verify
>
>> 3. In an age when personal details are saleable what reason do I have to  trust
>> the
>> morality of the people behind Coursera and Signature Track?
>
> one reason would be called pragmatism - who are we kidding, there are
> more people that just want that certificate than people that aren't
> willing to share information about themselves for it
>
>> I've posted these questions on the discussion forum of the course itself where the
>> system automatically flagged it as 'unresolved' to the course lecturers and
>> assistants who are, of course, all philosophers. Next week's lecture happens to be
>> about morality.
>
> sorry that they don't share your appreciation for related meta discussions
>
> mbs
>