[Noisebridge-discuss] door stats

[bfb]

Very gooood. Nicknames and a standard log format. I would like to put 
Shannon's pipe on a cronjob that updates the gnuplot in a directory 
served via minotaur and published on the wiki.


-bfb

On 06/22/2013 03:27 AM, Shannon Lee wrote:
> A flatfile of anonymized log fields would go better with my cut | sort 
> | uniq -c | gnuplot toolchain.
>
> --S
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us 
> <mailto:leif at synthesize.us>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Shannon Lee wrote:
>     > No, if you generate a one-time pad of random hashes, such that...
>     >
>     > 1 -> foo
>     > 2 -> bargain basement
>     > 3 -> mickey mouse
>     > 4 -> jet plane
>     >
>     > ...et cetera, then we maintain frequency counts and timing while
>     > anonymizing specific codes, and you can't brute force it because
>     there's no
>     > hash function.  You can even throw away the one-time pad,
>     because the
>     > timing data makes it easy to map "mickey mouse" back to specific
>     entries if
>     > you have the original dataset.
>     >
>     > I think Curtis' suggestion actually has the same properties.
>     >
>     > --S
>
>     I was talking about making pseudonymous (not anonymous!) door code
>     logs
>     public a few months ago, and started on a project to do so. I'm
>     sorry I
>     haven't finished it yet, and glad to see others interested in
>     doing this
>     now!
>
>     (Previosuly I heard a few concerns which I think I addressed, but
>     mostly
>     a lot of meh.)
>
>     My plan was/is to replace the flat file of codes + comments (which
>     frequently have email addresses which obviously should not be made
>     public) with a json file that has a 3rd field called "nickname" that
>     users can optionally choose, knowing that it will be publicly logged.
>     The nicknames can be randomly chosen initially.
>
>     I began implementing that here:
>     https://github.com/noisebridge/noisebridge-baron/compare/master...json
>
>     The converter script works, but has boring names ("pseudonym
>     751dfb0"),
>     and I have not tested the changes to baron.py yet.
>
>     I was thinking of trying to generate pronounceable gibberish
>     names, but
>     haven't done that part yet.
>
>     I am not going to have time to work on this today or tomorrow but this
>     thread inspiried me to push the little bit of code I wrote so far in
>     case someone might find it useful.
>
>     If nobody else publishes something by Sunday, I'll probably work
>     on this
>     then.
>
>     ~leif
>
>
>
>
> -- 
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>
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>
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