• Ralph Nader for President: :
• Fight UCITA!: :
• GNUCash: :
• GNU Privacy Guard: :

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  Fight UCITA!

• Why UCITA is Bad: :
• How You Can Help Fight UCITA: :

  Why UCITA is Bad

• Warranty Problems: :
• Reverse Engineering: :

  GNUCash

• GNUCash Goals: :
• The State of GNUCash: :
• A Demo of GNOME GNUCash: :

  The State of GNUCash

• What GNUCash Has: :
• What GNUCash Is Missing: :

  GNU Privacy Guard

• What Is This Signing and Encrypting Crap?: :
• Why Digitally Sign or Encrypt Email?: :
• Demos: :

  Demos

• Signing: :
• Encrypting: :

Ralph Nader for President

• Ralph Nader supports free software
• He is running as the Green Party Candidate
• Help put him on the ballot
• You don't have to vote for him or even like him to help do so--Give the Ohio voters more choices!

Fight UCITA!

• Why UCITA is Bad: :
• How You Can Help Fight UCITA: :

Why UCITA is Bad

• Warranty Problems: :
• Reverse Engineering: :

Warranty Problems

• Warranty is required for all software
• Large companies can avoid warranty with shrink-wrap licenses
• Free software and independent consults cannot avoid warranty

Reverse Engineering

• Reverse Engineering is made illegal by UCITA
• Free software that is compatible with proprietary protocols will be impossible!

How You Can Help Fight UCITA

• Tell friends in Maryland and Virginia to write their state legislatures and governors immediately
• Write to dfc@dfc.org and volunteer to help
• Watch closely for announcements when the bill comes due in Ohio (NOTE: UCITA information has been banned from annonce@clug.org!)
• Write your state representatives and Governor Taft, urging them to oppose UCITA when it is to be adopted
• Take a look at http://www.badsoftware.com and read more

GNUCash

The GNUCash WWW site is http://www.gnucash.org.

• GNUCash Goals: :
• The State of GNUCash: :
• A Demo of GNOME GNUCash: :

GNUCash Goals

• Be a fully functional replacement for the proprietary software, Quicken
• Complete double-entry accounting system
• Allow full programmatic control over all features
• Stable core engine

The State of GNUCash

• What GNUCash Has: :
• What GNUCash Is Missing: :

What GNUCash Has

• Core engine is safe to users
• Motif GUI is well developed
• Gtk+ GUI is usable

What GNUCash Is Missing

• Built-in Reports (One can write Guile code to generate reports at will)
• Some ease of use hot keys are not working

A Demo of GNOME GNUCash

GNU Privacy Guard

• GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) provides a free software, functional equivalent to Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
• GPG provides facilities to digitally sign and encrypt email.

• What Is This Signing and Encrypting Crap?: :
• Why Digitally Sign or Encrypt Email?: :
• Demos: :

What Is This Signing and Encrypting Crap?

• Casual users need not worry too much about the underlying cryptography
• Digital signatures are unique to a given message, and are unique to you.
• If someone modifies your message en-route, the digital signature will be wrong (unless that someone stole your secret keyring!)
• Encrypted messages can only be opened by the recipients you list (unless that someone stole their secret keyrings!)

Why Digitally Sign or Encrypt Email?

• Digital signatures "prove" the email is from you (usually more secure than hand-written signatures!)
• Email can be read by any sysadmin of any server between you and other party

Demos

• Signing: :
• Encrypting: :

Signing

• Alice sends Bob a signed message
• Bob reads message, and signature checks out
• Evil Sysadmin (TM) changes message
• Bob notices that signature no longer matches

Encrypting

• Alice sends Bob an encrypted message
• Evil Sysadmin (TM) tries to read the message, but cannot
• Bob reads the message without a problem

Table of Contents

• Ralph Nader for President
• Fight UCITA!
  • Why UCITA is Bad
    • Warranty Problems
    • Reverse Engineering
  • How You Can Help Fight UCITA
• GNUCash
  • GNUCash Goals
  • The State of GNUCash
    • What GNUCash Has
    • What GNUCash Is Missing
  • A Demo of GNOME GNUCash
• GNU Privacy Guard
  • What Is This Signing and Encrypting Crap?
  • Why Digitally Sign or Encrypt Email?
  • Demos
    • Signing
    • Encrypting