Planet FSFE
The OpenStreetMap data model allows for far more detail than would ever be useful to be recorded. For different people, different levels of detail are going to be useful and sometimes it can be hard to decide how much detail to record when out surveying.
Obviously, the less detail you record the wider the area you can cover, so there’s one trade-off you can consider straight away. In more densely populated areas, you’re likely not to be the only person mapping and so you can distribute the workload and tackle higher detail in smaller areas.
In my previous post, I talked about the udev hack I had used with the YubiKey and how it was not the correct way to do things. I recieved a lot of feedback on this post, and here I’m hoping to summarise what the correct way to do it is.
The rule I was originally using was:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1050",ATTRS{idProduct}=="0111", OWNER="irl" The problem with this rule was that it always made my own username the owner of the YubiKey.
I was first interested in the idea of using a smartcard to store OpenPGP subkeys when I joined the Free Software Foundation Europe as a Fellow and recieved my FSFE Fellowship Card. By performing all cryptographic operations on the smartcard it would remove almost all the routes by which the secret key material could be compromised as the host operating system never has access to that secret material.
I decided that this was something I wanted to try out and I purchased two Cherry G83-6644 keyboards.