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> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data. I find this to be fundamentally wrong. After you post s
by notemaker 8y ago
> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that users should own and control all of their data.
I find this to be fundamentally wrong. After you post something on Scuttlebutt, you have no control of that data. Sure, it's stored on your computer, but it's also shared with your whole network who now have as much control of it as you have.
I'd instead put it like this:
> What makes Scuttlebutt unique is the simple idea that no one entity should control all of the users' data.
- tzakrajs 8y agoCan I chip away at that final assertion even more? If the data is easily discovered through crawling the network, and nodes on the network are less resilient than Facebook's sprawling infrastructure, you've potentially given a single attacker control over reading and denying access* to data. There will need to be protocol to mitigate attacks on the network by sharing information between nodes. *if they can determine where the copies reside