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Alway-on encryption is necessary but not sufficient. As long as Facebook or Google have the decrypted information, you are still subject to the transnational dy
by hughw 14y ago
Alway-on encryption is necessary but not sufficient. As long as Facebook or Google have the decrypted information, you are still subject to the transnational dystopia.
The other day I found this fellow's idea for a peer-to-peer social network service: http://code.google.com/p/peer-book/ http://code.google.com/p/peer-book/
"Your data is stored in a distributed fashion, across the network, so that even when you turn off your instance of PeerBook, your friends will still be able to view your Profile and send you messages.
"Of course, all of this data is encrypted and backed up several times, so that even if Alice's data is being stored on Eve's machine, Eve will only be able to read it if she is Alice's friend; and Eve will only ever be able to delete her local copy of Alice's data which has no effect on its overall availability to the rest of Alice's friends."
He's got the right idea. I haven't examined the project, and it doesn't seem active.
- ef4 14y agohttps://github.com/diaspora/diaspora https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora
- moe 14y agoHow on earth can you bring up diaspora in this context? Some kind of cruel joke? I'm downvoting parent and giving you the right link: https://freenetproject.org/ https://freenetproject.org/
- ef4 14y agoHeh, I probably should have said it's not an endorsement. Just another example of a (dubious) attempt at a distributed social network.
- hughw 14y agoThanks, it was useful to learn of the project.
- Egregore 14y agoDo Freenet now have any social features in it? Last time I looked (few years ago) it didn't have any significant.
- rattus 14y agoIt appears to be useful for admins getting convicted of CP trafficking for running a node. Does that count? Try this one: http://distributedcity.github.com/ http://distributedcity.github.com/ The previous incarnation of Distributed City was pretty cool. I haven't looked at their new code.
- Egregore 14y agoIt's difficult to work on a project when you don't see the support, the people who would like to use it.