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Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control
From: Travis Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:48:04 -0400
At the end of the day Social Networks just want to make interactions as natural as possible so they can continue to mine and monetize your relationship data as you get more comfortable sharing the 'real you.' Anyone who hasn't and has an interest in privacy, graph and content ownership on social networks should check out the Diaspora project. -Travis On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Christian de Larrinaga <cdel () firsthand net>wrote:
You know I don't need Facebook to introduce (broker) me to anyone! I am more than happy managing my own relationships (gradations of trust included!) Oh and my friends are distributed in the real world as well! This works pretty well even without a "social network" or a "system". When the Diginotar certification authority was badly compromised I got a bunch of information from many sources using those protocols which span the standards sphere of the Internet each bringing information that I value at varying levels of trust and applicability. Between and in combination of all this input I was able to take action and remove Diginotar from my keychain. I could have waited for Apple to stir its stumps but didn't need to. All those independent distributed "trust brokers" did a fine job! thanks folks! Christian On 4 Oct 2011, at 16:38, Jay Ashworth wrote:As usual, the underlying issue is one of trust. Alas, I see no theoretical way that distributed systems like Diaspora*can*provide some of the functions that are core to systems like Facebook,*exactlyby virtue* (vice?) of the fact that they are distributed; there is nocentralTrust Broker.
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Current thread:
- Re: Facebook insecure by design, (continued)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Patrick Sumby (Oct 03)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jason Leschnik (Oct 03)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Michael Thomas (Oct 03)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jimmy Hess (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Joel jaeggli (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Joel jaeggli (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Bill.Pilloud (Oct 04)
- OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Jay Ashworth (Oct 04)
- Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Christian de Larrinaga (Oct 04)
- Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control Travis Biehn (Oct 05)
- Config files? Green, Timothy (Oct 05)
- Re: Config files? William Herrin (Oct 05)
- Re: Config files? David Swafford (Oct 08)
- Re: Config files? isabel dias (Oct 08)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jimmy Hess (Oct 02)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Murtaza (Oct 19)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jeroen Massar (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Jay Ashworth (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design steve pirk [egrep] (Oct 23)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Robert Bonomi (Oct 24)