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Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control
From: Christian de Larrinaga <cdel () firsthand net>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:35:24 +0100
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, *exactly by virtue* (vice?) of the fact that they are distributed; there is no central Trust Broker.
Current thread:
- Re: Facebook insecure by design, (continued)
- Re: Facebook insecure by design Michael Thomas (Oct 02)
- 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 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)