Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-24 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:05:03 +0300 Alexander Krotov wrote: Hey Alexander, > Also I don't understand what does "lambda users" mean. a lambda user is a nameless user who only uses a given website once. The name comes from the basis of what a "lambda function" is. It's an anonymous closure. In thi

Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-23 Thread Alexander Krotov
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 02:12:23PM +0100, Sylvain BERTRAND wrote: > non-massively decentralized protocols You probably want to use the word "federated". Also I don't understand what does "lambda users" mean.

Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-23 Thread Alexander Krotov
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 04:18:40AM +, Caleb Malchik wrote: > I was wondering what the suckless community thinks about various > projects aimed at Internet decentralisation and privacy Decentralization results in metadata leakage and therefore reduces privacy. By splitting the system into compo

Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-23 Thread hiro
what is lambda?

Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-23 Thread Sylvain BERTRAND
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:21:46AM +0100, hiro wrote: > now that everybody and their kitchen sink has internet it's getting a > bit late for privacy. teaching people not to use android phones is a > nearly pointless activity. > computer security and privacy is now a luxury of the technical elite >

Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-23 Thread Markus Teich
hiro wrote: > try with a small group of people first that actually has a need for privacy. Heyho, in the special case where this privacy is to be achieved not with encryption, authentication and authorization (to limit the number of entities who are allowed to learn the secret which should be pro

Re: [dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-23 Thread hiro
now that everybody and their kitchen sink has internet it's getting a bit late for privacy. teaching people not to use android phones is a nearly pointless activity. computer security and privacy is now a luxury of the technical elite and illiterate or offline people. software has given all the me

[dev] Internet privacy/decentralisation projects

2017-01-22 Thread Caleb Malchik
Greetings, I was wondering what the suckless community thinks about various projects aimed at Internet decentralisation and privacy - some of which are listed here [0]. Are there any projects in this area that are particularly promising from a suckless perspective? My personal reason for asking i