On Thursday 11 November 2010 00:26:37 [email protected] wrote:
> 2010/11/10 Matthew Toseland <[email protected]>
> 
> > On Saturday 06 November 2010 19:39:09 [email protected] wrote:
> > > 2010/11/6 Ian Clarke <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Toseland <
> > > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Awesome. I'm having difficulty viewing the svg's due to local
> > technical
> > > >> problems. It might save me time if you could post JPEGs or something?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > +1 for jpeg or png, I've tried viewing these in several different apps
> > and
> > > > they look screwed up in all of them.
> > > >
> > > > Yep, dunno why I didn't do that directly... (and svg should open fine
> > in
> > > inkscape).
> > > Anyway, see attached.
> >
> > Ooooh, interesting.
> >
> > Thanks, wasn't sure it would be appreciated.
> 
> > First, IMHO passwords should be optional. Maybe even configurable based on
> > initial seclevels. We are not going to have separate client layer databases
> > for each user, since we want everyone's downloads to work simultaneously -
> > and most nodes will have one user, who may have multiple accounts for e.g.
> > different chat pseudonyms. If passwords are disabled, we can have a simple
> > dropdown login.
> >
> I'm not sure we should allow password-less accounts, maybe it makes sense
> for users who don't really care about their anonymity though. 

Eh? It's their own computer!

The only reason to have a password is:
1) To encrypt the downloads, uploads, and client-cache separately for each 
account. This is an option but is quite heavyweight.
2) In case others have access without having root access i.e. for multi-user 
systems.

Many people won't need either of these things.

> We should add 
> a warning if they want to have a non protected access to their account.
> Regarding the one-account/one-client-layer I agree. But one user shouldn't
> be able to eavesdrop another user's download.

Anyone who has physical/root access can see all the accounts very easily, 
unless we have separate encrypted client layer per account.
> 
> What do you mean by dropdown login? If it's presenting user with different
> possible login, I disagree, we should let the browser manage that. Like in
> linux, if you don't know the username, well, too bad. Or, we could add
> another layer => account => identity. Dunno if it makes sense.

I was just thinking of making it easy, whatever...
> 
> > Second, I like the idea of having a traffic light for darknet vs opennet vs
> > connection problems. I'm happy to defer to folk who better understand
> > usability on how to deal with system notifications, just as long as we do
> > deal with them.
> >
> I don't have in mind any notification that can't be addressed to a specific
> group of users. Do you have something in mind. (btw, and I don't know why I
> didn't ask before, nor why I do ask now, but if someone could forward this
> mockup to FMS/Freetalk/Frost, and have feedback from community (even if this
> doesn't concern the apps currently covered by the mockup), it would be great
> :)

I'm not following. Most alerts concern Freenet itself. Some concern e.g. 
downloads, bookmarks; we can move them. And there's a difference between 
notifications/events and alerts; we can have pop-up notifications in the system 
tray for things like completed downloads?
> 
> > I like the idea of searching forums, mails and friends. This implies adding
> > more functionality, of course... A publish-to-friends files list, Freemail
> > with a web interface and searching, and searching in Freetalk, and a way to
> > tie them all together. Also eventually we will have WoT-based search - we
> > still need to solve the "darknet friends" versus "anonymous friends" naming
> > issue.
> >
> > I let that to native english speaker ;)
> 
> > I'm not sure how much social-style functionality we want at the darknet
> > level, since it's only visible to our friends? Although it might be
> > propagated further configurably if some users wanted that? Not sure whether
> > "user groups" makes sense...
> >
> Well, the idea behind user groups is to allow pure-darknet users to use it
> event if they don't want to use WoT.
> For instance: I use darknet, I use WoT because (fill in a reason), but I
> still want that some informations I provide are relayed by my friends only
> (or the friends of my friends, etc.).
> 
> I have one problem though. How can we identify a darknet user who don't want
> to use WoT but who still want his darknet "account" to be secure (i.e. I'm a
> darknet user, but I don't want that people having access to my computer
> being able to access my freenet session)?

I'm not sure I understand.
> 
> > For anonymous WoT-based peers, we need a profile page for each of the peers
> > on the WoT, with trust levels, applications, any social stuff they publish
> > etc...
> >
> Is that a problem? (I'm asking seriously, I don't have any idea)
> 
The Web of Trust menu partly implements this but needs more work and is not 
very user friendly yet.

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