In fact, the *primary function* of the freedom box should be tracking the user's contacts and enabling authenticated email, IM, and other communication.
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected] > wrote: > On 06/28/2011 12:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > There is a scale, it goes from the worse case scenario where everyone > > you interact with online knows everything else you do online, to the > > best case scenario, where no one you interact with knows enough about > > you to be sure that you are the same person from interaction to > > interaction. > > Sorry to keep harping on this, but i don't think it's being heard (or > internalized), so i'm going to keep on: > > It is *not* a best case scenario where no one you interact with knows > enough about you to be sure that you are the same person from > interaction to interaction. > > Such a situation would be an utter disaster for activists, dissenters, > and the marginalized, who we should be trying to support. > > The goal (as i understand it) is to provide global communication to > these good folks so that they can establish networks of community and > collaboration over otherwise impassable distances. > > Without strong knowledge of identity across the global communication > network, these communities are vulnerable to impersonation and > infiltration by their adversaries. > > We want to ensure that people are in control of who they display and > prove their identity to; we should *not* be in the position of making it > impossible for people to establish long-term authenticated relationships > with other people. > > --dkg > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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