On Sat, Oct 4, 2014, at 07:02 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 03/10/14 16:03, Nathan of Guardian wrote: > > Second, within the limits of Bluetooth, we can employ some useful > > app behaviors to extend the range of any message. In the latest > > code, if you have paired with a trusted person’s device (using the > > built-in Bluetooth settings panel of your device), and the > > Gilgamesh app receives a broadcast message from that user, it will > > be automatically re-shared, aka re-tweeted, aka RT. (Yes, we are > > building old school Twitter here, just over Bluetooth). What this > > creates then is a chain reaction – “the wave” phenomenon that I > > blogged about earlier – that allows a message to propagate up to > > 30ft in any direction, over and over again, as long as there are > > trusted/paired devices out in the crowd. > > Are you assuming that trust is transitive? If Alice and Bob have > paired their devices and Bob receives a retweet from Alice, who claims > it was originally tweeted by Carol, then Bob will trust Alice and > retweet it, right? Likewise for anyone who trusts Bob. So Alice only > needs to fool a single person into trusting her in order to spread > forged messages. > > > In addition to the auto-retweet feature, anyone can press and hold > > on a message, and it will allow for a manually RT, whether you are > > paired with the sender or not. > > I think this is a better way to handle retweets. Make it as easy as > possible, but make it manual. > > This is essentially what we're planning to do with forums in Briar. > > > Finally, let’s not forget that anyone with any bluetooth device, be > > it a simple feature phone, an iPad or a laptop, can participate in > > this process, by changing their Bluetooth device name manually > > themselves, and setting it to a retweet message. > > Perhaps it would make sense to use a special character (such as >) at > the start of the device name to indicate that it's meant to be > interpreted as a message? Otherwise people will keep saying "Alice's > iPad" in the chatroom. ;-) > > Cheers, > Michael > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUL9PVAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMBAEH/Ao+br+9Pfp0oIhOfD8UkJgW > //PbsQKIVDFL+3ZXtjyqkUSeRJxyS6j1L93FtKJtJC/afzXQ8J68+sYDzZBshDSM > 7pZNDXrT6Qun999MRMb1WQjBpkD+fCB4ppe6QuRqNwoh/ZUTUMakirF9auR5YOwW > sfqjJi/og7LX9BgBYcHUjpoK/4lgYeE+gNif5YUVKB6bWiFkObC8/1m4MZyZVigJ > B2luBW+JACsMjayNCWA4xcg4c3nWoP0RNpHkz6APtCs0Cue78DTmIEThfQKf0mxo > N6rF9jnuvmli+82wbvscOT5aK0QHsXtciFboCf7/FsU8L63/KbYXvqR8up7HHbQ= > =xlG0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thanks for the feedback on the poisoning possibility. I have removed autoreshare for now, but made manual reshare even easier. Also all Gilga statusnames must start with a space to differentiate from standard Bluetooth names. Here is the latest update; http://openideals.com/2014/10/06/gilgamesh-twitter-over-bluetooth/ -- Nathan of Guardian [email protected] _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
