put more simply: the notion of a "privacy-preserving social network" is an inherent contradiction in terms.
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Stephen Michael Kellat <[email protected] > wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 23:21:37 -0600 > Alireza Mahdian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > With all the recent news on NSA spying on social network users the > concern over the user privacy has increased even more. I am not arguing > whether it is ethical or not and whether it is needed for the safety of > citizens and how effective it would be. even before this, social network > providers like Facebook and Google were violating user privacy in so many > ways and only a small fraction of it was revealed. > > > > A need for a more secure and private social network has always been > there and was never adequately addressed. I have been working on this issue > for a long time and I have been able to design and implement a social > network that is inherently user privacy preserving. it uses military grade > encryption and no authority can have any control over it. one design goal > behind it was actually to make it resilient towards government imposed > censorship and filtering. This is specially useful as it provides a very > effective tool for democracy movement advocacy groups. I have implemented a > prototype and you can check it out at http://joinmyzone.com . It is a > complex piece of software but to summarize how it works you can think of it > as implementing a social network over bittorrent. it supports all the > common features of Facebook and Google+. Feel free to send me your > feedbacks. thanks. > > > > Ali > > > > -- > > Alireza Mahdian > > Department of Computer Science > > University of Colorado at Boulder > > Email: [email protected] > > > > Hello Ali! > > A couple quick questions after reading through most of the thread: > > 1. Where can a copy of your dissertation be procured? Is it available in > an appropriate Open Access repository or would other steps need to be taken > to secure a copy? > > 2. As designer of a social network, what is your view of the Internet as > a transport layer today? How will it fare against various degrees of > social and political instability found currently across this planet? > > 3. Distilling it down to perhaps a couple sentences that do not repeat > the thread subject line, how would you pitch usage of this social network > to an average US consumer in contrast to mass market tools like Facebook or > Twitter? > > Stephen Michael Kellat > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech > -- David Golumbia [email protected]
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