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2013/6/28 Alireza Mahdian <[email protected]>: > 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] > > > -- > 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 -- 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
