Cecilia, Your strong ability to stay positive and express care at all times is inspiring to me. Thank you.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 8:48 AM Cecilia Tanaka <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Karl... Hope you are feeling happy and healthy! :D > > The Liberation Tech's new email address is <[email protected]> > . I am copying the list, so they can read your original message. :D > > Disinfected kisses and hugs! Wish you and all the other members an > awesome life, without bugs and viruses of any kind, hihi! <3 > > Ceci, very sleepy, sorry! > ---------- > Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our > Hackerspace. <3 > ---------- > "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your > curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all > you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Karl <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Apr 6, 2020, 06:40 > Subject: OpenWatch History > To: <[email protected]>, liberationtech < > [email protected]>, cypherpunks < > [email protected]> > > > Has anybody heard of the cell phone app OpenWatch? > > It used to run at https://www.openwatch.net/ and let anybody upload video > recordings live and secretly from their mobile phone, and publicized them. > Page archives show it came out of Boston and San Francisco. > > Since it was focused on monitoring of authorities, it makes sense it would > have struggled as this could spread power in ways that are harder for > authorities to control, making their various tasks more difficult, and > possibly pitting the urgent engine of control of crime against the project. > > I don't see any evidence of OpenWatch having planned to discontinue, or > notifying the public they were. There is nobody on their irc channel, and > their twitter account has been deleted. Their github has an open > improvement branch that is unmerged, and no following developer activity > since. > > Nowadays there are services like https://siasky.net/ and > https://bico.media/ and some others, that can connect with reliable > decentralized storage backed by the strength of a blockchain. As > blockchains rise it is becoming easier to support apps like OpenWatch in > ways that won't disappear very readily. bico.media may go down some day, > but the data uploaded is still stored permanently on the blockchain behind > it, and the app that stores that data could be stored on that blockchain as > well. > > I was wondering if anybody knew the story of what happened to OpenWatch, > or if anybody was interested in resurrecting OpenWatch's work with a little > motion towards migrating onto a blockchain. > https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-Android > > Maybe planning for disruption a little could make project development > ideas that last longer. Like clear instructions for newcomers to rebuild > after developers disperse. >
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