On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Simon Hirscher <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:22 PM, "Jörg F. Wittenberger" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 12.11.2013 11:04, schrieb carlo von lynX: > >> I don't believe sharing your party pictures with > >> your employer is the #1 usage problem we have to deal with - users are > >> slowly learning to be aware of that and it is actually a tech problem of > >> Facebook that it cannot separate the employers from the party people. > >> With the PSYC channel logic separation in secushare is easy. > > > > > > Hm, wasn't this the point where I was not sure in the first place? I > don't > > see that a floating point number is enough to assure a strict enough > > permission handling. I do require more (see above). And I'd recommend > > everybody to go back to the "human rights" test to verify that their > > permission management system will not betray them. > > > > Let me chime in here because I think the two of you are talking about > two different things. > > The floating point number is just a measure of some kind of general > trust that you have in a person, reflecting whether you think that > person (node) is working for the NSA or whether you trust this person > with e.g. storing your backups or forwarding your messages… which that > person still won't be able to read if he's not the recipient since > they are encrypted. Yet, he might be able to tell who is sending > messages to whom. > > The permissions Carlo is talking about above (and you as well) are way > up the software architecture. GNUnet needs the floating point to do > the basic routing but couldn't care less about whether you share your > party pics with your friends or your employer. The latter part is > managed on the level of PSYC channels. > Ah, thank you so much for this clarification!! I was absolutely getting the floating point trust model confused with how to customize the privacy/recipients of a message. In that case I am still wondering whether it is possible to do facebook/g+/etc -style "posts" that are visible to the "public", "friends", or some custom group of contacts. Thanks! -- Board of Directors, Free Culture Foundation: www.freeculture.org Campaigns Organizer, Free Software Foundation: www.fsf.org Blog: http://kxra.info - StatusNet Microblog: http://identi.ca/kxra Email: [email protected] - SMS: +1.617.340.3661 Jabber/XMPP: [email protected] - IRC: kxra @freenode @oftc @indymedia
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