Hi Everybody,
In the web of trust (WOT), I can create my own identity/key as opposed to a
Certificate Authority managing my identity/key. I could bring my key to a
key signing party with proof of identity. Let's say Fred was at the key
signing party, he checks my proof of identity and signs my
Hi Henry,
I followed your post to the Lifeshare video. It's so cool the way you just
drag and drop a FOAF profile from another website onto Lifeshare to add a
friend. This means your friends do not have to have Lifeshare, only a FOAF
profile.
So sweet.
fiftyfour
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Hi,
Copying my complete PGP key from one machine to another machine using the
import/export process seems quite tedious. Can you auto sync your complete
key from one machine to another using a keyserver?
I suspect a keyserver is only used to store and manage ones public key. I am
just getting
Hi Everybody,
I have been think about online privacy for a while from what I have learnt
from reading on this list and elsewhere. Below I have tried to join the dots
to online privacy and I would be grateful for your feedback. Part of me
thinks this is obvious to most people on this list, but I
Hi all,
I do have however a
hunch (correct me if I'm wrong) that the capabilities of
debian hosting might be more limited than what I would expect
for setting up a modern website (mysql, shell
access,control panel...). Beyond the technical limitations
I wondered too about the Debian's
Hi Marc,
On 11-09-04 at 02:19pm, Marc Manthey wrote:
I looked at the http://freedomboxfoundation.org website and
i was not
able to find any links related to the actual state of the
project nor
the recommened software hardware pages , whitch i can remember some
month before.
The
Hi Jonas,
I see little to sell at the current stage, apart from
dreams and opportunities to contribute. I find the wiki
appropriate for that.
I think we need to sell the dream better to draw in more volunteers and
donations. It's too confusing now. I remember when I decided I wanted to
Hi dkg,
Same as 0.
not sure what you mean here -- are you saying that your
response to this point is the same as your response to point
1 ? if you mean to imply that these two points are the same
as each other, i've miscommunicated something; i think
they're different.
Sorry,
Hi Marc,
Behalf Of Marc Manthey
Do you think human readable names are important to FBX?
of course it is !!! who can remind such an adress ?
2001:0:53aa:64c:
0:3ffc:b1cf:75ea
People can't remember, which is the reason we have address books for our
contacts and bookmarks for
Hi Everybody,
bdale dogstar: to me, 'email' means smtp, et al .. however, vasile will
attest that I've mentioned several times that to do something truly
distributed and secure, we need to think more in terms of messaging other
than smtp
bdale fiftyfour: configuring an smtp+imap email service
Hi Bjarni,
First of all, I would be gratefully if somebody could explain how an
smtp+imap email service does not align or promote many of
the desired
attributes of a FBX?
I personally would consider a good e-mail, and especially
*webmail* experience to be a very valuable addition to
Hi Everybody,
http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DistributedNaming.
The research on this wiki page is excellent, but I have serious concerns
about the following statement:
The weakness and centralization/hierarchical structure of the DNS standard
call for the adoption in the project of
Hi Nick,
0: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver/
Excellent documentation. Great structure and well written. Truly impressive.
I'm a user and I could understand it ;)
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Hi Melvin,
Behalf Of Melvin Carvalho
This might be helpful too
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb-20101206/#Terminolo
gy
I read the document, only to find I was re-inventing the wheel with my FBX
suggestions, sigh :(
I liked the documents big picture approach and I
Hi Melvin,
This might be helpful too
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/XGR-socialweb-20101206/#Terminolo
gy
The report from December last year, was several years of
study of the identity landscape, invited experts from pretty
much every major group had input and gave
Hi Brandon,
I, too, am interested in helping to document the big
picture since I probably won't be of much help on the
low-level technical details.
Perhaps we can start something on the wiki and those with
more detailed knowledge in particular areas can help to
clarify and fine-tune
Swift proposes identity management system to banks
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2011/08/15/247618/Swift-proposes-iden
tity-management-system-to-banks.htm
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Hi Everybody,
There are a lot of smart people within the project and they have years of
experience of using software and social networking sites. The thing that
appealed to me about this project was that a) you get hardware like a
consumer appliance b) you use existing software. I FreedomBox
Hi James,
What problems still exist in social networking that we need
a UX expert?
What do people think?
UX is more than just UI and knowing what labels to use.
Expertise in this area is a priority. I'm putting the
finishing touches on the Working Groups doc this weekend, and
the
Hi Sandy,
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:05 PM, John Walsh
fiftyf...@waldevin.com wrote:
1) Does this mean each layer is independent of each other?
That is the whole point of layers. Applications just use TCP
or UDP; they need not care about anything below that. TCP and
UDP use IP
Hi Jonas,
And please, someone beautify the project page:
http://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/FreedomBox
I updated the project page with the Cow in a Debian Box logo because it
was the only image I could find. I also added some FreedomBox blurb. I could
only find CSS for the FreedomBox Logo
Hi Bdale,
I looked at Buddycloud's website and was surprised to learn
that they
hope to release next February. That's 7 months away. Why is the
project evaluating software that's still in development
when there are
more *mature* social networking applications such as
Friendika,
Hi Jonas,
Where did you find that outdated info? I am sitting right
now at the Buddycloud village at CCCamp, and am sure they
would love to know any miscommunication like that, to be able
to correct it.
When you click on the sign-up/login button on the home page you are advised
that the
Hi dkg,
Thank you for the thought experiment. It helped quite a bit. I still have a
few more questions which I hope you can find the time to answer.
None of these things requires the use of legal or birth-given names.
Thanks for confirming that because the key signing parties how-to required
Hi Melvin,
In general it would be fair to say WebiD has a dependency
on DNS but
so does email email. In both systems there are cases
where you can
work without DNS.
You can self sign web server certs. This is what I do.
Will WebID client certs work with a web server that has a
Hi Bdale,
Thank you and the rest of the team for all your hard work both in developing
and promoting the FBX in Banja Luka.
quote
I've started studying yate as a possible call manager and VoIP server choice
with XMPP/jingle support, and we await with great interest a release from
the Buddycloud
Hi Henry,
If by clients you mean browsers then current browsers of
course will show error messages. DNSSEC and IETF Dane (or
something along those lines such as Dan Kaminsky's text
proposal) should allow self signed server certs to be
deployed that should allow browser not to show such
Hi Melvin,
My solution to this is to use the same RSA key for both my
WebID and my OpenPGP key.
Is an RSA key a self-signed key for WebID and an OpenPGP key?
It's often seen as an either/or choice by people not familiar
with one or the other, but I think both approaches have
something
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s.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Sandy Harris
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To:
Hi Everybody,
First of all a hat tip to dkg for an excellent presentation. You made crypto
so interesting to me, a user, that I jumped on to Wikipedia to find out
more. Needless to say I have a few questions about crypto, but hopefully in
asking these questions you will see the stumbling blocks in
Hi dkg
Thanks for taking the time to give such a comprehensive answer with links :)
Eager to learn
I agree it's a good idea to be able to use the existing DNS
for ease of transition; that doesn't mean that i think the
existing DNS is decentralized :(
I think now, decentralised was a poor
Hi Stef,
Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli
My suggestion is to hang in there, stay calm, read and write
your thoughts in an civil manner. Time will also help clear
the landscape.
Thank you for your words of encouragement.
Stay tuned for news from DebConf, you'll be able to follow
the talks
Hi Everybody,
There has been been a lot of heated and name calling on the mailing list
recently;
quote
On 11-07-21 at 05:38pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
this is a complex project WHERE THE REQUIRED SOFTWARE DOESN'T EXIST.
have i said it enough times, you think??
Yes. One time was
Hi Bert, Ian and James,
One ideal for the FreedomBox is that it be self hosting. All the
servers it relies on should be other FreedomBoxes. That's a lofty
goal, though, and it would take a *lot* of time to make
+1
But then, how would the freedombox interconnect to each
others? How
Hi Everybody,
FBX is my first Debian project and I am more than happy to use the Debian
infrastructure (mailing list, wiki) because I trust the processes are well
tuned by now. Still, as a Debian project newbie could somebody
explain/provide a link to the Debian processes in the context of a
Hi Ted,
I am expressing my personal opinion and do not speak for FBF.
I think that the mistake being made most on this mailing list
is the tendency to devise solutions to complicated problems.
Sadly, this is just not a thing that can be done on a mailing
list. If the FreedomBox project
Hi James,
This looks like an interesting approach. Has anybody used
it/hacked it/loved it/hated it? Is this something you want
to see in the FreedomBox?
http://project.friendika.com/
I have used Friendika.
What I like
Distributed Social Network software.
Create multiple profiles for
Hi James,
I am not proposing any new groups, but my comments below have suggested some
additional goals and shifting some goals between the groups.
## UI / UX / HID
+1 to help. At this stage it's a see how she goes commitment because I'm not
sure if I can contribute, but happy to test at a
If you can, stick with the FreedomBox name because so much time, energy and
dare I say it branding have been spent on getting that name out there. If
you have to go with a name change, change names quickly to get the new name
out. Please pick an innocent sounding name like FBX.
I don't really
s.alioth.debian.org] On Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli
Feedback and code appreciated http://freedomboxfoundation.org /stef
I have to scroll horizontally to see the home page on my netbook :(
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Hi Mike and Everybody
Friendika was mentioned in this thread but in a different
context, so I wanted to point out what we do for profile
personas. There may be some ideas you can use. It's a
distributed system, but has multiple profiles.
You can tailor any profile for any person or
Hi Tony,
-Original Message-
From: apgodsh...@gmail.com [mailto:apgodsh...@gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Tony Godshall
Sent: Sunday, 3 July 2011 2:04 AM
To: fiftyf...@waldevin.com
Cc: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven
From: J David Eisenberg [mailto:jdavid.eisenb...@gmail.com]
You might also want to investigate Friendika (1); I'm running
a Friendika server (2), and it also allows groups, though I
haven't worked with them extensively. The Friendika protocol
is documented and in the public domain (3)
Behalf Of Marc Manthey
At the time you friend (connect) a profile instead of
Accept you
must choose a relationship(s) (sibling, parent, etc.) or
Ignore. The
same as facebook this relationship selection remains private. These
relationships can be based on XFN(1). This minimises
Behalf Of Tony Godshall
... The same principle exist between a reporter and a
whistleblower.
The pseudonymity article suggests the technology exists to protect
freedom fighters through unlinkable pseudonyms.
It's important, I think, to be able to extend the web of
trust to
Here is an article on upcoming social networking enhancements
to Google, called Google+. Inspirational for conceptual (and,
if web-based,
interface) design, and scary in other aspects.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/inside-google-how-the-
search-giant-plans-to-go-social.ars
Hi,
Tonido has been around a few years and have similar ambitions to FreedomBox.
I hope my observations as a Tonido user will help FreedomBox avoid Tonido's
mistakes. Basically my setup is that I have 3 PC's behind a router with
built-in firewall/SPI features. Each PC has Tonido installed, each
Hi Sebastien,
This is my first reply to a mailing-list, so please forgive me if this goes
wrong.
Hello everybody,
On 26/06/11 11:23, Bob Mottram wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:29:33 +1000, John Walsh wrote:
My hope is that the FreedomBox designers take the time to
get right
port
Hi,
This is my first post to any mailing list so if I say/do anything wrong
please forgive me. I am really excited about the promise of freedombox and I
hope it realises its full potential. Unfortunately, I am only a user so my
opinions will probably not carry much weight, but I hope you at
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