On 10/01/14 01:04 AM, grarpamp wrote:
Easy to say :) And then you meet your users, and they don't want that, they
want something different.
ie: I2P has it's main repo in .i2p and some anon developers.
I don't see bootstrapping into the net via peers as 'unwanted',
they are your trusted real world friends for the most part. What
your app does after that with the network db it learns from that
doesn't necessarily need to involve your friend anymore.
What don't they want? A little less initial security for a day while
the app crunches and sorts things out?
They want their lives made easier.
Possibly selecting a trust chain
other than that introduced to them by their friend?
Yes, and that is the big question. They trust their friends [0].
As well as friends, people trust their brands. But brand is almost a
synonym for 'things people trust' so maybe that's a tricky observation.
E.g., USA is a brand, many people trust it. But when they don't, what
happens? And how to deal with it? That's when the arguments start and
we end up down the rabbit hole.
Beyond that, not much is trusted. However they can also not trust to a
very casual degree, hence the ability of viruses to spread via funny
email forwards.
[0] This is why Facebook worked. If you ever want to understand the
secret of Facebook, it's in the movie. It's curious, nobody could tell
me what the secret was, but it's laid out in clear terms, the script
writer is a true genius. I must blog one day about it, I did a
movie-lesson-case-study for startups and wrote up all the notes; that
movie is the one movie I insist all of our people see and understand,
because it documents our space to perfection, but it also lays out why
our business works. And sets the scene for the next evolution.
Reading the public consensus on that?
It sounds like the BS adoption issue people like to claim in
order to not build anything.
Granny learned to surf the net, so Johnny can learn to encrypt.
And both of them know how to read the manual. Seriously.
The adoption issue is because people only recommend things that make
their lives easier. Privacy doesn't make our lives easier, it makes it
safer, and we don't see the protection we got because when privacy works
we don't get any feedback.
So you have to seek the 'easier' lifestyle choice. The place to watch
here is the startup space. They have all the ideas. What they lack is
the implementation capabilities that are found here, e.g.. Put them
together and watch ...
Which is why I'm in yastartup...
iang
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