[Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-06-29 Thread John Walsh
Hi Everyone, I assume the "Freedom Social Network" will work similar to other social networks. One thing I would like to see when you connect to someone either via an invite or a request is to capture the relationship (one or many) from each party's POV e.g. co-resident, sibling, friend etc. Each

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-06-29 Thread Marc Manthey
On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:28 AM, John Walsh wrote: Families/individuals should manage their own personal identities through their own domain name, but instead most people have Google and Facebook manage their personal identities - nobody would do this in the real world. exactly john, but

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-06-29 Thread James Vasile
There are a few options in how we sort contacts into groups. We can do it like Facebook. Everybody friends your profile and you manually group them. The grouping is private in that your friends don't know what groups they're in (and most of the time, even if they've been grouped at all). We can

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread John Walsh
Hi James, Thanks for your response > We can do it like Facebook. Everybody friends your profile > and you manually group them. The grouping is private in that > your friends don't know what groups they're in (and most of > the time, even if they've been grouped at all). At the time you "fr

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread Marc Manthey
We can do it like Facebook. Everybody friends your profile and you manually group them. The grouping is private in that your friends don't know what groups they're in (and most of the time, even if they've been grouped at all). At the time you "friend" (connect) a profile instead of "Accept" y

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread J David Eisenberg
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Marc Manthey wrote: >>> We can do it like Facebook.  Everybody friends your profile >>> and you manually group them.  The grouping is private in that >>> your friends don't know what groups they're in (and most of >>> the time, even if they've been grouped at all).

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread ya knygar
please, take a look on XMPP initiatives for federated social staff with security and privacy in mind. XMPP is very flexible and mature stack of protocols, and, with all respect, we'll need the flexibility. i'll repost: http://primarypad.com/OeMj2ZnZqo list, there are - enough projects in various

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread Marc Manthey
On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:41 PM, ya knygar wrote: please, take a look on XMPP initiatives for federated social staff with security and privacy in mind. XMPP is very flexible and mature stack of protocols, and, with all respect, we'll need the flexibility. because cisco bought it ? http://www.cis

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread ya knygar
>because cisco bought it ? that's only - one, small, outcome ;) ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-01 Thread 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 people we can identify and trust, not just

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-02 Thread John Walsh
> 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

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-02 Thread Tony Godshall
... > Another concern for me is the project has a BSD license. Does this make it > incompatible with the freedombox project? Which licences does the freedombox > support? ... The BSD license without the advertising clause meets all relevant FLOSS definitions: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedi

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-02 Thread Tony Godshall
... > Friendika's documentation makes a good point that all communications do not > need to be reciprocal. Boy gives a girl his number allowing the girl to call > him, but the boy cannot call the girl until she gives him permission(her > number). I never thought of that use case. ... Yes, I think

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-02 Thread John Walsh
> 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(

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-02 Thread John Walsh
> 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 > tr

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-03 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 3 July 2011 00:58, John Walsh wrote: > > >> 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

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-03 Thread John Walsh
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-

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-03 Thread John Walsh
Hi Melvin, > From: Melvin Carvalho [mailto:melvincarva...@gmail.com] > > Basically at myopenid.com you can create different "Personas" > > (profiles of information), which you choose at the time you > login with > > openid. For me you could have a friend persona, a sibling > persona etc. >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-04 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 4 July 2011 07:25, John Walsh wrote: >  Hi Melvin, > >> From: Melvin Carvalho [mailto:melvincarva...@gmail.com] >> > Basically at myopenid.com you can create different "Personas" >> > (profiles of information), which you choose at the time you >> login with >> > openid. For me you could have a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-04 Thread Mike Macgirvin
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 group of people. There is a defau

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-04 Thread Henry Story
On 4 Jul 2011, at 15:50, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>> >>> >>> You dont need AX (attribute exchane), just use the HTML5 data >>> layer, which should be fine if freedom box is hosting a web server. >> >> I looked at WebID a year ago and thought the idea was simple and brillant. >> However, at the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-04 Thread knel...@gmail.com
Submit a patch. Its open source. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Henry Story wrote: On 4 Jul 2011, at 15:50, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >>> >>> >>> You dont need AX (attribute exchane), just use the HTML5 data >>> layer, which should be fine if freedom box is

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-05 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/01/2011 11:14 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: > Um... keysingings? > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Key_signing_party > Not that they're particularly user-friendly :-( Keysigning parties work well, but if pseudanonymity is your goal yo

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-06 Thread Tony Godshall
>> Um... keysingings? >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Key_signing_party >> Not that they're particularly user-friendly :-( > > Keysigning parties work well, but if pseudanonymity is your goal you'll > have to either accept a much lower trust rating from everyone there > because yo

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/06/2011 02:43 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: > Obviously a keysigning "party" is not > appropriate for people who want to be > anonymous. But I don't see why, if you've > verified a claimed identity in some other > reasonable sense you cannot sign someone's > key even if its pseudonymous. i agree

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-06 Thread nathan nolast
i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/06/2011 02:43 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Obviously a keysigning "party" is not > > appropriate for people who want to be > > anonymous. But I don't see w

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/07/2011 02:41 AM, nathan nolast wrote: > i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use I agree that current keysigning methods are cumbersome, primarily due to the requirement that human beings have to cognitively process long hexadecimal strings (large numbers). I recommend reviewing the d

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread The Doctor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2011 02:43 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: > anonymous. But I don't see why, if you've > verified a claimed identity in some other > reasonable sense you cannot sign someone's > key even if its pseudonymous. You can sign a pseudanonymous key and p

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/07/2011 02:36 PM, The Doctor wrote: > You can sign a pseudanonymous key and publish it. What you have to be > cognizant of, however, is the trust level of the pseudanonymous key (set > when the public key is signed), which ranges from 0 (no trust at all) to > 5 (trust fully). Urgh, this is

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Tony Godshall
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:41 PM, nathan nolast wrote: > i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . of course they do. propose a solution. ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org htt

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Tony Godshall
>> (grandma can use it) rule . > > Can we please stop using "grandma" as the canonical non-technical user? >  The gender and age prejudice implicit in these statements only hurts > efforts to build a diverse development community (and makes the > community look like thoughtless jerks). > > If you d

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Marc Manthey
On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:41 PM, nathan nolast wrote: i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . of course they do. propose a solution. The questions is more " Who decide whitch path we go ". maybe we shou

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Tony Godshall
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Marc Manthey wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Tony Godshall wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:41 PM, nathan nolast >> wrote: >>> >>> i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . >> >> of course they do. propose a solution. >

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread Sandy Harris
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:41 PM, nathan nolast wrote: > i think keysignings violate lutzs ease of use (grandma can use it) rule . Is it enough if people just sign their grandmas' keys? ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-07 Thread John Walsh
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

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-07-08 at 02:50pm, John Walsh wrote: > At connection time, I should be allowed to opt-in to having my name > published by a friend - it is my identity after all. > > I was also reminded about what I consider a major privacy flaw in all > social networks. When you post to your wall you are p

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-08 Thread nathan nolast
seems like we keep walking in circles how do we allow users to identify themselves or each other, yet remain anonymous. The process of identifying a user, determining someone is who they say they are crosses the threshold and puts the said user at risk of being identified ect ect. Yes, all aspec

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/08/2011 12:20 PM, nathan nolast wrote: > now, i know that the freedombox is going to be used by average individuals > that are not interested in remaining anonymous for what ever reason. But > lets not kid ourself, social networking is social networking... we can > increase the privacy, make

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-11 Thread Sébastien Lerique
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/07/11 14:13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 07/08/2011 12:20 PM, nathan nolast wrote: >> now, i know that the freedombox is going to be used by average individuals >> that are not interested in remaining anonymous for what ever reason. But >> le

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Isaac Wilder
Sébastien, Comments follow inline, but I wanted to say before I begin that this conversation seems utterly necessary to me at this juncture. I think that you've presented a workable breakdown of the issues at hand, though I hold that you've neglected one FreedomBox capacity that I would consider e

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread ya knygar
> I only mean to say that I have some doubts > about the efficacy of on-list conversation, because I do not see much > participation from members of the TAC. That's, i think, the consequences of using mail-lists (among other). What i'm trying to explain in "Discussion system for FreedomBox Foundat

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Sébastien Lerique
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everybody, On 12/07/11 14:17, Isaac Wilder wrote: > I think > that you've presented a workable breakdown of the issues at hand, > though I hold that you've neglected one FreedomBox capacity that I > would consider essential. > Indeed it was m

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Sébastien Lerique
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/11 15:36, ya knygar wrote: >> I only mean to say that I have some doubts >> about the efficacy of on-list conversation, because I do not see much >> participation from members of the TAC. > > That's, i think, the consequences of using mail-li

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread ya knygar
> Indeed, and in that "dividing into actionable parts" the problem is > consensus: consensus that we need to break it down into parts, consensus > on what parts, consensus on who defined the parts. To me this is > independent from mailing-list / other communication. IMO it should come > from TAC /

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Stefano Maffulli
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 16:05 -0300, Sébastien Lerique wrote: > If the > Foundation and/or the TAC want to pull back and start planning as a > smaller group I'm fine with it (although I would have loved to be part > of that process), I think if done properly it would even serve the > goals better (as

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Sébastien Lerique
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/11 20:38, Stefano Maffulli wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 16:05 -0300, Sébastien Lerique wrote: >> If the >> Foundation and/or the TAC want to pull back and start planning as a >> smaller group I'm fine with it (although I would have loved to

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

2011-07-12 Thread Sébastien Lerique
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well it looks like the recent news update on the foundation's website gives answers to many questions. My apologies if I sounded too critical in my previous posts. I maintain the suggestion for the working groups, and if anybody is interested in the p