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. > So let me suggest: no matter what you don't like about this "BALL" and what > you'd like to do better, PLEASE try to follow the principle of inalienable > privileges. Don't run into that trap again an so many did before. This might be a stupid question but I've been following this whole conversation and still don't get what's so magic about inalienable human rights from a software usage case perspective. What am I going to do with my freedom from torture on Facebook? What about my right to bear arms? (At least if I were to live in the US.) On a slightly different note: What's that trap you are talking about? -- [email protected] https://lists.tgbit.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/secu-share
