I have an idea/question.
One of the business models I have been throwing around lately is a multi-personal networking system . Users would buy a “box” plug it in to the net, set up their account and go. This would be able to tie into their home network windows/mac files remotely. However the main goal of the system is to offer a simple built in OS, with a facebook like networking experience, self hosted email, self hosted picture storage and most importantly a distributed computing platform (should users opt in) for encoding video, or doing compute intensive task in photoshop, CAD, etc. the idea is that, you can upload all your pictures and network just like you do with facebook, but by storing it all locally, you cant have your account shut down or censored ( I have personally had facebook do this to me, for nothing more than “adding friends…apparently that’s harrasement to them… fuck if I know) What my question is, is how hard would it be to tie Tor into the package. That way each of these “boxes” does all of the above, but also automatically becomes a preconfigured, secure relay. My thought is that this would not only massively grow the amount of relays, but also give users an anonymous, ad free, censor free, solution to social networking that’s almost impossible to shut down, or fail. Im not a computer engineer, or a programmer. This is just an idea I have. I don’t like large server farms or companies having the ability to massively effect users in one sweep. I want to build a “backbone” network that can not be shut down outside of ISP’s physically cutting off the internet. Look forward to your replies JC -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk