[145328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Social Networking, Privacy and Control
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian de Larrinaga)
Tue Oct 4 13:35:40 2011
From: Christian de Larrinaga <cdel@firsthand.net>
In-Reply-To: <22043673.4090.1317742680227.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:35:24 +0100
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You know I don't need Facebook to introduce (broker) me to anyone! I am =
more than happy managing my own relationships (gradations of trust =
included!) Oh and my friends are distributed in the real world as well!=20=
This works pretty well even without a "social network" or a "system". =
When the Diginotar certification authority was badly compromised I got a =
bunch of information from many sources using those protocols which span =
the standards sphere of the Internet each bringing information that I =
value at varying levels of trust and applicability. Between and in =
combination of all this input I was able to take action and remove =
Diginotar from my keychain. I could have waited for Apple to stir its =
stumps but didn't need to.=20
All those independent distributed "trust brokers" did a fine job!=20
thanks folks!
Christian
On 4 Oct 2011, at 16:38, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> As usual, the underlying issue is one of trust.
>=20
> Alas, I see no theoretical way that distributed systems like Diaspora =
*can*
> provide some of the functions that are core to systems like Facebook, =
*exactly
> by virtue* (vice?) of the fact that they are distributed; there is no =
central
> Trust Broker.
