From 4376ca2d5a6f83721628acd48622210ea53844be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pieter Hintjens Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 20:57:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/5] Added edgenet proposal --- proposed/edgenet.md | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 proposed/edgenet.md diff --git a/proposed/edgenet.md b/proposed/edgenet.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0516df5 --- /dev/null +++ b/proposed/edgenet.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +#infos + +auth-name : Pieter Hintjens +tag : freedom, privacy, decentralized + +advance costs : N +need room : N +Location : Brussels, Belgium +Can host ppl : no, sorry + +# edgenet + +edgenet lives safely at the edge of the Internet, on our smart phones. It uses mobile WiFi hotspots to create "cells" for exchanging news and content. Cells talk to cells, asynchronously, covering neighborhoods, and cities. edgenet doesn't exist yet. This project is about building it. + +# More details + +The spy state cannot be voted out of office. It eats laws for breakfast and excretes excuses for breaking them. We will either build a spy-proof Internet, that cannot be banned or controlled, or we accept to become slaves. + +These are the three main points of attack on the privacy of our communications: + +* The centralized servers where we meet to share information. These can be hacked, or their owners ordered to hand over information. No matter what encryption you use between your PC and the server, data is held unprotected on servers. +* The client PCs and devices where we run our browsers. These are often laden with spyware, or hacked individually when the case needs it, in a "targeted attack." +* The broadband connections across which the clients talk to the servers. Broadband providers record metadata and provide it to the authorities as a matter of course. + +If the Web is not safe, and the Deep Web is not safe, what is? There is only one long term answer, and that is a new web that lives "off the grid," treating central websites and broadband connections with the full distrust they deserve. + +To build truly secure communities, we must address all three of these weak points. It’s not sufficient to improve our encryption to create a more robust Deep Web. Rather, we need a radical rethink of how we build digital communities in the first place. We need a new kind of Internet, which I’ll call the "edgenet," that is resistant to all threats except targeted attacks. + +# Technologies + +Open source on open protocols. Slices of edgenet already exist in the ZeroMQ community, mainly Zyre, a clustering library designed for opportunistic WiFi clusters. On October 30 & 31 in Brussels we're organizing a hackathon to push the technology forwards. I'd like to present our work in Paris. From 5af729f36b54ee86edcbfc8c25295fad9a3eccd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: holger krekel Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:10:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/5] added my talk --- proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md diff --git a/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md b/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0551aae --- /dev/null +++ b/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +#infos + +auth-name : holger krekel +tag : decentralization, edges, questions + +advance costs : N +need room : Y +Location : Freiburg, Germany +Can host ppl : na + + +# Secession from the broadcast + +It's time to travel to the edges because this is where the interesting stuff +happens. "What is popular" is rarely a question that helps finding edges. +In this talk round i'll recap what i learned in 15 months of my +re-juvenated and re-energized quest into decentralization and what it +means. + +For one, I'd like to present a question from Gene Youngblood's +"Secession from the broadcast" lecture [1]: "how can we create on the +same scale as we can destroy?". Gene suggests we need to move away from +the "Audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of +"interested spectators of action". + +Second, I highlight a thought from Adam Ierymenko [2]: If full +decentralization is technically too hard currently, can we construct and +make use of a **Blind Idiot God** (BIG) instance which co-ordinates some +communication but can not abuse it or even understand what's going on +precisely? + +Lastly, how can we create sustained systems and products if we +don't want to imitate the centralized web service cash cow model? +As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying +for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models +mean surveillance and centralized control. And she suggests +that design and useability should drive Open Source software +instead of features and options. + +The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow +not like us. It's a place where i easily run into fears. At the edges +there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next. The +number of people at the edges is by definition lower than in the center. +But it's where things can happen. Secession from the broadcast. + +[1] http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/ +[2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/ +[3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81 + From 1bac7486a35d9c20788aa3e2f007243aa7b1572f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: holger krekel Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:34:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/5] some refinements --- proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md | 44 +++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md b/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md index 0551aae..adc6447 100644 --- a/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md +++ b/proposed/secession_from_broadcast.md @@ -13,37 +13,39 @@ Can host ppl : na It's time to travel to the edges because this is where the interesting stuff happens. "What is popular" is rarely a question that helps finding edges. -In this talk round i'll recap what i learned in 15 months of my -re-juvenated and re-energized quest into decentralization and what it -means. +I'd like to recap what i learned in 15 months of my re-juvenated and +re-energized quest into decentralization and what it might mean. -For one, I'd like to present a question from Gene Youngblood's -"Secession from the broadcast" lecture [1]: "how can we create on the +For one, I'd like to forward a question from Gene Youngblood's +[Secession from the broadcast lecture][1]: "how can we create on the same scale as we can destroy?". Gene suggests we need to move away from -the "Audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of -"interested spectators of action". +the "audience nation" by becoming "political actors" instead of +"interested spectators of action". -Second, I highlight a thought from Adam Ierymenko [2]: If full -decentralization is technically too hard currently, can we construct and -make use of a **Blind Idiot God** (BIG) instance which co-ordinates some -communication but can not abuse it or even understand what's going on -precisely? +Second, I paraphrase a thought from Adam Ierymenko's [I want to +believe][2]: If full decentralization is technically too hard currently, +can we construct and make use of a "Blind Idiot God" (BIG) instance +which co-ordinates some communication but can not abuse it or even +understand what's going on precisely? -Lastly, how can we create sustained systems and products if we -don't want to imitate the centralized web service cash cow model? +Lastly, I wonder how can we create sustained systems and services if we +don't want the centralized web service cash cow control model? As Laura Kolbag [3] pointed out recently in Nuernberg, paying for software might not be so bad if the "free to use" models -mean surveillance and centralized control. And she suggests -that design and useability should drive Open Source software +mean surveillance and centralized control. And she notes +that design and useability should drive open source developments instead of features and options. -The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow -not like us. It's a place where i easily run into fears. At the edges -there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next. The -number of people at the edges is by definition lower than in the center. -But it's where things can happen. Secession from the broadcast. +The edges are where we encounter the others, those who are somehow unlike. +It's a place where i easily run into fears and look for friends. At the edges +there is no central authority suggesting what to think or do next. And +the number of people at the edges is always lower than in the center. +But that's fine, this is how things get moving as i've experienced +myself a number of times now. [1] http://www.secessionfromthebroadcast.org/2013/10/29/secession-broadcast-internet-crisis-social-control/ + [2] http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/ + [3] https://border-none.net/2014/scene-setters#c81 From 7199ee55662ca637ccdad64dc251645df29e66c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kali Kaneko Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:23:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] add LEAP talk proposal --- proposed/LEAP_crypto_for_mortals.md | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 proposed/LEAP_crypto_for_mortals.md diff --git a/proposed/LEAP_crypto_for_mortals.md b/proposed/LEAP_crypto_for_mortals.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a68606f --- /dev/null +++ b/proposed/LEAP_crypto_for_mortals.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +#infos + +auth-name : Kali Kaneko +tag : privacy, usability, email, vpn, federated system, crypto, mortals, superheros + +advance costs : NA +need room : NA +Location : La Paz, Bolivia (traveling around europes maintenant) +Can host ppl : NA + + +# LEAP Encryption Access Project: Encrypted Communications for Mere Mortals + +What if I told you that a regular user can get gpg-encrypted communications +just following a wizard and click-click-click? What if I told you that +her email can be backuped in the cloud, in a way that a server compromise could +not reveal the private data? What about an Encrypted Proxy that's at the same +reasonably secure and easy to use, configure and deloy? + +Well, you don't have to trust me. Just come and see it with your own eyes. + +At LEAP we are obsessed with making possible for any service provider to easily +deploy secure services and for people to use these services without needing to +learn new software or change their behavior. These services are based on open, +federated standards, but done right: the provider does not have access to the +user’s data, and we use open protocols in the most secure way possible. + +On the server side we have created the LEAP Platform, a “provider in a box” set +of complementary packages and server recipes automated to lower the barriers of +entry for aspiring secure service providers. On the client side, we have +created a cross-platform application called Bitmask that automatically +configures itself once a user has selected a provider and which services to +enable. Bitmask provides a local proxy that a standard email client can connect +to, and allows for easy one-click Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. From 54e24be6f2620a299d18bf6753656ed35285d8fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominic Tarr Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:42:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 5/5] actually add some content to my proposal --- proposed/vivalacrypto.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/proposed/vivalacrypto.md b/proposed/vivalacrypto.md index f6b3144..9389e3f 100644 --- a/proposed/vivalacrypto.md +++ b/proposed/vivalacrypto.md @@ -11,5 +11,16 @@ Can host ppl : n/a # Viva La Crypto -A gameplan for the crypto-revolution. +A gameplan for the crypto-revolution. The time has for a new internet. +There is the technical questions of how do you build a viable system, +but that is the easy bit. The hard question, is how do we deploy it +to the world, how do we make something that people want to adopt... + +And what do we build? what kind of world *could* we create? +To motivate ourselves, we need a utopian vision, but to achieve +_anything_ we need to keep our eyes on the road, and most of all, +build something simple. Dumb even. + +This could be science fiction, but instead of writing a book, +we are just gonna build it.