[Freedombox-discuss] Diaspora FreedomPod

[Yosem Companys]

Hi Timur,

Your question is a bit above my paygrade, which is not hard considering that
we all get paid zero dollars for our involvement... ;)

You cited a discussion from our user forum.  I would suggest that you ask
the question either at our developers'
forum<http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev?lnk=srg> or
live at our developers' IRC<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-dev>
 chat channel.  You can also write the founders at your convenience at
daniel at joindiaspora.com, ilya at joindiaspora.com, and/or
maxwell at joindiaspora.com.  They are all supportive of FreedomBox, but Ilya
in particular is a FreedomBox evangelist ;)

What I can tell you is that one of the principles by which our open-source
developers abide is the following:  Don't solve problems until they become
problems.  Given that, I suspect that they would provide full PGP encryption
when lots of people started to run Diaspora* on their own Freedom Boxes.

Best,

Yosem

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Timur Mehrvarz <
timur.mehrvarz at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 10/16/2011 11:41 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:
> > We're inspired by Eben Moglen
> > http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68512/, so our
> > goals are consistent with FreedomBox.
>
> Hi Yosem,
>
> Diaspora* developers decided to NOT use PGP encryption, mainly because
> Diaspora* users would NOT usually own the server they are running on. Of
> course, people can not be advised to put their private keys on servers
> that are not under their control [1].
>
> But what if lots of people start running Diaspora* on their own little
> FreedomBoxes? How hard would it be to provide full PGP encryption for
> these users? My own "FreedomPod" should be able to talk PGP to other
> "FreedomPods" for which I got public keys. When talking to any other
> Diaspora* instance, the default encryption would be used. (Which could
> be phased out by the time everybody is running a FreedomBox. Partly
> kidding.)
>
> Kind regards,
> Timur
>
> [1] Pretty Good Diaspora:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e9fa0db196454a19/
>
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