[Freedombox-discuss] SIP Witch

[me at seandiggity.com]

One use case would be a whistleblower trying to share a document with a 
trusted non-freedombox.  Something like tor2web but without relying upon 
a single proxy server; I don't know if SIP is a route to accomplish that 
or not, but it was a thought.


On 25.03.2012 13:24, James Vasile wrote:
> If boxes have sip addresses, how and where does anonymity fit into 
> the
> picture?
>
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:08:38 -0400, me at seandiggity.com wrote:
>> A brainstorming question -
>>
>> If we're looking for some sort of addressing scheme where
>> non-freedomboxen could contact a freedombox to actually view content
>> (say, a whistleblower's document served up by Apache), wouldn't a 
>> SIP
>> URI do?  I still have to set up and play with SIP Witch before I
>> understand it:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/
>>
>> ...but it seems to me that this part is pretty relevant to us:
>> "One important feature will include use of URI routing to support
>> direct peer to peer calls between service domains over the public
>> internet without needing mediation of an intermediary "service 
>> provider"
>> so that people can publish and call sip: uri's unconstrained."
>>
>> Using a URI like that (let's say, a random string or one based upon 
>> a
>> key) opens the door for linking to things like OStatus (WebFinger 
>> etc.)
>> and do federated Web publishing.  In the case of GNU Telephony, it 
>> seems
>> they're going in that direction with Friendica:
>> 
>> http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_Free_Call_Roadmap#Milestones
>>
>> I don't think Friendica is an ideal choice for the freedombox and I
>> know we're staying away from PHP, but I'm wondering if it will be
>> possible to provide the anonymity of ToR by default along with the
>> potential for a box identifying itself to "the world" or a circle of
>> trusted friends, so that Apache could serve up documents.  Perhaps 
>> my
>> thinking is too inclined toward Web development, but I think it's an
>> important goal to get Web publishing into the freedombox and make 
>> sure
>> that doesn't get lost as other pieces are being worked on.
>>
>> ~ Diggity
>>
>>
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