[Freedombox-discuss] Why plug servers and not smart phones?

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Mon Jul 15 16:39:11 UTC 2013


Quoting Eugen Leitl (2013-07-15 16:54:38)
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:48:26PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Hi Eugen,
> > 
> > Quoting Eugen Leitl (2013-07-15 15:25:42)
> > > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:29:12AM +0200, Robert Martinez wrote:
> > > > FreedomBox should be the server behind the services you use. 
> > > > Because servers are where the main surveillance infrastructure 
> > > > lies.
> > > 
> > > Why "should"? What precisely is a server in a P2P cloud?
> > 
> > There are several ways to avoid centralized services.  One is to 
> > host services on decentralized servers, another is to avoid 
> > client-server architecture altogether and use P2P architectures 
> > instead.  Yet another is to completely avoid always-on networking 
> > and instead use sneakernet.
> > 
> > The approach used with FreedomBox is that of decentralized servers.  
> > Extremely decentralized: One server per user.
> > 
> > So in the context of FreedomBox your question does not make sense.
> 
> My question was rhetorical, and directed to Robert's strawman.

My answer was blind to that strawman, targeted your posts, and addressed 
it as if your later post quoted above was related to your original 
question.


 - Jonas

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