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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Hi
Everybody,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=906254206-04072011><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Through
this mailing list, I was recently introduced to Friendika, a one year old BSD
licensed privacy-driven social networking software. The software features are
very impressive for a one year old project and have their own privacy protocol
(DFRN), which tick the majority of boxes for me. Unfortunately, in the last few
releases Friendika started to connect to other social networks (Facebook,
Flickr, Twitter, Ostatus) and have found that these services "have serious
privacy issues which either may or will disclose your private information to
others".(1) The project has decided to created a fork, Friendika-Z, within
the community which will have all the features of DFRN and "for your protection
it <STRONG>will not</STRONG> connect with members of any network which has
serious privacy <STRONG>issues"</STRONG>. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>The project does not mention
what are the privacy issues or how they were identified. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>I thought it worth
mentioning because there may be some lessons for FreedomBox here. Reading the
FreedomBox mailing list there seems to be consensus around the following Privacy
Principles;</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Once a connection
has been established (no consensus on how to connect), all future
communications between individuals (person-to-person) will be encrypted to
prevent eavesdropping and anonymised on an TCP IP4 network through the use of
Tor, as long as the performance is reasonable</SPAN></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>For
person-to-business connections it will not be possible to encrypt or anonymise
the connections until business's have a FreedomBox Network presence like they
have on Facebook/Twitter now. Until that time, there seems to
be best practise privacy measures such as "<SPAN
lang=EN>push(ing) back against ISPs, search engines, and advertisers
without having to route everything through Tor. We can use local proxies
that automate best practices for direct surfing, things like
the HTTPS-everywhere, TrackMeNot, and CustomizeGoogle firefox
plugins."</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></LI></OL>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011></SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>I have a few user
questions;</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Q1. Will these
privacy principles protect the FreedomBox from experiencing the same problems as
Friendika?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Q2. Will FreedomBox
have its own social network or will it connect to other "privacy social
networks"?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Q3. If Freedom Box
connects to other "privacy social networks" will the above Privacy Principles
criteria apply?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Q4. Will FreedomBox
have a mechanism in place to disable "privacy social networks" until such time
that network's privacy issues are resolved?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>Q5. Will the privacy
measures in point 2. require user-intervention or will it be automated by the
server in the background?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=906254206-04072011>(1) <A
href="http://project.friendika.com/node/119">http://project.friendika.com/node/119</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>