Re: [Social-discuss] Languages -- let's make a web application

[Rob Myers]

On 29/03/10 15:30, Ted Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 08:04 -0400, Rob Myers wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 06:29:37 +0200 (CEST), Carlo von Loesch
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Matt Lee typeth:
>>> | This is also why I think something in a browser would be more
>>> | understandable by a typical user.
>>>
>>> A user also understands a Skype client or a bittorrent plugin.
>>> Maybe he even understands a Jabber client.
>>>
>>> The choice of tools is not limited by mental capacities yet.
>>> The question is how much are you intending to through encryption,
>>> thus privacy, out of the window.
>>
>> We're not. 

By which double negative I mean that we are *not* planning to throw
privacy out of the window.

> Are you saying that as Rob Myers, individual, or as Rob Myers, Agent of
> FooCorp?
>
> If the latter, what has changed between now and:
> 
> It was my understanding since this message that GNU Social was to
> demonstrate a commitment to privacy above and beyond what a facebook
> clone would have. Has that changed? If so, how and why?

Nothing has changed. I'm not arguing against crypto, I'm arguing in
favour of coding something up.

- Rob.