Re: [GNU/consensus] [SH] Re: GNU Consensus Manifesto -- Comments

[Rich Hilliard]

What happens in Briar to identities and pseudonyms occurring in posts that are 
forwarded/repeated/retweeted? 
Do they resolve? Are they lost (by design)?
  
On Jan 9, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Michael Rogers wrote:

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> On 09/01/13 13:50, hellekin (GNU Consensus) wrote:
>> Michael, welcome! Can you make a short presentation of what problem
>> you're trying to solve with Briar? (You can use the [SH] topic
>> prefix.)
> 
> Sure! Thanks for the welcome, Hellekin.
> 
> Briar's goal is to enable people to build their own secure
> communication networks that can operate with or without internet
> access, by using their existing trust relationships and devices.
> 
> The people I'm interested in enabling are activists, journalists and
> civil society groups who are vulnerable to surveillance and censorship
> - - but the project may turn out to be useful for other situations too,
> eg disaster response.
> 
> Briar uses a store-and-forward architecture that's conceptually closer
> to Usenet or FidoNet than the web. Communication between participating
> devices uses a secure transport protocol called BTP, which can operate
> over the internet, Bluetooth, WiFi, SD cards attached to carrier
> pigeons, or whatever. On top of BTP there's a publish-subscribe
> messaging protocol called BMP, which is used to implement discussion
> groups and private messages.
> 
> As I mentioned earlier, identity is handled differently in Briar than
> in most social networking systems. There isn't a one-to-one mapping
> between identities and people. Instead, people use nicknames with
> local scope to refer to their contacts. For example, I may call my
> mother "Mum", whereas her friend may call her "Jen" and use "Mum" to
> refer to her own mother.
> 
> When a person posts a message to a discussion group, she may sign it
> with a pseudonym or remain anonymous. A person may create any number
> of pseudonyms, and may choose not to reveal (even to her contacts)
> which pseudonyms she uses.
> 
> This looseness is deliberate - it's meant not to restrict the wide
> range of ways people use identity (and anonymity) in their social lives.
> 
> I'm not sure how much overlap there is between Briar's goals and those
> of the other projects represented here. Actually I'm not sure which
> other projects are represented here. :-) If it turns out that Briar is
> an outlier, I don't want to prevent consensus between projects that
> are more compatible... but perhaps that's an issue we should confront
> if/when it arises. I think it might be too early to start looking for
> consensus yet - let's find out who we are and what we're working on
> first, and then look for common ground.
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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