Freedombox actually had a much more seductive premise-- that the tools to "secure all the things" are just sitting out there in free software-land waiting to be glued together. All that was needed was for a small group of developers to tap the spirit inherent in projects like Debian or GNU and harness it to tackle the problem of usability. Then, like legos, everything would eventually just click together. It happens to be a false premise, but it obviously got the project well past its goal. If anyone thinks it's not a false premise, however, I have a challenge for you. Take the interface from Popcorn Time and make it work for some selection of public domain movies, while providing anonymity to both the viewers and the providers of the content. And you must do it while keeping all the features of their interface:* zero configuration* user clicks a button to start streaming the content* user seeds the content they're streaming This challenge is way simpler than a Freedombox because the data being passed around is just commodity content; juggling personal data, private messaging or social networking is obviously much more complex. Still, I'd be quite surprised if anyone could pull this off using extant free software.
-Jonathan On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 8:34 PM, Fred Schiff <[email protected]> wrote: This kickstarter did not make it. It was a much less ambitious project then the Freedombox and perhaps just not well advertised. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:28 AM, yannick <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I want to point this hardware/software project out:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1547898916/own-mailbox-the-first-100-confidential-mailbox "Own-mailbox protects your privacyDid you know that all traditional email providers (GMail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, ...) can spy on you? As they have access to all emails that you write, they can be forced to disclose them to governments and intelligence service. In addition, many of these companies also access and analyze your emails for marketing purposes.Own-Mailbox is designed to make sure that no one can spy on you, not even us." Smaller scope but I bet quickly achievable. Regards _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss -- Fred Schiff ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
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