Thanks for your valuable contributions! Not the next part: It took me a bit longer, as two things imho need to be discussed, especially with those people that originally made those texts last year (where I wasn't around).
To make that commenting easier I pasted the not-clear parts into the file as html-comments and pasted the whole document here: https://pads.ccc.de/gnunet-website Just search for "proposal from Fabian Gerlach" to find the sections. I also bolded them for your convenience. It's also everything below, but maybe a bit easier to see in the pad :) On 6/26/19 9:18 PM, Fabian Gerlach wrote: > More appropriate: > > Regarding https://gnunet.org/ , 2nd section, 3rd sub section: > 7 - Change "GNUnet is made for an open society" to "GNUnet is made for a free > society" I made: "free and open society" > Regarding https://gnunet.org/ , 3rd section "The Internet of tomorrow needs > GNUnet today", "Imagine..." sub section: > 8 - Keep the hole analogy, and replace the theft analogy with a surveillance > camera analogy. Suggestion: > "The conventional Internet is currently like a system of roads with deep > potholes and surveillance cameras all over the place. Even if you still can > use the roads (e.g. send emails, or browse websites) your vehicle might gets > damaged. And the surveillance cameras will create a movement profile about > your life: They recognize your car license plate, track you everywhere you > drive, and save this information in a central data base." > By replacing the incorrect theft analogy (copying is not theft) with an > analogy, which is not only correct but also practically more invasive for > every day people (it affects directly everyone using the infrastructure, no > matter if normal person or person of special interest like whistleblowers), > this section becomes more correct and striking. => this one we need to discuss. I added it as a html-comment in the according section on the site. My 2cents: The database is (usually) not central, and the thief is something much more "dangerous" than "just being tracked", esp for a "normal" person. Other opinions? > Regarding https://gnunet.org/ , 3rd section "The Internet of tomorrow needs > GNUnet today", "The Internet is broken" sub section: > 9 - change text " Protocols from Ethernet and IP to BGP and X.509 PKI are > insecure by default: protecting against address forgery, routers learning > metadata, or choosing trustworthy CAs is nontrivial and sometimes impossible. > > GNUnet provides privacy by design, improving addressing, routing, naming and > content distribution in a technically robust manner - as opposed to ad-hoc > designs in place today." > as follows: > "The Internet is not designed with security in mind: The network generally > learns too much about users; it has insecure defaults and high complexity; > and it is centralized. That makes it very vulnerable for multiple attacks > massively threatening our freedom. > > GNUnet is built "privacy by design" and "distributed by design". This > improves addressing, routing, naming and content distribution in a > technically robust manner." > By this change the explanation in what way the internet is broken becomes > more convincing and generally understandable. First part: Not sure if the new text makes it better - at this stage we are still aiming at techies that should know what IP and BGP is, and therefore get a clearer picture, I believe. Second part: Is "distributed by design" any existing term? Then I'd add your change. Group, please discuss and/or share opinions! > Regarding https://gnunet.org/ , 3rd section "The Internet of tomorrow needs > GNUnet today", "Decentralization is hard" sub section: > 10 - Simplify the 1st section, the 2nd section is already fine. Suggestion: > "Instead of sharing common components and tools for building P2P systems, > every P2P project seems to re-invent the wheel. That highens effort and > number of vulnerabilities." > By this change you convey same content with less words and in easier > language. The details are already covered in the 2nd section, no need for > mentioning them in 1st and 2nd section. Ack, changed it that way :) > Regarding https://gnunet.org/ , 3rd section "The Internet of tomorrow needs > GNUnet today", "Metadata is exposed" sub section: > 11 - Add a short 1 sentence introduction before the current 1st sentence of > the sub section: "Metadata is just as revealing as the actual content; and it > gets exposed on the internet.". Or more personal: "Your metadata is just as > revealing as the actual content; and it gets exposed on the internet.". => took the "personal one" :) Thanks! > The result is that the sub section looks like this: "Metadata/Your metadata > is just as revealing as the actual content; and it gets exposed on the > internet. Although transport encryption is increasingly being deployed on the > Internet, it still reveals data that can threaten democracy: the identities > of senders and receivers, the times, frequency and the volume of > communication are all still revealed. > By this change the point is brought across more striking and easier. People > get "It's not 'just metadata'" and "I'm exposed". In the source there is this comment: <!-- Looks like a weak argumentation to me: which <a href="https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/websitefingerprinting-pets2016.pdf";>enables reverse-engineering pages visited via website fingerprinting</a>. --> => what do you (unknown editor) mean with this? > Regarding https://gnunet.org/ , bottom section, law information: > 12 - Sum up the years: "2015-2019", instead of "2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019" > Both is correct, but the suggestion is shorter and conveys the same > information in a more clear way => done by someone else ;) > 13 - Rather use the copyleft sign 🄯 / (ɔ) > Judging by https://gnunet.org/philosophy of the old website that would fit > more to the GNUnet project => dont know how to edit this, can someone please give a hand? Thats from me, cheers & thanks, sva. _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list GNUnet-developers@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
