Re: [Social-discuss] On Data Privacy

[Matija Šuklje]

There's been quite a lot said already on this topic and I agree with most 
what Hallekin O. Wolf and Henry Story said in this thread.

I don't see a reason why a social networking system should integrate IM and 
PM and status in itself. IMHO for PM the users should rather use e-mail, for 
IM (and PM perhaps) XMPP, and for status/"wall" a Status.net instance.

I don't understand why S2S communication shouldn't be encrypted as well.

Wolf's got a good point on hostility of internet from certain governments and 
other instances. I also agree with Story's reasoning about trust of 
organisations, systems and instances.

From my POV the bottom line is that of course we can't reach the security 
nirvana, but we should bloody well aim for it! Of course we can add /some/ 
more control in later releases, but if we leave privacy and security on the 
side track for now now, we might have missed the best chance.

GNU Social should be a lot more then just a decentralised AGPL'd Facebook 
clone. It's true that privacy, security, control and freedom of speech are 
not the same thing, but they are overlapping. And we have to give the whole 
package to the user.


Cheers,
Matija

P.S. Hope it's coherent, written in a hurry ...catching deadlines :\
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