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Re:What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebo... by Maro on Monday May 17, 2010 @06:18AM (#1353957)
"Diaspora can open-source the code and allow other Diaspora installations to be set up, in case users don't trust Diaspora itself - a particular group of real-life friends who mutually trust each other can just host their own Diaspora installation and store their own information there."

Would you rather have Facebook employees, who don't specifically know or care about you have access to eg. personal conversations btw. you and your friends OR your friends, who might be the ones you're talking about?

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Re:What Diaspora Should Do with their Newfound Fuckyoufacebo... by alanh on Monday May 17, 2010 @02:10PM (#1355028)
Right – this is why I think the solution isn’t a local possibly-too-curious nerd, but rather a "Wave Federation" of official Diaspora servers and other third parties, possibly charging a small monthly fee. Maybe (almost certainly not, but maybe) some ISPs would provide such a service as part of their bundle.

The other solution is for the "local nerd's" set-up to never view unencrypted data. If you watch the Diaspora* intro video, they are talking about having encrypted content available for each friend… if this encrypted content were uploaded to the local nerd’s server, that solves the untrusted admin problem.

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