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Re:An off-grid social network by wesleytodd on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:16AM (#14050669)
Also, because Paul has awesome projects, and deserves some attention when a project of his makes it to the top of HN but doesn't even mention him, he is working on a browser for the distributed web called Beaker (I am using it to write this now), and it is awesome.

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker

Re:An off-grid social network by pfraze on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:02PM (#14052385)
@cowardlydragon you got downvoted to death but that's a fair assumption so I want to reply to you here

> forking a website so easily also makes spoofing very easy...

A fork copies the files of a site, so yeah, it certainly would be easily to spoof somebody's site. It basically is a spoof button. But doing so creates a new cryptographic identity for the site, and that will be the basis of how we authenticate