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daviddahl

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    Comment #17898581

    LOL. The establishment Economist magazine says it - it must be so.

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    Comment #17852318

    THIS. I have 8 years of open source work in bugzilla and github. If companies really give a shit, they would review code you already wrote and ask questions about your body of work…

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    Comment #17557197

    Yes, no victim, no crime.

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    Comment #17458808

    The history of Google's "SafeBrowsing" with respect to Firefox is a real mixed bag. The privacy protections Mozilla asked for from Google were begrudgingly implemented. As a Linux …

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    Comment #16837276

    "Here's a guide for you to make 75K a year, learning all of this will take 10 years." LOL

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    Comment #12379280

    Nice! reminds me of hyperscript-helpers

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    Comment #11362846

    But, no protection from Google in any of this. Sigh.

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    Comment #10723792

    Yeah, Android < 5 is a PITA as there is no secure storage. I almost wish I could make this app require Android 5.

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    Comment #10723788

    This is easy to do in this case, as the source is on github: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp . Also, you can run your own server if you like.

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    Comment #10723777

    p384 is the standard, yes, however, any future implementation of Crypton will, I hope, move to Curve25518

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    Comment #10723776

    This initial version is is very deliberate about who you share with. The idea is that the user is always in control of who anything is shared with. One way to help create your soci…

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    Comment #10723762

    If you delete a contact they will not see anything you post after that point in time

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    Comment #10723748

    My contact card is here: https://twitter.com/deezthugs/status/654457605650255872 I'll add you to my contacts now

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    Comment #10722045

    That is not the premise. The premise is that this is a parallel network for your trusted friends and family, off limits to the data-miners at FB and TWTR

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    Comment #10722041

    The link to the source code is in the about screen in the app. Hardly buried. I will have it added to the site, I was unaware of this.

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    Comment #10722037

    The source/tracker is here if you want to file issues, etc: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp

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    Comment #10722036

    That is an unfortunate naming problem. Kind of ironic as social media can be such a sewer!

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    Comment #10722031

    The dataset of all towns in the world with > 1000 inhabitants is bundled into Kloak. The GPS location was originally highly accurate, but we rounded down to 2 decimal places. So if…

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    Comment #10722020

    The way people "follow" you requires you to add them as a contact. Your contact card is basically a public key, but in a more human-understandable form.

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    Comment #10721277

    Earlier in the thread I mentioned that Kloak came about as a UX experiment in private social networking. We are building on these concepts in another project that is underway now.

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    Comment #10721266

    Would love to, which will require a bit of engineering on Crypton's server

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    Comment #10721159

    You must approve all contacts who get a copy of your feed. There is no way to just follow others. It is a white-listed system. Analytics can only be performed by those you trust

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    Comment #10721105

    yes! that is a much better set of options. I will file an issue.

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    Comment #10721091

    I dont think the NSA is the 99% threat model. It is data miners who are building up dossiers on all of us to sell to the highest bidder which will raise costs for all of us in the …