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Re: Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

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Post by anderspitman » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 7:45 PM UTC

hobofan wrote: post #15

As much as I like the ideas behind SOLID, I just don't seeing it panning out. The semantic data model is exactly the same as the one 10 years ago when it didn't catch on. One of my biggest pet peeves there is that the default mode of operation is using a de-facto centralized ontology that is mutable and non-versioned. How is someone supposed to build up a semantic database when the semantics can be changed any time f…

A lot has changed in 10 years. 10 years ago I couldn't care less where my cloud data was being stored. Now I do.

Re: Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

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Post by anderspitman » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 7:54 PM UTC

cmiles74 wrote: post #113

I would like to see some time-based permission scheme, for instance the ability to share my credit card information with Amazon for the next five minutes as well as the ability to share my address with Amazon for the next year. My hope is that this could eventually be built out to support discrete identities, perhaps one for personal use and another for work and a third that is meant to remain anonymous. A PKI based…

The obvious way (to me) to attempt this is with regulation. If you log everything on your pod, you know by what time Amazon should have forgotten your info. If you can prove at a later date that they still have that information, there should be big fines. Also, engineers implementing systems that ignore regulation would be culpable.

Re: Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's Solid, and Me

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Post by DEADBEEFC0FFEE » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 9:45 AM UTC

koevet wrote: post #6

As much as I like the idea (and the people behind it), I have an hard time seeing how this can succeed. The idea of pod reminds me of the self-hosting movement: people -including myself - host a bunch of services to avoid sharing fundamental data, like email, GPS-history or contacts. Still, "self-hosters" interact with all the big personal data hoarder out there (FB, Google, the many ad and tracking companies) which…

Yep, I have dabbled in self hosting and have a systems running at home for decades. Unfortunately self-hosters also have to be their own blue team, doing own vulnerability management, patching testing and it's relentless.