Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
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Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#2Nice, how secure is it though?
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#3Doesn't that make this service website independent?
It is like twitter without the downtime, or twitter with multiple twitter networks all being able to collaborate with one another, or twitter without legal BS.
And those are beautiful ramifications. Flaws anyone?
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#4Nice, how secure is it though?
From an anonymity perspective, it is just as secure as current bitcoin protocols. Public anonymity at the sacrifice of privacy. In which case, if your 'twister' info is out there, you can theoretically be identified.
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#5Nice, how secure is it though?
From an anonymity perspective, it is just as secure as current bitcoin protocols. Public anonymity at the sacrifice of privacy. In which case, if your 'twister' info is out there, you can theoretically be identified.
In other words, the security is poorly defined and based on the honest parties devoting at least as much energy to defending the system as the attacker devotes to attacking it.
What I want to know is this: What does Bitcoin have to do with this? You can have peer to peer, anonymous, encrypted messaging without any of the nonsense that Bitcoin entails.
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
From an anonymity perspective, it is just as secure as current bitcoin protocols. Public anonymity at the sacrifice of privacy. In which case, if your 'twister' info is out there, you can theoretically be identified.
In other words, the security is poorly defined and based on the honest parties devoting at least as much energy to defending the system as the attacker devotes to attacking it. What I want to know is this: What does Bitcoin have to do with this? You can have peer to peer, anonymous, encrypted messaging without any of the nonsense that Bitcoin entails.
I think the BtC protocol was used to ensure that peoples usernames were guaranteed unique, and linkable to a private key, i.e. verifiable. I think the whitepaper has more info, reading it now:
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#7"send text posts limited to 140 characters"
That's just weird. Like putting horses reins on an early automobile, or putting a hopper in the front of the car to pour oats into.
"Bitcoin, in the sense of the digital currency, is not used at all"
I had to LOL at this. BTC is popular enough to try to piggyback completely unrelated things using the term as a lure. I've lived thru the "turbo" era, the "e-" and "i-" era and now we're entering the BTC era, where we can soon expect shampoos and hamburgers to be "BTC shampoo" and "BTC hamburgers" as a marketing gimmick.
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#8Nice, how secure is it though?
Simple question, many answers.
Also, don't ask this question so soon, it takes time to review code, and even more time to find vulnerabilities and come up with working exploits.
Second also, P2P system inner working are much more complex, and can be vulnerable to some other types of attacks which are specific to P2P protocols.
Having decent P2P security is not really easy. P2P is really exciting, and the advantages are great, but I don't know the specifics of P2P security.
Bittorrent and bitcoin can seem simple compared to a P2P messaging program.
TLDR: It's the future, but it's not exactly there yet. I'd still use it with those vulnerabilities though.
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
From an anonymity perspective, it is just as secure as current bitcoin protocols. Public anonymity at the sacrifice of privacy. In which case, if your 'twister' info is out there, you can theoretically be identified.
In other words, the security is poorly defined and based on the honest parties devoting at least as much energy to defending the system as the attacker devotes to attacking it. What I want to know is this: What does Bitcoin have to do with this? You can have peer to peer, anonymous, encrypted messaging without any of the nonsense that Bitcoin entails.
From what I can tell its main focus is not to be an alternative to Tor, but a censorship-resistant P2P Twitter alternative. Or if you will, a "true" P2P social network (Diaspora, Status.net always relied on federated servers, which weren't that "decentralized", and normal users would've never hosted their own servers anyway).
Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging
#10"send text posts limited to 140 characters" That's just weird. Like putting horses reins on an early automobile, or putting a hopper in the front of the car to pour oats into. "Bitcoin, in the sense of the digital currency, is not used at all" I had to LOL at this. BTC is popular enough to try to piggyback completely unrelated things using the term as a lure. I've lived thru the "turbo" era, the "e-" and "i-" era and…
The project is a fork of bitcoin, uses bitcoin blockchains, but because it doesn't use bitcoin currency they shouldn't mention the lineage?