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Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by dublinben »

salient wrote: post #9
betterunix wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Like Tahrir?

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by dionyziz »

Groxx wrote: post #28

> No IP recording The IP address you use to access twister is not recorded on any server. Your online presence is not announced. Can you really make that claim with a distributed protocol? Your IP address is visible to whoever you send data to, they could easily keep logs (heck my router does by default).

Your peers cannot know if the data originated from you or you're simply relaying traffic. Thus, your IP address cannot be associated with tweets.

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by quack »

codezero wrote: post #35

Is there any follow model or does every participant receive all messages sent by everyone else?

Everyone gets every message. There is no solution here to the data bloat problem. Other than that the project forks bitcoin to make a namecoin clone (distributed authorization), which I dont see the need for since a private key already identifies me.

The reason something like namecoin is to allow people to update their identity in the event the first identity was compromised/blocked.

Finally this was posted yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6987396

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by nwzpaperman »

Everyone needs to remember that TCP/IP is the original decentralized communication system. The raw CPU power, massive storage capabilities and physical infrastructure that we have today makes mass surveillance a trivial objective going forward. The rest of the world has just realized and accepted this and that's why the NSA has come under attack in 2013.

No expects to privately have sex on the 50 yard-line at half-time of the Super Bowl. Why not?

Everyone expects to privately sext-message, or whatever, on radio frequencies. Why?

Most people here probably understand encapsulation, so why is it so hard to grasp that private activities and private information needs to be restricted to private modes, mediums and forums for communication?

When the smartest people in this community turn the corner and approach the internet as an unprivate place and refocus their creative talents towards increasing the signal-to-noise ratio of the public information, it will be a landmark-shift for society.

The world absolutely needs a way to access timely public information that doesn't require running through bureaucracies prior to meaningful distribution. People learned how to read and people are now learning to question information sources.

BTC establishes trust through transparency, not privacy. The next big internet trend is transparency == Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by codezero »

quack wrote: post #36
codezero wrote: post #35

Is there any follow model or does every participant receive all messages sent by everyone else?

Everyone gets every message. There is no solution here to the data bloat problem. Other than that the project forks bitcoin to make a namecoin clone (distributed authorization), which I dont see the need for since a private key already identifies me. The reason something like namecoin is to allow people to update their identity in the event the first identity was compromised/blocked. Finally this was posted yesterday…

Thanks a bunch for your response. I guess an end user could always filter messages themselves, but it seems untenable at large scales.

Re: Twister: Anonymous, private BtC/DHT/Torrent P2P microblogging

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Post by TheLoneWolfling »

dionyziz wrote: post #33
Groxx wrote: post #28

> No IP recording The IP address you use to access twister is not recorded on any server. Your online presence is not announced. Can you really make that claim with a distributed protocol? Your IP address is visible to whoever you send data to, they could easily keep logs (heck my router does by default).

Your peers cannot know if the data originated from you or you're simply relaying traffic. Thus, your IP address cannot be associated with tweets.

Untrue. An (for example) ISP could very easily determine if you were an originator simply by if someone relayed it to you.

Similarly, a Sybil attack can probabilistically figure out the originator, simply be seeing which peer first relayed the communication.

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