On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 17:29 +0100, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> Moglen says distributed Internet is best
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> I spent one of my Fridays last month sitting through a two-hour
> seminar on privacy in the cloud. Software Freedom Law Center's Eben
> Moglen was the guest speaker, and he raised many interesting points
> about cloud computing.
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> Moglen contends that the client/server architecture is just begging to
> be abused, and that cloud providers will always be one step ahead of
> efforts to protect people's privacy. He called for a peer-to-peer
> equivalent of Facebook that would work from a handheld device running
> open-source software.
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> Moglen believes that it is fundamentally important to return the
> Internet to the distributed architecture that it was envisioned to
> have in the first place. It will be an interesting effort to follow,
> but I am not optimistic that most people will be motivated or inclined
> to make the switch.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/SHORT_TAKES_MARCH_1_2010/By_SD_TIMES_EDITORIAL_BOARD/About_APPLE_and_FACEBOOK_and_GOOGLE_and_OPENSOURCE/34161
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