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Reptile: P2P Content Syndication
Let me just quote, because I can't pack the buzzwords that tightly: "The OpenPrivacy project would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile. Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS), which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled. Reptile nodes can publish to each other (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions) and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation)." Interesting stuff.
The OpenPrivacy project would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile . Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS), which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled. Reptile nodes can publish to each other (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions) and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation).
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So good for them. All I'm really seeing with their demo is web surfing at less than half the speed (encryption, right?).
This and Peekabooty and Freenet all suffer from the same problem: they're trying to surreptitiously allow end users in ideologically restricted areas (the US and decryption, China, the Middle East, etc.) but while they're not surfing for restricted material in plaintext, constantly sending obviously encrypted packets back and forth is likely just the red flag that authorities need to look for to black bag a computer and find out what you're up to.
If someone puts their thinking cap on and converts Spam Mimic to a distributed system and somehow manages to graft on a keyed infrastructure, then people with artificially restricted access to the Internet really will be able to get at information that The Man doesn't want them to see without the Stormtroopers Of Death kicking their door in. Well, at least until The Man gets hip to having to kick in the door of every single person who gets spam...
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so basically they have completed the name...which will probably be changed in 0.0.2
Well, I guess that's fitting since when it comes to sharing...most P2P users are pretty damn cold blooded.
(rimshot)
- JoeShmoe
-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
I read a number of posts in the "Petreley on Ximian and Mono" article, and the fears that people have on Microsoft's Passport service.
This is exactly the initiative that is needed, a Peer-to-Peer authentication service that no major company has exclusive rights on. I applaud the initiative and hope it turns out well.
With descriptions like that, I'm still not quite sure what this is.. :/
as far as I can see, it appears to be merely a glorified version of slashboxes, with an index that updates itself.
I'm sure theres something else (the really nifty bit) that I'm missing.. just dont know what it is
A possible solution would be to break the stream of encrypted data into packets that meet the statistical profile of plaintext. As a basic example, if you're doing traffic analysis on a stream of plaintext, and you follow it with the same text ROT13ed, you will find that they look the same. Obviously if someone is actually reading the material that is coming through then there is trouble, but how likely is that? Of course there are always other methods of data-hiding but each of them is problematic in it's own way, at least when dealing with streaming data.
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I had to click on the screenshots just to get an idea of what the hell it was.
OSS projects sometimes need a section called "What this is -- Explanation for a 4-year old".
Quite an oxymoron
- Content comes from where it always comes from: people writing it in XML, or writing it in Word docs & having it converted to XML
- Where does it get stored? Any ol' file system will do.
- Where does the presentation come from? It's XML -- who cares? XSL, or the Xerxes Java parser on top of some HTML templates (as in Dynamo)... the Tomcat Struts engine handles XML nicely. It's XML. Just content. No presentation. That's the point.
- Where does that get stored? In your html docs directory. (these are all based on my experiences with teh ATG Dynamo engine... anyone who's worked with WebSphere or something else may have a diff't answer)
As to where the engine gets stored, i'm not sure I can say... probabaly a personal preference thing. Yes, I can understand if buzzwords get you down, but don't go asking questions that anyone who's had experience working with XML-based content can answer as if they were mysteries that had puzzled the sages.AHHHHHHH! I'm burning with goodness again!
- Reakk, Sluggy Freelance
Hate to break this to you Michael, but as you reported the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is closed. It's a shame really, because that quote's a shoe-in for the science-fiction category.
... ", these features allow the users the freedom to innovate with a fresh lemon, or other user-configurable, scent."
The sentence could be improved with the following, however:
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
The name "Reptile" is taken by Sausage Software for it's web page background graphic generation software. I was wondering what was going on when I saw that by another company.
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Once Passport has a foothold, Microsoft can update Passport and the .NET run-time environment to break all those e-commerce applications built with Mono.
Ah yes, the ol' "you can't reproduce Office because Microsoft will just change the format" argument. Simple, easy to understand -- and wrong.
The fatal flaw in his argument is that people don't upgrade instantaneously. Microsoft can't arbitrarily change the communications format because they would break their own software unless customers upgrade.
In fact, to the contrary, it was much easier for Microsoft to change things like Office because they could make deals with closed-environments like a big company where everybody gets upgraded at once. When we are deal with something like this, even Microsoft can't get the whole Internet to upgrade at once.
Once Microsoft sets the standard, they will be hamstrung into supporting it forever.
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> The OpenPrivacy project
Our latest oxymoronic plan...
> would like the announce the creation and initial release (0.0.1) of Reptile.
is starting something new.
> Reptile is an Open Source/Free Software, Peer-to-Peer, content syndication engine (think RSS/OCS)
Reptile makes RMS cream his pants and smells like Napster. Oh, and we don't know what a content syndication engine is, so think about some letters instead.
> which is driven by Java/XML and is privacy protection/Reputation enabled.
We don't like Microsoft, so we use Java and invented our own proper noun, Reputation.
> Reptile nodes can publish to each other
Data move around..
> (everything is driven by XML based subscriptions)
in some nebulous way..
> and provides a decentralized authentication model based on public/private key crypto (and Reputation).
but still relates to our project.
Open source/free software projects need marketing communications, just as do commercial products.
I hope the Open Source movement will soon get over the habit of giving unattractive names to its products. I hope Open Source projects will eventually have home pages that actually explain the project in a way someone who has not followed the project from the beginning can understand.
Bush's education improvements were
You still didn't address exactly what it is. Why would I need security when browsing content? Why do I need 128 bit SSL with news headlines? What exactly is it that it does, besides be another web portal script?
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Exactly! I read all the pages on the website, and I can tell that it's Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, uses XML, private/public key crypto, and so on, but I still don't know what it does with all that.
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Please tell me thats a /. typo and not part of the release.
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Some moderators, when given access, dont know what it is and oftentimes just click buttons and drop-down lists to their heart's content, hence leaving some very good posts unmodderated or modded down that should have been up, and other errs in moderating. This post, for example, could go either way. I'm either being a troll, flamebait, or insightful. Hopefully I'm being insightful for pointing out troubles with some moderators. But to the moderators that read this, they see an attack on themselves, leaving them to mark me as a trollin flamebaiter.
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I was being rather facetious in my comment, as it's widely known that there are numerous significant problems with Slashdot moderation, and moderators often appear to take leave of their senses when using their powers (the "cracksmoking moderators" effect).
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On the surface, it's an oxymoron (if you just took the meaning of the words literally), but in depth, yes, of course what you are saying would be ideal - except it's almost anti-capitalistic (vis-a-vis Microsoft, sort of like the Microsoft anti-open source sentiment). Which is to say, if nobody is making money off of it to move your hard earned money into their pockets, then someone will cry foul. Now, if you want another oxymoron, consider that Microsoft has something called Open License...