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LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email
FamousLongAgo writes "LOAF (List Of All Friends) is an extension to email that lets you send out address book data without compromising your privacy. LOAF appends a hash-like data structure to each outgoing email, and collects similar attachments from the people who write to you. These files can be queried to see if they contain a given email address, but they can't be reverse-engineered to reveal the list of addresses used to construct them. LOAF lets you check whether someone emailing you for the first time is a complete stranger, or appears in the address books of some of your trusted correspondents. And as a decentralized application, LOAF offers an interesting alternative to current social networking sites like Orkut or Friendster."
These files can be queried to see if they contain a given email address, but they can't be reverse-engineered to reveal the list of addresses used to construct them.
Or so they thought, untill they heard about the sha vulnerability.
anyone else think linux on a floppy when they saw this?
(http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography%40metzdo wd.com/msg02554.html
Send this email to your LOAF within 3 minutes or suffer a tragic loss next week!
If you think
Now you want to tell people to "Go ahead and open all those emails with attachments" ?
For a minute there, I thought this was an actual readable article about a distro that was once fairly useful L.O.A.F. and its revival.
Guess not.
you don't have any friends?
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
That's 1 million million million million combinations.
;)
...or quadrillion if you're British.
That's 1 septillion for the non-kindergarteners among us.
Too bad I don't use electronic address books.
Yeah, back in my day we didn't have fancy electronic address books.
We only had paper address books. If I ran into a stranger, I would take my address book and smear it across his face one page at a time. If the ink rubbed off, then I knew they were a friend of one of my friends, and I could trust 'em.
And then we could drink beer together. But we didn't have carbonation back then so we used straws to blow bubbles. There wasn't any plastic back then neither, so we had to find a swamp and cut some reeds...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Correct, And since your List Of All Friends is appended as a hash and not plaintext, no one can "pinch" your LOAF, so to speak.
taken! (by Davidleeroth) Thanks Bingo Foo!
You know who hangs out at bars? Drunks. I don't want a social circle of drunks.
That's OK. We don't want you either.
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
Gee...hasn't anyone else noticed what else we get with LOAF? Longer shit on emails!
Unless the application (which it might, I haven't checked) filters the LOAF signature, we'll have a nice influx of three-word emails with 25 lines of crap at the end of each, plus headers, plus the 50-line signature that I flamed you about last week, plus your cutsey signoff, plus the last 14 messages you've quoted in the discussion thread because you were too fucking lazy to edit them off, plus a poorly-rendered ASCII-art picture of Britney Spears showing her hot grits, plus...
Well. You get the picture. I can't wait until I can be on mailing lists that have 95 LOAF signatures at the end of each email because they were running Outlook and it couldn't filter them out.
Any way to stick those babies in a header? At least they can be hidden, then. The bandwidth is just a victim anyway.
Blog,Twitter
Hmmm... Mail Expurgated Against Tenative List Of All Friends - MEATLOAF!!!
MEATLOAF - the Anti-SPAM!
Yech. Time to go home.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Guess you have a point there.
(Tends to screaming kid.)
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"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Perhaps limit it to a couple of steps away.
> Please, give me an argument for my fellow P.H.B.'s
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BS in Computer Engineering, UIUC. No masters, I'm applying for phd programs next fall
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2nd place biology and 5th place computers JETS Illinois State championship
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Job outsourced to India: Priceless...
It's "no one," not "noone." Who the hell is noone anyway?
Since when does a computer science degree count for anything?
I was going to replay saying "Exactly! Finally someone sees things they way I do", but then I realized that would make me an unsocialable, disconnected, ignorant snob.
Why don't you guys all meet up somewhere and talk this over. I'm sure the in-person interaction would be better. Or maybe worse. Or maybe better. Or maybe ...
zero...
further proof that the higher the intelligence, the lower the reproductive potential.
I don't read or respond to AC posts