LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 17, 2004 @09:21AM from the do-you-loaf? dept.

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."

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Re:Please go outside by Loco3KGT · 2004-08-17 10:27 · Score: 0, Troll

*Ability to talk to people at any time. If my friend isn't at the bar, I can't talk to him. The chance he's near his computer is much higher

I wouldn't call that person a friend, then.

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