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Eben Moglen Calls To Free the Cloud

Posted by timothy on from the on-gossamer-wings dept.

paxcoder writes "You have been informed about Diaspora, a (to-be) distributed free social network. What you may not have known is that it was inspired by an excellent talk by Eben Moglen called 'Freedom in the Cloud.' But it doesn't stop there. At Debconf 10 this month, Moglen went further, and shared his vision of a free, private, and secure Net architecture relying on ('for lack of a better term') freedom boxes — low-price, ultra-small, plug it into the wall personal servers. He believes they will catch on since they will eventually cost less than a router, provide more functionality and freedom to the user, and even help your friends bypass any censorship by encrypting and routing their traffic. Since hardware is being taken care of, we are called to assemble the software stack. The title of this sequel talk is How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud."

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  1. A tethered balloon by countertrolling · · Score: -1, Troll

    is still not free...

    Or is the cloud entirely wireless now?

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    1. Re:A tethered balloon by countertrolling · · Score: 1, Troll

      Troll, eh?

      Please tell me how well will your cloud work when you can be cut off with the flip of the switch? Three strikes, and you're out. And how many of your ISPs let you run a web, ftp, or any other kind of server? Read your contract... They could probably nail you for your bittorrent

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  2. Finally. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I like to rape and kill kids and post videos of it on the Internet. Now I will be able to do it without fear of prosecution. Let freedom ring!

  3. Re:Why Eben Moglen is misguided... by istartedi · · Score: 0, Troll

    tl;dr. When you brought in the WWII Germans, I saw this as just shy of a Godwin and tuned out. How did this get modded up? Followed by, who is going to follow all those links?

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