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Encrypted Social Network Vies For Disgruntled Facebook Users
angry tapir writes "With the look of Google Plus and Facebook-like elements, a new social network named "Syme" feels as cozy as a well-worn shoe. But beneath the familiar veneer, it's quite different. Syme encrypts all content, such as status updates, photos and files, so that only people invited to a group can view it. Syme, which hosts the content on its Canada-based servers, says it can't read it. "The overarching goal of Syme is to make encryption accessible and easy to use for people who aren't geeks or aren't hackers or who aren't cryptography experts," co-founder Jonathan Hershon said in an interview about the service." See also Diaspora.
> If you aren't being charged for the product, you are the product.
Why is it that in every single damn post to /. that mentions Facebook, some paranoid right winger spouts that nonsense. It isn't true despite what you Republicans want to believe. Also, stop trying to make everything about politics. It's so tiresome how you can't even make a post to a technical site without bringing politics into it.