- From: Tim Anglade <tim.anglade@af83.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:02:06 +0200
- To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Cc: Phil Archer <phil@philarcher.org>, "public-xg-socialweb@w3.org" <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
Le 27 juil. 09 à 14:25, Melvin Carvalho a écrit : > Related is the topic of expiring data. This was discussed on > dataportability some time back, but not sure of the final conclusion. > There's also the Vanish project: > > http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ > > Which might be useful. Seriously, Vanish is just a university trying to generate some PR on what is becoming a trendy theme in the social networks world. I guess the authors behind the paper were just trying to have some fun and didn't pretend they were gonna take the world by storm, but the buzz around that service got seriously out of hand. The implementation is less than poor and the whole design has some serious holes in it. For example, anybody who has access to an encrypted message also has access to its non-encrypted form. So they talk about leaving Google and Facebook out of the loop but in reality, all these companies have to do is to decrypt all vanish-encrypted messages when they're posted on their service and store a local copy in the clear, possibly for ever… Also, there is no concept of signature or even authorship, so the data can just be decrypted & copy- pasted in its clear form across services and stick on the interwebs just as non-Vanish data does. Vanish is not a solution for data expiry, not even close to it. It's just a few guys having fun, mashing up different tools into something with no definite use case or potential for mass-adoption. Cheers, Tim - - - - - - - Tim Anglade | director, “Turbulences” dpt. | af83 42, boulevard de Sébastopol | 75003 Paris | France 1436, Howard St | San Francisco | CA 94103 | USA Tel : +33 1 42 72 33 32 Mob : +33 6 35 92 77 58 Skype : timanglade Web : www.af83.com This email is: [X] bloggable [ ] ask first [ ] private
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