Brainstorm!

[maradydd]

Prompted by a discussion with bunnykitteh, who's good at prompting these kinds of things:

Imagine a Facebook and/or MySpace application aimed at organising flash mobs for political action (e.g., the kind of thing Anonymous might use to quickly notify members of imminent $cientology activity in a particular location). What features should it have? (Twitter gateway?)

(Note that with Facebook, especially, there are all kinds of interesting concerns with respect to privacy...)

Comments

[michiexile]

Yeah, I respect the need to establish security around political protest. My point was that PGP is NOT a magic wand that you wave and automatically get Teh Securitee! - you need to actually figure out WHAT you want to do, which specific functions you want your crypto to do, and first when you have a clear idea of all your requirements it's useful to discuss specific program packages, specific protocols and specific algorithms.

Besides - if people are being tortured to divulge their Facebook passwords - what prevents The Authorities to request their secret keys while they're at it?

[bunnykitteh.livejournal.com]

LOL oh totally.

And I think our coder in question is focused more on American protests where torture is (somewhat?) less of a concern.

I can haz securitee?

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

I am focused more on America, true, but that's no reason not to do it right the first time. Happily, this LJ is a good convergence point for some of the brightest minds in computer security today...

(software engineering lesson #1: figure out what the project requirements are first!)

[bunnykitteh.livejournal.com]

Mai project requirez a full buffet and dancing boyz!

[michiexile]

/me pulls off a decent solo charleston routine

[bunnykitteh.livejournal.com]

iLOLed