The Mine! compared to: "Virtual Individual Servers"
Alec Muffett
I can't remember if we've met at USENIX but it's not impossible - I
was hanging out with the Sun contingent at most USENIX Security
colloquiums from 1993-2000ish, but haven't been back for quite a
while. It's a pity, I really liked the USENIX crowd, but Sun just
wasn't willing to fund me to do that - however, I'm now a free agent,
so instead it's personal budget which stops me attending. :-)
The reason I am writing is that I just read this:
http://futurity.org/society-culture/giving-away-privacy-by-sharing-online/
...and, cutting a long story short, I was wondering if you had
encountered an F/OSS that I've been contributing to for the past
couple of years, "The Mine! Project"?
If not, I commend to you the Google TechTalk videos that Adriana Lukas
(project designer) and I did, earlier this year, embedded on:
http://themineproject.org/about/
...because the Mine! seems to have considerable overlap with what I
understand of your goals from "Virtual Individual Server" article --
plus our development plans (not in the videos) *also* cover P2P and
secure cloud-like storage.
We've been through a prototype and are now implementing the first
Mine, and shall be building other applications on top of it. The work-
in-progress is up on GoogleCode:
http://code.google.com/p/pymine/
Perhaps you/your students would be interested in participating in Mine-
related discussion - and/or vice-versa?
- alec
[cc: mine project discussion list, various interested parties]
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