[sudo-discuss] YaCy in sudo room: I am inclined to set it up

[Steve Berl]

I'd want to dive a bit deeper to understand "Several mechanisms are
provided to protect the user's privacy"

Steve

On Friday, April 5, 2013, Anon195714 wrote:

>
>
> Hell yeah!  Double hellyeah!  And another thing to put on CTel "freedom
> box" home servers on the mesh.
>
> I'd love to try this.
>
> (My brain is mushed tonight from a pretty exhausting day in the field,
> else I'd say more;-)
>
> -G.
>
>
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> On 13-04-05-Fri 12:25 AM, Anthony Di Franco wrote:
>
>  Sudo room is a room with a bunch of computer hardware in it much of it
> idle and a community of people many of them not idle many of whom like free
> access to information and privacy-respecting technology and social
> institutions and dislike pervasive surveillance by state and corporate
> actors and oligopolistic private control of vital public resources.
> YaCy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy> is a free<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software>
>  distributed search engine<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine>,
> built on principles of peer-to-peer<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer> (P2P)
> networks. All YaCy-peers are equal and no central server<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29>
>  exists. It can be run either in a crawling<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler>
>  mode or as a local proxy server<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server>,
> indexing web pages visited by the person running YaCy on his or her
> computer. (Several mechanisms are provided to protect the user's privacy.)
>
> Access to the search functions is
>  given
>  by a locally running web server which provides a search box to enter
> search terms, and returns search results in a similar format to other
> popular search engines.
> 
>  Thoughts?
>
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-steve
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