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

Anthony Di Franco di.franco at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 10:21:46 PDT 2013


On that point, I am most interested in setting it up as a crawler (which
ought not to have any privacy implications), and would only secondarily
introduce the option of using the indexing proxy for those specifically
interested in that.
Using the indexing proxy would certainly at least bias the YaCy index
towards pages YaCy users visit, which on the one hand is interesting as a
subtle form of collaborative filtering, and on the other hand reveals
information about the aggregate browsing habits of YaCy users in general at
least.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> =====
>>
>>
>> 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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