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

[Anthony Di Franco]

You are too kind.
And, I emailed the list to start discussion and prompt background reading
to get everyone potentially interested / affected up to a basic level of
understanding about what would be going on and the implications. So it is
important not to trust my judgement too much.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Anon195714 <anon195714 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>
> The reason I'm (apparently uncritically;-) enthusiastic is that Anthony &
> I are friends and we've discussed freedom & privacy issues extensively.
> He's a coder with serious smarts/skills/background, and he walks his talk
> ferociously, so if he's endorsing something as a viable privacy
> application, I trust his judgement.
>
> -G.
> "Freedom & privacy: you can't have one without the other!"
>
>
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>
>
>
> On 13-04-05-Fri 10:16 AM, Steve Berl 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.
>>
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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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