Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

D to Salvador Mirzo:

The web is like that.  A website sends you to another
one.  This is decentralization.  No NNTP servers send
you to another one, except those that have peers, but
then it's as if they're all the same.  My idea is to
make NNTP servers more like the web.

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That would be a nice take on NNTP. A kind of "federated"
nntp model, as opposed to todays standardize and "global"
version. Federated is perhaps not the right word for it.
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I think I see your vision here... we could think of the
local nntp servers as small communities, you could opt-in
to make them public, keep them private, or just register
them with a search engine if you want.
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That model also would avoid all the newsgroup hierarchy
stuff, you just name your groups what ever you want, and
you can decide to setup peers with other communities you
know.

Is the difference from the current Usenet so big?  There
already are many servers, public and private, and peering
with one another.  news.tilde.club is an example of a small
NNTP community.

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