![]() “When you deploy Capsule right now - I have a prototype that does almost nothing running - it’s basically one binary. “That is kind of terrifying,” he suggests.Ĭapsule would seek to route around the risk of mass deplatforming via “easy to deploy” P2P microservices - starting with a forthcoming web app. court seeking damages and injunctive relief from Apple for allowing Telegram, a messaging platform with 500 million+ users, to be made available through its iOS App Store - “despite Apple’s knowledge that Telegram is being used to intimidate, threaten and coerce members of the public” - raising concerns about “the odds of these efforts catching on.” ![]() He also points to a lawsuit that’s been filed in U.S. ![]() But he says he is concerned about giant private corporations having unilateral power to shape internet speech - whether takedown decisions are being made by Twitter’s trust and safety lead or Amazon Web Services (which recently yanked the plug on right-wing social network Parler for failing to moderate violent views). Kobeissi also takes that view, while adding the caveat that he’s not “personally” concerned about Trump’s deplatforming. ![]() President Donald Trump’s access to their megaphones - a demonstration of private power that other political leaders have described as problematic. Interest in the space has been rekindled in recent weeks after mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter took decisions to shut down U.S. Extant examples include ActivityPub, Diaspora, Mastodon, P2P Matrix, Scuttlebutt, Solid and Urbit, to name a few. The list of decentralized/P2P/federated protocols and standards already out there is very long - even while usage remains low. Completely insane.”Ĭapsule is just the latest contender for retooling Internet power structures by building infrastructure that radically decentralizes social platforms to make speech more resilient to corporate censorship and control. “But by the end of the day - last Sunday, eight days ago - I was running a Delaware corporation valued at $10 million with $100,000 in pre-seed funding, which is insane. I’ve been running a business based on consulting and based on academic R&D services,” he continues. Instead the tweet “just completely exploded” and he found himself raising $100,000 “in a single day” - with $50,000 paid in there and then. In June 2014, Cryptocat was ranked first in a three-month study evaluating the security and usability of instant messaging encryption software, conducted by the German PSW Group.“I posted that tweet and the expectation that I had was that basically 60 people max would retweet it and then maybe I’ll set up a Kickstarter,” he tells us. In November 2013, Cryptocat was banned in Iran, shortly after the election of Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani who had promised more open Internet laws.Ĭryptocat is developed by the Cryptocat team and is released under the GPLv3 license. In June 2013, Cryptocat was used by journalist Glenn Greenwald while in Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the first time, after other encryption software failed to work. The chat software aims to strike a balance between security and usability-offering more privacy than services such as Google Talk or Internet Relay Chat, while maintaining a higher level of accessibility than Pidgin. Cryptocat is offered as an app for Mac OS X or as a browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and as a mobile app for iPhone.Ĭryptocat's stated goal is to make encrypted communications more accessible to average users. Cryptocat uses end-to-end encryption and encrypts chats on the client side, only trusting the server with data that is already encrypted. Cryptocat is an open source web and mobile application intended to allow secure, encrypted online chatting.
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