More general resources on the movement to redecentralise the internet. (Also called the Indie Web movement). If it's not a link to a specific project, it belongs here.
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A proposal for protection against identity theft that works by decentralizing the storage of personal information. Using such a strategy would make websites less enticing targets for hackers and would allow users to be in control of where and how their personal information is stored.
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DissidentX is a steganographic framework by Bram Cohen, which can be used to hide messages into common files, with various encoders (for specific filetypes and/or techniques) and a single decoder:
The primary use case for DissidentX is encoding messages in files on the web.
There should be a utility which scans all objects the user's web browser downloads (html files, images, css files, etc.) for messages using all of the keys the user has entered. Someone sending messages to that person provides a web service where users who have widely viewed web sites can upload their files and get back slightly modified version with messages steganographically added.
The web users should not be able to read what the messages are, and it should be possible for the service doing the encoding to not have to keep messages in plaintext.
Articles and blog posts.
- Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet - an article on wired.com about the Indie Web.
Online communities connected with these ideas.
Projects representing the idea as a whole, rather than working on a specific software implementation.
- Federated Social Web Community Group - A community sub-group of the World Wide Web Consortium on the 'Federated Social Web'.
- IndieWebCamp - 'a 2-day creator camp focused on growing the independent web'.
- Redecentralise - a website which publishes video interviews with people working on decentralised internet software.
- Federated Social Web group list. The email list of the w3c's Federated Social Web Community Group (see above).