[sudo-discuss] YaCy in sudo room: I am inclined to set it up
Anon195714
anon195714 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 5 10:22:06 PDT 2013
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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