I'd want to dive a bit deeper to understand "Several mechanisms are provided to protect the user's privacy"<div><br></div><div>Steve<span></span><br><br>On Friday, April 5, 2013, Anon195714 wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hell yeah! Double hellyeah! And another thing to put on CTel
"freedom box" home servers on the mesh.<br>
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I'd love to try this. <br>
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(My brain is mushed tonight from a pretty exhausting day in the
field, else I'd say more;-)<br>
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<div>On 13-04-05-Fri 12:25 AM, Anthony Di
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">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.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy" target="_blank">YaCy</a> <span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px">is
a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-size:12.499999046325684px;line-height:19.192707061767578px" target="_blank">free</a><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine" title="Distributed search engine" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-size:12.499999046325684px;line-height:19.192707061767578px" target="_blank">distributed
search engine</a><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px">,
built on principles of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;font-size:12.499999046325684px;line-height:19.192707061767578px" target="_blank">peer-to-peer</a><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px"> (P2P)
networks. </span><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px">All
YaCy-peers are equal and no central</span><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29" title="Server (computing)" style="font-size:12.499999046325684px;line-height:19.192707061767578px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" target="_blank">server</a><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px"> </span><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px">exists.
It can be run either in a</span><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler" title="Web crawler" style="font-size:12.499999046325684px;line-height:19.192707061767578px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" target="_blank">crawling</a> <span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px">mode
or as a local</span><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server" title="Proxy server" style="font-size:12.499999046325684px;line-height:19.192707061767578px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none" target="_blank">proxy
server</a><span style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px">,
indexing web pages visited by the person running YaCy on
his or her computer. (Several mechanisms are provided to
protect the user's privacy.)</span></font></div>
<p style="line-height:19.192707061767578px;font-size:12.499999046325684px;margin:0.4em 0px 0.5em"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Access to the search
functions is </font></p>
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<font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">given</font></div>
<font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"> 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.
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<div style="display:inline" class="gmail_default"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Thoughts?</font></div>
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