Anthony,
This sounds awesome. 

Are you familiar with existing freedom boxes? I have one from last year, a guru server plug (globalscaletechnologies.com). Doesn't do much but the wireless mesh. Would love to add interesting new toys like what you describe (yeah, if I were a coder). If you'd like to borrow and experiment with it, just let me know. It's just sitting on my shelf holding some of my wishes.

  j.

On Apr 5, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Anthony Di Franco wrote:

On that point, I am most interested in setting it up as a crawler (which ought not to have any privacy implications), and would only secondarily introduce the option of using the indexing proxy for those specifically interested in that.
Using the indexing proxy would certainly at least bias the YaCy index towards pages YaCy users visit, which on the one hand is interesting as a subtle form of collaborative filtering, and on the other hand reveals information about the aggregate browsing habits of YaCy users in general at least.


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Steve Berl <steveberl@gmail.com> 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 is a free distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. All YaCy-peers are equal and no central server exists. It can be run either in a crawling mode or as a local 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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