Supporting sovereign insurgencies - secure communities for social change - putting out fires when it is illegal to do so
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Supporting Sovereign Insurgencies – Secure Communities For Social Change – Putting Out Fires When It Is Illegal To Do So
Wednesday 16B
Convener: Eric Welton
Notes-taker(s): Juan Caballero (Spherity GmbH, Dortmund, Germany)
Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered: censorship resistance, communications, encryption, infrastructure, alternative trust frameworks
Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:
Technology projects that came up in the discussion:
- http://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt
- http://gotenna.com/
- http://www.gotoky.com/
Reference materials
- Accountable anoncreds paper (Dec 2018) - http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-981-13-1483-4_3.pdf
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22107280-blueprint-for-revolution
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
- better biometrics/ continuous authentication http://www.mirlabs.org/jias/secured/Volume6-Issue2/Paper17.pdf
Strategic discussions
- Reputation systems (without consent) as ultimate state monopoly on violence
- Holochain’s “warrants” - a red card that boots someone from the network for crimes against the commons
- Revocable anonymity (coming from fintech/crypto eKYC discussions) - each pseudonym anchored to a liable party held in escrow until crimes are done
- [Moral] imperative to publish (even if anonymously and on, say, arvix) this work for the common good - it might be urgent in many places to build alternate tech/trust networks
- Alternative trust frameworks → how does that change the architecture?
- gossip messaging rather than hierarchical messaging systems
- credentials for access to subset of messages?
- skeptical counterpoint: insurgents tend to burn all their notes after reading, why risk infiltration with any extra structure?
- built-in obsolescence, time-bound messaging…
- what’s the UX needed for that
Local webs of trust (f/CCI/Sovrin conversations)
- early
All roads seem to lead back to tradecraft
