Re: [projectvrm] "The Revolution Will Not Be Monetized"

[Don Marti < >]

begin Alan Mitchell quotation of Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 09:38:16AM +0100:

> Hi Don,
> 
> You said:
> 
> "Unfortuntely, IMHO it's going to be easier for
> large-scale services to de-creepify than for
> non-creepy services to scale."
> 
> That's a very big and important statement.
> 
> Can you expand?

Sure.  GMail can incrementally add privacy features...

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html

...without making users migrate all their mail.
At any time they could have a mix of privacy-enabled
users and users with legacy mail.

A startup offering a confidential mail service
will have to spend more to build a GMail-sized
infrastructure.

Don

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Don Marti 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> 
> > Betting on that online privacy that the conventional
> > wisdom keeps telling us that people don't want...
> >
> >   "For years, the internet's biggest players
> >   have hoarded your personal data and sold it for
> >   billions. Now, a band of angry startups is demanding
> >   privacy and aiming to overhaul the social-media
> >   business forever."
> >
> >
> > http://www.inc.com/magazine/201407/ceo-of-wickr-leads-social-media-resistance-movement.html
> >
> >   "She started Wickr to give her daughters a tool that
> >   would allow them to communicate safely, anonymously,
> >   with the capacity to control what information is
> >   retained on the other end."
> >
> > (Unfortuntely, IMHO it's going to be easier for
> > large-scale services to de-creepify than for
> > non-creepy services to scale.)
> >
> > Bonus link: Arvind Narayanan, "Encryption as protest"
> > https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/randomwalker/encryption-as-protest/
> >
> >   "In this post, I want to examine the hypothesis
> >   that users of encryption tools also have protest
> >   and civil disobedience in mind, instead of (or in
> >   addition to) self-defense and anonymity."
> >
> > --
> > Don Marti
> > http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> > 
 
> >
> 
> 
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