daviddahl

LOL. The establishment Economist magazine says it - it must be so.

THIS. I have 8 years of open source work in bugzilla and github. If companies really give a shit, they would review code you already wrote and ask questions about your body of work. Not some arbitrary test.

Yes, no victim, no crime.

The history of Google's "SafeBrowsing" with respect to Firefox is a real mixed bag. The privacy protections Mozilla asked for from Google were begrudgingly implemented. As a Linux user, I used to just turn it off.

"Here's a guide for you to make 75K a year, learning all of this will take 10 years." LOL

Nice! reminds me of hyperscript-helpers

But, no protection from Google in any of this. Sigh.

+1000

Yeah, Android < 5 is a PITA as there is no secure storage. I almost wish I could make this app require Android 5.

This is easy to do in this case, as the source is on github: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp. Also, you can run your own server if you like.

p384 is the standard, yes, however, any future implementation of Crypton will, I hope, move to Curve25518

This initial version is is very deliberate about who you share with. The idea is that the user is always in control of who anything is shared with. One way to help create your social network will be an "opt-in profile page" that others can view and collect your card via. Its in the works.

If you delete a contact they will not see anything you post after that point in time

My contact card is here: https://twitter.com/deezthugs/status/654457605650255872 I'll add you to my contacts now

That is not the premise. The premise is that this is a parallel network for your trusted friends and family, off limits to the data-miners at FB and TWTR

The link to the source code is in the about screen in the app. Hardly buried. I will have it added to the site, I was unaware of this.

The source/tracker is here if you want to file issues, etc: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp

That is an unfortunate naming problem. Kind of ironic as social media can be such a sewer!

The dataset of all towns in the world with > 1000 inhabitants is bundled into Kloak. The GPS location was originally highly accurate, but we rounded down to 2 decimal places. So if your GPS coordinates match the center of the city (rounded down), a place name can be generated. It basically will place you near the center of the closest town, again, its naively rounded to 2 decimal places. I want to go back to make this code a bit more sophisticated, with more choices for the user.

The way people "follow" you requires you to add them as a contact. Your contact card is basically a public key, but in a more human-understandable form.

Earlier in the thread I mentioned that Kloak came about as a UX experiment in private social networking. We are building on these concepts in another project that is underway now.

Would love to, which will require a bit of engineering on Crypton's server

You must approve all contacts who get a copy of your feed. There is no way to just follow others. It is a white-listed system. Analytics can only be performed by those you trust

yes! that is a much better set of options. I will file an issue.

I dont think the NSA is the 99% threat model. It is data miners who are building up dossiers on all of us to sell to the highest bidder which will raise costs for all of us in the long run. think Insurance companies raising rates on how often you visit the online whiskey store.

We also released a password manager called Encryptr, but there is a larger project underway that I won;t say anything about yet as I am not in Marketing, etc:)

Correct, it is a texting app, and is fantastic. I did not want to build another texting app. As a twitter fiend I wanted a private twitter-like experience. Still, there is much to do.

You share the (wrapped) post key with all contacts when you add them as contacts

Making the location fuzzy was a notion I had - it's still not great. One problem here is doing location name without calling any external APIs. We store all place names in the app. Not ideal.

Kloak's threat model is advertisers and data-miners. It is an experiment in private social networking. It is part of a set of new applications we are building at SpiderOak. Kloak is more or less a lab experiment in the UX of private systems.

No, it is fully open source from day one: https://github.com/Crypton/statusapp