[tor-talk] Creating distributed social networks with WebId behind Tor

[Ted Smith]

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 21:07 -0400, ahmed wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 22:32 +0200, Henry Story wrote:
> > 4) this requires every user to have an always on machine
> 
> Not really. Users can synchronize their data with their friends when
> they become online, and their friends can pass it to the offline user's
> friends when they become online.

This is a non-trivial design point.

It's certainly not impossible (very few things in this space truly are),
but it's hard to get right and introduces a number of problems,
including security concerns.

-- 
Sent from Ubuntu
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