Eben Moglen Calls To Free the Cloud 173
paxcoder writes "You have been informed about Diaspora, a (to-be) distributed free social network. What you may not have known is that it was inspired by an excellent talk by Eben Moglen called 'Freedom in the Cloud.' But it doesn't stop there. At Debconf 10 this month, Moglen went further, and shared his vision of a free, private, and secure Net architecture relying on ('for lack of a better term') freedom boxes — low-price, ultra-small, plug it into the wall personal servers. He believes they will catch on since they will eventually cost less than a router, provide more functionality and freedom to the user, and even help your friends bypass any censorship by encrypting and routing their traffic. Since hardware is being taken care of, we are called to assemble the software stack. The title of this sequel talk is How We Can Be the Silver Lining of the Cloud."
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Imagine a Freedom Beowulf Cluster!
Re:A tethered balloon (Score:3, Funny)
That's one of the dumbest things that I've ever read here.
I don't know... you've written some spectacularly dumb things, Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Re:All they need to do is everything (Score:2, Funny)
How did you know I was looking for a bikini? Do they come in XXXL?
Re:Transcript (Score:3, Funny)