Data-Centric Security

Named Data Networking (NDN) Project

The NDN project was funded by NSF in September 2010 as one of the four projects under NSF’s Future Internet Architecture Program.

The Named Data Networking (NDN) project aims to develop a new Internet architecture that can capitalize on strengths — and address weaknesses — of the Internet’s current host-based, point-to-point communication architecture in order to naturally accommodate emerging patterns of communication. By naming data instead of their locations, NDN transforms data into a first-class entity.

Submitted on 14 Jul 2014] Title:IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System Authors:Juan Benet Download PDF Abstract: The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high throughput content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyper links. This forms a generalized Merkle DAG, a data structure upon which one can build versioned file systems, blockchains, and even a Permanent Web. IPFS combines a distributed hashtable, an incentivized block exchange, and a self-certifying namespace. IPFS has no single point of failure, and nodes do not need to trust each other.

A protocol & event-sourced databasefor decentralized user-siloed dataDraft 1.6 - Textile ThreadsPick1, Farmer1, Sutula1, Hagopian1, Gozalishvili2, Hill1 and11Textile.io2Mozilla.orgRevised May 20, 2020

There are a number of systems that utilize content-basedaddressing to access content and information (e.g. Git,IPFS, Perkeep, Tahoe-LAFS, etc)

I've implemented CHAMP [0] for Peergos in the IPLD/IPFS setting, largely based on the Steindorfer paper. There is one improvement that whyrusleeping from ipfs came up with which is to allow a small number of hash collisions in a level, before pushing things down a level.

calabilityPeergos can handle arbitrarily large files, including random access, upload and download, and on under-powered devices like mobile phones. This is largely due to the independent encryption of each 5 MiB section,as well as the "zero IO" seeking within a file

Peergos

Solid (derived from "social linked data")

so this is it's a it's a feed of of things that have been shared with you by people that you follow in pagos and obviously it's end-to-end encrypted so it's 100 client-side assembled

if you run pagos locally then you can view it at username.pagos.localhost and if you're viewing it that way then it's totally independent of dns

Peergos presents “The Private Web”

Lab Day 2018 // Peergos Architecture - Dr. Ian Preston

Today is a big step forward for Hypothesis! We're announcing a new Public Benefit Corporation, Anno, and a major investment by ITHAKA/JSTOR and others to take us forward. Seeing others get behind a universal standard for the conversation over all knowledge is incredibly energizing. https://lnkd.in/giTfPfMy Thanks to Kevin Guthrie and many others for believing in this vision!

Peergos

technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.

A Self-Authenticating Social Protocol

Peergos@PeergosIf you migrate to a different server, then all existing links to your content continue to work and you keep your social graph without needing to tell anyone your new host. It's magical. Compare this to changing email, where you must tell all your contacts about your new address.

Légy egy fűszálon a pici él S nagyobb leszel a világ tengelyénél.

Hiába fürösztöd önmagadban, Csak másban moshatod meg arcodat.

Curating and exploiting such an ontology will be as important as thehardware and software surfaces that activate it

Eric Anderson joined as CEO

Fast seeking and encrypted history Published: Thu 01 August 2019

reproducible builds (we don't use npm or browserify etc.)

Peergos is fully open-source

Multi-device login

There is also no central dns name or TLS certificate authority that could be used to attack the network.

Self hosting

The public keys and usernames are stored in a global append only data structure, with names taken on a first come first served basis. This needs consensus to ensure uniqueness of usernames. This is also where the ipfs node id of the server(s) responsible for synchronising the user's writes is stored.

The social network in Peergos is similar to Twitter or Instagram where any user can send another a follow request. The target user can accept, accept and reciprocate, or deny. Who follows who is not visible to us or the network.

Brian Cantwell Smith Prof of Information, Philosophy, and Computer Science

ethics is concerned with how reality should be.

When at odds with reality, science changes theory, while ethics changes reality

THE TRANSITION FROM THE SCIENTIFIC AGE TO THE ETHICAL AGE IS A PREREQUISITE FOR SURVIVAL OF HUMANITY

Smith’s research focuses on the philosophical foundations of computation, artificial intelligence, and mind, and on fundamental issues in metaphysics and epistemology.

Building Bicycles for the Mind

ToolsForThinkingHow New Technologies are Changing How We Create, Share, and Build Knowledge

Happening at betaworks

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Future of Open Scholarship: Open Monograph Ecosystem Impact Analysis

Open MonographEcosystem Impact Analysis

Open Monograph Ecosystem Impact Analysis (brief)

Future of Open Scholarship

We conduct and commission research to increase our understanding of the current landscape.

Open, community-owned infrastructure is necessary for research to thrive.

Helping you invest in the open technology that research relies on.

Everyone Included: Hypothesis Accessibility Reaches WCAG 2.1

freeing of information from proprietary systems and formats

fluid collaboration between individuals,

rapid access to knowledge as it evolves

a universal conversation layer

The idea of a shared conversation layer over the world’s knowledge is part of the original idea behind the Web.

bringing conversation to all knowledge.

Aug 24-28 ✵ Camp Navarro, CA

o with freedom—and I know this is a cliché, but hopefully not in thiscontext—with freedom of that sort comes enormous responsibility. And it’sparadoxical. Responsibility to dream and, coexisting and simultaneous withthat, an obligation to awaken. In other words, an obligation to make sense, benon-trivial, not to squander resources in foolishness. An obligation to awaken,and an obligation to, at the same time, dream. And then the rational mindscreams out, “But this is impossible! is is paradox!” But the subtle mind un-derstands that we have now reached square one. By openly confronting thenecessity for paradox, and by openly confronting the fact that we can only en-close our dilemma by speaking in at least two modes at once, we begin to actu-ally honor the complexity of the situation.

Terence McKenna: Life, Lectures, Philosophy, & Quotes

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A data project doesn’t start with an idea of whatthe functionality needs to be, but rather focuses on what insights or actions need to be gleanedfrom the data in whatever current shape it’s in

not teamand technology, what could it be?

One of the biggest insights from these AI successes is that they don’t see AI projects asapplication development or functionality-driven projects

The One Practice That Is Separating The AI Successes FromThe Failures

The One Practice That Is Separating The AI Successes From The Failures

One of the biggest insights from these AI successes is that they don’t see AI projects as application development or functionality-driven projects. Rather, they see them as data projects, or sometimes even data products. A data project doesn’t start with an idea of what the functionality needs to be, but rather focuses on what insights or actions need to be gleaned from the data in whatever current shape it’s in.

Commons-oriented groups and networks address these social and ecological strains by coming together to change the dynamics of very complex systemic problems.

Unfolding our founding principles

Unfolding our principles

to create something different, we have to work differently. We are dedicated to supporting you and your teams as the world transforms the ways we work together.

aim to to make cross-group coordination faster and more effective in support of changemaking teams cooperating towards a world they want.

Principles

TrailHub@TrailHub1·Jul 16, 2021Asked the question: What "field" is my research in? It has been called "Augmentation Research" Chapter 9 of @hrheingold's classic "Tools for Thought" https://hyp.is/5sOELOZxEeu7LIcMqK1LBQ/www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/09.html… "The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Thinker" is about Doug Engelbart & the Augmentation Research Center

Map Whisperers

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team health

standard playbook for developing high-performing teams doesn't work

Want a High Performing Team? F&*k Productivity, Focus on Team Health

Autonomy is about having the trust and authority to make important decisions about how we fulfill our responsibilities and accomplish our goals.

inspiring perspectives could go viral -- rather than confining perspectives trap us in filter bubbles?

write our own filters and share them with others

join the simple facts with our impressions, opinions and evidenc

make my own choices about which of my data to share with whom or to make public

work directly with ideas not just bare words, numbers and pictures?

communicate our thoughts and link them up with the thinking of others, preserving all the connections, evidence and history?

What we lack is a tool for people to manage data, concepts, opinions and software in a way that supports all the kinds of thinking, showing, working, trading and sharing we need to do.

hard work to bring it all together

We are drowning in our own productivity.

scalable collective human cognition

Hi! I'm Shawn Murphy, a Canadian software architect living in Berlin.

Projects

Creating a distributed, globally-scalable, knowledge-based, collaboration platform augmented with criteria and evaluations as the basis for a self-organizing system capable of fostering the evolution of ideas

Developing software tools incorporating elaboration, evaluation, and evolution at the core of their design and operation,

HuViz: Scriptable, Interactive Linked Open Data Explorer

A Collaborative Linked Learning Space

Data is expressed in open, non-proprietary formats

The Data-Centric Manifesto the

No SPOF: don't rely on any single party (including yourself) Your data should be alive in 80 years, especially if you are

Data is self-describing and does not rely on an application for interpretation and meaning.

Ivo Velitchkov@kvistgaardReplying to @jessmartin @TfTHacker and @BearNotesAppYes, that's what I meant. If you open an MD with several tools and you write in one of them, all others should show the change with small or no delay. That's the app-content decoupling I meant for this classification. Half-way to data-centricity http://datacentricmanifesto.org

It refers to an instance of a clearly identifiable conceptual or material entity. The entity must be notable, in the sense that it can be described using serious and publicly available references.

Redecentralization

The state of the web

mechanism, known as the Actor Model

An Actor is a lightweight computational unit

eliminatinginformation of low interest, providing navigation clues and recommending interesting paths of exploration. Asdifferent users have different goals and interests, AH systems adapt their assistance based on user modelswhich capture information about the users

Liberman’s implied argument isthat adaptive interfaces could be a solution to the problem of information overload that Web users face today

Actor model

I'm paging you now because I'm helping organize a series of events around Tools for Thinking, starting with this event on Tuesday: https://lnkd.in/gmJ46wZK

As I write this, a 29-year-old developer of the Tornado Cash protocol has also apparently been arrested in Amsterdam. Jeez.

Github has removed Tornado Cash’s source code and banned source contributors (hence the need for decentralized alternatives like Radicle). 

While Radicle was initially built using the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the team later decided that the IPFS did not satisfy the performance requirements required by the project.

Radicle (RAD): An Open-Source Github Alternative

Web Share API W3C Editor's Draft 12 July 2022

Eric Weinstein on Edugenic Harm and Neurodiversity

That’s why a scientist looking at my brain and seeing this pattern should ask me what I feel, because the pattern is not the feeling itself, just a representation of it.”

Ronen Tamari@rtk2541/Excited to share some new work on collective sensemaking! We’ll present it in the Blue Sky Ideas track (~open, exciting areas for R&D) of the upcoming @ACMHT This is a collective effort of @daostack, Veeo, @InferenceActive @CSenseMakers @HyadataLab https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.06345

7/Stigmergy refers to the phenomena of indirect coordination mediated by modifications of the environment, eg ant pheromone trails. The crazy part is that the env acts as a kind of distributed memory system for a collective organism: https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389041715000327

16/ interoperable protocols/storage for stigmergic primitives can enable bootstrapping existing PKP growth for *collective* sensemaking/knowledge.

Decentralized OrganizationShape a new structure, which is collaborative, autonomous and transparent.

“It is wrong to think that the  task of physics is to find out how Nature is.   Physics concerns what we can say about Nature.”  Well it turns out that if we pay attention to this   subtle difference, some of the most mysterious  aspects of nature make a lot more sense. What is physics really trying to do? Is it to find  the mathematical laws that govern the universe?  

founders of quantum theory were convinced that  the role of physics was one step further removed   still. Neils Bohr insisted that what we actually  model is the results of observation, not the world   itself.

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations. —René Descartes, 1637, A Discourse on Method

Cognitive Limits to Natural Knowledge Creation

It assumes the centrality of knowledge forthe rise of Western modernity; and it illustrates that with regard to their knowl-edge foundations, such a rise was not a natural process but an unnatural one,critically relying on path-dependent factors that might not repeat elsewhere.Because it enabled the West to transcend the inherent limits of the humanmind, I call this process the “great knowledge transcendence.”

ring the heyday of “the Whig interpretation of history,” history wasregarded as a natural and inevitable march toward modernity, including con-stitutionalism, freedom, science, technology, and capitalism.

observed in fact or in thought

not everybody wants versioning not everybody wants encryption and privacy like i think that having this be a set of progressive upgrades would be really good but like i'm just wondering what the right substrate is

quick query on top of the new winfs stuff was like oh we got to plug like application specific merge semantics into how do we actually merge two files because as soon as you introduce versioning you get branching as soon as you get branching you wanna put those things back together and if 00:23:01 you wanna put those things back together and you just try to let a computer magically do it for you it's not gonna end well

arbitrary metadata in a second versioning not everybody needs but like it's pretty dope it's good to have um and we need some type of mutability like an aiming system that 00:21:04 that is robust and works

we really like we fully drink drink drank drunk drink still drink the content addressing kool-aid like i think that content addressing is 00:09:19 a fundamental like primitive that i want to see proliferate

ipfs sold as a bill of goods that it could not deliver on which uh is uh in many ways true and i want to get into some details on that

IPFS þingþing (n). thing, assembly, meeting, council. parliament.

Marc-Antoine Parent 1st degree connection 1st Fondateur chez Solutions Conversence

. Conversation is a method for converging on eventually consistent states among distributed peers.

creative scenius between band members playing jazz, or among designers collaborating on a project.

Diverge/converge, the ur-shape of design.

A speaker flattens a cloud of connected ideas into a linearized subset. A listener unpacks them. The conversation loop.

Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes”  can occasionally generate.

Conversation theory is a cybernetic and dialectic framework that offers a scientific theory to explain how interactions lead to "construction of knowledge", or "knowing": wishing to preserve both the dynamic/kinetic quality, and the necessity for there to be a "knower

∀ (FOR ALL) utf-8 character icon FOR ALL is one of the 256 characters in the Mathematical Operators Unicode subset.

Technography

Get more insight from TwitterTwemex is a browser extension for Twitter that automatically surfaces the most interesting ideas.It helps you spend less time mindlessly scrolling, and more time developing your thoughts

Expertise revisited, Part I—Interactional expertise

In a world filled with ever-more-complex technological, sociological, ecological, political & economic systems... a tool to make interactive simulations may not be that much help. But it can certainly try

Socialroots Cross-group collaboration, simplified.

tummler is the person who keeps everyone else talking interestingly. Short version http://j.mp/tummler - long version is 100 hours of conversation http://tummelvision.tv.

Argument Technologies (and things that seem like they might be/become)Add shortcut to Drive   

how we make sense of complexity in the world around us; how we turn confusion into action; and how we can overcome hubris to achieve meaningful systems change.

break inside the file they are declared. The reason for this issimple; those low-level objects return information to the interface(properties and methods) of the Motor and the Storage file NOT the Car fileitself.

Logic Room PresentsThink!Like a UI Architect5 Critical Lessons for Framework-agnosticJavaScript UI App Design and Structure

a crimp tree node for for each chunk of your file or directory and that can have links to the the encrypted file fragments and so the keys in this champ are 00:05:42 basically random um subsequent keys in a file are not random but they're still not deducible uh by the server so the storage Your Home Server can't figure out or can't link 00:05:54 the different chunks of the same file so we use that to hide the the tires of the file among among other ways the read correctly is pretty simple it's it's been discussed earlier but yeah 00:06:07 it's a tree of symmetric keys if you have one key you can follow the the arrows follow the links it also gives everything a well-defined path so if I just give you access to this file you can follow the parent links to get the names 00:06:21 so you have a path but you still can't see if there are any other files in that directory any siblings or anything like that the right tree is even simpler so there's just one key for each file or 00:06:34 directory these are all symmetric keys by the way in the previous slide um also the top ones are symmetric Keys these are obviously key pairs at the bottom um and the the metadata that we protect 00:06:49 file names file name sizes if you care about that uh the file sizes I've mentioned so there's a chunking part get you down to 00:07:00 modulo 5 Meg

it's pure capabilities so you don't need to rely on a server to enforce Access Control it's fine-grained it's also stored in a champ we like Champs the ciphertext access access control is 00:04:09 a relatively new thing that's as of January this year we do that with things called block access tokens or bats

whirlwind tour of pergos

* A Compressed Hash-Array Mapped Prefix-tree (CHAMP), a refinement of a Hash Array Mapped Trie (HAMT)

Sadly, these things were meant to help you but they haven’t…

I opened my desk drawer and took out a copy of Zhuan Falun. While holding the book in my two hands and facing him, I said, "Please read the book carefully, and think about it. If you have the determination to quit, I will try my best to help you."

If you smoked and practised Qigong , you would still be healthier then if you smoked and did not practise Qigong though.

Rene ChampagnePractising Falun Gong

Ours is an age of AGI