[liberationtech] update on RiseApp

[Leonardo Maccari]

On 09/10/2014 04:54 AM, elijah wrote:
> On 09/09/2014 11:01 AM, Leonardo Maccari wrote:
> 
>> Before i apply to the new call (and get the money to really do it),
>> i'd like to receive feedback to validate the idea.
> ....
> 
>> You take pictures, hold the mobile phone in you pocket, and every
>> time anybody else with the App in his pocket walks close to you, you
>> send him your media and receive his own. The first phone that is
>> connected to the Internet will upload all the material online. This
>> way, the chance that a certain picture is lost/destroyed lowers.
>> Moreover, if only one phone reaches any kind of connection all the
>> images it contains will be published
> 
> I appreciate what you are trying to do, although I think this particular
> design element would be a security nightmare if implemented.
> 
> -elijah

thanks Elijah.

in the next weeks i'll start sketching the adversaries, and the design
model. My plan is to open up the design as much as possible, and in
every project proposal i'll prepare, there will be money for external
reviewers on the security concepts.

What are your concerns in particular?

thanks,
l.

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