Presence and IntComm WG

["Peter Deutsch" <>]

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> I think you have a good point.  There is no real technical reason why
> an edge server would provide you with more privacy than a centralized
> server.  It does mean that law enforcement might have to do a little
> more investigation until they determine which edge server they need
> access to.

Yabbut, in an edge architecture the choice of if/when/which
privacy-related technologies to use live at the edge. This offers the
possibility of securing stored content and traffic on a peer-to-peer
basis. Because you can secure each host and communication channel
independently, using different mechanisms or keys, there is no inherent
reason you would be compromised just because someone else in the system
was compromised. In a centralized architecture, once you compromise the
core, you've compromised the entire system.

My dad owns a glider. It's designed so that the wings can be removed and
the whole thing put on a trailer (gliders tend to come down away from
airports sometimes when they "run out of air").  To make this a
practical system, each wing is held onto the fuselage with a single
metal pin (called, appropriately enough, the "Jesus bolt"). If you lose
that pin, you're hosed. Now, it's a well-engineering plane, it works
fine, but this is a classic single point of failure.

Personally, I've always favored those designs with a little more
redundant failure capability...


                - peterd





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                           Peter Deutsch
                       Director, I&IT Systems
                          Cal Poly Pomona
                       



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