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David Vorick Lead Developer of Skynet on Siacoin (SC) About Twitter Elon Musk and DMs

David Vorick Lead Developer of Skynet on Siacoin (SC) About Twitter Elon Musk and DMs

Skynet is built on top of Sia.  It lets users store and access data on the Sia network without worrying about Siacoins or blockchains. Decentralized file storage expenses are paid by Skynet Portals using Siacoin (SC) a cryptocurrency on the Sia network.

Skynet Labs are focused on decentralized Internet for a Free Future and they make it possible for users to host their content and build apps using decentralized storage.

Skynet Lead Developer has been having a lot of concerns lately and it is very obvious from his statement:  Is the crypto space currently becoming progressively more centralized over time or more decentralized over time, and do you think the trend will reverse?

The mission of decentralization is to move power from the wealthy to the masses. If you are endorsing centralization for the sake of prosecuting bad guys, you are concentrating power to the wealthy few, and then trusting them not to abuse that power.

Crypto’s greatest enemy is the perpetual temptation to tell yourself that various points of centralization are temporary and not really vulnerable.

Needless to say David Vorick is more concerned about privacy, decentralization, encryption and lot of such stuff which is important for privacy.

About Elon Musk and Twitter:  David Vorick, Skynet Lead Developer:  Elon Musk now has read access to your DMs.

There’s a deeper point here, which is that not only can Jack read your DMs, but actually anyone or any entity that’s got enough cash to buy Twitter can potentially be reading your DMs. Maybe you trusted Jack, but now you’ve been rugged unexpectedly with a new overseer.

No standard web application can reliably implement E2E encryption, because the encryption code itself is served by the webpage that the user loads. He’d have to use Skynet (like the kernel or Homescreen) to give users trustworthy E2E encryption.

Question:  If the app is open source do we still have issue with E2E? For example, Signal

David Vorick:  “Depends on how it’s installed. You have to have confidence that the code you are running matches the code that’s open source. As far as I know, neither the app store nor the google play store give you that confidence. The desktop client for signal does though.”

Question: Anyone worth a damn is using E2EE comms, so unlikely there’s much to be gleaned from a blackmail or competitive lens.

David Vorick:  This is a fantasy, most people use the communication mediums that are most convenient, regardless of whether those mediums are encrypted.  You and I don’t talk to the same politicians and CEOs it seems.

Clarification on Question to David Vorick:  That’s not what I said. Nobody worth a damn (from Elon’s perspective) is sending sensitive information via insecure comms.

Counter-Statements to David Vorick:  So did Jack and none seemed to complain about it.

In a tweet, He mentioned that they need to add end to end encryption to avoid that.

 

 

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