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by miss_haru 2399 days ago
Use case: this conversation, except between our own computers.

Typically, we 'log in' to 'our accounts' on some company's server and use whatever fuctions the company grants us. They are not really our accounts in any meaningful way.

If one were to be banned by hackernew(or twitter), she would have no access to her data, social connections, et c.

In the urbit world, any data you have authored and any messages you have received are YOURS. They are forever available on your own server.

It is simply not possible for 3rd parties to ban/delete/control your conversation, when the model is peer to peer.
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kart23 2399 days ago
Ok, so what's stopping one party from changing the data? How would one party prove they have the right data? Is this like blockchain messaging?
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miss_haru 2399 days ago
No, this is not blockchain messaging.

"How would one party prove they have the right data?" Before two urbit servers communicate, they exchange and verify public signing keys. Then, all messages are signed with verified public key.

If you mean what's stopping one party from changing their local copy of your data.... Nothing that I know of.

But they're the only ones who will see their local data.

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