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I know you said you are out of time, but that mention from above about "the founders state" was actually responded to by the founder, and he said he didn't agree (it actually sounded more like "I never said that" to my reading.) I don't claim to know everything about how Urbit works. I do think that superficially, Urbit is more able to respond positively to a demand from a state that sounds like "we think your network is being used to recruit radicals and a subversive element that threatens the nation is using it to communicate operational details and plan their attacks. can you shut it down" than say, BitTorrent... I mean, it's a centralized network where the leader is able to push out updates to the software, and in a future version you may not even need to ask for them to be downloaded or approve them before they replace your running kernel. This will be considered a feature by anyone who comes from at least a managed Windows domain. So, it has the potential to carry out a "poisoned updates" type attack, like Apple could do to an iPhone. And the more that I think about it the more ways I can imagine that ~zod can fuck you up. It's true I am interested in this project, more than passively, I am a kind of stakeholder who owns a large part of the namespace. The only thing that keeps my ownership safe is a line of text in the git repository under ames.hoon where my public key is stored, generated by an app called :pope and interpreted by a crypto suite that I cannot audit, simply for lack of time and understanding. So, if I've led you down the wrong path or led you to believe something about the code that simply isn't true, I apologize! I feel I have to admit this is possible, I may have grave misunderstandings or mischaracterizations about the current state of the software, and to add to it, things are also always still changing now. It's in active development, pre-alpha, not yet sure who the customers are. YMMV, take with a grain of salt. |