SOLID is probably what we need to solve the problem with internet privacy but identity could still be a weak link.
SOLID is probably what we need to solve the problem with internet privacy but identity could still be a weak link.
"Since the location of your POD is stored in your ID, it is easy to relocate your POD as needed. However, the proposed WebIDs include the domain name of the identity provider. For example, if you get your WebID from Berners-Lee’s own Solid startup, Inrupt, it will be of the form@ inrupt.net. So you can’t easily move your WebID. To make matters worse, it’s likely that if Solid becomes successful most users will get their WebIDs the easiest possible way — from one of the places they already have an identity like Google or Facebook. Those companies would then still have leverage over them, and also would have full knowledge of queries made about the ID. I suspect they’d also be the major provider of POD storage as well, meaning they’ll have fairly complete audit trails of your activity on the web."
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/281334-tim-berners-lees-solid-project-can-it-save-the-web
"Since the location of your POD is stored in your ID, it is easy to relocate your POD as needed. However, the proposed WebIDs include the domain name of the identity provider. For example, if you get your WebID from Berners-Lee’s own Solid startup, Inrupt, it will be of the form
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/281334-tim-berners-lees-solid-project-can-it-save-the-web
Solid is not yet near a usable state. To get it there will most probably take more time than until august 2019 ...
ReplyDeleteI think Teodora Petkova is trying out that option?
ReplyDeleteDO ИOꓕ DꓵbΓICⱯꓕE What stefan holzhauer said. There's a lot of promise in Solid, but really not enough delivery yet for it to be a viable first-stop migration destination. Definitely something to watch for future development.
ReplyDeleteA reminder as well that timing in such affairs matters tremendously. Google's announcement, however much it may have been anticipated, hit without warning, and though we were given a 10 month window, realistically, commitments should be made sometime by January / February, at the latest. Solid, OpenBook, and a few other options really are not going to be available by then.
Far more sensible: find something that exists now and is stable, has sufficient features, and minimises other risks (organisational, financial, technical, data, social, etc.), and move to that.
OpenBook will be there in march, I'll wait for that. Still 4 month+ until lights out after that. Solid will take much longer.
ReplyDeleteThis ignores the fact that I'm not a monad. In reality, I have multiple interests, and being old, have a different nickname/userid for each. You're free to follow Orvill Torpid in gaming, and Dr Evil in birding, and you'll get a self-consistent aspect of a human personality that just happen to belong to the same person.
ReplyDeleteDiana Studer Thank for the ping. Yes, as stefan holzhauer said, Solid is still in a very early state, but it is a hub budding with ideas and a great place to be. I wrote about it being a road assembling itself on the go here: teodorapetkova.com - The Project Solid as a Road Assembling Itself on the Go | Teodora Petkova You might want to take a look at the broader picture I see (hence the lack of annoyance that it is still so rough on the edges)
ReplyDeleteAlso Gideon Rosenblatt and Luc Jallois are looking into the opportunitites for G+ & Solid.
Thanks, Teodora Petkova. I agree with Edward Morbius. Luc Jallois and I are still pulling together thoughts here, but it is looking like the move from G+ to Solid will involve a necessary way station. In other words, migrate data there first before G+ shuts down, and just hold your content and social graph there for now. The hope is that this platform will take off over time and your data will just be there -- under your control -- as all kinds of dApps come online to allow you to take advantage of it.
ReplyDeleteDO ИOꓕ DꓵbΓICⱯꓕE, you highlight a good question about identity from this article. I'm asking around about this.