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Even though the Internet and many of its early services come from a peer-to- peer based design, many of today's popular Internet services are built in a centralized fashion. Emerging technologies such as Cloud Computing make it easier to scale web-based applications up to millions of users. So not only new services, but also traditional applications are moving into the "cloud" and their software can only be used "as a service". This talk will illustrate the trend towards centralised services and explain the reasons for this trend. More importantly, it will show how power is accumulated by service providers and what problems arise from this for users. It will conclude with some solutions and strategies that can help users to remain in control of their computing and their data.
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Centralised Internet Servicesand
Problems of Power
Torsten Grote<[email protected]>
Free Software Foundation Europe
2010-11-06
grote @ identi.ca blogs.fsfe.org/torsten.grote
Programs + Applications
↓Services
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Why?
Omnipresence
Easy to Use
Deployment
Sounds great,!
doesn’t it?
Sounds great,!
doesn’t it?
ControlDataFailureExclusion
ControlDataFailureExclusion
ControlDataFailureExclusion
ControlDataFailureExclusion
use
study
share
improve
Freedom Boxes
Distributed Software (Design)
↓Distributed Power
I own installations with free software
I full data exportability at any time
+
I distributed design
I open standards
I own installations with free software
I full data exportability at any time
+
I distributed design
I open standards
Think!
Divide and Re-Conquer
I Building Socially Responsible Social NetworksSat, 14:15 - 15:00, Room 2
I Web Search By The People, For The PeopleSun, 16:15 - 17:00, Room 2
I GNU social and GNU FMSun, 17:15 - 18:00, Room 2
Infrastructure
I Distributed email systemSun, 11:30 - 12:00, Room 2
Act!
Wem gehort mein soziales Netzwerk?
DIASPORA*http://www.joindiaspora.com
Appleseedhttp://opensource.appleseedproject.org
GNU Socialhttp://www.gnu.org/software/social/
OneSocialWebhttp://onesocialweb.org
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) projecthttp://www.foaf-project.org
Peerscapehttp://www.peerscape.org
Micro-Blogging
I StatusNet (Identi.ca)http://status.net
Sofortnachrichten
I XMPP (Jabber)http://xmpp.org
Verteilte Speichermedien
I GNUnethttp://gnunet.org
I BitTorrent (DHT)http://www.bittorrent.org
I ownCloudhttp://owncloud.org
