MaidSafe Makes Data Safe
If you can understand the organization of ants, you can understand MaidSafe.[1]. Alone, by itself, an ant is both vulnerable and easily marginalized. Yet when working with the rest of the colony, ants with roughly the same petite attributes can take down larger prey, clear paths and protect the mound from disasters (both natural and man-made). I spoke....
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We’ve all heard about the infamous recent celebrity photo scandal where as a result of an Apple iCloud hack, leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and more were made public. Recently, I had the chance to interview Nick Lambert of the MaidSafe Team to talk to him about how technology like Maidsafe and the Safenetwork could prevent leaks and secure data. Questions were geared towards user privacy. Could MaidSafe and the SafeNetwork prevent another celebrity photo leak and keep users data safe? If so, how?
Students from Glasgow University’s computer science wing have initiated a research and development exploratory course with Maidsafe. Academic alumni will develop with the SAFE (Secure Access For Everyone) Network to create next-generation internet applications. After a Decade of R&D, University of Glasgow Students Will Explore the Maidsafe Network.....
Maidsafe CEO David Irvine has provoked controversy by successfully applying for a code patent to protect that innovations of his Safe Network project. The Safe Network aims to build a new, decentralized internet infrastructure with no need for servers. Instead a peer to peer network will be employed, powered by its own cryptocurrency called Safecoins. Some users will then provide resources such as disk space to the network in return for Safe Coins, while others will purchase additional resources using the coins. To protect privacy and ensure maximum security all data is shredded and....
MaidSafe has recruited over 500 developers for its up-and-coming network launch, according to a press release released Friday. MaidSafe expects to start testing the network soon–a process that will last a few months. Project SAFE (Secure Access for Everyone) has been called the “Bitcoin for data” or the “Bitcoin for the Internet.” The announcement of MaidSafe’s rapid development, after last month’s crowdsale, could be viewed as another baby step towards a decentralized Internet. The developers span “many backgrounds, nationalities and interests” and have started crafting a variety of....
The MaidSafe project announced today it has 500 developers signed up to build applications for its decentralized Internet platform. This follows the project's successful crowd sale that raised $6m in its first five hours. MaidSafe has the ambitious aim of radically decentralizing all the web services that exist today, and is working on projects that include altcoin wallets, unlimited file storage and sharing applications, a decentralized music store, secure messaging applications and a decentralized altcoin and fiat currency exchange. The idea is that these services will be free, not only....