MaidSafe's Nick Lambert Talks Redesigned and Fully Encrypted Internet
We've all been brought up, since we were babies in the crib, on the idea that "The Internet" is a decentralized information network, which lets us be free to be you and me. Sharing information online can be as easy as speaking. "The Internet" is like watching TV, or reading the newspaper, but only much better. It updates itself automatically, in real-time, with a huge amount of viewing options and sites available. You can educate yourself, learn, do business, make new friends, find lost friends, provide news, video, or content, shop, watch sports, etc. It removes virtually all limits based....
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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?
MaidSafe was founded in 2006, when founder David Irvine, a former IT consultant, decided to create a new platform to improve Internet security. Computers running MaidSafe talk to others on the network to create a large storage array (the firm's name stands for 'Massive Array of Internet Disks, Secure Access for Everyone'). Participants can choose how much storage they provide to the network, or can choose to use the system while providing none at all. Any storage allocated is used by the network to store encrypted portions of other users' files. It has now been over two months since....
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.....
Starting tomorrow, decentralized Internet platform builder MaidSafe will hold a crowd sale of currency-like tokens called 'safecoins' to support its enabling software. MaidSafe, over seven years in development, aims to create no less than a fully peer-to-peer and decentralised Internet platform, in which all data is 'shredded', encrypted and distributed to an extensive network of computers around the world. The technology allows developers to build applications in which all data is completely secure, private, and protected from deletion. During the initial sale, safecoins will be made....