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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:47:03 -0300
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D <nospam@example.net> writes:

[...]

> My dream is that people will start to use small self-hosted,
> end-to-end encrypted chat services, so that the laws forbidding
> encryption become meaningless.

That's my idea, too.  I don't think the USENET is actually a perfect
project.  I think communities should not too large.  So I think we
should build more NNTP servers to be used by small communities.  And
then these servers should have a standard API so that an index could be
created somewhere where people can discover communities.

Imagine how many closed NNTP servers, mailing lists are out there and
nobody knows.

The web is like that.  A website sends you to another one.  This is
decentralization.  No NNTP servers send you to another one, except those
that have peers, but then it's as if they're all the same.  My idea is
to make NNTP servers more like the web.

I don't know if it works.  I'm thinking out loud.