The SAFE Network is a huge software infrastructure project which is currently in Alpha 2, a network of distributed nodes, hosted on cloud servers for MaidSafe as the many intricacies of the architecture are fine tuned. A future iteration will return to nodes hosted by external participants at home, but Alpha 2 exposes a stable set of interfaces which developers can use learn how the network functions and how to build applications for it.
Today we talk with Gabriel Viganotti of Cordoba, Argentina, who is both an independent developer working on apps to run on the SAFE Network, and also a contractor with MaidSafe, working on front-end development.
Music
Music for this episode: Safe Crossroads Beta, an original piece composed and performed by Nicholas Koteskey of Two Faced Heroes
Oh man I canât wait to listen to this! Gabriel is one helluva guy. Glad to have been around to witness him rise into the ranks. Proud of you brother! Keep emâ coming John great to have these rolling again
Thank you for these great podcasts. Love listening to it in the car on my long drives home, will be doing so in a couple of hours. Keep up the good work!
@bochaco Imagine if the SAFE wallet is open and Iâm on a forum on the SAFE Network, it would be nice if I just type 10TC@bochaco and you received 10 Thankscoins or whatever other SAFE Network token. This is just a silly feature request, it would also be fun if you just type @ and you saw a list of friends and family like so
keep up the good work and thanks
I wonder who the idiot was who confused @bochacoâs Thankscoins with another coinâŚ?
Anyway, moving swiftly on⌠as I was listening to @fergish was talking about data security something popped into my head. With EU GDPR just around the corner, a lot of companies are starting to pay lip service to the fact that personal data should âbelong to the individualâ - which is the core tenet of GDPR. Good, but how do you guarantee that?
Personal data is not like a bike. I know where my bike is, I keep it locked up and I know immediately if someone has stolen it or tampered with it. In most organisations our personal data is spread across servers, in various databases and spreadsheets, in the cloud, replicated in archives - basically itâs all over the place, maybe in thousands of different locations and itâs instantly replicable, so how can we âownâ it or being sure whatâs being done with it? Sure, companies talk about audit trails, encryption, deduplication, pen testing, ediscovery, consent etc, but how do I as an individual know whether to trust them? Iâm sure Equifax and Yahoo gave similar assurances in the past.
Thatâs why I like the idea of personal data stores like @bochacoâs wallet and also the idea of the personal information market. Rather than our personal data being harvested, sold on and used in ways we canât understand or control, we should be able to vet access to that data and license it to interested parties on the basis of âwhatâs in it for me?â
The idea has been around for a while but has yet to gain much traction. Perhaps itâs just waiting for a truly trustworthy platform to be in place.
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