Comments on: The Philosophy of Trust and Cloud Computing https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/07/the-philosophy-of-trust-and-cloud-computing/ The Cambridge Systems Research Blog Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 By: Trust and Cloud Computing | Ethics, Technology, and Society https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/07/the-philosophy-of-trust-and-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:09:43 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=228#comment-66 […] proved to be thoroughly interesting and fruitful. There is a great synopsis of the workshop here, which was written by one of the other attendees. It’s well worth a […]

]]> By: Jon Crowcroft https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/07/the-philosophy-of-trust-and-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 16:29:06 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=228#comment-29 An interesting essay on P2P community/philosophy/economy, which is almost the exact opposite of the cloud is
http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/the-political-economy-of-peer-production-michel-bauwens/

]]> By: myself https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/07/the-philosophy-of-trust-and-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:04:34 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=228#comment-24 It occurred to me that one of the “too big to fail” arguments about facebook is that they provide a rendezvous point for people (i.e. like search does too) – however, this doesn’t mean they need to do ANYTHING else at all – skype provide the rendezvous service, (to bootstrap nat traversal initiailly, but then to “call” people and provide “presence”) but thats all – so one could build a distributed twitter/fb/gmail/flicr starting from skype (note skype was founded by p2p folks:)

]]> By: Ian Brown https://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/2011/04/07/the-philosophy-of-trust-and-cloud-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:51:22 +0000 http://www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk/?p=228#comment-23 Thanks for the helpful notes Jon.

Re: racist overpasses – see the refutation of this well-known story in http://www.wzb.eu/alt/met/pdf/do_politics.pdf

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