[spectre] Announcing Fluid Nexus

[Nicholas Knouf]

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FLUID NEXUS
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Announcing the re-launch of Fluid Nexus: mobile messaging without
centralized networks.

Website: http://fluidnexus.net
Download: http://fluidnexus.net/download
E-mail: fluidnexus at fluidnexus.net
Announcement mailing list: announce-subscribe at fluidnexus.net

CONCEPT
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, networks continue to
be defined by their stable topology represented in an image or graph.
Peer-to-peer technologies promised new arrangements absent centralized
control, but they still rely on stationary devices. Mobile phones remain
wedded to conventional network providers.

Instead, the combination of peer-to-peer with mobility enables a new
concept of an information transfer infrastructure that relies on fluid,
temporary, ad-hoc networks. People and devices are at once implicated as
mobile nodes in this network (known in computer science as a
sneakernet).

Fluid Nexus bypasses Internet intermediaries' control over the
identification and circulation of messages. This makes Fluid Nexus an
important tool for activists. Access to the data stored by Fluid Nexus
requires a search warrant for your own devices—or another device running
the software. No identifying information regarding the sender is
attached to a message, putting the sender in control. And in conjunction
with other software such as ObscuraCam
(https://guardianproject.info/apps/securecam/) identities can be further
obfuscated as desired or necessary.

In the event that information needs to reach a broad audience, we've
added another feature called the Nexus (http://fluidnexus.net/nexus). The Nexus is a space on this site for "public" messages to be automatically uploaded 
by any Fluid Nexus user. The Nexus includes text, audio, images, and video
capabilities. The sender has control whether the message will become
public or not.

For more information on Fluid Nexus, see the paper "Transnetworks and
the Fluid Nexus Project"
(http://fluidnexus.net/static/pdfs/DCM2009Submitted.pdf), forthcoming in Fall 2011 in the proceedings of dis/connecting/media 2009.

Fluid Nexus Team

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