<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:27 AM, sheila miguez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I was listening to the radio the other day where they interviewed a librarian re the Patriot Act and the topic of canary signs came up.<br><br></div>It got me to thinking that we could develop a canary web service, but I have questions about whether a service would be useful.<br><br></div><div>* I'm not sure how to avoid false positives and negatives, and if the percent of either are high, then a web service is probably useless.<br></div><div><br>* I'm not sure how to establish a network of trust of services that would be running this. e.g. I can run a service, and get compromised. How would that be handled? Have a pool of services that vote on information so that there is a reliability index?<br><br></div><div>Do people have other ideas about this? Would it be worth it for me to throw together a web services like this? It is probably simple to create, but the protocol is the tricky part.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mentioned this in chat this morning and my co-worker pointed me to a site that's doing something similar. Not sure if you're aware of it -- maybe it will help to look at how they are dealing with reliability of info:</div><div><a href="https://canarywatch.org/">https://canarywatch.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>MegĀ </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:shekay@pobox.com" target="_blank">shekay@pobox.com</a></div></div>
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