[Discuss] Canary heart beat protocol?

[sheila miguez]

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.

It got me to thinking that we could develop a canary web service, but I
have questions about whether a service would be useful.

* 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.

* 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?

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.

-- 
shekay at pobox.com
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