[Discuss] Canary heart beat protocol?

[meg ford]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:27 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

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:
https://canarywatch.org/

Meg

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