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A vision suggestion

A vision suggestion

Posted Aug 23, 2012 2:03 UTC (Thu) by lemmings (subscriber, #53618)
Parent article: GUADEC: GNOME OS conversations

I'm just an end user and not involved with development, but I would love to see Gnome work towards including some sort of Gnome network/cloud functionality to enable a better multi-device user experience.

The idea would be to enable communication between Gnome installs (for example, a desktop & laptop) to synchronise passwords, desktop and application settings, online accounts, chat logs, location data, file browsing, etc.

It would be possible to design such a system to fully preserve the privacy of users through a zero-knowledge encryption design, use P2P networking to lower costs, and anonymised through Tor to prevent location tracking.

I would hack on this if only I had the time...


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