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| Security has taken second priority to functionality and simplicity throughout much of the history of computing. As a result, today's hardware and software infrastructures are ill-equipped to deal with the increased intensity and aggressiveness of malicious users. As such, security needs to be given an integral, intrinsic role in Ubiquity. |
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Pervasive Security: Current security techniques revolve around creating gross security rings, akin to dividing the world into "us" and "them". Seeing as how most security breaches come "from within", this coarsity is increasingly inadequate. As such, Ubiquity must treat every network connection, application object, and method invocation with equal scrutiny and suspicion. |
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Distributed User Accounts: Today it is common for each application to maintain its own set of users and permissions; there is no global, cross-enterprise mechanism for unified administration of user accounts. To unify and simplify management of a global user base, Ubiquity must support the ability to have users each maintain a single, logically centralized but physically distributed account. |
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Privacy Feedback Loop: The oversight needs of governments, consumer information needs of corporations, and privacy needs of individuals often come into conflict. However, it's possible to create a system where all participants satisfy their needs, while interally regulating the system in a synnergistic fashion. Because of this system's tendency to inadvertently evolve to higher states of efficiency, accountability, and benefit to all involved, it is called the "privacy feedback loop" |
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| The balance between privacy, corporate, and government interests has always been precarious. This precarious balance has created an environment of fear – much of which is very justified, and some of which is not. The only antidote to this fear, both justified and unjustified, is a decentralized system that seeks to maximize information exposure, accuracy, and privacy protection at a self-regulating, technical level. Ubiquity must implement such a system. While Ubiquity can by no means strike the perfect balance by itself, it can provide the actors involved with the tools to do so in a secure, sustainable fashion. |
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