Journal xpane's Journal: hashstamps vs Journal-Entries or Comments 2
SUMMARY - think $$$, slashdot could make money as a purposeful hashstamp server, per my detailed musings as slashdot-user hashstamp, www.hashstamp.com
For some time I had been hashstamping my progress toward the release of deskpane under the slashdot account for user hashstamp.
I was therefore dismayed by the redesign of 25-jan-2011, when I suddenly found I could EDIT my Journal Entries. Of course, when viewing slashdot as a "Hashstamp Server", it is a FEATURE that posts cannot be edited, and an even BETTER feature that posts can't be deleted, since then your hashstamps are secure, even though someone might steal your password.
So for today I will be registering my hashstamps as comments to posts which seem vaguely related to hashstamping, in order to obtain these features of no-edit, no-delete.
For some time I had been hashstamping my progress toward the release of deskpane under the slashdot account for user hashstamp.
I was therefore dismayed by the redesign of 25-jan-2011, when I suddenly found I could EDIT my Journal Entries. Of course, when viewing slashdot as a "Hashstamp Server", it is a FEATURE that posts cannot be edited, and an even BETTER feature that posts can't be deleted, since then your hashstamps are secure, even though someone might steal your password.
So for today I will be registering my hashstamps as comments to posts which seem vaguely related to hashstamping, in order to obtain these features of no-edit, no-delete.
I had the same idea (Score:2)
I had the same idea as you, but my idea for the purpose of a hashstamp server would be to allow digital documents to be legally verified. Right now if you want to store documents digitally that can be verified for use in legal proceedings (IANAL but this is my best understanding), you have to store them with a third party that does something similar to version-tracking. Obviously this isn't open or very convenient, and making digital documents legally verifiable is a big roadblock towards migrating offices
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I had the same idea as you,.... I could write the whole site myself in under a month and get the ball rolling for just a few hundred dollars..
Bingo ! While I am quite fluent in Win32 C++, I've never written any server-side code. So maybe not your first dollar, but you can get your first 10-cents from me !
Hashstamp-journaling is superior to code-signing for serious purposes, because as with Stuxnet, someone can steal a copy of a signing certificate and you might never know. With a hashstamp journal you can monitor the journal. Someone might silently steal your password, but of course you would see any entries they made *SO* non-edit, non-dele