From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Sat, 2020-04-25, skybuck2000@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > Corona Update 4 (25 april(4) 2020):   
   ...   
      
   > 8. The corona app idea to inform people of infections around them is   
   > no success so far, to much security/privacy concerns. I already   
   > thought about such apps long time ago and discussed it with my   
   > mother. She found it a bad idea, and me too actually because once   
   > you go this route you can start creating all kinds of   
   > "snitching"-apps and then our privacy goes out of the window.   
      
   The Pirate party showed[0] a solution which would respect privacy.   
   You have a phone app which roughly:   
      
   1. Sends out a series of random numbers over a short-range   
      communication medium.  (I don't own a smartphone so I don't know if   
      this already exists.)   
      
   2. Receives and stores others' random numbers.   
      
   3. Receives messages like "the guy who sent  random numbers has   
      been diagnosed with a transmittable disease" and notifies the user   
      if the app has seen a lot of them.   
      
   No central database, and nothing meaningful to sniff for in public   
   places (not until you get ill anyway).   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
   [0] I saw it somewhere on Facebook.   
      
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     // Jorgen Grahn    O  o   .   
      
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