His open-source encrypted peer-to-peer chat product went through rigorous challenges in the security community ultimately resulting in safer design choices.
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Bitcoin is an open-source, peer-to-peer, digital currency software.
This is the basis of the sharing, networking, open-source, peer-to-peer economies now emerging in crowd-funding, such as by MOSAIC, community currencies, credit unions and cooperatives (which employ more people worldwide than all global corporations combined).
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"The reason the researchers could discover it at all is because we publish the source code for peer review, " Jones adds.
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Check out the source link below to peer at the device's insides, or just to watch the community in action.
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Key technology leaders are striving to increase access to education through low-cost or free peer-to-peer and open-source models.
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BitTorrent's content delivery system, originally developed as an open-source product, uses a "peer-to-peer" downloading method that can piece together a file from several servers at once, as well as from the hard drive of every user who has previously downloaded the file, taking the bandwidth burden off any single source.
For example, last year CIO Magazine completed a study among enterprise CIOs and Senior IT Decision Makers and found the number one most trusted source of information for their jobs is their peer group.
That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.
Each user receives a professional score, based on peer feedback, which is expected to function as a huge source of motivation to commit to their projects and coworkers.
And if anyone were foolish enough to do so in the open source community, such a design would not be likely to survive the peer review it would receive.
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