Engineers at Microsoft Research Laboratory have developed a new community network destination smartphones and has the distinction of being private. Called Contrail, this service is communicating with an external server but the data are sent automatically encrypted.
The magazine reports these TechnologieReview.com About Mohomed Iqbal , a specialist in Microsoft Research who says: "When you share a photo with your friends on sites like Flickr, their servers are also able to read this information." He added: "With Contrail, the server will never know my information (...) and only see encrypted data transfer".
The decryption is carried out by the phone people who have previously elected to receive notifications of updates. A user can for example choose to enter all the pictures of one of his contacts to which a keyword has been added. Once the application is approved, all transfers will be secured thereafter. Also in this application, Microsoft Research has also examined the geo-location. In addition to encrypting data sent on Cellular News is able to draw a geographic area within which he wants to be tracked by friends, but also determine for each of his contacts with certain restrictions such as time slots.
Mohomed Iqbal said then: "I do not mind maybe just look at my Flickr photos and my emssages but people might react differently regarding the geo-location. Imagine that you use an application to monitor the position of the mobile phone of your children ... what if the servers were compromised. "
Based on Microsoft Azure infrastructure, Contrail is available as a layer (API) over which it is possible to graft any kind of community network. While Google and Facebook are routinely accused of neglecting the privacy of their users, then perhaps Microsoft will he win the favor of developers. Still, the personal data of Internet users are an inexhaustible and perfectly targeted to develop a monetization strategy.
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