{"id":3584,"date":"2009-06-06T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2009-06-05T23:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T03:32:01","slug":"google-wave-developer-preview-at-google-io-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3584","title":{"rendered":"Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I\/O 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes them a long time to get to the point.  You can scan through the first few minutes and not miss much, but once they begin showing what they&#8217;re doing in earnest it makes for an interesting show:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_UyVmITiYQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part threaded conversation, part email, part instant messaging, part collaborative document.  Add a dash of wiki and the ability to step back through a document history.  It&#8217;s ambitious, and it looks like it works.  <\/p>\n<p>The one thing I wanted to know &#8211; and the one thing that they never spoke of &#8211; was spam control.  Email is actually a useful technology, but spam has taken a grievous toll on its utility and saddled the entire network with an endless torrent of noise.  The reason for this is that the original system was designed in a world without spam.  The ability for anyone, anywhere, to generate a message that looks like it came from anyone else, anywhere else, means you can hop onto the network anywhere and send anything to anyone at any time. It can be said that this system is perhaps not as secure as it could be.   <\/p>\n<p><table width='400'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/comic_security.jpg' class='insetimage' width='400' alt='Would a beautiful woman from Russia lie to you?' title='Would a beautiful woman from Russia lie to you?'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table>I&#8217;m sure they <em>have<\/em> considered spam &#8211; these people are certainly not idiots &#8211; I just wish they had talked a bit about it.  The weakest spot of the system, as always, will be the end user. If I may <a href=\"?p=1547\">belabor the point<\/a>: &#8220;[&#8230;]the greatest threat to computer security is the fact that men want to look at boobs. There is no firewall system that can defend against the fact that one of the guys behind it won&#39;t unintentionally &#8211; but stupidly &#8211; compromise the system in his efforts to look at naked breasts. Despite what the movies show us, you don&#39;t take control of a remote computer by typing really fast, but you can do it by luring someone with false promises of hot female nudity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Getting spam into the network might be possible by exploiting the seams between the different federations.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ#t=1h05m20s\">They&#8217;re cribbing from email<\/a>, after all.  But I&#8217;m sure in the end the Achilles&#8217; heel of the system will be that it&#8217;s used by human beings.  The system of extensions will probably be the most common vector of attack.  Extensions will offer money, medicine, and pornography to the hapless and clueless, and will spam the system via their compromised accounts.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, only getting spammed by proxy from the easy targets in your contacts list is worlds better than getting spammed by anyone who can learn or guess your email.  Its worth noting that they never showed any connection between a wave and email.  You can do Wave+Twitter.  Wave+blog. Wave+YouTube.  Wave+webpages.  But they didn&#8217;t demonstrate any interoperability between email and waves.  <\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how this goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes them a long time to get to the point. You can scan through the first few minutes and not miss much, but once they begin showing what they&#8217;re doing in earnest it makes for an interesting show: Link (YouTube) It&#8217;s part threaded conversation, part email, part instant messaging, part collaborative document. 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