There is a post on business insider which talks about the CIA investing in the creation of data capture software:<p>http://www.businessinsider.com/the-cia-just-put-a-ton-of-cash-into-a-software-firm-that-monitors-your-online-activity-2011-7<p>---<p>I had the following idea:<p>What if one was to post information to sites which was already strongly encrypted - such that each post is the secure encrypted hash of what they mean to post.<p>A network of users would share READ keys between them and would be able to visit a site and see the posts of the other users for whom they had the read keys, see their posts and a browser plugin with the keys would translate them.<p>This would allow fairly open interaction between the group on various sites - but the details of their posts would be obfuscated from those who do not have the keys.<p>They would not be sharing information directly - but just passive messages via 3rd party infrastructure.<p>How viable would this model be?<p>Assume we move the clocks forward 10+ years. The cyber security pushes from .gov will be harder and harder.<p>I predict an "open" social network for cyber-marginals who want to interact with one another - but dont want to do a rediculous amount of security other than selective viewership of their posts.<p>They share keys and converse via commonly available infrastructure through pre-encrypted posts.<p>BONUS: their posting client allows for multiple replies/posts encapsulated into one hash:<p>When posting/replying - you type in multiple entries - which are encrypted.<p>Depending on which key you have, you see the appropriate decoded content.<p>This would allow for one to type utterly innocuous first level responses, more targeted and trusted upper level responses.