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Task

Goal

Frequency

Effort

Pitfalls

Others Involved

Send

Send a message to another person

often

easy

Potential to send message to wrong person.

The recipient

Receive

Receive a message

often

none

 

The recipient

Log

Keep a log of messages

background

none

Some users may not want to be logged. Removal must be thorough.

 

  • Have a secure and anonymous group chat (private to the group).
    • Join/leave the group chat.
    • Send/receive messages.
    • Log the group chat.
  • Have a public and anonymous conversation (readable by all).
    • Join/leave the conversation.
    • Send/receive messages.
    • Log the conversation.
  • Have a direct, private, and anonymous and secure conversations.
    • Send/receive messages.
    • Log the conversation.
  • Authenticate pseudonyms.
  • Find public conversation topics.
  • Erase evidence of communication.

Questions

  • Have you ever found the need to securely converse with another person?
  • Have you ever censored what you were saying to someone because you were worried about privacy?

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