The document discusses the concept of decentralization and its implications for data privacy, highlighting current issues with centralization and the broken state of data privacy. It introduces the Blockstack framework and the Afari app, which utilizes decentralized storage and naming systems to empower users to control their own data. The document advocates for a decentralized internet to reclaim independence and control over personal information.

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BENGALURU

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DECENTRALIZATION
SHANKAR GANESH P J and KRISHNA VASUDEVAN | 6 OCTOBER 2018
Infoblox | BlockStack

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Agenda
WHY
DECENTRALIZATIONWHAT
HOW

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Data Privacy
• What does privacy mean to you?
• Who do you think owns your data?

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Current Scenario : Centralization
Panopticon

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App
Current Scenario : Centralization
App Cloud
Data
ID
Data
ID

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The Problem: Data Privacy is broken

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Centralization Decentralization
How are we fixing this?
ID
Walled garden
ID
Data
Walled garden
Data

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What is Blockchain?
Not suitable for All Use Cases !!
Something New Type for
AWS Event
Centralized Blockchain ?

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What is Blockstack?
Blockstack
App App App
Storage
Authentication
Identity
Naming
Blockchain

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Decentralization App : A f a r i
It is a Protocol with Minimal Blockchain Use.
Posts etc. stored in user storage
Decentralized Naming and
Storage System used to link data
to names in blockchain
Stores Name ownership,
Storage routes
Afari
Blockchain
Gaia
Storage
User Choice

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Afari User Perspective
User Storage
Users posts are stored in their
own storage
thanks to Blockstack
Public Post
Public
posts
Private
posts
Private
photos
Public
photos

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Afari aggregator
Aggregator
AWS
Drop
Box
GCP
iCloud
Aggregator fetches posts from
user storage to deliver to users
at scale.
Core will be open-sourced in
future
Fetching
posts from
user storage
Posts

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DEMO

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Q & A

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Thank You
Decentralize The World
Decentralized Internet : Reclaim Your Independence | Power | Control
Gandhi for Internet !!

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Get in touch with us!
Centralized world
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishnavasudevan/ &
https://www.linkedin.com/in/spillaiy/
• Twitter: @spillaiy
Decentralized world
• Shankar.personal.id
• Kvasudevan.id.blockstack
Ref: Blockstack, Afari, AWS Blockchain Templates and my journalist friends