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Project 1 Software Design Documents S/W Project 1:

The team is working on another security product. This product is aimed at both consumer level and

business level customers. The product tentatively named “DataNanny” is a data tracker isolation product.

DataNanny will work to isolate you and your personal/corporate data from being collected and sold online.

Unlike other products that work in isolation or on an app-by-app basis, DataNanny will be app-independent

and multi-device aware. It will achieve a totally isolated “environment” for its users ensuring them of

completely untracked usage of all of their personal computing devices (phones, tablets, and

laptops/desktops).

DataNanny, however, requires total buy-in. Users, both individual and corporate, must install and run

DataNanny on all of their devices for the product to be functional. If any single device is omitted, the

blocking of data will not be functional. You can not dam a river if the dam has holes in it.

DataNanny will function using a central server facility that will coordinate all tracking blockers installed on

your devices. All data requests will be routed through DataNanny, which will be constructed to function as a

proxy server for your devices. This will allow DataNanny to filter all network requests for data and allow only

those requests that have been deemed “safe.”

The technical challenge for DataNanny’s proxy server is speed. Users will only tolerate a moderate amount

of delay in page loading and data transfer rates before they begin to lose faith in the value of anonymity.

DataNanny will provide a logging and notification system, where users can see what requests have been

made and which of those have been blocked or allowed. Users will be able to challenge a blocked or

allowed request. Challenged requests will initially be reviewed by an AI, and all requests with a certainty

level below 85% will be directed to an evaluation team to determine why the user needs the request to be

allowed. A user’s request will take no more than 24 hours to resolve. Further research will be needed to

determine the AI inputs appropriate to satisfy a minimum 95% success rate with challenged requests.

All software will be written in Swift due to speed constraints. If management determines that this makes

recruitment difficult, the language can be changed to C++.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

S/W Project 2:

This project is the next-generation social networking platform designed to replace Facebook and YouTube

called 1Latte. Its design begins with security, fairness, and data privacy as guiding principles. Users will be

allowed to either create their own content filters, use one of our pre-fabbed content filters, or run without

any filter at all. Since it is a system not intended to be held hostage by advertisers, it will use the

fee-for-service model at the cost of 1Latte per month ($2.95).

The filter-driven model is designed to eliminate the news/media bubbles that have formed in recent years

around certain content platforms. Content filters will be ranked, based upon a “distribution” model, to try to

ensure that filters don’t create or encourage bubbles. Users will be ranked for reputation using a system

similar to the StackOverflow™ user ranking system.

Users will be able to see the ranking for their filters and the ranking of all users and their posts alongside all

content presented on the platform.This is an attempt to allow users to stay aware of the “truthiness” of any

item that they are reading.

All advertising will be marked as advertising using a simple graphical UI indication, such as a special color

or border around all paid content. (Graphic design to be determined at a later time.)

Initial deployment will be web-based, adhering to all current World Wide Web standards as defined by the

W3C. An app-based deployment will be considered later as long as the designers can implement it in such

a way as to prevent the current “walled garden” problem that exists with current social media platforms.

All users will be able to see, download, and clear all data collected by us in the running and maintenance of

iLatte. The only exception to this rule is the user ranking system. Users will be able to see the anonymized

data that created their ranking, but not be able to download or delete this information as this would allow

users to “game the system.”

User messaging will be designed to use a modern open encrypted method, so as not to lock users into a

“walled garden” by forcing them to use our messaging product. This will allow external non-1Latte users to

communicate with our users, thus encouraging them to “join the fold” at their own pace and also not pay a

penalty for leaving. Since all of our users’ content will be downloadable, a user wishing to leave will not be

forced to stay because we are holding their data hostage.