Since the beginning I have seen anons make a lot of connections between different powerful people and organizations. A lot of images and files proving these connections were posted on this board and 4chan.
One downside of decentralized information collection, that I witnessed, was that these images, files, connections are not (or are rarely) easily available to everyone. What is missing is that all of this information to be accumulated and displayed, available to everyone, at one place.
Which is why I started to work on an application that would address this issue. The main purpose of it is to enumerate all entities (people, organization, …) and their inter-relationships (family, friend, work ,…) then display them in a visual representation.
There are two main functionalities:
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web: this is the map containing all entities and their relationships,
entity has mainly name and details (files) associated with it
relation has mainly kind (family, friend, etc…), source+destination entities and details (files) associated with it
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details: this can be any file supported by the application and can be appended to any entity or relation for any reason.
There are also two major supporting functionalities:
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whitelist: a list of users with permissions to modify the web, if this list contains at least one user then modification of web is restricted for everyone except users on list, otherwise it is open to all.
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history: a table listing all changes made to the web and by who.
Users (with permissions) are allowed to modify the web, create new entities and relations or delete existing ones, move entities or relations. They can add details to any entity or relation.
One major functionality still missing is an advanced search/filter feature allowing to display only requested elements based on some criteria/conditions. To allow us a more detailed and focused research area. There is still quite some work to be done to fully implement other functionalities.
As is this application can be deployed either to a server or have it locally. The only requirements are javascript and php server.
Any thoughts? Do you think this would be useful?