TDN — Truthiness Discovery Network

A conceptual project exploring a decentralized public ledger for media provenance, truthiness ratings, and expert commentary — enabling consumers to assess the authenticity of media in real time.

Overview

TDN (Truthiness Discovery Network) addresses the challenge of deep fakes, fake news, and misinformation by proposing a public ledger that tracks media provenance, expert ratings, and commentary. The vision is that media players would query this ledger when presenting content, allowing consumers to understand a piece of media's "truthiness" in real time.

The repository currently contains:

• A conceptual README describing the project vision
• A Threat Dragon threat model diagram (ThreatDragonModels/)
• The Privoxy 3.0.28 source code (a privacy-enhancing web proxy), included as a reference/dependency for the network architecture

Prerequisites

• For reviewing the threat model: OWASP Threat Dragon
• For building Privoxy: standard C build tools (gcc, make, autoconf)
• Ruby and Jekyll (for GitHub Pages site, configured via _config.yml)

Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/biofool/TDN.git
   cd TDN

2. To view the threat model, open ThreatDragonModels/Test/Test.json in OWASP Threat Dragon.

3. To build Privoxy (included as reference source):

   cd privoxy-3.0.28-stable
   ./configure
   make

4. To serve the GitHub Pages site locally:

   bundle exec jekyll serve

How to Run

This is primarily a conceptual/design-phase project. There is no runnable application yet. The Privoxy source is included as a reference for the proxy/filtering component of the envisioned architecture.

Project Structure

TDN/
├── README.md                          # Project vision and concept description
├── _config.yml                        # Jekyll configuration (tactile theme)
├── ThreatDragonModels/
│   └── Test/
│       └── Test.json                  # OWASP Threat Dragon threat model
└── privoxy-3.0.28-stable/             # Privoxy web proxy source code (reference)
    ├── AUTHORS, ChangeLog, LICENSE
    ├── Makefile, GNUmakefile.in
    ├── actionlist.h, actions.c, actions.h
    ├── cgi.c, cgi.h, cgiedit.c, cgisimple.c
    ├── client-tags.c, client-tags.h
    └── ... (full Privoxy source tree)

Key Features

• Conceptual framework for decentralized media provenance tracking
• Public ledger design for truthiness ratings and expert commentary
• Threat model diagram (OWASP Threat Dragon format)
• Privoxy source included as reference for privacy-enhancing proxy infrastructure