Fighting Human Trafficking with Self-Contained Applications
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A developer uses Rust to build a self-contained application to fight human trafficking, sparking discussion on the tech choices and design decisions behind the project.
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I didn’t pick up on it from the article, but why local binaries over a SaaS? It seems like that app would be the ideal candidate for a client server model… she wouldn’t need to worry about old Windows machines or firewalls or installing it on non-technical users’ machines, as long as they had a browser.
They mentioned something about “locked down enterprise environments” but I don’t know what that means.
Edit: oh, maybe “locked down environments + firewalls” means these machines have no internet egress so you would have to poke holes in a firewall to reach the internet?
Don’t mean to dig in on this, but I googled for some chain of custody / evidence tracking SaaS and found: QueTel, SAFE by Tracker Products, CustodyChain, and BlazeStack.
Just curious. I probably have to read up on what chain of custody really entails.