Welcome!

Welcome to the new Internet, where Privacy, Security and Freedom are default settings.

This site is the home of the first community podcast/blog/news outlet dedicated exclusively to the technology, applications, ideas, people and news surrounding the SAFE Network, the first completely grass-roots internet with Secure Access For Everyone, where Privacy, Security and Freedom are native to the network design.

Your host and proprietor is John Ferguson, the self-dubbed Simpleton of SAFE, because sometimes it takes a simpleton to ask the right questions. After all, we can’t all be geeks.

We’re convinced that the SAFE Network is going to make a huge splash in the world, and we’re anxious to get as many people on board as possible from the start. By all means, if you haven’t done so yet, listen to the first podcast. It’s designed to put everyone on the road together, new or old.

Start with Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of the podcast at the Crossroads of the SAFE Network. The SAFE Network is the first truly grassroots Internet with Secure Access For Everyone, where Privacy, Security and Freedom are the defaults.

It’s coming fast! Listen in and get ahead of the curve!

Listen to Episode 1

SAFE Network School

The SAFE Network is a rethinking of Internet design with Privacy, Security and Freedom built in. Each class in the SAFE Network School takes a section of the wiki documentation and goes deeper and wider on the subject, so that anybody who applies themselves can get a pretty good idea of how it accomplishes its goals.

Listen to SAFE Network School

Recommended resources

We highly recommend visiting the following websites: safenetwork.tech, safenetwork.org, maidsafe.net and safenetforum.org.

Latest posts

Episode 55 - Real Vaults, Phase 1, with Nikita Baksalyar and Lioner Faber
Podcasts · 13 Sep 2019
It is a delight to have back two previous guests, Nikita Baksalyar and Lionel Faber, for a wide-ranging conversation that touches on many advances in SAFE Network development. Centering around the recently released Vault program library, we explore the implications of other advances, including new data types, how they relate to each other, safecoin integration, and a lot more.

The...
Episode 54 - From a UX Point of View, with Jim Collinson
Podcasts · 25 Jul 2019
The SAFE Network is a project of such large scope, doing things that have never been done, it can be hard to wrap one’s head around the whole thing without a lot of work. But in the end it is for people to use. It needs to be easily adopted and made to work by everyone.

As core development progresses...
Episode 53 - A QUIC, SAFE Solution, with Spandan Sharma
Podcasts · 14 May 2019
MaidSafe’s Crust (Connections in Rust) program library was necessary due to lack of existing tech to do what was needed for the SAFE Network.

The QUIC protocol has evolved and now provides a connection solution which the whole internet will likely be moving to–really great for the internet at large, and really handy for the SAFE Network’s development.

The SAFE...
Episode 52 - SAFE Network Fundamentals, Part 2, with David Irvine and Viv Rajkumar
Podcasts · 05 Feb 2019
This is part 2 of a wide ranging discussion about the SAFE Network, with the two people most familiar with all aspects of it, MaidSAFE’s Founder and CEO, David Irvine and CTO, Viv Rajkumar.

To guide our discussion we focused on the 21 Fundamentals of the SAFE Network as linked below. Amongst many other great insights, in this section David...