Re: <nettime> Steve Coll: Leaks (The New Yorker)

[Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:29:40PM -0600, Brian Holmes wrote:
 
> I am nonplussed by the seeming compulsion of people on this list to
> find some way of debunking Wikileaks and explaining that it too is

I think the biggest problem WikiLeaks has that it requires 
an organisation, with need for centralized servers to publish
what would have been much better done in a globally distributed
cryptographic system run by a network of volunteers.

It's pretty obvious that something like user-run Tahoe 

http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs

(with synergies from I2P2, Tor and Freenet) would 
be much, much more difficult to shut down or its operators to harass
nor would it require an operational budget via a central
organisation.

With access gateways it would not even require software
installation, further removing access threshold for nontechnical
users.


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