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The problem of Wikileaks is that it is centralised and, therefore, is vulnerable. Freenet offers a much more resilient approach. It is true that Freenet is not
by pqs 17y ago
The problem of Wikileaks is that it is centralised and, therefore, is vulnerable. Freenet offers a much more resilient approach. It is true that Freenet is not yet easy enough, but it is just a java application which almost anyone can run. Of course, writing wikileaks.org on the browser bar is easier and faster than installing Freenet, but it puts lives in danger. By the way, there is a wikileaks mirror on Freenet. It might be better to do the other way round, wikileaks should be a mirror of the freesite.
http://freenetproject.org/ http://freenetproject.org/
update: of course, the lives in danger are those of the editors of wikileaks.
- kierank 17y agoHow do you know it's centralised?
- pyre 17y agoIt has a centralized structure. There is a hierarchy of responsibility, etc. There is an 'entity' to attack, whether it's the servers, or the editors/leaders/etc. Which is different from something that is truly distributed where each person is -- for all intents and purposes -- equal to anyone else in the group.
- pqs 17y agoThat's it. If the server is down, goodbye wikileaks. If the bank accounts are seized, goodbye wikileaks. If the leaders are imprisoned, good bye wikileaks. Freenet offers a more resilient architecture.
- ig1 17y agoBut that's like saying you can secure a computer by sealing it an concrete box and burying it under the ocean. Wikileaks triages the data, pushes it out to the media, maintains physical drop-boxes across multiple continents, and much more. All of which requires people doing real work, the storage of data is a tiny part of the problem. And even for the storage part freenet isn't a real solution. How many journalists do you know who use freenet ? - pushing data into the public domain is useless if only a tiny handful of people have access to it.
- kierank 17y agoThey don't just have one server in one location. They're not stupid.
- pqs 16y agoOk, then they have 10 servers on 10 locations. That's not resilient enough.