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How do you know it's centralised?

• pyre 17y ago
  It 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 ago
    That'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 ago
      But 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 ago
      They don't just have one server in one location. They're not stupid.
      • pqs 16y ago
        Ok, then they have 10 servers on 10 locations. That's not resilient enough.