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The encryption part of this whole thing is useful and very interesting. This line of thinking is very similar to what happened when the Gnutella network itself
by RBr 16y ago
The encryption part of this whole thing is useful and very interesting.
This line of thinking is very similar to what happened when the Gnutella network itself was formed. It was created as an alternate system to the FastTrack network. Nervous of the legal system, the decentralized network was built with a (still increasing) number of clients available.
In the same way that the Gnutella network further fractured the web, alternate DNS systems have the same capability, on a much larger scale.
In my mind, there is nothing wrong with creating alternate systems that work beyond the view of government agencies and the public in general. However, every time we do this, we create yet another fracture in the Internet that we know and love.
- nym 16y ago> In my mind, there is nothing wrong with creating alternate systems that work beyond the view of government agencies and the public in general. However, every time we do this, we create yet another fracture in the Internet that we know and love. "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -John Gilmore
- bkudria 16y agoWhat makes you think there's only one Internet now?
- johngunderman 16y agoInternet2 is pretty damn big ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2 )
- cookiecaper 16y agoSee the comment I left on the parent -- usually, "encryption" when referring to BitTorrent does nothing to prevent the public or government from being able to see what you're doing, it is merely protocol obfuscation, installed to bypass BitTorrent protocol filtering or throttling.