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Torrent-based websites that cannot be censored?
By HAX on October 9, 2016 in Big Brother, Big Business, Big Government, Bitcoin, decentralization, File Sharing, Internet
This is exciting. The Web2Web project claims to be able to put web pages on the Internet that cannot be taken down, using torrents and Bitcoin. And it can be run from any modern browser.
The under the hood stuff is explained by TorrentFreak – Web2Web: Serverless Websites Powered by Torrents & Bitcoin »
»To run a Web2Web website neither the server nor the domain is required. All you need is a bootstrap page that loads your website from the torrent network and displays it in the browser« Czech developer Michal Spicka tells TorrentFreak.
If this turns out to be anything like what it’s said to be, it might be a game changer. It builds on the need for resilient, decentralised systems beyond the reach of Big Government and Big Business.
Expect some serious noise from the authorities…
/ HAX
Big Brother Award to Facebook
Facebook is a multi-billion dollar company that has one commodity – you!
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Chelsea Manning is missing
This might be nothing. But given the history of Chelsea Mannings imprisonment: It is very important that the world is watching.
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Apple vs. FBI – here we go again…
When the FBI asked a court to force Apple to help crack the encrypted iPhone 5c of San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook in February, Bureau director James Comey assured the public that his agency’s intrusive demand was about one terrorist’s phone, not repeated access to iPhone owners’ secrets. But now eight months have passed, and the FBI has in its hands another locked iPhone that once belonged to another dead terrorist. Which means they may have laid the groundwork for another legal showdown with Apple.
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Protect yourself!
Did Wikileaks just troll the world? No.
The NSA is leaking
NYT: N.S.A. Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets »
Oups!
Reuters:
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Exclusive: Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence – sources »
The democratic legacy of Wikileaks
Ten years ago today, the whistleblower site Wikileaks went online.
There has been controversy, turbulence, and drama. It has been ten very interesting years. Books have been written about Wikileaks and its editor in chief, Julian Assange. And more books are to be written, for sure.
But a day like this, I would like to address the core issue: Wikileaks contribution to a democratic society.
For democracy to be at all meaningful, the people must know what its political leaders are up to. Voters can elect or remove politicians and governments. They can hold people in power accountable for their actions. But to be able to do this, the people must be informed about what their leaders are and have been up to – in the name of the nation, in the name of the people and on taxpayers expense.
These ten years, Wikileaks has exposed politicians cheating, lying, double-crossing, betraying, misleading and robbing the public in countries all over the world.
All of this in a landscape where traditional media organisations sometimes have been unable or even unwilling to investigate and expose those in power.
This is what really matters. This is the democratic legacy of Wikileaks.
/ HAX