An Independent Internet: The Cloud Won’t Save You
Sad story about influence on wikileaks’s ability to distribute content (see link below).
Wikileaks runs into two problems:
- government pressure against companies providing hosting or directory
services to wikileaks material - “market” pressure arising from DDoS attack against shared
infrastructure that has enough collateral damage to force the
infrastructure owner to stop providing hosting or directory services
What are the design criteria for a world-wide information network that
can resist these forms of pressure? In other words, given their own
laptop and a reliable source of energy, how can individuals create a
truly global P2P information infrastructure independent of government or
business influence? (And things like Tor are a red herring here…the
point is to be totally divorced from running on top of existing Internet
infrastructure). Yes, this raises all sorts of security issues dealing
with namespace control and issues about capacity and DoS…but
it seems like an interesting thought experiment.
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