At 06:48 PM 4/11/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind.
This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University's Professor Ross Anderson.
'Impossible to censor'
To enable this, Prof Anderson proposes a new and improved version of Usenet, the internet news service.
If there's material that everyone agrees is wicked, like child
Well duh. KaZaa carries news film clips that the media don't transmit. So does ogrish.com, but ogrish is not distributed and its name servers are run by the State of course. And then there's the indymedia (again, single point of failure) sites. There are censorship and authentication issues, of course, its hardly novel. pornography,
then it's possible to track it down and close it down
First, that flavor of erotica is not well defined. E.g., A picture of one of your 15 year old wives? Your legally emancipated 16 year old lover? Second, Anderson, who should know better, forgets about stego.