BBC: File-sharing to bypass censorship

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Mon Apr 12 10:54:15 PDT 2004


At 06:48 PM 4/11/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3611227.stm

>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.

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.

>'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
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.





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