Couple ideas. I am interested in peer reviews. :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:43:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gulfwar-2] Al-Jazeera Calls... - strategy proposal To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Truckle the Uncivil wrote: > It is too well co-ordinated to be that. Any new route seems to take less > than five minutes to be blocked. it is well organised. It doesn't matter, at least not now, who is behind it. It matters what is happening and what can be done about it. If someone manages to convince al-Jazeera editors to publish not only by upload to some server(s) but also by eg. emailing the updated files to several helpers who then either set up mirrors or put them to P2P networks (Freenet <http://freenet.sourceforge.net/> is especially suitable for this purpose, because of its inherent load-balancing capabilities). The limitation of Freenet is a relatively small number of users and relatively difficult availability. The advantage is the difficulty of taking it down or tracing the data source, and its load-balancing. The limitation of P2P networks is the easiness of taking down the individual nodes in the early phases of content distribution, when there are only few of them. Their advantage is in their easy availability and the raw numbers of users. My proposed solution is a two-tiered distribution network; al-Jazeera editors can upload the content to Freenet, from where the seed nodes take it and publish on the "classic" Gnutella/Kazaa/WinMX... networks. The source nodes (the editors) are hidden behind the secured network, the P2P seed nodes are protected by their amount. The infrastructure for both tiers is already existing. If the adversary is just a bunch of script kids with IRC bots, they will not have any chance to defeat this. If the adversary is the Government, they still aren't too likely to strike many winning points. If nothing other, it can be a field test of a rapid-deployment community-based anticensorship effort. Are there any weaknesses in this scheme? Shaddack, the Mad Scientist
