Couple ideas. I am interested in peer reviews. :)
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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).
Why doesn't Al-Jazeera try Usenet?
I'm very serious. It was set up for widely distributing articles and messages. Further, it is resistant to attack.
A true "P2P" network is not really needed, just a broadcast network. (Two-way communication is nice, but in this case clearly there will not be many informed respondents in the affected warzone, just lots of responses typical of slashdot replies. "Like, Arab d00dz, like, right on!")
No need to build a complicated set of mirrors when reports can be posted within minutes on the Usenet. Maybe Al-Jazeera is not aware of it. Maybe someone should show them.
--Tim May
