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Using P2P To Make Gov't Documents Easy To Find

Posted by timothy on from the whaddya-mean-for-once? dept.

Trinition writes "Kim Zetter wrote for Wired News that "While legislators in Washington work to outlaw peer-to-peer networks, one website is turning the peer-to-peer technology back on Washington to expose its inner, secretive workings." For once, we have a concrete example to point to when citing the merits of P2P."

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  1. Typical US overly high-tech solution... by iapetus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Over here in the UK, the government uses the more reliable low-tech approach of real paper documents available from laybys to spread information about its secret inner workings.

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  2. Zer0 day by minus9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm downloading AGrikulturalPolicyNOCD+crakz.zip right now.

  3. Re:What does it matter...? by Bendy+Chief · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds to me like the agency was doing its job admirably when it wrote that database:

    "This database will self-destruct in five seconds..."

    Mr. Phelps would be proud.

  4. Re:Hrm... by DahGhostfacedFiddlah · · Score: 5, Funny

    FTP or HTTP, both of which are like the "fascist dicatorships of transfer protocols"...

    What did you think FTP stood for?

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