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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. Hrm... by canwaf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't "exposing secretive inner workings" make the US government want to shut down p2p even more?

    1. Re:Hrm... by torpor · · Score: 5, Insightful

      because that web site can be taken down.

      because it can be altered.

      we have seen many, many examples of the U.S. gov't altering published data to support political motivation.

      using p2p, where there is -no one single point of control- would actually be a far more Democracy-supporting protocol than FTP or HTTP, both of which are like the "fascist dicatorships of transfer protocols"...

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      ; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --