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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. --
    2. 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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  2. Not so much secret as hard to find by Mant · · Score: 5, Informative

    The site doesn't actually link to anything secret, it is all available to the public. What it does do is make it very easy to find, particulalry compared to getting this stuff of government websites.

  3. what about google by dncsky1530 · · Score: 5, Informative

    we all love google, however their search technology allows any one to find out anything about the government. one of the special searchs primarily searches US government documents. Not to mention peoples personal information can be found just as easily.
    Please don't get me wrong, I love google, and use it, and I especially enjoy these types of searches

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

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