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Anonymous' WikiLeaks-Like Project Tyler To Launch In December

Posted by timothy on from the those-are-nice-words-you've-leaked dept.

hypnosec writes "A hacker who claims to be a member of the hacking collective Anonymous has revealed that the hacktivist group is working on a Wikileaks-like service dubbed Tyler and that it will be launched on December 21. The Anonymous member revealed that the service will be decentralized and will be based on peer-to-peer service, unlike Wikileaks, thus making Tyler rather immune to closure and raids. The site will serve as a haven for whistleblowers, where they can publish classified documents and information. The hacker said in an emailed interview that 'Tyler will be P2P encrypted software, in which every function of a disclosure platform will be handled and shared by everyone who downloads and deploys the software.'" That sounds like a lot to live up to. Decentralized, attack-resistant and encrypted all sound nice, but I'm curious both about the funding it would take, and whether it matches Wikileaks' own security.

3 of 101 comments (clear)

  1. A More Useless Freenet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What will this do that Freenet does not already do?

  2. Re:Anonymous/Tyler/KKK same thing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    SOPA and friends aren't going to go away if we play nice. We have a choice between a creeping and unresisted loss of freedom, and an outright war where at least we have a chance of prevailing.

    There is a reason that even as pacifists we remember Churchill more fondly than Chamberlain, despite the former getting way more of his people killed.

  3. And then one week later... by bragr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And then one week later it will be full child porn and paranoid conspiracy theories and very little in the way of leaked documents. Such is the fate of all darknets I guess. (see Tor, Freenet, I2P, etc).