Comments on: WikiLeaks Embraces Torrent and Magnet Links

By: WikiLeaks using P2P for leaks-TorrentFreak « FACT – Freedom Against Censorship Thailand

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:55:08 +0000

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By: A dreary Lamoid

A dreary Lamoid — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:30:47 +0000

“ex-hacker Adrian Lamo”

Em… Wouldn’t he still be hacking to find out that information that he leaked to “authorities” ???

By: Sabretruthtiger

Sabretruthtiger — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:53:42 +0000

Duedilly and others bashing wikileaks, imagine they have some sort of elite status or protection from the evil draconian Global Government being formed.
They probably even believe in the official government conspiracy fairytale about 911(LOL! It’s scientifically proven to be an inside job). They probably even believe in man made climate change (LOL! Zero evidence to support it and much against)
Wikileaks are doing humanity a service.

By: Sabretruthtiger

Sabretruthtiger — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 01:51:02 +0000

Duedilly and other gutless, low IQ moronic paid Government bloggers bashing wikileaks, are the sort of retarded inbred hicks that love Big Government and imagine they have some sort of elite status or protection from the evil draconian Global Government being formed.
These type haven’t the IQ to put two and two together and probably even believe in the official government conspiracy fairytale about 911(LOL! It’s scientifically proven to be an inside job). They probably even believe in man made climate change (LOL! Zero evidence to support it and much against)
These morons should not breed.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:03:20 +0000

tribler doesn’t need a torrent index site, although it seems not quite ready – not enough participation (yet).

also keep an eye on the diaspora project!

By: Torin050

Torin050 — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:11:09 +0000

@8 Agreed on all of it!

By: Ninja

Ninja — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:10:01 +0000

If the content is first verified by wikileaks editors then I don’t see a problem in using an exclusively bt distribution system. In fact they could just leave a seedbox to keep older torrents seeded (providing no1 would help seeding those) and it would be enough.

Also, there’s the open torrent storage, trackerhub or something, the public trackers such as obt, publicbt, obt.kg and so on that could help keeping the torrents healthy and available. And the open torrent storage would also serve to create parallel indexes in other sites referring to the proper WikiLeaks page to prove its source. This would make those indexers trusted and keep the files reachable even if wikileaks goes boom.

Obviously Magnets and DHT/PEX are always welcome since you can compare magnets from different sites to certify their origin.

Pretty good decision from WikiLeaks. Now they just need to tweak it and it’ll be perfect.

By: Capn

Capn — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:51:23 +0000

Slow news day? They’ve been doing this for at least a month.

By: duedilly

duedilly — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:50:34 +0000

@3 ya wikileaks is definitely a media whore site

i used to support them, but found that they will indiscriminately knock pretty much anything, even legitimate organizations, just to have more “leaks”

and they are pretty much arrogant pricks when you interact with them – too bad

By: Tor

Tor — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:36:37 +0000

@28
Osiris’s spammers are everywhere…
Yes, osiris is closed source and potentially backdoored, probably bugged (nobody has reviewed it yet).

There is no way to confirm that nor to deny it, because the source code is not available! argh, circular logic! ;)

The common sense is that closed source applications about anonymity are not safe by definition.
Surely Tor is much better, it’s the way to go.
Osiris belongs to my trash bin.