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Randall Bass

L. Gordon Crovitz: From WikiLeaks to OpenLeaks | Full Comment | National Post - 0 views

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Openleaks distributed

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  • Randall Bass on 03 Apr 11
     
    Another good piece on the differences between WikiLeaks and OpenLeaks. This one also emphasizes that distribution of responsibility for vetting documents, checking validity, and making determinations about security breaches, etc. to the publishers. The notion of distributed intelligence and distribute responsibility is a key Web concept that has many manifestations. But this is an interesting and important version of it. "Distributed intelligence" is also one of those concepts that has both social and technological implications. 
Shida Zhang

Debian mirrors - 1 views

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      Shida Zhang on 15 Mar 11
       
      What are the specific reasons that some Debian packages couldn't be distributed in the States? Any specific examples for those packages?
    • Duncan Gillespie
      Duncan Gillespie on 16 Mar 11
       
      I'm not positive, but I believe that certain packages were not allowed to be distributed in the US because some of the software used in the Debian packages mimicked commercially available software. It may be similiar to how wikipedia got in trouble in its infancy because people would copy articles from encyclopedias like Britannica and make the information available for free. Like wikipedia, Debian is community driven (open-source).
  • Debian is distributed all around the world using mirrors in order to provide users with better access to our archive and to reduce the load on our servers.
  • Prior to Debian 3.1, there was also a Non-US packages archive (debian-non-US/) which included Debian packages that could not be distributed in the United States due to software patents or use of encryption.
Shida Zhang

BBC News - Anonymous hacktivists say Wikileaks war to continue - 1 views

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      Shida Zhang on 15 Mar 11
       
      Note: they are trying to create hundreds of mirror sites for Wikileaks.
  • Paul Mutton at the security firm Netcraft, who is monitoring the attacks, said Visa is considered a more difficult target and the attack on it required a much larger number of "hacktivists" - politically motivated hackers - 2,000 compared with 400 for Mastercard.
  • Anonymous, which claimed to have carried out the attack, is a loose-knit group of hacktivists, with links to the notorious message board 4chan.
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  • PayPal, which has stopped processing donations to Wikileaks, has also been targeted.
  • Security experts said the sites had been targeted by a so-called distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS), which swamp a site with so many page requests that it becomes overwhelmed and drops offline.
  • "We feel that Wikileaks has become more than just about leaking of documents, it has become a war ground, the people vs. the government," he said.
  • "The idea is not to wipe them off but to give the companies a wake-up call," he said. "Companies will notice the increase in traffic and an increase in traffic means increase in costs associated with running a website."
  • DDoS attacks are illegal in many countries, including the UK.
  • Anonymous is also helping to create hundreds of mirror sites for Wikileaks, after its US domain name provider withdrew its services.
Randall Bass

Difference Between Wikileaks and Openleaks | Difference Between | Wikileaks vs Openleaks - 0 views

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  • Randall Bass on 03 Apr 11
     
    A basic and useful article on the differences between Wikileaks and Openaleaks. Chief among them that Openleaks claims to be politically neutral. However, there is also a key technical and functional difference in that Openleaks does not store documents but merely acts as a middleman site between whistleblowers and publishers. 
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