a youtube replacement in zeronet would rock
ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
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#62In other news ZeroNet has been banned from giving its TEDtalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14039219
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Neither argument has been tested, but the defense would that you were acting as an ISP with dumb pipes. Unlikely. To become a peer, you must first visit the website, fully downloading the content. Which makes an argument to you consenting to share the information.
Just like an ISP has to take your request and transmit it and the response. No difference in theory. In practice, I would worry whether courts would ignore theory.
Courts exist to evaluate circumstantial evidence. Complex theories are often ignored.
The ISP, like a container ship, is not responsible of every bit it moves around. Individuals are.
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#64> Anonymity: Full Tor network support with .onion hidden services instead of ipv4 addresses How does this track with the Tor Project's advice to avoid using BitTorrent over Tor [1]? I can imagine that a savvy project is developed with awareness of what the problems are and works around them, but I don't see it addressed. [1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...
I'm also suspicious, since they say that your blockchain address is used for authentication - couldn't colluding websites track your public key and use it to track you between websites?
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#65I thought it was pretty easy to disrupt / censor torrents, hasn't that been going on for a while?
"I thought it was pretty easy to disrupt / censor torrents, hasn't that been going on for a while?" Not torrents themselves, only torrent search engines. Torrents are distributed by design, but traditional torrent directories/aggregators/search engines are centralized, thus easy targets for DCMA take-downs, ISP blocks, trials etc.
...And that's exactly the first thing they should put in ZeroNet.
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It's kind of a shame they didn't let their imagination fly with that one... I wish integrity were a global attribute, because I could totally see using it for things like images and audio/video.
It might work (though I'm not completely sure) if you specify a hash in the img-src directive of the CSP header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Co... Another option would be to just use a subresource-integrity protected script to check the hash of a downloaded image/video before displaying it.
That is clever and I like you.
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#67A little known fact: the Namecoin blockchain's cost-adjusted hashrate [1] is the third highest in the world, after Bitcoin and Ethereum, making it unusually secure given its relative obscurity (e.g. its market capitalisation is only $10 million). [1] hashrates can't be compared directly due to different hashing algorithms having different costs for producing a hash.
Namecoin has a number of innovations. It's the first 'alt-coin' fork from Bitcoin, and it pioneered the technique of "merge mining" where a miner could do Proof of Work on both the Bitcoin chain and the NameCoin chain simultaneously. A lot of mining pools implemented merged mining. Even though the alt-coin space has become much more crowded and noisy, NameCoin retains that early hashing advantage. It's a very secure chain.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bittorrent supports more peer sources than just trackers, DHT being the most important one among the others.
It's not supported by ZeroNet.
You sure about that? Their presentation [says][1] "Tracker-less peer exchange is also supported". Any idea what that's referring to?
[1]: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_2qK1IuOKJ51pgBvllZ9...
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither argument has been tested, but the defense would that you were acting as an ISP with dumb pipes. Which logically leads to an unrelated question -- if ISPs are doing DPI on every packet, they at least theoretically 'know' whether you're transmitting 'illegal' content. If I were a rights holder, I'd be making that argument against ISPs. I don't know how I'd sleep at night, maybe, but I wouldn't let ISPs have the…
It's been tested for Freenet. LEA adversaries can participate, and identify peers. Judges issue subpoenas. Many defendants have accepted plea bargains. Plausible deniability doesn't work. What works is using Tor.
Even Tor isn't a magic bullet, specifically because of other technologies used in combination, such as a web browser.
https://www.eff.org/pages/playpen-cases-frequently-asked-que...
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Chrome added a feature a long while back I really wanted for ages. The ability to specify the checksum of a linked asset, so that it can be verified as it's downloaded (and untrusted/discarded if not). I just can't find the docs for it. :( My Google-fu is not strong. EDIT: Found it :D https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-subresource-integrity/
Nice feature but you need to trust the HTML page that is pulling the js. ZeroNet allows any HTML page to pull any script.
And... we're back to loving IPFS :3