In an age of internet shutdowns, takedown requests and deepfakes, the race is on to create a resilient and verifiable archive for the work of campaigners and citizen journalists
eh. if the internet is shut down (which happens a lot in countries with authoritarian rule), decentralized web doesn’t do much. we need decentralized communition networks.
But not impossible, anyway
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02180329/document
But I think even a totalitarian state prefers to control and filter traffic on the network, before blocking it.
North Korea has a local internet, which goes through government servers.
Encrypted messages only raise suspicions, follow-ups, infiltrations, running the risk of being blocked or worse.
This is why steganography is widely used, to disguise the messages in innocent photos, texts or music, which do not cause suspicion.
eh. if the internet is shut down (which happens a lot in countries with authoritarian rule), decentralized web doesn’t do much. we need decentralized communition networks.
It is difficult to shut down decentralized internet in the first place
But not impossible, anyway https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02180329/document But I think even a totalitarian state prefers to control and filter traffic on the network, before blocking it. North Korea has a local internet, which goes through government servers. Encrypted messages only raise suspicions, follow-ups, infiltrations, running the risk of being blocked or worse. This is why steganography is widely used, to disguise the messages in innocent photos, texts or music, which do not cause suspicion.