I am hardly an expert on the Internet, Usenet, search-engines or worms, so
please bear with me no doubt multiple naivetes here.
The major Internet search engine providers (and one of them, Google, owns
the major Usenet archive and search engine as well) cooperate with
totalitarian regimes like those of China and the United States to filter
information and finger dissidents.
But wouldn't one guerilla strategy to overcome this be to program and
distribute worm-like distributed archives-cum-search-engines for both the
Internet and Usenet?
Groping a bit, each distribution package should of course contain a client
interface, a server and an appropriate portion of the search engine
database, and constantly update its database (starting with the very system
it's on, when it first begins operation there), respond to requests if the
information needed is in that database portion, spawn and even upgrade
itself (ie, an older version might simply pass its archive to the new).
(And another distribution package and network might be introduced to
specifically handle a globally-distributed and dynamically-updated list of
server IPs, each of which latter of course will serve as an access point
for the whole network.)
LookSmart's Grub client is a step in this direction, although that client
is voluntarily downloaded and reports crawling results to a central
database.
Such dynamic network will need to optimize storage versus redundancy of
archive, and should probably implement a "voting" method to determine in
case of differing reports which to present, or even just the order in which
to present (or rank), requested information.
And since it can expect constant interference, from system owners who
simply don't want to host a package, as well as from the totalitarian
regimes and their corporate coconspirators whose activities have suggested
this post, such network's packages should of course use the various worm
tricks to evade automated detection, and the network itself Usenet's
deliberately robust architecture, which was designed with nuclear holocaust
in mind.
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