Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins 268
Anonymous writes "Two graduate students at the Ivy League's Brown University built a P2P system to use abandoned wiki sites to store data. The students were stealing bandwidth from open MediaWiki sites to send data between users as an alternative to BitTorrent. There was immediate backlash as site operators quickly complained to the University. The project appears to be shutdown, but many of the pages still remain on the web. The project homepage was also taken down and the students posted an apology this afternoon." The same submitter links to two different forum discussions on the project.
Forget the wikis... (Score:5, Funny)
Kobayashi Maru (Score:4, Funny)
Khaaaaaan! [khaaan.com]
SlashdotFS (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently they don't know about SlashdotFS. This system uses an english hidden markov model sentence constructor to generate plausible comment text and save it as reply's on slashdot. The path through the markov model is variable having multiple word choices at each node so it can encode arbitrary data and can be decoded by replaying the message through the same network model.
It was just a toy till 2003 when a pair of graduate students realized the information density could be dramatically enhanced by introducing spelling, gramatical errors, typo's and l337-speak into the model.
Comments encoding these are usually late posts in the discussion threat and frequently replied to by grammar nazi's.
It's now one of the major Warez dumping sites since it is particularly useful for immutable data of low value.
Re:SlashdotFS (Score:3, Funny)
'SlashdotFS' coments encodin in sohveet russsia, but duz it runn 0n lunix?
Re:Why???? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Theft? (Score:5, Funny)
True. But if I don't lock my front door, that doesn't mean it's ok for you to take my stuff.
But if you are in the UK I can come in and watch the TV if it is on.
Re:SlashdotFS (Score:0, Funny)
Hans Reiser is working on it. One added benefit is you can encrypt data so to the outside observer it just looks like you're posting body dump sites.
Re:SlashdotFS (Score:2, Funny)
But can it run crysis?
Perhaps, but you'd need a Beowulf cluster of them to run Crysis and Vista. Problem is, the Beowulf cluster is too easily Slashdotted.
Re:"Abandoned" my pasty white ass (Score:5, Funny)
It's not a high-volume site, but it sure as hell isn't abandoned.
I see you are still in denial about how much time you spend posting at Slashdot.
Some say rubbish, I say Brilliant (Score:2, Funny)
This is the best school project I have heard of since I was at university....
Re:SlashdotFS (Score:5, Funny)
Comments encoding these are usually late posts in the discussion threat and frequently replied to by grammar nazi's.
Replied to by the grammar Nazi's what?
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Theft? (Score:5, Funny)
You sir, are someone I'd trust with the internet.
Re:What the Page Originally Said (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Theft? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Theft? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What the Page Originally Said (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:What the Page Originally Said (Score:4, Funny)
REQ: Star Trek (workprint) (AAC/mp4 2000kb/s)
TIA !!!!!