[HN Gopher] Show HN: Federalist and Bob - uncensorable website w...
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Show HN: Federalist and Bob - uncensorable website with webtorrent
and Handshake
Bob Extension just added ability to resolve Handshake domain with
webtorrent. Any Handshake TLDs can update its TXT record with a
magnet link pointing to a folder that contains a index.html page -
Bob Extension will download and show the content using webtorrent
when users go to the TLDs (e.g. federalistpapers/)
https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension/pull/18
Author : chikeichan
Score : 70 points
Date : 2022-02-02 17:08 UTC (5 hours ago)
| vorpalhex wrote:
| It looks like Bob depends on a hosted backend to start with...
| capableweb wrote:
| > If all nodes are down the site is down stop exaggerating.
|
| First time I hear about Bob, but the README
| (https://github.com/kyokan/bob-extension) seems to mention that
| you can use your own `hsd` node in like the first section, or
| are you thinking about something else?
| vorpalhex wrote:
| Yes but then.. why bother? If you are running your own
| infrastructure, none of this matters because you have your
| own infrastructure. Add a new resolver zone, run a tor node,
| etc etc.
| capableweb wrote:
| As a start, I'd recommend you to read through
| https://handshake.org/ and associated documentation if
| you're interested in understanding how it works.
|
| As a quick answer to your concern, running your own node
| doesn't mean you can only access your own domains, it'll
| still be a part of the global handshake network, just via
| your node instead of via the "hosted backend" you
| mentioned.
| vorpalhex wrote:
| Right, I understand how handshake works.
|
| But if you are capable of running a Bob node, you are
| capable of running bind or whatever dns solution and
| manually importing a zone file. Or running tor. Or just
| running a handshake (or any other) resolver.
|
| There is no benefit to this being entangled with bob.
| thomassmith65 wrote:
| I can use this to blackmail my ransomware victims. Cool! /s
|
| On a related note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049343
| publiush wrote:
| This is cool! This is an extension version of the federalist [1]
| project I was working on earlier! This makes using federalist so
| much easier!
|
| Way to go! Also, this is really cool that you did this!
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29513547
| gigaflop wrote:
| This sounds super cool! I was (mentally) toying around with an
| idea like this a few weeks back, maybe this'll teach me
| something.
| chriszioutas wrote:
| correct it me if I am wrong, but whenever I see things like
| "uncensorable" I laugh. Internet connections require an ISP,
| internet networks are governed by goverments. There is ZERO way
| to make something uncensorable or decentralized and all that BS.
| Even TOR requires someone running exit nodes.
|
| You can make your own car and even use it until you get caught
| (in a city for example) but you cant use the internet without an
| ISP.
|
| Only way would be if you started laying out your OWN cable but
| even then I am sure the goverment would have a way..
| josephcsible wrote:
| I think the idea is that bad guys would have to censor every
| visitor's ISP, which is a lot harder than censoring at just
| where it's hosted. The idea is that the latter, e.g., the way
| Amazon attacked Parler, won't be possible.
| [deleted]
| littlestymaar wrote:
| Webtorrent is using webRTC right? What does this use for
| signaling?
| charcircuit wrote:
| You can censor it by blocking TXT records with magnet links in
| them.
| ninjaa wrote:
| truly dat hacker news thank you thank you thank you
| YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo wrote:
| If all nodes are down the site is down stop exaggerating.
| jcun4128 wrote:
| Would be neat random servers you drop in the wild meshed by
| cellular/satellite. Not saying it would be fast but if powered
| by something eg. solar/stream nearby. That's a site that would
| be hard to kill.
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