PlebNet: A self-replicating botnet for privacy protection

As the amount of digital content being shared is increasing, the need for a privacy protecting and resilient method of file sharing grows. New copyright law proposals are suggesting that governments and corporations are attempting to claim control over the use of the internet. As these new laws may lead to restrictions in digital content sharing...

Peer Discovery With Transitive Trust in Distributed System

It is a common case that resources belong to different people who are distributed across the world. So, for making good use of resources, people have to cooperate with each other. Cooperation is important not only in the physical world but also in cyberspace. Computers holding different resources also need to cooperate with others. The problems...

PlebNet: Botnet for good

Throughout this project two components have been created: Cloudomate and<br/>PlebNet. Cloudomate is a program that can purchase virtual private servers (VPS)<br/>from a number of providers with Bitcoin, it is accessed through a command line<br/>interface and published as Python library. PlebNet is the implementation of an<br/>autonomous self...