This weekend I and a few friends from the RIT FOSSBox attended Big Red Hacks. A hackathon sponsored by Cornell. I teamed up with my friend Mihir to create a project we called Vaux. Vaux is a distributed document liberation network that we developed to make it easier to share documents, and hard for those documents to be taken down. Every document uploaded to a Vaux node will automatically be replicated to every other node in the network. This does have some implications for the storage space needed to be a node, however we wanted any node to have the ability to rebuild the network if need be. Mihir and I both believe very strongly in the need to keep information open and free on the internet and we created a project that has those ideals as well. The Vaux platform works and we did our demo at the hackathon by replicating documents between nodes in Singapore and New York. While we didn’t win anything at the hackathon we did create a platform that we both wish to continue developing. Check it out over at https://github.com/VauxIo, comments and contributions are welcome.
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