# Qwant, Gitbooks and Wikileaks // 19-2-27

Playing around with the search engine [Qwant]( https://lite.qwant.com/ )
(which is based in France), I stumbled over
[Gitbooks]( https://www.gitbooks.com )
which I tried some years ago, and there's still a document
hosted I wrote for an introduction to basics of electrical
circuits -- in German though.

Now I noticed they have completely changed their operations:
it's no longer git based, but an online publication service,
and although you can get to the source texts via Github, it's
also no longer Markdown based, but they have some proprietary
*shudder* JSON thingy. In short: it's a complete perversion!
And of course I'll never touch it again.
I guess they wanted better ways of monetizing their system,
and a walled garden is always nice for this.

I'm now thinking of ways to implement their initial idea in
[gigof]( git://dome.circumlunar.space/gigof ), but it would
probably mean one needs a web interface as well, because a
gopher-only solution might be of little general interest.
(So it's not suited for gopher://dome.circumlunar.space/ .)

Through Qwant, I also noticed an e-mail from me showing up in
[Wikileaks!]( https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=10411 )
It's part of the trove of [Stratfor]( https://www.stratfor.com )
e-mails Wikileaks published some years ago.
Now I'm not in the intelligence business, but for some time,
Stratfor had a rather cheap subscription offering for their
prime products, which I took out of pure curiosity. And when
I noticed some (really stupid!) leaking of e-mail addresses
in their newsletter header, I notified them.
Isn't it ironic, that my call for better security on their
side finally got leaked?

.:.