Taiwan’s Digital Affairs ministry turns to Web3 to guard against mainland China cyberattacks following Pelosi’s visit

Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA) is in the process of integrating the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a piece of Web3 technology used for decentralised file sharing, to guard its website against cyberattacks from mainland China, Digital Minister Audrey Tang Feng told the state-run Central News Agency (CNA) on Tuesday.

In the wake of several hacking incidents after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s August 2 visit to the island, Tang noted that her agency was already using Web3 architecture to make sure information remains available. After the visit, multiple Taiwanese government websites became inaccessible resulting from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

The new MODA website still shows “Coming Soon August 2022” on its homepage, but multiple files, including a site index, are publicly accessible on IPFS. However, given that IPFS is designed to make static content discoverable based on file hashes, Tang noted that it is not suitable for dynamic content, which should still use Web 2.0 technologies.

When asked about the agency’s future plans for Web3 and IPFS, Tang referred the Post to a log of the CNA interview.

In a previous interview with local news outlet Liberty Times Net on Sunday, Tang said the new website is using a combination of Web3 and Web 2.0, which she called Web2, to deter attacks.