On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:22:09PM -0400, Nick Tarleton wrote:
>  Jul #, 2003 2:02:28 PM (freenet.client.AutoRequester, QThread-1516, ERROR): 
> Got StateReachedEvent (State FAILED reached.) with currentRequestProcess == 
> null! for freenet.client.AutoRequester:(not 
> requesting)():freenet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/colours/3914f3//active.png
> 
> To any government official who sees a log item like this, it's a big red flag 
> saying 'I REQUESTED THIS CONTENT!' (unless, of course, FCP or FProxy is made 
> public, but that's rare.) Possibilities:
> 
> 1. An 'anonymize logs' option.

Ugh. Certainly possible, but a royal PITA. And who's going to vouch for
it?
> 2. A message saying 'securely erase all old logs'. But what if the government 
> gets there first?

Either don't have any logs, which might be reasonable post-1.0, or if
you are ridiculously overconfident, or use an encrypted log partition.
> 3. Nothing. However, if Freenet is sued for contributory copyright 
> infringement, not doing anything about as big an anonymity risk as this will 
> make the 'legitimate use' defense harder. Or so I hear.

No it won't. It will only dump the person who gets their node busted in
the shit :)

It will NEVER betray content not requested by the local node op, because
the local node simply does not know the readable keys for such content.
-- 
Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/
ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.

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