On Monday 22 Jul 2013 18:32:39 Victor Denisov wrote: > > 2) Most people on Freenet have no real enemies and so care far too > > much about their friends' feelings and not enough about their actual > > enemies, compared to our threat model. > > I think it's slightly different. Let's imagine I'm a passive pedophile; > a stranger sees me watching child porn in the park and calls the police. > If I scram immediately, chances of me getting caught would be > (relatively) low. If my friend will see me watching child porn (or doing > anything similarly offensive), chances are high that I'm doomed, as > he'll be able to provide law enforcing agencies with enough information > to virtually guarantee my capture. > > Same with Freenet. When a stranger (no matter if he's an active attacker > or a casual observer) detects that my node transfers objectionable > material, it's one thing. "They" - at least, with the current judicial > system in the (more or less) developed countries - still have to seize > my computer and find the evidence there, attempting which will, or will > not be, successful. If a friend detects that same transfer, and finds it > objectionable enough to alert the authorities - and, let's face it, most > *real* free speech contents *will be* objectionable for the majority of > people - I'm doomed, as he'll be able to provide enough evidence - > possibly even by using my trust to compromise my computer, etc.
Perhaps. But IMHO compelling, bribing or encouraging users to spy on their peers by providing a plugin for them to self-police is a relatively expensive attack - the state's probable first reaction is to ignore and suppress the problem. Anyway, as I said, PISCES provides us with a tunneling solution over darknet freenet, which is immune to a single evil friend. We can't do this on opennet with any meaningful security.
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