On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 21:38 +1000, dean wrote:
> On 10/16/15 20:09, Florent Daigniere wrote:
> > On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:09 +1000, dean wrote:
> > > > Is "pretending that Opennet can work" still the official
> > > > project's
> > > > line?
> > > 
> > > In regards to this I must protest. I don't have any cyberpunk
> > > friends
> > > :(
> > 
> > Protest all you want; it's useless unless you come up with
> > solutions.
> > 
> > If the aim of the project is to protect (Chinese, ...) dissidents
> > we
> > have to account for their threat model.
> 
> Why cant freenet have more than one aim? Darknet for the more extreme
> threats?
> 

It can but we need to be honest about which aims are achievable and
which ones aren't.

> > As far as I know it has to include state level actors... Given
> > that, I don't know how to make any
> > form of opennet securely work for them. Do you?
> 
> No I do not, I'm certainly not an expert in this area. I was hoping
> the
> experts were working for the freenet project....
> 
> I always liked the idea of wireless mesh routing like freedom box
> claim
> (i have not tried this) could assist against state level threats or
> some
> sort of dead drop system or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PirateBox
> might come in handy when the adversary owns infrastructure.
> 

That's called darknet.

> Maybe I need to research this topic more but I don't understand how
> just
> darknet can operate on its own.

That's what freenet does: connect darknets together and route "stuff"
across them efficiently.

>  What happens when all you get is many
> small isolated darknets who cannot share with each other? Datastore
> sneakernet? Isn't half the point of opennet to connect various
> darknets
> together?

No it's not. Opennet is and has always been about "getting users"-
>"getting funds"->"make progress"

Opennet is what freenet 0.5 and before were.

>  and assist the darknet users to "get their message out"? or
> else what is the point of them publishing anything?
> 
> 
> Or even better, maybe I just need to make some new friends?
> 

That sounds like a plan. 

We should probably revise the terminology too; your neighboors
constitute perfect "friends" as far as darknet is concerned. If you can
use a direct link to them that $opponent can't monitor and $ISP can't
throttle, it's even better.

Florent

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