On 10/16/15 22:02, Florent Daigniere wrote:
> 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?
>>
> 

Is there a wiki page or documentation somewhere where I can find out how
to do this??? ;-)

> 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.
> 

What about trustees? Its more about trust than how well you get along
with someone.

> Florent
> 
> 
>

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