On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:38 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Step back and take a deep breath. I'm not telling you to shutdown your > website and foundation and host your project on Tor' s site. > I didn't say that, so perhaps you should re-read my last email. > I'm questioning if the overhead of designing and maintaining yet another > anonymity protocol makes sense given Freenet's current situation. You can > concentrate on polishing Freenet UX and storage algorithms instead and > leave the anonymity to Tor. As I already said in my previous email, that is nonsense. Freenet's "anonymity" is at the core of what Freenet is. You can't just "unplug" the anonymity and plug Tor in in it's place. It doesn't work like that. > Its an intensive process coming up with something that stands up against > serious enemies. Tor gets most of the academic community's attention > improving against attacks all the time. You get this for free by switching > to their protocol for transport. > Tor's anonymity is easier to prove because Tor is way less ambitious than Freenet (one of the reasons Tor was easily blocked by the Chinese government). You're advocating that we replace the very thing that makes Freenet different. If we did that, what would be the point of continuing with the project? Ian. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
