On 4/18/06, Volodya <Volodya at whengendarmesleeps.org> wrote: > Is it possible to ask for any explanation for the 3 link limit that you have > imposed upon > 0,7? I really do not understand how i am suppose to switch to that network > now, my > original plan was to contact all my friends who i trust and tell them that if > they ever > wanted to achieve anonymity, my node is open to them, then i'd connect to > them and we'd > start our little network, slowly the network would continue to grow, as they > would invite > their friends, etc, and everybody would be happy. > > With the limit i can only contact people who already know at least 2 other > people willing > to try freenet out, or i have to ask my friends to compromise their anonymity > to each > other (many of my friends don't know each other), or i will have to run 3 > nodes on my > computer to start with (my current plan) which will allow for us to go around > the limit, > until such time when people will start finding other links themselves. > > Free your mind and seek the truth. > - Volodya
With < 3 links you are either a leaf node (1 link) or on a chain (2 links). In either case, no real routing is occuring. I would suggest that you consider a) running with too few links, which will work ok on small networks (a guess ;) ) and b) finding more friends to ask. Are there people you've met online and trust enough? Here I would put "trust" as you believe they're not EvilCorp (tm) or Big Brother, you believe they are at least somewhat paranoid about their identity, and you believe they won't directly attack your privacy. Personally I contacted a few friends and then got on IRC to get more connections. I think there is still a large security improvement over 0.5 (mostly from no harvesting; an attacker would have to do real work to find people). If I was worried about my annonymity in a more than passing way I'd do what I suggested above. Good luck! Evan Daniel PS send me a noderef and I'll connect with you! You can trust me, I promise ;)
