On Tuesday 28 August 2007 23:17, Juiceman wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > I'm not sure this is correct ... Friends is a technical term referring to
> > trusted peers, whereas friends means what it says - people you actually
know.
> >
> > wdiff to make the change obvious (look for []/{}):
> >
> > Your node is currently running in promiscuous mode. It will connect to
> > Strangers, and this means that anyone can find out that you are running a
> > node. Most attacks are easier, blocking your node (for example at a
national
> > firewall) is much easier, and you have no control over who your node
connects
> > to. We strongly recommend you get some connections to Friends (trusted
nodes
> > run by people you already know); promiscuous mode is only intended as a
> > temporary measure until you are able to just connect to your Friends. If
you
> > only connect to your [-friends,-] {+Friends,+} while it may be possible
for
> > them to attack you, it is less likely than if your node is exposed to any
> > government agency/other bad guy who wants to connect to it. Note that
adding
> > a peer in the Friends section does not help much unless that peer belongs
to
> > somebody you actually know (both for routing and security reasons)!
> >
>
> Well the line immediately above it should be lowercase then, shouldn't
> it? I was just trying to be consistent; I see what you mean by
> technical term versus conversational term.
> Not a big deal, I'll make it however you would like,
Sure, we should be consistent.
>
> Also, the "government agency" part makes us sound like our software is
> illegal, I think it might sound better if we added "evil" or
> "oppressive" in front of that...
No problem with that.
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