* Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> [2008-08-08 17:43:23]: > NextGen$ wrote: > > The user is right: > > You seems to be missunderstanding the issue here: as soon as you've ticked > > the opennet box, your node will announce and your ISP (if smart enough) will > > know that you are running freenet. > > > > Switching to darknet afterwards won't help: your isp knows that you're > > running freenet and that's probably all he needs. > > Hiding from your ISP isn't the only reason to use darknet - opennet > exposes you to a variety of attacks on your anonymity from people you > don't know, so it's still worth disabling it if you can find enough > darknet peers that you trust. > > (I don't know of any other apps that produce long-lived UDP streams with > encrypted headers and payload, so your ISP can probably identify Freenet > traffic even if you use darknet from day one.) >
Games and conferencing stuffs a la TeamSpeak.