I've created a wiki page with my ideas, please flesh out/edit. http://wiki.freenetproject.org/WarningTextDraft
Ian. > ** If your life and liberty depend on Freenet's security, click here. > > GO AWAY YOU FOOL! Seriously, Freenet has known security flaws in its design as > well as its implementation. Please consider your options very carefully; no > anonymity system is completely safe. Click here for some known attacks on > Freenet. Click here for some hints for the extremely paranoid. > > ** If you need it to be difficult for your ISP, the government etc to > determine that you are running Freenet, if Freenet may be blocked by your > national firewall in the near future, or if you expect to be actively > attacked, click here. > > You will need to only connect to Friends to use this mode. This greatly > improves your security, because you are only directly vulnerable to people > you trust, who you have added connections to. All the basic paranoia options > are enabled, but please note that Freenet is still under development, no > anonymity system is perfect, and there are <link>known attacks and design > flaws.</link> In particular, your ISP can probably detect Freenet nodes (with > some work), your Friends may be able to attack you, and with a great deal of > effort governments etc can probably trace content authors. > > ** If you are mildly paranoid, click here. > > Freenet has basic paranoia options enabled. You can greatly improve your > security in the long run by getting connections to your friends, and turning > off connections to strangers. > > ** If you are not paranoid at all, click here. > > Freenet will be configured for maximum performance and minimum security. Don't > blame us if it stops working when your government blocks it, if your peers > can tell what you are browsing, if the Bad Guys come and get you! > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- Ian Clarke CEO, Uprizer Labs Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588