On Friday 15 August 2008 02:00, Ian Clarke wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> The reality is that most users won't be choosing between Freenet and > >> nothing, they will be choosing between Freenet and something like a > >> web proxy, and even opennet is preferable to that. > > > > No, they'll be choosing between Freenet and Tor, if they have any sense. And > > if all you want to do is browse the web anonymously, Tor is better - in fact, > > Freenet does not provide web browsing at all. If you want to publish content, > > life is a good deal more complicated than that. > > Your logic is flawed. You are saying that if the user can do what > they want with Tor (browse the web anonymously), then they should use > Tor. I agree. That means that the users that should be considering > Freenet don't have the option of using Tor, because Tor doesn't meet > their needs. So users won't, in fact, be choosing between Freenet and > Tor, because they do different things.
Okay, because Freenet provides unique facilities: - Much easier (and more secure) hosting of content. - Faster filesharing, especially when compared to Tor using relays. - More survivability even than Tor with relays. > > Ian. > > -- > Ian Clarke > CEO, Uprizer Labs > Email: ian at uprizer.com > Cell: +1 512 422 3588 > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080815/a7334bc9/attachment.pgp>
