On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Theodore Hong <twh25 at cam.ac.uk> wrote: > We could potentially suggest, "here's where some freenet people hang > out",
I think that would be problematic, since it would basically encourage people to congregate and exchange references promiscuously as they did on the #freenet-refs IRC channel prior to implementation of opennet. Such a thing has no security benefits relative to opennet, and has a number of disadvantages relative to network topology. > although that might be easy to infiltrate? On the other hand if > no one ever meets any friends, then there won't be a darknet to > infiltrate in the first place. > > Yes - as above, and also emphasize that you should talk to the person > and satisfy yourself that they're bona fide, rather than following the > usual social networking model of clicking immediately on anyone who > requests you as a friend. Perhaps, I guess we should probably trust users not to be idiots, since if they are idiots they are only really hurting themselves. Ian. -- Email: ian at uprizer.com Cell: +1 512 422 3588 Skype: sanity
