On Thursday 27 November 2008 16:01, Zero3 wrote: > Random thoughts after yesterdays discussions: Would it be an idea to > move towards placing the users' identities in their Freenet FireFox > profiles? > > What you could do: > - Login, fproxy settings and user identity can be sent via a cookie for > the fproxy URL (= not *yet another* set of username/passwords, and no > hassle implementing digital signature access control and user management).
You would still need to be able to create new identities, log in etc, for new users, for the obstinate users who use different browsers, and so on. > - Bookmarks can already be handled by FireFox No, they can't. Freenet needs to know what is bookmarked so it can watch it for updates. > (which some may not like > (compared to the fproxy bookmark thingy), and some may like (those who > wants a new theme without the activelinks) - yet does have advantages > such as allowing users to use bookmark-manipulating plugins > (pre-fetchers, bookmark sync, organization, etc.)). fproxy could (needs > to) still have the default bookmarks, but that wouldn't be a privacy > concern. > - Datastore can (and should?) remain shared between users (with some > privacy concerns, but I believe there are settings for that already?) > > I'm not sure about darknet peers. From a network point-of-view, they > should probably be shared, but isn't that a privacy concern? Or? Not sharing them means you have two different nodes running on the same computer. Which will likely slow things down. And yes there are privacy issues with datastore. There are privacy issues with multi-user computers, deal with it. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081127/7dd3df45/attachment.pgp>
