On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org > wrote:
> I propose we ask, before the network seclevel, whether the user wants to > use opennet, or darknet. Once we've asked this, we ask whether they want LOW > or NORMAL (for no) or HIGH or MAXIMUM (for yes). We explain as follows: > > Do you want Freenet to only connect to your friends? > > YES: This is much more secure, however to connect to Freenet at all you > must add several friends who are usually online at the same time as you are. > It is not necessary that these be ultimately trustworthy, but you must not > add total strangers as this slows down the network and they are probably the > bad guys: These must be people you know personally, whether online or > offline. > One small change "they are probably the bad guys" sounds like the Freenet is under siege by hundreds of moles and unsafe to use at all. > > NO: This offers no real security against a determined attacker, however it > will work "out of the box". You can add friends later, and then set Freenet > to only connect to your friends. This is fine for testing, and may give > better speed unless you have a lot of friends with fast connections. > > > IMHO honesty is the best policy. > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. - Voltaire Those who would give up Liberty, to purchase temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101105/6efe1fb4/attachment.html>
