Hello, I'd like to share my uses cases for a Darknet in a neighborhood wireless network. Please feel free to tear them apart. I'm wondering where and how Freenet can be "the filesharing program" of choice, here, and I realize some cases may be missing some necessary detail. Perhaps this group can help me to understand where I need to do more work. Thank you for your time and for creating such an awesome and needed program!
Summary In Indonesia bandwidth to outside the country is very expensive. It is much simpler to construct a network that allows users to share files within a small-world local area network. Our goal is to preserve anonymity and to increase access to education materials through trusted individuals over a wifi network. Nouns These use cases revolve around these objects: Trainee - the trainee is a computer user who is assumed to have minimal computer savvy. They are engaged in training to learn more about computers! Trainer - the trainer is loading traning videos to the network along with support information Cafe Operator - this person controls the hardware and configuration of several computers. Users of the computers are anonymous. Training Site - an html file with descriptions of and links to Video files and support files like PDFs and additional sites with exercises. Training Video - the distribution of video is a key to this system. Downloading copies of the large video files from other countries is not practical in our example. Wifi Network - this network is NOT connected to the internet; it only connects users to each other. File sharing program - should allow for maximum anonymity. Only connect with known friends in the network. No sharing of personal information by default. Best if it can be configured with default settings for maximum protection. Objectives Plausible deniability - any one person should not know what file/s are stored on a computer. Ease of use - if given the name of a friend, the SSID of the network, and the name of the fliesharing client the user should be able to setup the program with maximum security Speed of access - even large video files should be relatively accessible. The wait for a 1GB download should be less than 1 hour. Run in the background - the file sharing program should be running in the background unobtrusively so as to speed packages through the network. Ideally the program could be configured to make connections through a "preferred" network connection to 'stop' any connections being made over an ISP network. Use Cases Use Case: Adding a new Video and Updating the Index The Trainer signs into their file sharing program The choose a video to share and load the video They receive a key that is a reference link to the video The user stores this key in an html file The user shares the new version of the html file Use Case: Watch a Training Video from the Darknet User can sit at an internet cafe and login to a machine anonymously User can click a link and be taken to a web page The web page is loaded from a distributed filestore anonymously The web page points to video file link The user clicks on the link and the video loads The user watches the video Use Case: New User A new user receives a "friend code" from a friend and a key for a shortcut to the Training Site The user downloads a piece of file-sharing software and configures it for maximum security The user adds the "friend code" The user is now "connected" to the friend They login to their home computer and connect to an unsecured wifi network The user enters the key for the Training Site and downloads it. Use Case: New wifi extension and dedicated storage A cafe operator installs a wireless router to extend the wifi network The cafe operator sets up a computer that is connected to the wifi network and running the file-sharing program. The operator calls the new node "kamicave" The operator shares 2TB of diskspace on the computer. The machine is then connected to the operator's friend in the Darknet through a friend key. Use Case: New Multi-user machine The operator sets up the filesharing software on 15 machines on site in their internet cafe. The machines are then connected to the operators' friend as well as his own "kamicave" The cafe owner shares 20GB of space on each of 15 machines He chooses to run the file-sharing program in the background as a service He locks down the configuration of the service so that the cafe users may not adjust the privacy and security settings He configures a link so that each machine can browse and download files from the Darknet through "kamicave" or other friends that he adds to the network. Use Case: User on multi-user machine User logs in anonymously to a machine They bring up the filesharing program and add a new friend They download a file from the friend and view it After logging out of the machine their "friend" is purged from the settings of the file sharing program and all data downloaded or associated with the sessions is erased and overwritten
