> > Anyone in fear of having their Freenet shutdown *must have* this
> > option. This is the *only* way to solve the MediaEnforcer problem. The
> Um. No? The mediaenforcer problem is solved with the varying htl
> decremenet.
Not at all. MediaEnforcer isn't using HTL 1 (from what I've read). They
are requesting keys and then reporting the node if it responds. It is not
rational. It is not reasonable. But it might work anyway since ISPs are
timid. The same attack will *definitely* work, regardless of HTL if you're
just trying to find nodes and shut them down just for running, such as in
the China example.
> > same goes for the people in China. If the Chinese government wants to scan
> > IPs looking for Freenet nodes and shut down any that they find, the *only*
> > way to stop this attack is to reject connections from unknown nodes.
> But 99% of Freenet users aren't going to be creating private networks, or
> controlled networks. 2 years down the line, when all the paranoia
> features are in, your going to have a significant amount of code unused by
> a significant number of people.
First of all, if 99% of Freenet users aren't going to be creating
controlled networks then that pretty much defeats the arguement that
having them is going to destroy Freenet routing. Also, it's more important
that the people that really need it have it. But I've decided that you're
right about putting it in a branch since then we can incorporate other
paranoia features such as stealthing as another protocol. I think the
ability to reject unknown connections is a much, much more fundamental
ability, but I wouldn't mind adding some other less fundamental but still
useful paranoid features.
> But its *NOT HOW FREENET WORKS*. Freenet assumes that it doesnt trust who
> connects to it. Gnutella/http/ftp/irc all assume well behaved connectors.
Yeah, I know, that's what I'm complaining about. There's only so much you
can do without trusting anyone. Like for some people you can't run a node.
I don't want to change Freenet, just extend it to have more possibilities.
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