Re: [Freenet-dev] Don't Talk To Strangers

[Brandon]

> > Freenet node.  What do they do?  They might be able to shut down a node if
> > they happened to be fishing and catch an IP address within China, however
> > the vast majority of Freenet nodes will not be within China meaning that
> > even if they shut-down *every* Chinese Freenet node they would have no
> > significant effect on the network - meaning that there is little point in
> > them even trying.
> Yeah.  Running a cluster with a controlled node list would actually *help*
> them track down dissidents.  Because there's a single point of failure
> (the gateway).

I don't see your logic here. Anyone in the cluster can become a gateway if
they so choose. Shutting down the gateway does isolate the cluster. It
just means that someone else has to put themselves in danger. Without
gateways they would all be putting themselves in danger all the time
anyway.



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