On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 01:45:51PM -0600, Brandon wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
Not true. If they capture the gateway, then they get a list of all the
gateways contacts, most of which would be the clusters members due to the
frequent contact they would have with it.
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