On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:35:52PM -0500, Chris Anderson wrote:
>
> Java has the ability to grant permissions like accept and connect without
> program modification.
>
> See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/security/PolicyFiles.html for
> administrative details. See
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/java/net/SocketPermission.html for
> socket permissions.
>
> That said, it would be nice to have a generic freenet permission interface
> to for other things besides cluster/gateway control. Like maybe node
> bandwidth quotas (per month) and file length quotas. The number of
> parameter switches is already getting unmanagable (ever here of
> -dsminsz?).
>
> Also, I think y'all are overdoing the China/dissident thing. Businesses
> also have a stake in systems that preserve anonymity. For the amount of
> financial transactions that are happening on the Internet, security of
> this beast should be our number one concern. Didn't anyone elses credit
> card number get stolen from Egghead?
>
Different kind of security. Freenet is perfectly fine from a "Dont let
anyone find out whats going on/being transmitted" sort of stance. The
argument is over "Dont let anyone find out we're running Freenet" which is
an arguable problem.
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