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

[Brandon]

> > > Because you get a nice collected list of the dissidents on the Gateways
> > > node, where you don't in normal Freenet.  You just get a bunch of
> > > unrelated nodes.
> > 
> > We're talking about a situation where running a Freenet node is in itself
> > persecuted. So everyone is a dissident.
> But your claim is that if you are able to self organize a cluster, then
> its somehow "safer".  Thats absolutely false.  It more directly implicates
> the people you "trusted", which I'm sure they'll appreciate.

The reason it is safer is because 1) a port scan won't detect your node,
and 2) an evil node run by Them won't detect your node. The reason it is
safer is not because you are self-organizing it, but because you are
rejecting unknown connections.



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