>>>>> "OS" == Oskar Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    OS> A system with no public nodes wouldn't work.

Of -course- SOME system with no public nodes COULD work, Oskar. Not
necessarily Freenet, but SOME system. I seem to remember some of the
hacker BBS software in the 80s worked this way -- you could send email
to a node without knowing exactly where the node was. And PGP works
this way, kind of, by analogy with the Web of Trust.

If we wanted to make Freenet work that way, it COULD work.  However,
it's a lower priority for us than making a fast, scalable system.

Let me also point out that most underground organizations work this
way, too. My drug dealer, Jerry, for example, doesn't accept pager
calls from just ANYBODY. He only takes calls from people he knows or
who have been introduced to him.

And when Jerry gives me a nice sweet baggy of cocaine, he doesn't tell
me, "Oh, by the way, this came from a 35-ton shipment owned by Big
Sonny D'Amato of Long Island. If you need some more, you should call
Big Sonny directly. Here's his number."

We pretty much know not to ask questions about where stuff comes from
and where it's supposed to go to. It'd be dangerous for both of us. I
don't ask where his stuff comes from, or who else he's selling to, and
he doesn't ask where I got the money to buy from him, or what I'm
going to do with the shit once I've got it. And that's the way Jerry
deals with the guy he buys drugs from. And the way *THAT* guy deals
with the fellow up the supply chain from him.

Surprisingly, we're able to run one of the world's largest businesses
this way. It's amazingly scalable, and nobody needs to have "public"
nodes to make it work. Nobody's suggested yet that the only way to
keep from going to jail or getting killed is if we encourage lots of
other people to buy and sell drugs out in the open. We've found other
ways to keep from going to jail or getting killed.

Strange, that.

~Mr. Bad

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