On Sunday 21 Jul 2013 10:54:35 Dennis New wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 00:55:43 +0000, zeriani...@gmail.com wrote: > > I know that there is a good reason for the content filter thing, but > > it has seriously become an annoyance for a lot of people. Could we > > get a radio button or setting to permanently TURN OFF that content > > filtering? > > I'm not even sure it's a good reason at all, since it probably provides > a false sense of security? Not only will it probably not filter all (or > most) malware, which is a full-time job in itself, but if a user is not > making some kind of additional effort to secure their freenet > environment, they'll be inevitably doomed sooner or later. For all the > rest of us, it's just an annoyance :P.
Freenet's threat model is completely different to that of the average anti-virus software. A simple HTML file can defeat your anonymity simply by inlining an image from a server on the web. This is what the filter is primarily for. Lots of other formats, for example PDF, have similar issues, which is why Freenet warns when you download them. If you choose to ignore that warning it's not our fault.
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