Anonymous Remailer (austria) writes: > On 11-May-16 8:27 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> >> Anonymous writes: > (all previous text cut) > > Okay, you convinced me of how Darknet could add to my security. I > think I understand though I'm not sure.
I’m glad to hear that! > Yet the practical problem for me stays the same, although I now > would like to find a darknet peer, I would not know how. > Not nice for me to write but fact, I got no close friends at all. > Would not want to ask family as they'd understand nothing of this > even when one has been an IT worker all his life. I could explain > the technics but he would understand nothing of why Freenet, > anonymity, strong encryption is needed. > To trust a coworker with the fact I run a FN node, well, I don't > dare that either. Only one of them /might/ understand, but I don't > want to try. I tried it for years. People only started to connect when I realized that messages between darknet friends are about the only truly confidential communication among friends we get in the internet right now. See http://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/connect-speak-freely There are three dimensions to the communication we know from the analog world: - Confidential - Official - Pseudonymous Confidential communication reaches only a small group of people. You can truly speak your mind, but only with trusted friends or chance acquaintances (like people you meet in the train).. Official communication requires self-censorship with external control. Pseudonymous communication requires an intermediary and constant vigilance, but you can speak your mind and reach many people if people trust the intermediary (like a newspaper or a publisher). In the internet, we essentially only have official communication. Even private messages are only one change in privacy policy, one zero-day or one app-update from being public. Darknet messages and Freemail bring back confidential communication. Forums in Freenet bring back pseudonymous communication, with the WoT as intermediary which prevents spam. For a visualization, see slide 4 of the suma slides (a talk I gave when Freenet received the SUMA award for protection against total surveillance): http://www.draketo.de/proj/freenet-funding/suma-slides.pdf > A side comment; I do not see how the NSA could take over all my > opennet connections, no matter how many nodes it runs. They can watch whom you connect to and DoS all your non-NSA connections until you only have connections to NSA nodes left. > Also, I have read the surfaced docs on LE Freenet investigations, > it looks like the NSA can well identify files within Freenet, but I > read between the lines they are not as powerful as they would like > to be on cracking Freenets pseudonymity, in fact hardly at all at > the moment of writing. These documents are from a regional police office. They are hardly the NSA. More like some folks who try to do the right thing but lack the means. > I have read lots on how 'the cops' try to get warrants but very > little on how Freenet is surveilled from within. > Don't see how surveillance within would give them much to go after > either. They have lists with all the files they are interested in. They likely gathered them. > Oh, will darknet be as unsafe for the 'friends' running both > darknet and opennet? They cannot take over your darknet connections without massive intervention — massive compared to a cheap DoS attack against a few hundred private computers which would be necessary to break the anonymity of a pure opennet node. One darknet node might not suffice, but several should make the attack weak enough that it would not provide substantial proof. Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken
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