On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:36:53PM +0200, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > Following the post named "Hypothetical question", I'd like to expose you > a practical case : the French community. Stop me when I'm wrong. > > We all know each others only by Freenet and it is said that it isn't > enough to form a darknet together, correct ? So we'll have to stay on > the opennet which is less secure. > > If, by a kind of miracle, I meet someone IRL that I trust and is > interrested in Freenet. We make a darknet together and... we're > completely alone ! We won't even see the opennet, so we'll have no > chance to make new connections except IRL. > > If the French Community decides to make a Darknet, we'll maybe be able > to make connections to non-french users we know (but only in Freenet, > which is a very BAD trust relationship) and to join the big darknet. But > newcommers, how will they find us ? We won't be able to see their posts > or sites.
As far as the above goes, please read the responses to the other post. > > Suppose Freenet 0.7 becomes illegal in France (what it already is, > because of the AES 256 encryption). The opennet won't be secure for us, > but we won't be able to join the darknet. What could we do ? Keep on > using 0.5 ? The opennet will probably be more secure than 0.5. But both are very easy to shut down, because they can be very easily harvested - all nodes can be found easily, meaning they can be blocked, attacked, etc. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20050917/414f9b71/attachment.pgp>
