On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:18:40 -0400
"fred simpson" <freenetmailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> a) Can you be traced by your ID if someone gets your IP while you are
> in low or normal stranger mode?
If you mean whether your Frost or FMS identity can be linked to your real life
ID, the answer is no. More exactly, not unless you do something stupid or you
decide to let your ID be traceable.
Using the insecure mode (aka Opennet) it is very easy to determine the you
('you' as in real life identity) are running Freenet, but there is no way to
link your real life identity to your Frost or FMS identity, or determine that
'real-life you' has authored one particular freesite.
In other words, as long as there arent any laws that make anonymous networking
illegal in your country of residence, you should be fine even with insecure
mode: they can tell that you run Freenet but they can't tell what you do with
it.
In theory, it is possible for a peer to figure out what files you 'probably'
download using a correlation attack, which is another strong point in favor of
darknet: only connect to peers that you trust not to try and eavesdrop your
requests. In practice though, an attack of that kind doesn't give certainity
but only a fair probability. In court, that would mean that your fate depends
on how good your lawyer is, and another bunch of human factors.
>
> b) How do you access Freenet through tor?
You don't.
>
> c) Has anyone ever been arrested for the content they accessed using
> Freenet?
Not that I'm aware of. Not in the West. It is possible that it has happened and
I don't know about it.
If authorities suspect you to possess illegal files and seize your computer,
you're pretty much screwed. You may have a chance if you have taken precautions
that have nothing to do with Freenet (it's mostly about file storage).
>
> d) Is it possible to have multiple Freenet ID's? If so, can you use
> them at the same time?
If you mean Frost or FMS identity, the answer is yes. And yes.
A pretty common mistake is to send messages using the 'wrong' ID. I did that a
number of times and eventually gave up on trying to keep a 'secret ID'. I don't
need it anyway, so I din't try to do that using a safer setup, but that is
possible, and pretty easy: for instance you may run separated instances of
Frost in different directories (you may need to set them to use different
ports, or run one at a time, I can't tell right now because I haven't run Frost
in a long time).
FMS doesn't need several instances because it uses a news client rather than
its own client like Frost does, if the point is to avoid sending a message with
the wriong ID, using separated news clients for different ID's would do.
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