On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:29:24 -0400 "fred simpson" <freenetmailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/08, Luke771 <luke771 at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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? > > <snip> > Thanks a lot but wouldn't it be relatively easy for someone to get > your IP while you're in opennet mode and then become one of your > friends before OR AFTER you go into darknetmode? > If you connect to someone in darknet mode, that peason is supposed to be a friend, trusted by default. And if you run opennet, you know that you can't hide that you run Freenet. Someone that gets to know that you run freenet because he peered to your IP through opennet is someone that you don't trust enough to tell him that you're running Freenet -therefore, you shouldn't connect him to your darknet. And yes, we all can misplace our trust. Somone that you believed to be a friend can sell your ass for much lower price than you imagined, possibly even for the pure pleasure of getting you busted. That kind of things has always happened and always will happen. You can try to minimize the risk but you can't possibly reduce them to a nice round zero. > > >> > >> b) How do you access Freenet through tor? > > > > You don't. > > > I have Torbutton on while I access Freenet through Firefox. What is that? > You're not accessing Freenet through Tor. If you check how your proxy settings look like while Torbutton is activated, (tools or settings menu according to your system, then preferences => Advanced => Network => settings) you'll find that the second field from the bottom is marked 'No proxy for...' and the value in the field is '127.0.0.1, localhost'. That means that when you type 127.0.0.1 or localhost in your browser's address field, Firefox skips the proxy. > he 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). > > > I'm assuming that means encrypting your drive. > You're assuming wrong. All they need is a password. The police will simply kick your ass until you give up your password. And They are trained professionals who know physical and psychological techniques to extract information. That is, unless you live in some idyllic country in Northern Europe, where the police do not kick uspects' ass and you would get to choose between giving up your password or facing a prison sentence for the crime of not giving up your password (that's for your own good, boy) Your only defense is don't get caught -ever-. If they find an encrypted disk, you're just as screwed as you would be if you had your data stored in clear, plus some good ass-kicking. With some research (read: google) you can learn how to configure LUKS (maybe even Truecrypt) to make your encrypted partitions luck like they're simply unformatted. Not that it would help much if the bad guys happen to -know- that the data is there (and there are thousands of way to find out, including asking YOU, say on a mailing list. > >> > >> 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. <snip> > I meant multiple instances of Freenet. I'd like one instance in > opennet and one instance in darknet. For downloading non-sensitive > files and communicating non-sensitive information and for downloading > sensitive files and communicating sensitive information, respectively Yes, you can have multiple instances of Freenet on the same box. If you run the installer while a node is already running, your new node will be automatically configured to use different ports for FProxy and for connecting to apps such as Frost or Thaw. In the same way, you can run the installer a third time while the two existing nodes are running, and the third node will use a third set of ports. However, you will need to configure the applications (Thaw, Frost, etc) to make them connect to the second node (or the third etc), because they would all connect to the first node by default (port 9481) Anyways, I don't see much sense in this kind of configuration. I won't even discuss wehther or not it would be more secure than simply running a node the way it's supposed to be run (it probably isn't), the only thing that I'm going to point out is that you have accessed a mailing list, declared that you use Freenet, given some clue about your nationality and colural background, and pretty much stated that you are interested in downloading illegal files. If I was you, I'd stay the hell off anything more illegal than mowing your lawn at the wrong time of the day. -- FAFS - The Freenet Applications FreeSite USK at ugb~uuscsidMI-Ze8laZe~o3BUIb3S50i25RIwDH99M,9T20t3xoG-dQfMO94LGOl9AxRTkaz~TykFY-voqaTQI,AQACAAE/FAFS/40/ freemail: luke771 at MJWEES3VJBMS2ZKMIJUECT3SJB3UK5SBKBAVQYJQO5FXGWSROE2USNDKNMZU2SK2ORXUKLDZJYWXQUSNMRYUCWD6IF3HAULWKRKWW2SJJVEGQQTDNNKGYMRWKFZW6V3ONNIDKQ3DKR3SYQKRIFBUCQKF.freemail
