On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:26:15PM +0100, Lean Fuglsang wrote: > Is it possible to see what data comes through my node? > As I see it, all data is found with their hash key. Couldn't I just use > this key to see what content is on my disk?
Technically. However all known freenet 0.4/5/6 clients encrypt the data. You need the full URL, not just the data hash, to decrypt the data. You can look at your datastore - it is not encrypted, it is all in files under dirs under the store dir, but you will not be able to get much information out of it short of spidering freenet and identifying a few (certainly not all) files... > > If this is possible, it is also possible to sort malicious content out > of my node. It is entirely possible for you to delete files from your datastore, but as I said above, it would be difficult to find out what they were. The network is sufficiently dynamic, and nodes generally have sufficiently large stores, that it is totally infesible, _even if the data was not encrypted_ for the user to validate all content coming into the store to determine whether they want to keep it. It would be possible for the government or the courts to force node operators to use a hacked node that doesn't cache files listed on some blacklist somewhere, but again they would have to find the files to block them, and freenet exists in a large number of different countries. > Please explain what magic you use to solve this problem :) > -- > Lean Fuglsang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Matthew Toseland [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-23.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/rUy6IY7VJXE/ ICTHUS.
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