On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:12:33AM -0400, jrandom at i2p.net wrote:
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> Hi Toad, et al
> 
> I've also read identiguy's blog, and I must say that while I don't entirely
> agree with his interpretation (as there /are/ ways for Freenet to move forward
> to meet real user's unmet needs) it does seem that a large amount of the 
> motivation and tech being worked on could be reused from other sources, rather
> than reinvented.  
> 
> Its a bit of a shame, as for hard anonymity, users *need* medium to high 
> latency comm, the likes of which Freenet is in a position to specialize in.
> In addition, for those who need hard anonymity against state level 
> adversaries, low latency comm will never be sufficient.  Turning Freenet into
> yet another low latency mix network doesn't seem like a great idea.
> 
> You've also suggested ulterior motives behind this duplication, both in 
> private and in public, but I'll only respond to the technical issues here.  I
> think you owe it to your users to put any ulterior motives out of bounds when
> evaluating the technical needs for anonymity.

Fair enough.

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