-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > Simple economics, freenet 0.5 hasn't shown that its worth blocking yet. > > ... Except that they HAVE blocked it.
You're right, I should rephrase it - Freenet 0.5 hasn't shown that its worth spending a substantial amount of time or resources blocking yet. 0.5 can be fixed with an IV or a whole slew of different techniques that would defeat the most basic blocking in place. At that point, it becomes a question of what the next cheapest way to block it is. > > $1k/ISP plus N smart-coder-hours plus J support hours plus legislation is > > more expensive than blacklisting a website plus someone running a sniffer, > > browsing Freenet's source, or looking at one of those commercially > > available network identification tools which already can identify Freenet. > > They can't identify darknet traffic that easily. And $1000/ISP? If J is > non-trivial, the overall cost will be much higher than that. Just for > the hardware/software changes, $1000 is absurdly low. Ok, you can keep replying back with suggestions that its not possible without any basis in fact, but I've already shown that its not just possible, but the infrastructure necessary is already economically feasible and infact in use with at least some ISPs, even without a state mandate. If you're going to make the positive affirmation that its not economically feasible to identify Freenet/dark's traffic, you'll have to back up that statement (beyond a report focused on telling copyrighted materials from those that aren't). Why should you bother? Because, as you say, the whole point of Freenet/dark is to operate in places where its not feasible to identify the traffic, since Freenet/light would not offer the necessary anonymity for their users. I'm not expecting an answer today or tomorrow, but such a feasibility analysis should be on the critical path of evaluating whether the Freenet/dark effort is worthwhile for more than academic purposes. =jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDTVDDWYfZ3rPnHH0RAqs+AJ4sJgaK3AEwEIOjlNlJ0Hts9IW5tACfVGz3 XyLrAo8JJ82kdXYnLa/OjH8= =Zcsj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
