On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:55:31PM +0200, Newsbyte wrote: > "Welcome back. I thought you had defected to I2P. :)" > > One of the many, you mean? ;-p > > Nah, I've been busy with other things, lately. Didn't go much to the I2P > chans neither. > > Though, ofcourse, I2P remains interesting, and has some advantages above > Freenet (IMHO). But hey, I'm not going one way or another before I've tried > out 0.7.! :-) not after all those long days, weeks, months, years, > decen...o, wait...well, not after all that time waiting for it. ;-)
Indeed, I2P is interesting. So will be Freenet 0.7. > > It is true I don't like the 'private darknet' on bit; it's a useless > exercise to prove a point, but without it having a chance of actually being > used by the masses, let alone being broadly adopted. But ah, we've been over > this before: we have differet opinions on the matter. > > I would love to try out the open darknet, however. Opennet. Not dark at all since it's open. :) > > "The below would be ideal for the beginnings of a wiki page... I'm sure > there's similar stuff you could link..." > > Yeah, nice idea. Though, since it's a wiki, no one has to wait on anybody > else for doing it. ;-) There was another thing, long ago, which was exactly > something Freenet could be used for (which was one of the prime examples > back then that made me realise we need a system like Freenet in the West > too). I believe it was about two UK spies, trying to publish a book about > the wrongdoings of the state and UK government. Of course, the government > forbids it right away, to avoid being dragged into an international scandal > ;-). Imagine if that 'dirty business' of the government had been placed on a > uncensorable network...well, there wouldn't be much they could do about it, > would there? I thought it was a clear example of abuse of governmental > powers..just to cover their own butt, because they knew some things they did > or ordered, were higly illegal. (Well, one doesn't have to look far; they > shoot people without trial, after all). There was an NY Times article about us and Diebold a while back... > > Anyway, it might be a good idea for a wikipage, indeed. -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20050916/8114ba19/attachment.pgp>
