On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:41:53 +0100, Julien Cornuwel wrote: > What about creating an official freesite where nodes could get > (automatically) the updates. > It would solve the problem of spreading updates at least for those who > already have a running node and we'd be sure that the entire network is > up-to-date a few hours after the release of the version... Additionnaly, > we could make the nodes able to spread the packages across internet (as it > actually works on 0.5). > > Minor issue : > If Toad or Ian (or anyone who knwos the private key of the freesite) is > arrested by the Police, they could force him to give the private key of > the freesite and blow every nodes... > I'm sure it can be solved easily ;-D
Actually, it is impossible to solve this problem. You see, if someone arrests or kidnaps Ian, and beats the private key out of them, there is no way for Ian to give out a warning from the prison. As far as the network is concerned, whoever holds Ians key is Ian, and the real Ian has no way of telling anyone otherwise, since he is imprisoned and/or dead. Don't forget that Freenets goals of opposing censorship directly contradict the interests of every dictatorship on Earth - and, to a lesser extent, every other government too, since they all can benefit from keeping things from their citizens or someone else - and dictators tend to be very nasty people. So no, this is not a minor issue; it is a show-stopper. > > > What do you think about that ? Not a good idea for the reasons told above. Might work for early alpha, but there's always the danger that some code related to this could remain even in the stable version.
