On Monday 09 March 2009 16:46:33 B?rto ?d S?ra wrote: > Hi! > > I have a delicate question. Let me start by saying that I host a freenet > node AND will continue to do so no matter what the answer is. > > We are designing an open source (X11 licensed) distributed content system > that will allow people to create a shared multilingual dictionary with > multimedia content. Some first details of how the system works are published > here: > http://vademecum.i-iter.org/content/ambaradan-owm2-storage-engine > > Anyway, it is not necessary to read all the tech blabla to evaluate my > request. My problem is the following: we want to use Freenet as a network > transport and distributed storage for multimedia files. This would save us > the fuss of developing very complex software and would give us exactly what > we need. > > BUT... there is one big but. Many of the financial and starting hosting > partners are institutions. Many project directors would personally have > nothing to object, but I suppose it is very clear to everyone what would > happen if just ONE paper starts to say that we host child porn on university > machines. > > My question is: can a darknet (thus non-communicating with any openNet > Freenet node) make sure that this darknet's nodes will host only content > they receive from each other and nothing at all from openNet Freenet? Should > this be possible we would obviously give the largest public exposition to > the fact that we run based on Freenet. > > The net will start as a very small thing, but once in beta can quickly grow > to thousands of nodes. And here I have another question... if I am a member > of ONE darknet, can I be a member of others, too? And can I also be a member > of OpenNet? > > The general goal would be to allow single users maximum control. University > servers will be guaranteed that they do not host anything apart from > material related to the project, we could have insulated "regions" (actually > subnets) and any node could choose to be a member of a number of them, and > any user could still choose to be a member of OpenNet. And all this with ONE > software install. > > It seems simply too good to be true, but on the other end, on quickly > reading the docs this is exactly the impression I had. Am I right?
If you want to be 100% sure that there is no Bad Content on any institutionally run node, you need to control all the nodes on the network. If one node connects to the "real freenet" (which they can do maliciously even if you hack the source and change the network protocol name), then you can get content from the main freenet being routed across your supposedly private network. > > Thansk in advance > Berto -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090310/1ca57323/attachment.pgp>
