Hello, I remember all the discussions about opennet vs. darknet with difficult security issues causing the project to focus on darknet, and I am reminded of my nagging questions by recent devl discussions. I have concerns about darknet that maybe you folks have all figured out, but I don't recall it being mentioned anywhere, so perhaps you can explain.
Many people obviously correlate the desire for anonymity for the desire to conduct 'illegal' behavior. Would I want to directly ask people I know if they run or if they would be willing to run a freenet node in a society where there may be a stigma associated with this? What if a country makes running a freenet node illegal? Is it then more safe to be connected to people you know? Is it more safe to approach the people you know about it and risk getting turned in? Or when someone you know is caught operating a node, then they can confess about all the people they connect to, and whole groups of people can be caught at once. I am wondering if opennet's inadequacies are inherent or if making it more secure is very hard. I'm just trying to imagine how the different concepts play out in various scenarios. I guess I just don't understand the reasoning. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20101205/0b181f29/attachment.html>
