On the 6pm 'Newsbeat' thing on Radio 1 today (possibly JK and Joel segment?) was a brief "how people that do naughty things with the 'net get busted" item, as part of a series they're doing on Internet issues. Child porn, music warezing, and the IP-address / person distinction were mentioned (although they did imply that resolution of an IP to A Bad Thing absolutely placed the crime at that scene, ignoring proxies and the vast numbers of hacked / zombied PC's, sigh.)
Anyway, at the end they said words to the effect of : "But some people think you should have more privacy on the internet, not neccessarily to do illegal things, but for example to look up embarassing medical conditions. Tommorow we'll be looking at the networks that promise to do that ..." Are our glorious leader or other "offical" freenet people involved in this? Should you be? :) Freenet is probably the highest profile network that aims to really tackle the problem as opposed to things like Tor IMO, but perhaps newsflash journos under deadline pressure don't know that .. Anyway, they do read out emails (or 30 words of them anyway) so perhaps it's worth getting a short, simple promotion / pre-emptive defence in. I mean, they already mentioned child porn so if they do cover Freenet you just know it's going to come up :/ Newsbeat page : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/news/newsbeat/ (doesn't seem to mention this anywhere, after all Eminem cancelling his tour is a more important "Have your say" subject than our eroding civil liberties, sigh) Contact mail : newsbeat at bbc.co.uk Bob _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
