Ian Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, my interview was for "Click Online", and won't go out for around > 2 weeks.
For those interested, it was shown as part of a general 'anonymity online' themed click-online on the News 24 channel today. You should be able to stream the show here while it's current : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/default.stm Direct links : http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/05/click_online/09sep.ram <-- low res http://stream.servstream.com/ViewWeb/BBCWorld/File/ worl_click_080905_show_hi.rm?Media=70736 <-- high res Related story, largely a transcript of the segment : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4227578.stm The freenet segment wasn't very long, in particular the interview with Ian pretty much consisted of one question/answer, but overall I thought it was reasonably fair and accurate. In other words they found time to complain about the poor "10 mins to render a freesite" performance and lack of search functionality rather than just decrying it as a tool for evil paedos, and even explained the latter as a side effect of it being "so secure" ;) It was slightly biased in that Peter Sommer who was against freenet, and apparently all encryption/security for normal people on the grounds that Bad People use it too, got significantly more screen time than Ian. In the end though he sort of ended up accidently advocating freenet : "please don't use it, it's too secure and makes it harder for the state to prosecute you for the latest vaguely defined thought crimes!" Also there was a dramatic closeup on the "I killed Jonathan Meyer" TFE link without pointing out it was a hoax, maybe they didn't realise. Finally anonymizer.com and commercial proxies generally were reported as offering a "high degree of anonymity". If anyone believes a centralised US-hosted proxy provides that, I dare them to use it to browse Islamist terrorism promoting sites for a while then run to catch the train one day. On balance though, not bad. The anonymous remailer bit just before the freenet part was badly flawed though, it strongly implied anon remailers are widely used by spammers and were e.g. the reason why you couldn't reply to spam :( This just isn't true, hopefully this unfair reporting was due to insufficient research rather than bias. Virtually all bulk email spamming is done through compromised systems / botnets and 'bulletproof hosting' in China etc these days. > Ian. > --snip-- 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]
