Author: toad Date: 2009-03-25 12:21:47 +0000 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26172
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php Log: Threat of blocking in UK has receeded, however it has increased in France Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2009-03-24 23:41:49 UTC (rev 26171) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2009-03-25 12:21:47 UTC (rev 26172) @@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ <p><b id="blocked">Is Freenet blocked by national firewalls?</b><br> The Chinese national firewall (Golden Shield) has blocked our website for many years, and was observed in 2005 to block the 0.5 protocol as well. This suggests China doesn't -like us, so be careful if you run Freenet in China. Some other countries such as the -United Kingdom are <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7240234.stm";>seriously considering</a> -forcing ISPs to block all peer to peer systems capable of sharing illegal files; this -would probably include Freenet. Freenet 0.7 has some minimal defences against blocking; +like us, so be careful if you run Freenet in China. Some other countries (e.g. France) +are known to be hostile to peer to peer, and may eventually force ISPs to block peer to +peer networks (but right now Freenet works fine in France and we have many French users!). +Freenet 0.7 has some minimal defences against blocking; the protocol is relatively hard to identify (we will make this a lot harder in future), and it supports a <a href="http://wiki.freenetproject.org/DarkNet";>darknet</a> mode (i.e. only connecting to your friends) which makes automated harvesting and blocking _______________________________________________ cvs mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvs
