Author: toad Date: 2007-12-11 16:02:26 +0000 (Tue, 11 Dec 2007) New Revision: 16492
Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php Log: blocking is hard Modified: trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2007-12-11 16:00:59 UTC (rev 16491) +++ trunk/website/pages/en/faq.php 2007-12-11 16:02:26 UTC (rev 16492) @@ -430,7 +430,10 @@ and only connect to people you know. This makes it very much more expensive for an attacker, as he has to infiltrate the social network, rather than just <a href="http://wiki.freenetproject.org/NodeHarvesting";>harvesting</a> the opennet -and connecting to nodes (which is technically very easy). +and connecting to nodes (which is technically very easy). One significant +advantage over Tor etc is that if enough users only connect to Friends, it is very +difficult to block the entire network; blocking Mixmaster or the current Tor on +the other hand is very easy. <p>The only way that you can offer true anonymity is if the client can directly control the routing of data, and thus encrypt it with a series of keys of the nodes it will pass
