On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:02:00AM -0400, David Allen wrote: > What is the worry? Are we concerned that IIP might actually not be > secure and that we would lure people onto the channel with a false > sense of security?
In a manner of speaking, I am worried that we might lend credibility to something that hasn't earned it yet. We are viewed, rightly or wrongly, as knowing a thing or two about building anonymous systems. If we encourage people to use IIP we are implying that we believe it is anonymous, but I remain completely unpersuaded that it is (not to say it isn't, just that I don't know whether it is or not). > At the moment, OPN is not anonymous in any way > really, so even if IIP was insecure, nothing would really change - > we'd be going from a non-anonymous IRC server to another non-anonymous > IRC server. We'd be going from a non-anonymous IRC server that doesn't claim it is anonymous, to a non-anonymous IRC server which does. There is a very big difference. Ian. -- Ian Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Founder & Coordinator, The Freenet Project http://freenetproject.org/ Chief Technology Officer, Uprizer Inc. http://www.uprizer.com/ Personal Homepage http://locut.us/
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