On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:42:54PM -0500, Colin Davis wrote:
> 
> >Okay, so how are we going to not allow them to install the JRE from our
> >site without installing the software?
> 
> If the non-indexable directory was (even trivially) password protected, 
> and the installed knew to request http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] it would be 
> hard to argue that the Freenet project was intentionally allowing 
> people to download software from the site. While people could (of 
> course) get the password with a packet sniffer, I can't see that being 
> a valid reason to attack the project.
> Weak protection that makes the intent of the Freenet Project clear (No 
> single file downloads) would likely be sufficient.

Seems reasonable. I give in. But I'm not implementing it.

> 
> -Colin

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