Ruud Javi wrote:
Do we want semi-opennet support? This would be a way to connect, with
mutual advance consent, to peers of our direct peers? (There would be
measures taken to ensure that we don't connect to peers of their direct
peers).
Well, I am not sure but I am not a fan of it.
Semi-opennet to me sounds like the worst of two worlds. The idea of
darknet is that you need tot trust your neighbors, but you are pretty
safe to everyone else. I think a semi-opennet would give a less safe
network, because people are connecting to people they have not added
them selves. My guess is that people would turn it on because it would
make Freenet faster, while it would also make it less safe for them imho.
Further, you would still need to add some connections, so this would not
bring in the big user group that is looking for an opennet-version of
Freenet .7 at all.
If you have some special reasons/ arguments for this semi-opennet,
please post. If you want we could discuss about if there should be an
opennet in Freenet .7 , and how it should look like. I have some other
ideas to get people to freenet .7 that wants an opennet. Unfortunately I
am already seeing a few weak points, so other idea's might be better :)
greetings,
Ruud
The thing is that a lot of people will have only one entry point, and what they do is ask
their friend to connect them to that friend's friends, which is more secure then being
connected to ubernodes or to random people on IRC. Think about it, who is closer to you
and less likely to turn you in to LEA or copyright infringement agency a friend of a
friend or a complete stranger?
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