_ph00, you're absolutely right. If the USA, for example, declares anonymous P2P/F2F illegal, it'll definitely be able to subpoena Facebook for people who expressed an interest in it online.
This is actually a trivially simple mashup (although only recently possible). Adding the "Freenet Connect" widget (application is a little too grandiose) lets you see which of your friends have marked themselves as Freenet users. Whether they really are freenet users or even want to exchange refs isn't anything the application deals with. But it opens the door pretty nicely. (re: joel) Even if this only helps ten people exchange refs with a little bit more trust than over IRC I think it was worth the afternoon I spent coding it. cheers, allen p.s. I'll add a link to the code (python/django) to the application info page tomorrow.. On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 06:24 +0200, Luke771 wrote: > I don't know if it's really a good idea: such an utility could be used > by BigEvilGovt(tm) in a country where anonymous networking is banned > (e.g. right here in the West, in a couple of years!) and it could be > used in a lot of other malicious ways. > How accurate would the result be anyway? > Is it really possible to run a program and tell whether or not someone > is running Freenet with a good accuracy? If yes, that should be > considered a major weakness (but I think I heard you can't really prove > it, iirc) > _ph00 > > Allen Beye Riddell wrote: > > Here's a tool I just whipped up for Facebook users (25 mil; competitor > > to MySpace). It lets users discover if any of their friends are running > > Freenet. The idea is to make less painful exchanges of node references > > between friends (even distant ones). Obviously this is more of a > > long-term solution to the issue of building a trusted darknet -- but I > > figured every little bit can help. > > > > For those using Facebook, the app is called Freenet Connect. > > http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2353332496 > > > > If anyone wants to help add features, let me know. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Allen > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > Devl@freenetproject.org > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
