I propose that as a darknet value-add, and as an additional tool for those in hostile regimes who have friends on the outside, we implement a web-proxy-over-your-darknet-peers option. Your Friends would announce whether they are willing to proxy for you, and you could choose which friends to use, or allow it to use all of them (assuming people on the inside don't offer). You could then configure your browser to use Freenet as a proxy. This would not provide any anonymity but it would get you past network obstacles and/or out of Bad Place and into Happy Place. It's not a long term solution, but: - We have expended considerable effort on making darknet viable: IP detection, ARKs etc. - It could take advantage of future transport plugins, but even before that, FNP 0.7 is quite hard to block. - Many people are in this situation. - It is easy to implement. HTTP is complex but cache-less proxies can be very simple. - It could be combined with longer term measures (growing the internal darknet), and just work for as long as it works. Most likely it would be throttled rather than blocked outright to start with, hopefully allowing for a smooth-ish migration of users to more robust mechanisms... - We could allow recursive proxying to some depth - maybe friend of a friend. This would provide a further incentive to grow the internal darknet, which is what we want. - The classic problem with proxies is that they are rare so hundreds of people connect to them, and the government finds out and blocks them. This does not apply here.
Thoughts?
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