On 30/11/15 16:40, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, 27. November 2015, 18:07:50 schrieb > salutarydiacritica...@ruggedinbox.com: >> There was a Sybil attack for 4 years. The Freenet 0day has been around >> for so long that LE contractors have built a kit around it. > It’s not a zeroday. According to the article, they used a known > vulnerability which takes time and careless behavior of the users to > exploit. Careless behaviour of the users? I didn't see any details? Clearly once they identify a suspect they'll seize their computer and convict them for possession. But the article implied they have software for identifying anonymous users on the network from their downloads etc. Which also fits with the leaked presentation. > I just had a funding proposal turned down which included transport > plugins and easy darknet introductions with one-time tokens. Florent > is constantly working on keeping the crypto state-of-the-art. This is great, so is your fix to messaging! One real problem is we need more volunteers, and we suck at retaining them. > So, no, > we’re not inactive. We’re just restricted in our available volunteer > work time. > > Some of the time is spent on stuff others could do. For example work > on fixing the wording on the website does not require any programming > ability. We’re doing it, because there isn’t anyone else doing it. If > you improve the wording and spend the time to really polish it, bit by > bit (and send small and clean enough pull-requests that we can review > it with little effort), then we have more time for other parts you > might not be able to do. > > There are lots of things which can be done by dedicated people without > programming skills. All of them are hard work, but they are very > important to improve Freenet. For example the translators are pretty > active and doing a great job making Freenet accessible to more people. > > So consider this an invitation. > > Best wishes, > Arne > > -- > A man in the streets faces a knife. > Two policemen are there it once. They raise a sign: > > “Illegal Scene! Noone may watch this!” > > The man gets robbed and stabbed and bleeds to death. > The police had to hold the sign. > > …Welcome to Europe, citizen. Censorship is beautiful. > > ( http://draketo.de/stichwort/censorship ) >
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