You picked the one thing agencies have boat loads of and made it a requirement for operating critical parts of the network and you alienate the honest users left. Have you thought of any better ways to kill Freenet? That's got to be the dumbest idea I've heard. Its better to hear my criticism than see the failed results in the newspapers.
Social capital is a better way to limit evil nodes. A centralized model of authority servers run by trusted project members is the way to go. Freenet users have to trust you to not backdoor the program. Having to rely on infrastructure that you run isn't more risky. You are starting to see the limitations of a completely decentralized network being safe.
According to you a whistleblower should connect to a journalist's node in Darknet mode if they want to steer clear from Opennet Sybil? The metadata is OK to share because Big Brother already has the address book... What about the political dissident who wants their blogs to reach more people than they know IRL? Sorry Opennet is out of order because Sybil.
Darknet is private not anonymous and lacks the quality of data availability after the publisher is offline.
My observation is Freenet has a leadership crisis. There is no agreement on how to reach the goal of anonymous communication. Every developer has contradicting opinions and pulls the project in a different direction. There is no formal process to reach a consensus or draft technical proposals others can review and comment on. No coordinated development effort. No new developers because no modern build process or documentation. No protocol documentation because its a work in progress. Its a work in progress because of rewrites and because no attempt to implement tried and true models like mixnets researched for 40 years. No users because no progress in security and UX. No donations and academic attention because no users.
Fix the organization and your processes and there is hope. If you're not capitalizing on awareness of mass surveillance now you never will.
Otherwise you should officially admit its a hobbyist research project so people don't have huge expectations and not over trust.
Shoot the messenger but I doubt it will help. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
